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Geography

The Map As History
The Story Behind the Sainsbury's Ad - 1914 Christmas Truce
Video (3:18 mins.)

Interactive Games

Click & Drag Countries/Continents
Pick a continent, region or country and correctly click & drag sub-areas into their correct location.
World Landmark Puzzles
Puzzles of world landmarks with information about each
World Geography Games
Interactive Games Online

World War I

BBC - WWI Page
This is an archived page and is no longer updated, but has primary sources, interactive games and links regarding WWI.
TheGuardian - Global Guide to WWI
Interactive Documentary
History Channel - Tech Developments of WWI
Video clip (3:01 min.)
History Channel - Life in a Trench
Video clip (3:14 min.)
History Channel - World War I: One Word
Video clip (2:28 min.)
"Operation Nemesis" by Eric Bogosian
New York Times Book Review
Sainsbury's Ad - 1914 Christmas Truce
Commercial for British retail store; video (3:40 mins.)
The Story Behind the Sainsbury's Ad - 1914 Christmas Truce
Video (3:18 mins.)
Great War Bricks - WWI Lego Animation
Video (1:46 mins.)

Russian Revolution

National Geographic: Mystery of the Romanovs
Video (3:43 mins.)
History.com: Russian Revolution Videos
Collection of short videos regarding the Russian Revolution of 1917
Epic History: The Russian Revolution
Video (12:44mins.); focuses on timeline and supporting images/videos to describe events in Russia from 1894-1922

Armenian Genocide

Introducing the Armenian Genocide
Scholar Richard G. Hovannisian gives an overview of the Armenian Genocide; Facing History and Ourselves Video (14:04mins.)
Facing History and Ourselves: Armenian Genocide Resource Library
Taner Akcam: Why Is The Armenian Genocide Important?
Discussion of the importance of learning about the Armenian Genocide today; Facing History and Ourselves video (1:10mins.)
Armenian Genocide (ABC News: The Century with Peter Jennings)
Video clip (5:02 mins.)
The Armenian Genocide of 1915: An Overview
New York Times article

Global Review

Quizlet - Mrs. Ronalds' Page
Sign in using your account to review key information for the regents!
NYSED - Global Studies
Previous regents exams, answer keys & scoring guides
Regents Exam Prep Center - Global Studies
Created by the Oswego City School District
Activate Instruction - Summit History
Powerpoints, readings, links and more for various history topics
Crash Course - Protestant Reformation
Crash Course - Renaissance
Global Review Packet
Created by a teacher in White Plains, NY
Crash Course - Decolonization
(12:48 mins.)
Links to Online Textbooks

Mrs. Ronalds

Mrs. Ronalds @ Canastota CSD
Mrs. Ronalds @ ClassJump
Mrs. Ronalds @ Quizlet
Inside North Korea
National Geographic Channel, YouTube
FlipGrid
PearDeck
interactive multimedia presentations

Seemingly Random Things

Origami Booklet Instructions
Crossword Generator
Purdue OWL
Perdue University Online Writing Lab
US Dept. of State - Office of the Historian
Back to School In Any Way Possible
Photo Blog on TheWeek.com
Humanities NY
Encouraging critical thinking and cultural understanding in the public arena through grants, programs, networking and advocacy.
The Great Thanksgiving Listen
PBS News Hour Lesson
See if you have what it takes to pass the US citizenship test!
Civics Practice Test Questions

Rise of Totalitarianism

Slideshow: Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini Comparison
Activate Instruction - Summit History; Totalitarian Governments Playlist
Holodomor, 1932-1933
Narrated clip from "Triumph des Willens"
Video (15:40 mins.)
The Great Hunger, Part 1 - Ukraine
CBC Radio, "Ideas" Sound Clip (54:00mins.)
The Holodomor Reader
Holodomor Resources
Provided by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress
What Were Stalin's 5-Year Plans?
Paul Sargent Video (6:53 mins)
Bitter Harvest - Official Trailer
Holodomor (2:02mins.)
1930s Famine Still Mars Russia-Ukraine Relations
NPR Sound Clip (3:57mins.)
CBS News reporting on the reprinting of "Mein Kampf"
News Clip
Survivors Remember Kristallnacht: Susan (Strauss) Taube
USHMM Video (6:05mins)
urvivors Remember Kristallnacht: Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger
USHMM Video (8:33mins)
Survivors Remember Kristallnacht: Rabbi Gerd Jacob Wiener
USHMM Video (8:49 mins)
Did WWI Lead to WWII?
History Channel Video (2:18mins.)
"Hitler's Rise to Power: 1933-1934"
Video from "Facing History and Ourselves" (7:44 mins.)
"Hitler's Rise to Power: 1918-1933"
Video from "Facing History and Ourselves" (9:14 mins.)

World Belief Systems

5 Pillars of Islam - Part 1
This is the first part in the series of cartoon animations created and produced by Discover Islam UK
5 Pillars of Islam - Part 2
This is the second part in the series of cartoon animations created and produced by Discover Islam UK

World War II

CCTVNEWS Speaks to Eyewitness of "Nanjing Massacre"
Video (4:53 mins.)
"Shifrele's Portrait" - written by Yiddish folk poet and songwriter Mordecai Gebirtig
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Hitler's "Eagle's Nest"
Berchtesgaden, Germany
Path to Nazi Genocide
USHMM Video (38:31 mins.)
Art History Online explanation of Picasso's "Guernica"
(20:14mins.)
Nazi Aggression and Appeasement
Khan Academy Video (6:59mins.)
Appeasement - Biff & McFly, Back to the Future
Video Clip (1:10mins.)
World War II - Discovery Channel Documentary
Video (51:27 mins.)
Invasion of Poland - Oral Histories
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Family Guy - Polish Invasion
Video (2:28mins.)
Chronicles of Narnia - Beginning
Horrible Histories RAF Pilot Song
Video (2:47mins.)
D-Day Invasion Video
Newsreel - National Archives
Youth for Human Rights
30 Videos - 30 Rights
Youth for Human Rights Website
The Problem with the UN Veto Power
NowThis World Video (8:16 mins)

United Nations Year in Review Videos

2017: United Nations Year in Review
United Nations Video (6:23 mins.)
2016: United Nations Year in Review
United Nations Video (16:07 mins.)
2015: United Nations Year in Review
United Nations Video (15:59 mins.)
2014: United Nations Year in Review
United Nations Video (5:55 mins.)
2013: United Nations Year in Review
United Nations Video (13:16 mins.)

Museums/Institutes

Newseum
Washington, DC

Cold War

What Was the Iron Curtain?
Video (3:05 mins.)

Berlin

The Berlin Wall Falls
News coverage from 1989
The Berlin Wall Falls
ABCNews Special Report 11/9/1989
Celebration at the Berlin Wall
ABCNews Coverage 11/10/1989
Berlin Wall Memorial Website
Berlin, Germany
Building the Berlin Wall
BBC World Service Article
MegaStructures: Berlin Wall
National Geographic Video (45:56mins.)
History Channel - Deconstructing History: Berlin Wall
YouTube Video Clip (2:28 mins.)
NYTimes Infographic: The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Blockade
Video (9:26 mins.)
Why Was A Wall Built Around West Berlin?
Test Tube News Video (3:19 mins.)
The Wall (American film from 1962)
Video (0:00-9:10 mins)

Arms Race

Duck and Cover: Bert the Turtle
1951 US Civil Defense Film (9:14mins)
Lectures in History Preview: Cold War Nuclear Arms Race
C-SPAN Video (3:40mins)
Nuclear Arms Race: The Bomb
PBS Video (4:16mins)
The Soviet-American Arms Race
Teen Kids News Video (4:06mins)

Space Race

Who Won the Space Race? - Jeff Steers
TED-Ed (4:46 min.)
History Channel - The Space Race
Video Clip (2:58 min.)
History Channel - Space Race: Cold War Front
Video Clip (5:00 min.)
The Sad Story of Laika, the First Dog Launched Into Orbit
Article from Time.com
Remarks Upon Signing a Bill Providing for an Expanded Space Program, 21 July 1961
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
How the Cold War Launched the Space Race
Seeker Daily Video with Lisa Ling (3:31mins.)
Friends - Halloween Party
Video (1:47mins.)
The Space Race
KnowledgeHub Video (7:24mins)
History Channel's "The Space Race"
Video (2:58mins)

China

China's Long March
Al Jazeera English Video Clip (3:26 min.)
Great Leap Forward Summary
Video Clip (6:04 min.)
MoMA - Photo-Essay: The Great Leap Forward
A Grim Chronicle of China's Great Famine
NPR Sound Clip & Transcript (5:12mins)
China Under Mao - The Cultural Revolution
Video Clip (17:15 min.)
Goddess of Democracy - Chinese Rebel Statue
San Francisco has a 10-ft replica of the "Goddess of Democracy"
Tiananmen Square Protests 1989: Chinese Soldiers Open Fire on Civilians
ABC News Video Clip (4:48 mins.)
1989 Raw Video: Man vs. Chinese Tank Tiananmen Square
CNN Video Clip (2:55 mins.)
Tiananmen Square 25 Years Later (report)
CNN Video Clip (3:00 mins.)
Chinese troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square (archive)
BBC News Video Clip (3:34 mins.)
Tiananmen Square Massacre Reading
Take a Stand: Student Activism Around the World
Tiananmen Square: 25 years later
CNN Video Clip (2:05 mins.)
The Tank Man
PBS Frontline Video (1:24:23 mins.)
The Memory of Tiananmen
PBS: Frontline

End of Cold War

The Fall of the Soviet Union
History.com Video Clip (3:22 min.)

Decolonization & Nationalism

The United Nations & Decolonization
Information on the role of the United Nations on promoting decolonization
UN - Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Adopted by General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960
Documentary: Mahatma Gandhi - Pilgrim of Peace
(44: 45 mins.)
Famous People Lessons - Gandhi
ESL resources focusing on famous people
Sound Smart: Mahatma Gandhi
History Channel Video (1:57mins.)
Mahatma Gandhi, The Salt March, The Dandi March - Story for Children "BookBox.com"
Video (5 mins.)
The Road to Partition: 1939-1947
Collection of documents
Partition in the Classroom: Differentiated Strategies
India, Pakistan & Partition: Borders of Blood Part 1
Al Jazeera English Video (26:25 mins.)
Apartheid: 46 Years in 90 Seconds
BBC News Video (1:34mins.)
Apartheid Explained
Al Jazeera+ Video (2:56 mins.)
Sharpeville Massacre Was Turning Point in Anti-Apartheid Movement
CBS News Video (2:47mins.)
Remembering South African Leader Nelson Mandela
PBS NewsHour Video (18:23 mins.)
Nelson Mandela Death: A Look at South Africa's First Black President
New York Times Video Clip (11:59 mins.)
His Day is Done - A Tribute Poem for Nelson Mandela by Dr. Maya Angelou
US Dept. of State Video (4:39 mins.)
Rick Steves' The Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Today
(56:46 mins.)
Israel and Palestine, an animated introduction
Video (5:41mins.)
Inside Pol Pot Secret Prison (S-21) Part 1/4
Video (10:43mins)
Mini Bio: Pol Pot
Bio.com Video (2:14 mins.)
BBC Timewatch - Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields
History Files Video (49:05 mins.)
Former Khmer Rouge Soldier Faces Up To Past
Video (6:17mins)
Iranian Revolution 1979 - Fall of a Shah (Part 1 of 10)
BBC Documentary Video (10:40mins)
Iran Through the Looking Glass
The Choices Program (short video clips)
Turkey Remembers Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Video (47 secs.)
Ankara, Turkey: Ataturk, the Father of Modern Turkey
Rick Steve's Europe Video (2:39 mins.)
Turkey Mourns Kemal Ataturk (1938)
British Pathe Video (1:21 mins.)
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Brief, Simple History
Vox Video (10:19 mins.)
Part 1: Uneasy Coexistence - Conflict Zone
National Geographic Video (8:19 mins.)
How the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Began
History Channel Video (6:28mins.)

Teacher

Global Oneness Project
Films & Lesson Plans Featuring Human Rights & Stories

Modern Issues

UNCDD - Desertification
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Video (6:02 mins.)
Africa's Ambitious "Great Green Wall"
Time Video (4:24 mins.)
Earthrise - The Great Green Wall
Al Jazeera English Video (5:59mins.)
Victim of Bangladesh Facotry Collapse Shares Story
CBS Reporting on 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse

Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the Americas

Ask HISTORY: What Happened to the Aztecs?
Video (2:26mins.)

French Revolution & Napoleon

Napoleon - Did You Know?
Biography.com Video (2:58mins)
History.com Special Presentation: The French Revolution
Video Guide
The French Revolution by Jeffrey Lewis
History.com Video (2:49mins)
"Why Napoleon Probably Should Have Just Stayed in Exile The First Time"
Time.com Article
Assassin's Creed: Unite ("Do You Hear The People Sing?" Trailer)
Video (2:35mins.)
French Revolution (Part 1)
Khan Academy Video (17:04 mins)
The French Revolution - Oversimplified
Video (17:53 mins.)

Industrial Revolution

Video by IrishPotatoFamine.net
(3:40mins.)
The Famine Memorial and World Poverty Stone
Irish Potato Famine Poetry
London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Start at 12:40mins for "Pandemonium" (approximately 20 mins.)
"Modern Times" - Charlie Chaplin
"late afternoon" clip
"Division of Labor: Burgers and Ships"
(0:30-1:36)
The Invisible Hand
60 Second Adventures in Economics
The United Kingdom Explained
Video (5:14 mins.)
Peppered Moth
Video (2:06 mins.)

Imperialism

The Scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference
(3:42mins) Student created basic overview
Imperialism in Africa, 1913
Black & white, good for photocopying
Sepoy Rebellion of 1857
Vimeo video (2:24mins); "Informative animation to explain the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857"
The Sepoy Rebellion
Video (3:52mins) depicting Mangal Pandey's role in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857
Sound Smart: Boxer Rebellion
History Channel Video (1:54 mins)
The Boxer Rebellion
Video (3:15mins) posted by New Visions
The Opium War
National Army Museum
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1884: Africa's Greatest Civilizations
PBS Video (6:57mins.)

Human Rights Violations

Interactive Map: Understanding the Dayton Accords
Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Country Profile
BBC News
Ethnic Cleansing and Atrocities in Kosovo
Frontline
Rwanda: Lessons from a Hero
United Nations Video (9:20 mins.)
Rwanda Genocide Documentary: Ghosts of Rwanda
Part I (14:56 mins.)

Enlightenment

"Amazing Grace" Movie Trailer
Official trailer for Michael Apted's Amazing Grace, starring Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Gambon, and Albert Finney. Trailer provided
Parody "Catherine the Great"
HistoryTeachers use Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" as the basis of this parody.

Economics

Chromium-6 Taints Water Supplies Around the Country
PBS Video (10:55 mins)
The Government Shutdown in American History
History Hub Lesson
Student breakdown on government's shutdown
PBS News Hour Lesson
"You Will Love Economics" - Economic Systems
YouTube Video (9:41 mins)

Participation in Government

Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today - Meet Young Immigrants
Scholastic - Stories of kids who immigrated to the USA
Immigrant Stories Project
University of Minnesota
Transcription of the U.S. Constitution