History History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.  Napoleon Bonaparte

Today in History

About.Com History Links - excellent links. any time period
http://history1700s.about.com/education/history1700s/msubmenu.htm.

American History- Hypertext of American History with links to   

• History (1954), History (1963, 
• History (1990), History (1994)
• Economy, Literature, Government
• Geography, & more from     http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/

Americashistory.com - fun links to learn about our history  http://americaslibrary.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi

Blackboard.com - history resources for students and instructors   http://resources.blackboard.com/scholar/general/main.jsp?pid=190

Census information http://www.census.gov/

Civil War Center maintained by Louisiana State University -award-winning site with over 6,000 links ,  includes Index of Civil War Information on the Internet     
 
 
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

"Cliff Notes" to history by SparkNotes.com  - excellent quick reference http://www.sparknotes.com/history/.dir/

Cthistoryonline.org: Site created by UConn, Mystic Seaport & Ct Historical Society. Contains over 14,000  images of Connecticut'diverse history. 

Dailykos.org     daily analysis of the day's news http://dailykos.com/

Discovery Channel:  Ancient History page - links and resources for educators http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/expansion/resources.html

History Channel - a fun place to visit http://historychannel.com/

History guide    excellent copyrighted lectures , plus links  ... http://historyguide.org

History Links from Education index - excellent & comprehensive links http://www.educationindex.com/history

History Links galore for fun, research, & homework help
http://www.bjpinchbeck.com/framehistory.htm

History Links : WWW history links - ranging from prehistory to current century. History lovers' delight  http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/                  

Horus's Web Links to history Resources - presented by the University of California, Riverside Department of History   http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html

Hyper History Online:  Over 1800 files, covering 3000 years & recommended by The History Channel   http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Indexes of Resources for History - maintained by the University of Kansas  - comprehensive  http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/

Library of Congress American memory Project   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html

Medieval Links maintained by medieval scholars
http://orb.rhodes.edu/

Naval Fighting Ships - includes histories of more than 7,000 vessels http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/

Organization of American Historians:   links http://www.oah.org/announce/links.html

Presidents of the USA - Resources - lesson plans, links http://www.americanpresident.org/presidentialresources.htm

Renaissance Links
http://www.renaissance.dm.net/sites.html

University of Memphis - Dept. of History - information on citing & writing history papers  & links to journals & conferences & more
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mcrouse/elcite.html

Voice of the Shuttle History Page - countless links - highly recommended  http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2713

World Lecture Hall - History links maintained by the University of Texas   http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

History quotes worth reading

History is a novel that did happen; the novel is history as it might have happened.  Brothers Concourt.

"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
-- Georges Clemenceau

William O. Douglas writes that Chief Douglas Charles Evans Hughes told him, "Justice, Douglas, you must remember one thing. At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predictions."

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.  -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
-- Will Rogers Politics 

War is not nice.
-- Barbara Bush 

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
- Booker T. Washington

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -Abba Eban

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.  -- Dan Quayle

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
 

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think. Hitler.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe
in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.--H. L. Mencken

Manipulation
 The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized
habits and opinions of the masses is an important element
in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen
mechanism of society constitute an invisible government,
which is the true ruling power of our country.
--Edward Bernays, father of the PR Industry

Dictatorships
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by
coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator,
whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler.
Ultimately, the general population goes along with the
idea...That's the issue that I've been exploring: How
did the Republic turn into the Empire...and how does
a democracy become a dictatorship?
-- George Lucas, Star Wars Filmmaker

 

The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and
exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few
by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'.
The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the
form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship
of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of
he United States, corporate statism. In each instance the
ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to
legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony
over the masses.
--Ed Crane, one of the 85 founders of the Libertarian Party

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in  
the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.  
--James Madison, while a Congressman

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of
every American, it is that we should have nothing to do
with conquest. --Thomas Jefferson

Bonus Quote

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while
free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
--George W. Bush UN Speech Sept 2004


Jefferson Quotes

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
--Thomas Jefferson

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."  --Thomas Jefferson

"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion."  --Thomas Jefferson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. "  --Thomas Jefferson

History Trivia

trivia - Penicillin

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish
 farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his
 family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby
 bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog..

 There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a
 terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free
 himself . .

Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been
a slow and terrifying death . . .

 The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the
 Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed
nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the
 father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved . . .

 "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved
 my son's life."

 "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the
 Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer . . .

 At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door
 of the family hovel . . .

 "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked?

 "Yes," the farmer replied proudly..

 "I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the
 level of education my son will enjoy. If the lad is
 anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a
 man we both will be proud of."

 And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the
 very best schools and in time, he graduated from St.
Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and
 went on to become known throughout the world as the
 noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of
 Penicillin..

 Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved
 from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved
his life this time?

 Penicillin . . .

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
 His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill..

Someone once said: What goes around comes around . . .

FAST FACTS:

The Duke of Windsor, who gave up the throne of England to marry the woman he loved, was quite a playboy when he was young. On one trip to the U.S. in the 1920s, during Prohibition, he even got caught in a speakeasy during a raid.

Fortunately for him the nightclub's hostess kept him out of the papers. She pushed him into the kitchen, hid him under a chef's hat, and gave him some eggs to fry.

Had he not abdicated as Edward VIII, the symbols of his reign would have been crown, scepter, and skillet.

(Source: THE LITTLE, BROWN BOOK OF ANECDOTES)
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Trivia on Eleanor Roosevelt 

 Born to privilege but  treated privilege as a responsibility to help others.

Born to privilege, Eleanor Roosevelt dedicated her life to helping others.

According to author Blanche Cook, in 1900, when Roosevelt was a freshman at New York's Barnard College, she joined other like-minded students and worked for the Junior League for the promotion of Settlement Movements. 

And while other volunteers--like her friend Jean Reid--would often make the trip downtown in private carriages, Eleanor instead chose to use the Fourth Avenue streetcar. 

"Even in the evenings, no matter how cold and dark, she refused Jean Reid's offer of a ride home. She preferred to walk through the streets and to observe the Bower's lost and lonely men...They gave [her] yet another level of insight into the ravages of alcoholism, and the costs to the children who moved her so deeply."(1)

Eleanor Roosevelt was born to privilege but always treated privilege as a responsibility to help others. Later, more than any woman of her day, she would play an important role in politics, furthering the cause of civil rights, public policy and social work.

(1)Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume I (New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1992) p. 134-135. 
 

Understanding history Terms in Cow Sense

THE TWO COW PHILOSOPHY: 

Political Philosophies Explained in Simple "Two Cow" Terms 

Socialism: 
You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor. 

Communism: 
You have two cows. The government takes them both and provides you 
with milk. 

Fascism: 
You have two cows. The government takes them and sells you the milk. 

Bureaucracy: 
You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks 
the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours it down the drain. 

Capitalism: 
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. 

Corporate: 
You have two cows. You sell one, force the other to produce the milk 
of four cows and then act surprised when it drops dead. 

Democracy: 
You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point that you 
must sell them both in order to support a man in a foreign country 
who has only one cow which was a gift from your government 

answers from a 6th grade history test

Subject: Actual answers to a 6th grade history test

Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in
hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.

Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history.  The Greeks also had myths.  A myth is a female moth.

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him.  Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.  After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline. (This may be true!)

Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw.

It was an age of great inventions and discoveries.  Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible.  Another important invention was the circulation of blood.  Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking.  Sir Fransis Drake Circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.  He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday.  He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays.  He wrote tragedies, comedies, and
hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.  Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couple.

Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent.  Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands.  Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation.  On the night of April 14 1865, Lincoln went to the theater
and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show.  They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children.  In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept in the attic.  Bach died from 1750 to the present.  Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel.  Handel was half German half
Italian and half English. He was very large.

The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions.  People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine.  The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.  Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis.  Charles Darwin was a
naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species.  Madman Curie discovered radio.  And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

Trivia