Navigating Resources Online

In hopes to encourage you to begin identifying key players and important events in your political and social history search, explore the following resources. Most of them were accessed through simple searches using the phrases we highlighted yesterday.



Ghana:

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/republic/polit_hist.php

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/ghana.htm

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/34/index-ib.html



Croatia:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/index-h.html

http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Europe/Croatia-HISTORY.html

http://www.medjugorje.org/chistory.htm

http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/balkans/croat181349.html



Chile:

http://countrystudies.us/chile/85.htm

http://countrystudies.us/chile/

http://www.photius.com/countries/chile/government/chile_government_development_and_brea~466.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._intervention_in_Chile



Cuba:

http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/ratb/cuba/

http://www.netforcuba.org/History/Main.htm

http://www.historyofcuba.com/

http://www.juanperez.com/history/history.html



North Korea:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/northkorea/

http://countrystudies.us/north-korea/

http://www.brookings.edu/testimony/2003/0605northkorea_oh.aspx

http://www.everyculture.com/Ja-Ma/North-Korea.html

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/korea.html

http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-nk.html



Nepal:

http://www.nepalhomepage.com/general/history.html

http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/asian/nepal/resources/nepal-history.html

http://www.thamel.com/htms/history.htm

http://www.electionworld.org/history/nepal.htm

http://nepalresearch.org/publications/donnerfs.htm

http://ajadhind.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/revolutionary-masses-making-history-in-nepal/



Philippines:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54a/index-a.html

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/philippines.htm

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/phtoc.html

http://www.ncca.gov.ph/about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=187

http://www.philippines-timeline.com/spanish.htm



Colombia:

http://www.worldrover.com/history/colombia_history.html

http://www.vivatravelguides.com/south-america/colombia/colombia-overview/political-timeline/
http://www.kairoscanada.org/e/countries/colombia/colombiaHistory.asp

http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/resources/Colombia/History.htm



South Africa:

http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/history/history.htm

http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html

http://www.southafrica.co.za/history_28.html

http://www.sahistory.org.za/



Mexico:

http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=783&display_order=6&mini_id=1099

http://www.geographia.com/mexico/mexicohistory.htm

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980DE3DE1F31EE34BC4F53DFB3668382649FDE

http://www.essortment.com/all/chiapasrebell_rkrl.htm

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=aJ8AAAAAYAAJ&dq=political+history+of+mexico&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=24oM_K3th7&sig=fqj75F_vSwnVP__HlMgd5tvHKT0



East Timor:

http://www1.ci.uc.pt/timor/atop.html

http://www.newint.org/issue253/simply.htm

http://www.politicalresources.net/east_timor.htm

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/timor.html



Brazil:

http://www.brazilbrazil.com/historia.html

http://www.photius.com/countries/brazil/government/brazil_government_political_culture.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3821/is_200210/ai_n9115139

http://www.v-brazil.com/information/history/brazil-century-20.html



Belgium:

http://www.diplomatie.be/en/belgium/belgiumdetail.asp?TEXTID=1576

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E4DF1439E233A25750C2A9679C946796D6CF

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9803E4DF1439E233A25750C2A9679C946796D6CF

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9240



Argentina:

http://www.hvra.com.ar/enfbhist.htm

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/argent1.htm

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/37.3/br_3.html

http://www.frugalmonkey.com/argentina/history-of-argentina.html



Sierra Leone:

http://www.cryfreetown.org/history.html

http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Sierra_Leone.html

http://www.ecowas.info/slehist.htm

http://www.vreug.com/sl.html



Costa Rica:

http://centralamerica.com/cr/moon/mohistory.htm

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/index-gb.html

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/costarica.htm

http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/CR/



Czech Republic:

http://www.ncsml.org/

http://www.iscev.org/symposia/symp1998/history.htm

http://countrystudies.us/czech-republic/

http://www.indiana.edu/~reeiweb/index/czechstudies.shtml



Poland:

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~koby/political/poland.html

http://www.mu.edu/pages/home/resourcecommons/faculty/missionweek/poland

http://www.kmm-language.com/poland_000009.htm

http://www.tenetour.com/history.php



Israel:

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/History/HISTORY-%20The%20State%20of%20Israel

http://www.buffalo-israel-link.org/joel5.htm

http://traubman.igc.org/history.htm



Tajikistan:

http://reenic.utexas.edu/countries/tadjikistan.html

http://www.russiannewsnetwork.com/tajikistan.html

http://www.everyculture.com/Sa-Th/Tajikistan.html

http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/tajikistan/causes-dynamics.php



Afghanistan:

http://www.afghanan.net/afghanistan/history.htm

http://www.afghan-web.com/history/articles/reshtya.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1569826.stm

http://www.applet-magic.com/afghanistan.htm

http://www.afghanmagazine.com/2004_06/index.shtml



Germany:

http://assets.cambridge.org/052183/3205/excerpt/0521833205_excerpt.htm

http://www.timelineindex.com/content/select/285/45,142,285

http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/rwc/guides/subj/history.html

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/study-abroad-guide/subjects/departments-0809/1P

China:

http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html

http://www.asterius.com/china/

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/index-b.html

http://vlib.iue.it/history/asia/China/index.html

Defining and Exploring Socio-Political History

Political history is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders. It is usually structured around the nation state. It is distinct from, but related to, other fields of history such as social history, economic history, and military history.

Generally, political history focuses on events relating to nation-states and the formal political process. This contrasts to some extent with social history, which focuses predominantly on the actions and lifestyles of ordinary people, or people's history, which is historical work from the perspective of common people. (source: Wikipedia)

As we expand our research on the social and political history of countries unexamined by textbooks, explore the following resources:

International Database (IDB) http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

Fletcher School at Tufts International Relations Resources

The Global Social Change Research Project from the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication http://gsociology.icaap.org/

The History Guide http://www.historyguide.de/

World History: HyperHistory http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Modern World History Online (requires login from NY Public Library)

Handbook of Latin American Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/

*Also* try searching phrases "political history of," "social history of," "political change in,"

To do this, use advanced search engines including:

Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/index.html

Google Books http://books.google.com/

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/

Who Controls the Past Controls the Future.Who Controls the Present Controls the Past.

This spring, our interdisciplinary studies in world history, literature, philosophy and art will move from a focus on 20th century political and social change to a dialogue about the 21st century economic and environmental future of humanity.

Students are charged with long-term research and scholar/warrior re-teach projects on countries that are not covered in textbooks. We take our cue from Howard Zinn's book The Future of History, who notes:

If you can control history, what people know about it, if you can decide what's in people's history and what's left out, you can order their thinking. You can order their values. You can in effect organize their brains by controlling their knowledge. The people who can do that, who can control the past, are the people who control the present. The people who would dominate the media, who publish the textbooks, who decide in our culture what are the dominant ideas, what gets told and what doesn't...

We should have history that does reflect points of view and values, in other words, history that is not objective. We should have history that enhances human values, humane values, values of brotherhood, sisterhood, peace, justice and equality.

Below is the (soon-to-be hyperlinked) list of political & social history project topics:

KOJO - Ghana
STEPHANIE - Croatia

ZACHARY - Chile
BRITNEY - exploring
SAIF - Cuba
MICHAEL - North Korea
SHANNON - Nepal
NATALIE - Philippines

EDWIN - Colombia
SOPHIA - South Africa

HOWARD - Mexico
KADIJAH - East Timor
DAPHNE - Brazil
JOHNNIEA - Portugal
CHRISTOPHER - Belgium
ROSE - Argentina
DANIELLE - Sierra Leone
LAURA - Costa Rica
ALEXANDER - Czech Republic
UNIQUE - Poland

NAHTAHNIEL - Israel
DAVID - Tajikistan
IVETTE - Afghanistan
SHIZA - Germany
ANDREW - China