Hitler and the Third Reich
In this lesson we will be learning about the life of Adolf Hitler and how he rose to power with the Nazi party.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the life of Adolf Hitler and how he rose to power with the Nazi party.
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the Northern parts of Africa as we learn about post-Byzantine Egypt and Nubia known as the kingdom of Kush.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about Louis XVI’s early years before the French revolution.
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Called the “greatest battle implement ever devised”, the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle served the USA well during WW2 and beyond.
In this lesson we will be learning about Russia during the rule of Catherine the Great and her successful predecessors.
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The Australian Wars is a new three-part TV series directed and produced by Arrernte and Kalkadoon nations filmmaker Rachel Perkins. Perkins travels across vast territory to capture key aspects of a war that lasted more than 100 years, from the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 until the 1920s.
The series traces some of the key phases, sites and underlying features of frontier wars here on home soil.
Read MoreReading time: 6 minutes Once the centre of Nazi ideology and power, the German capital of Berlin...
Read MoreThis lesson will take us to the industrial revolution as we learn about the development and use of new agricultural techniques.
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about Europe in the 21st century, how it’s functioning now and what the future holds for it.
Read MoreThere may be many historically based films, but only a few can be rightfully called striking,...
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the first Roman republic that was established after overthrowing the unpopular king Lucius.
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The commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor also marks the United States’ entrance into the Second World War, forever changing the course of the ultimate conflict.
In this lesson we will be learning about the Tang Dynasty which was generally regarded as the golden age of Chinese culture.
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A visit to the United States Military Academy confirms that history seeps from the granite foundations of West Point itself, perched high above the Hudson River, 50 miles north of New York City. Statues of Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, George S. Patton Jr., and Douglas MacArthur greet students every morning on the way to their first class at 0730 (that’s 7:30 a.m.). Our most successful recruiting slogan—“Much of the history we teach was made by the people we taught”—explicitly refers to history. No surprise: armies have always wrapped themselves in the glory of the past.
Unearthed secrets from 7,000 years back highlight prehistoric women as the heroines who dug deep–quite literally, to plant the seeds of the first Agricultural Revolution–a recent study in Science Advances has unearthed. Analysis of the bones of these women shows they took on their fair share of digging, hauling, hoeing, and grinding grain in early agricultural societies – in fact, so much so, that their upper body strength would have been greater than that of modern female athletes today. Notably, these findings disprove the widely-held notion that prehistoric women favored domestic tasks over intensive manual labor.
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Neanderthals were until quite recently often seen as simple-minded savages – powerful hunters with a short attention span. But in the last few years, scientists have realised that they were a lot more refined than previously thought – capable of caring for the vulnerable, burying their dead and even adorning themselves with feathers and beads.
THE IMPACTS OF CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION: HOW THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY CHANGED THE WORLD Reading...
Read MoreIn this lesson we will be learning about the French Empire, it’s initial success and the collapse of the empire.
Read MoreThis lesson us takes us to the South American civilizations as we learn about their culture and way of life.
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