ARTICLES
• Eddie Mabo
• Aboriginal Land Rights
• Constitution of Australia
• National Reconciliation Week
• Wave Hill Walk-Off
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Aboriginal Rights Movement
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS
• Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (1992)
• Kartinyeri v Commonwealth (Hindmarsh Island Bridge Case) (1998)
• Wik Peoples v Queensland (1996)
WEBSITES
• The Australian Constitution
ARTICLES
• Ancient Egypt
• Battle of Kadesh
• Rosetta Stone
• Hieroglyphics
• Pyramids
RESEARCH GUIDE
• Ancient Egypt
HISTORICAL MAPS
• Ancient Egypt: Three periods
• Battle of Kadesh
• Pyramids of Giza
TABLES
• Important dates in ancient Egypt’s history
TIMELINES
• History of Ancient Egypt
• Advances in Archaeology
SPECIAL REPORTS
• Medical Tales from the Crypt
QUESTIONS
1. Why did the ancient Greek historian Herodotus call Egypt “the gift of the Nile”?
2. What were some achievements of the ancient Egyptians?
3. Why did the ancient Egyptians make mummies?
4. What was the Amarna Revolution?
5. Why did the Egyptians build pyramids?
6. What discovery led to the deciphering of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics in modern times?
7. When did ancient Egypt reach the height of its power?
8. What did the ancient Egyptians call their country? Why?
9. From where does our knowledge of ancient Egypt come?
10. What was the chief industry in ancient Egypt?
PICTURES
• Rosetta stone
• Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
• Civilisation of ancient Egypt
• Papermaking in ancient Egypt
• Typical country estate in Ancient Egypt
• King Horemheb of Ancient Egypt
• Importances of the Nile River to ancient Egypt
• Cleopatra
• Queen Hatshepsut’s temple
• Egyptian mummies
• The death of Cleopatra
• Anubis
• Canopic jar, used in preparing a mummy
• First pyramid in Egypt
• Pyramids of Giza
• Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt
• The Great Spinx, Giza, Egypt
• Osiris, Egyptian god of the afterlife
• Important divinities in Egyptian mythology
VIDEOS
• Great Sphinx
• Pyramids of Giza
• Valley of the Kings
• How ancient Egyptians made a mummy
SOUND
• Carter on discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Ancient Egyptians
• Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt
• Legends of the Gods, The Egyptian Texts
WORKSHEET
• Ancient Egypt
WEBQUEST
• Ancient Egypt
ARTICLES
• Aztec
• Montezuma II
• Tenochtitlan
RESEARCH GUIDE
• Aztec
HISTORICAL MAPS
• Aztec Empire
• Hernán Cortés’s expeditions 1519-1535
TIMELINE
• History of Aztec
PICTURES
• Aztec god of fire
• Aztec goddess Coatlicue
• Aztec writing
• Aztec Ruins National Monument
• Hernán Cortés and Aztec leaders
• Human sacrifice in Aztec religion
• Montezuma II
• Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan
• Spanish conquest of the Aztec
• Spanish soldiers attacked Aztec Indians
VIDEOS
• Did Aztecs really practice human sacrifice?
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• The Aztec
WEBQUEST
• Aztec: Way of Life
The Forbidden City is a historic walled area of Beijing, China. In addition to residences where emperors of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties once lived, the area has dozens of courtyards, palaces, temples, and gardens. Today, the Forbidden City’s buildings are preserved as the Palace Museum.
ARTICLES
• China
• Shang dynasty
• Zhou dynasty
• Qin dynasty
• Han dynasty
• Sui dynasty
• Tang dynasty
• Song dynasty
• Ming dynasty
RESEARCH GUIDE
• China
MAPS
• Population density in China
• China – Ethnic Groups
TABLES
• China in brief
• Important dates in China
TIMELINE
• History of China
PICTURES
• Great Wall of China
• Forbidden City
• Terracotta warriors of Xi’an
VIDEOS
• Great Wall of China
• Tiananmen Square protest
• Who was the first emperor of China?
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• Chinese of the Shang, Zhou, and Qin Dynasties
• Chinese Revolution
ARTICLES
• Albert Einstein
• E=mc-squared
• Relativity
• Gravitation
• Gravitational Waves
RESEARCH GUIDES
• Albert Einstein
• Gravitation
TIMELINES
• Albert Einstein
PICTURES
• Albert Einstein (1905)
• Albert Einstein (1940)
• Portrait of Einstein
• Einstein with wife
• Einstein and his sister
• Einstein plays the violin
• Einstein at Princeton
VIDEOS
• Einstein talks about the hydrogen bomb
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
• Einstein was Right
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Albert Einstein Biographical Connections
• The Einstein Theory of Relativity
ARTICLES
• Environment Pollution
• Ocean Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Air Pollution
• Light Pollution
RESEARCH GUIDE
• Environmental pollution
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Pollution
PICTURES
• Air pollution
• Ocean pollution
• Water pollution
• How water pollution occurs
• Pollution from solid waste
VIDEOS
• How polluted are the oceans?
• Why are so many rivers polluted?
• Paper recycling
• Aluminium recycling
WORKSHEETS
• Environmental Pollution
QUESTIONS
1. How can consumers encourage manufacturers to produce less-polluting products?
2. What causes most air pollution?
3. What natural processes cleanse water systems?
4. How does the desire for convenience contribute to environmental pollution?
5. What are some ways governments work to control pollution?
6. Why is solid waste difficult to eliminate?
7. How does population growth contribute to environmental pollution?
8. How does population growth contribute to environmental pollution?
9. What are the hazards and benefits of ozone in the atmosphere?
10. How can businesses help reduce pollution?
ARTICLES
• Mao Zedong
• Cultural Revolution
• The Long March
• The Great Leap Forward
TABLE
• Important dates about communism
TIMELINES
• Mao Zedong
• Communism
HISTORICAL MAPS
• China: Civil War
• The Long March
WEBSITES
• Documents that Changed the World: Mao’s ‘Little Red Book’
• Handbills from the Cultural Revolution
PICTURES
• Mao Zedong
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Chinese Revolution
ARTICLES
• Ottoman Empire
• Suleyman I
• Fall of Constantinople
• Osman I
RESEARCH GUIDES
• Ottoman Empire
ARTICLES
• Russian Revolution of 1917
• Nicholas II of Russia
• Red Army
• Bolsheviks
• V.I. Lenin
• Leon Trotsky
• Joseph Stalin
RESEARCH GUIDES
• Russian Revolution of 1917
• Nicholas II of Russia
• V.I. Lenin
TIMELINES
• V.I. Lenin
• Communism
TABLE
• Important dates in Lenin’s life
PICTURES
• Lenin addressing the Soviet Congress
• Czar Nicholas II and his family
• Striking workers during Russian Revolution
• V.I. Lenin
• Joseph Stalin
• Leon Trotsky
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Russian Revolution
WEBQUESTS
• Russian Revolution
ARTICLES
• Battle of Long Tan
• Tet Offensive
• Vietnam War
• Vietnam
• Viet Cong
• Agent Orange
• Naplam
MAPS
• Vietnam
HISTORICAL MAPS
• Battle of Long Tan
• Tet Offensive
• Vietnam War Major Battles
RESEARCH GUIDE
• Vietnam War
TIMELINE
• Vietnam War
PICTURES
• Australian soldiers awaiting transport
• Viet Cong guerrillas
• Viet Cong soldiers
• Vietnamese refugees
• Victorious North Vietnamese troops in Saigon
• Spraying of Agent Orange
• Tet Offensive
VIDEOS
• Dropping napalm on a village
• Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnamese soldiers
• Why did the US begin military action in Vietnam?
• Why was the Vietnam War so controversial?
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
• Battle of Long Tan – 50 Years After
BACK IN TIME
Article written during the year in which the events took place and reflects the style and thinking of that time.
• Vietnam (1975)
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Vietnam War
British troops go “over the top” during the Battle of the Somme in northern France. The battle took place during the summer and autumn of 1916. It was one of the longest and bloodiest campaigns of World War I (1914-1918).
ARTICLES
• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Fromelles
• Battle of Pozières
• Trench Warfare
• Western Front
HISTORICAL MAPS
• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Fromelles
• Battle of Pozières
• Australian Remembrance Trail
RESEARCH GUIDE
• World War I
PICTURES
• Battle of the Somme, 1916
WEBQUESTS
• World War I: Overview
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• History Summarized – World War I
ARTICLES
• World War II
• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill
• The Blitz
• Holocaust
• Western Front
• Rats of Tobruk
HISTORICAL MAPS
• World War II overview
• World War II battles
• Bombing of London during the Blitz
• Location of Nazi concentration camps
• Warsaw ghetto
TIMELINES
• WWII: Europe and Northern Africa
• Holocaust
• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill
BACK IN TIME
Articles written during the year in which the events took place and reflects the style and thinking of that time.
1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 |
1943 | 1944 | 1945 |
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
• When the World Went Cold
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• World War II Europe
• History Summarized – WWII Europe and North Africa
• Germany’s Fighting Machine
WEBQUESTS
• World War II: War in Europe
PICTURES
• German troops in Poland
• German surrender document
• Bombing of London during the Blitz
• Enigma machine
• The Colossus machine
• Spitfires
• B-24 Liberator
• Air war against Germany
• Women producing Spitfire components
• Victory in Europe (V-E) Day
• Testifying at the Nuremberg Trials
VIDEOS
• How did Germany rise to power before World War II?
• Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party
• Allied forces liberate France
RESEARCH GUIDES
• World War II
• Adolf Hitler
• Winston Churchill
• Holocaust
TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS
• Letter from Hitler to Mussolini explaining the attack on the Soviet Union
• Winston Churchill’s speeches
ARTICLES
• Adolf Hitler
• Holocaust
• Concentration Camps
• Auschwitz
• Bergen-Bergen
• Buchenwald
• Dachau
• Final Solution
• Anti-Semitism
• Nuremberg Trials
RESEARCH GUIDES
• Adolf Hitler
• Holocaust
HISTORICAL MAPS
• Location of Nazi concentration camps
• Warsaw ghetto
TIMELINES
• Holocaust
• Adolf Hitler
PICTURES
• Concentration camp prisoners
• Jews forced from their homes by Nazi soldiers
• Kristallnacht
• Auschwitz concentration camp
• Buchenwald survivors
• Dachau concentration camp
• Nazi concentration camp
VIDEOS
• Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party
TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS
• Nazi Medical Experiment Report Nuremberg Medical Trial (1944)
• Correspondence Urging Bombing of Auschwitz during World War II (1944)
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
History Summarized:
• WWII Europe and North Africa
• Arab-Israeli Conflict
ARTICLES
• D-Day in World War II
• Battle of Normandy
HISTORICAL MAPS
• World War II: Normandy invasion area
• World War II: Normandy invasion detail
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS
• D-Day Order of the Day
TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS
• D-day Message from General Eisenhower to General Marshall (1944)
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• World War II Europe
PICTURES
• Hitting the beaches on D-Day
VIDEOS
• Invasion of France
• How was D-Day conceived?
• Why was D-Day so important?
• What would have happened if D-Day had failed?
BACK IN TIME
Article written during the year in which the events took place and reflects the style and thinking of that time.
• World War II (1944)
ARTICLES
• World War II
• World War II – Asia & the Pacific
• Burma Railway
• Battle of the Java Sea
• Kokoda Trail
HISTORICAL MAPS
• WWII in the Pacific: 1941-1942
• WWII in the Pacific: 1943-1945
• Burma Railway
• Battle of the Java Sea
• Kokoda Trail
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of Singapore
TIMELINES
• WWII: Asia and the Pacific
RESEARCH GUIDE
• World War II
MAGAZINES
• Railway to Hell
• Ship of Ghost
WEBQUESTS
• WWII: War in the Pacific
BACK IN TIME
Article written during the year in which the events took place and reflects the style and thinking of that time.
1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 |
World War II (1945)
eBOOKS (subscribers only)
• Documenting History – WWII Pacific
• History Summarized – WWII Asia and Pacific
• The Constitution of Japan, 1946
SOUND
• Eyewitness account of the bombing of Nagasaki
PICTURES
• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Japanese kamikaze
• Japanese surrender document
• Japanese troops in Malaya
• Japan surrenders
• Allied prisoners of war building the Burma Railway
• Nagasaki after the bomb
• Atomic blast Hiroshima
• Battle of Midway
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENT
• The bombing of Darwin
WEBSITE
• Australia’s War 1939-1945
VIDEOS
• How did Japan rise to power before WWII?
• What would have happened if the Allies hadn’t dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?
• Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
