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2 days ago · This course introduces students to the major events, movements, and personalities of the twentieth century. The objective of the course will be to critically examine the events, ideas, conflicts, movements, and inventions which have shaped human civilization in the 20th century.
5 days ago · All students study 20th-Century World History. Higher Level students also study a 100-year period between 1750 and the present in one of several regions. Standard Level students do a project in any History subject. ower-level History elective depending on student’s choice of specialized subject.
4 days ago · May 19, 2024 Podcast. The Germans march their British prisoners out of Tobruk after its fall. Over the winter of 1941-2, Hitler redeployed Luftwaffe units back to the Mediterranean, which meant more supplies were reaching Rommel’s army. A new Axis offensive captured Tobruk and drove deep into Egypt.
3 days ago · Hunt points out that history has always been the handmaiden of some political agenda; she describes history’s ‘symbiotic relationship with nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ (p. 3), and surveys the ways in which history curriculum changes in the 20th century reflected social and political changes.
4 days ago · Using a variety of case studies, this course considers 20th-century turning points – often violent and disastrous ones – in an emerging global conversation about urgent world problems and their possible solutions.
2 days ago · This inclusion of colonial injustices in school curriculum is a transnational phenomenon. In countries like Canada and New Zealand, curriculum has also been reformed to teach vital truths about the colonial past and its ongoing legacies more accurately. This suggests a new consensus about the importance of truth-telling in education.
1 day ago · London, Michael Joseph, 1994, ISBN: 9780718133078; 640pp. Eric Hobsbawm has written a book which has been rightly acclaimed as setting the standard for accounts of the Twentieth Century. We can expect such books to proliferate as we approach the end of the millennium. Few will be able to match the powerful analysis and broad sweep of this book.
