SOTW 4: 5A - The American Civil War

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

•  Civil War - Extensive Primary Sources on the American Civil War
• Photographs of the Civil War
• Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Secondary Sources:

• Interactive Website
• Interactive Website

Video Enrichment:

• History.com
• The American Civil War Video  Playlist  - created by Hampton Middle School NOTE:some videos contain graphic depiction of war. Parental discretion advised.

On-Line Course - for older students or Civil War Enthusiasts who wish to learn more about this period in history and want to watch university lectures, there is a FREE lecture series from Yale University - The American Civil War this series contains 27 lectures, indexed here.  The lectures and downloadable course materials are all free! (You can locate lecture "chapters" on the right side of the video window.)

Edu-tainment: 

Horrible Histories - American Civil War - HD 1080p (3 mins)

• Playmobil: Civil War 1862 (5 mins)

  
  
  

SOTW 4: 4B - The Taiping Rebellion

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Notebook/Outline Page:  Link

Primary Sources:

• Excerpts from The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom, Taiping Economic Program -Primary Source Documents with Questions

Secondary Sources:

• Liang Fa’s Quanshi liangyan and Its Impact on the Taiping Movement - This is a Doctoral Dissertation, it's an extensive document.  Excellent for reviewing dissertation format and presentation.  Read a few tidbits of this document, consult the table of contents and examine a few pages.

Video Enrichment:
A student project summarizing the causes of  the Taiping Rebellion (5 mins)

SOTW 4: 4A -Italy's Resurrection

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Outline/Narration/Notebook Page : Link

Primary Documents:

• Giuseppe Mazzini on Nationality
• Giuseppe Garabaldi a Report on the Conquest of Naples, 1860
• Victor Emmanuel addresses Parliament, Rome, 1871

Podcast Lecture:

• Revloutions of 1848  scroll down to lecture 9 - engaging podcast.

Interesting Tidbit:
Garibaldi's influence on Emancipation of American Slaves (5 min)

SOTW 4: 3B Wandering Through Africa

Notebooking/Narration/Outline page: Link

Primary Sources:

•           David Livingstone: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
• David Livingstone: A Popular account of Dr. Livingstone's expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries

Secondary Sources:

• How I found Livingstone, Sir Henry M. Stanley, 1871

Video Enrichment:

Video depicting Stanley's motivation to search for Livingstone.

(3 mins)

SOTW 4: 3A - The Great Game

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Outline/Narration/Notebook page: Link
Wikipedia page on Dost Mohammad: Link

Primary Sources:
I have found none so far, please let me know if you find any!
Closest time-related document I found was an account of a pilgrammage to Mecca in 1853 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Video Enrichment (for older/mature audiences)
A video which presents Afghanistan's war ridden history. The first half of this video references modern Afghanistan (and the war with the Americans.)  It then begins referencing Alexander the Great's invasion of Afghanistan, Budism, Gengis Khan...

warning: depicts war

Part 2, continues with the Mongol invasion, Mogul Empire, Persian Empire, Russians, British both invasions.
Watch 7 minutes of this one to complete coverage of the material covered in the lesson book.

depicts war

SOTW 4: 2B - The Crimean War

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Notebooking/Outline Form:  Link
A Florence Nightingale Activity Book Grade 4 (Grammar Stage) Link

Primary Sources:

•  Photographs from the Crimean War

• A Web of English History Extensive Primary Documents found here.  (scroll down 1 page)

Secondary Sources

• Many Extracts from Christopher Hibbert's The Destruction of Lord Raglan, (Longmans, 1961)
• Extract from Cecil Woodham Smith's The Reason Why (New York , McGraw-Hill 1953), pp.242-59.
• the Charge of the Light Brigade (25 October 1854)
• Maps of the Crimea
• More....much more~

• A Crimean War Monument we've visited before:  Link

Podcast:
Crimean War - University lecture from iTunes; David Wetzel.

Video Enrichment:
Accounts assembled from primary sources:

Part 2:

Part 3:


Edu-tainment Nonsense:

• A Horrible History Video showing the horrible state of medicine during the Crimean War:

• Another Horrible History about nursing during the Crimean War:

SOTW 4: Chapter 2A - Japan Re-Opens

Narration/Notebooking/Outline Page: Link

Primary Sources:

• A list of gifts Matthew Perry took with him to Japan
• The Treaty of Kanagawa, March 31, 1854

Secondary Sources:

• A biography of Commodore Perry.
• When we landed in Japan

Video Enrichment:
A video presentation done by some high school students:  This might give you an idea of one way to create a presentation on a topic of your own someday...

SOTW 4: Chapter 1B - The Sepoy Mutiny

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline Sheet: Link
Brief article on Imperialism in India: Link

Primary Sources:

• Queen Victoria's response to the Sepoy Mutiny - and some questions to consider
• An Account of the Opening of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, 1857 -( Firsthand account of the Sepoy Mutiny)        Letters Written During the Siege of Delhi by H. H. Greathed, Esq., Late of the Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner and Political Agent of Delhi, edited by his widow. (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858)

• India under the British, multiple documents

Secondary Sources:

• The 1857 Indian Mutiny - also quotes primary sources
• More complicated than gun cartridges  - commentary by William Dalrymple

Video Enrichment:

• A brief summary of the causes and events of the Sepoy Mutiny: (2 mins)

• A scene depicting the discovery that cow and pig fat was being used for artillery manufacture (Subtitled, depiction of slaughtered animals, 5 minutes)

Additional Resources:
Webpage with a brief summary and photos:  Link

SOTW 4: Chapter 1A Queen Victoria's England

Printable page for narration/outline:  Link
Coloring Page for Grammar Stage:  Link

Primary Documents:  

• Victorian Publications - multiple  Victorian publications including Arnold, Browning, Darwin, Tennyson and many more.

Secondary Documents:

• Extensive Authoritative Website dealing with  Victorian England:  Victorian Web
• Interactive Scrapbook - includes some primary documents:

Video Enrichment:

• Video Documentary about Queen Victoria from the Kings and Queens Series:  
• 3 parts, 10 minutes each
• Part 1: Link
• Part 2: Link
• Part 3: Link

Edu-tainment Nonsense:
Queen Victoria:  Horrible Histories Music Video (3 mins)