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Nationalism

Teaching

Short Teaching Module: Remembering Tiananmen Square

Although China is located quite far from Eastern Europe, dissidents in Eastern Europe identified with the struggles by opposition leaders in China and used images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising to reinforce memories of resistance in Eastern Europe.

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Teaching

Short Teaching Module: Chinese Propaganda Posters

Visual images provide valuable material for the exploration of childhood, youth and history.

Teaching

Short Teaching Module: Surnames and Nationality

Images of 1989 tend to center on dramatic events in Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, or other major East European cities. However, many of the changes in Eastern Europe and the world were far more subtle but no less important.

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Provision for the Restatement of Names and Surnames

Images of 1989 tend to center on dramatic events in Berlin, in Beijing, in Bucharest, and in Johannesburg, just to name a few. Visions of mass demonstration and popular uprising predominate.

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Review

Jewish Women's Archive

The Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA), a national non-profit organization, seeks to collect and promote the 'extraordinary stories of Jewish women.'
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Imperialism in North Africa: Autobiography, Leila Abouzeid

In Morocco, after 1912, the colonial regime eschewed, for the most part, introducing overt changes into Islamic personal status law.

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Imperialism in North Africa: Interview, Djamila Bouhired

By the eve of the revolution, Algerian demands for even limited political and civil rights had been repeatedly rebuffed by the French colonial regime and the nearly one million European settlers in the country.

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Review

New York Public Library Digital Collections

The NYPL Digital Collection provides access to over 755,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities, including illuminated manuscripts, vintage posters, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.
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Review

In Motion: The African-American Migration Project

In Motion: The African-American Migration Project portrays the history of 13 defining migrations that formed and transformed African Americans from the 16th century to the present.
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Caribbean Views

The online collection is of extraordinary quality, both in terms of the scanned images and the contextual detail provided.