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Modern European History > AP European History > Welcome Search   Joel A. Siepierski, PhD Phone: 716.332.6300 x309 E-mail: jsiepierski@nicholsschool.org No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.         -- David McCullough History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.         -- E. L. Doctorow Cool History Links: The BBC history page.  There are a ton of interesting and useful subjects, including pictures, video, and sound clips: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history The home page for the Chateau of Versailles, the home of French kings from Louis XIV to Louis XVI, now a museum: http://en.chateauversailles.fr A multimedia site dedicaetd to the history of World War I: http://www.firstworldwar.com/ World War II in Europe: http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushistory/ww2/europeantheater.htm World War I images: http://www.gwpda.org/photos/greatwar.htm A site dedicated to developing lessons around movies.  This is a pay site!  http://www.teachwithmovies.org/ A site on the Enlightenment (18th Century): http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ The PBS site on World War I: http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/ A digital library of images concerning Stalin's Soviet Union: http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=stalinka Nazi propaganda posters: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters2.htm All things Dante: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/ The official AP European web page: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/2122.html A humorous interview of Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt on the Colbert Report: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/186547/october-02-2008/shakespearean-candidates---stephen-greenblatt JFK's "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" Speech (1963): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjHcNhcahv4 A really fantastic collection of recordings of 20th century speeches: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/21stcenturyspeeches.htm A few pages on the French Religious Wars of the 16th Century: http://www.lepg.org/wars.htm; http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h18-fw.htm Three-Minute Clips on famous philosophers, starting with David Hume: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3QZ2Ko-FOg A visual representation of population and wealth ... really great!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo Top of Page