Social Sciences: Modern History

This website seeks to document the conflicts between European colonists and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples.

The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is a world-renowned research, collections and publishing organisation.

On this website you will find rich educational material to support primary and lower-secondary teachers using the My Place TV series in the classroom.

University of Newcastle researchers have released a map of colonial frontier massacres they hope will change the way Australian history is taught and understood.

The Frontier Wars refer to conflicts between Europeans and Aboriginal people including battles, acts of resistance and open massacres from 1788 to the 1930s. From NITV.

The fifteen years from the late 1950s to the early 1970s was a time of unusual collaboration between black and white activists in Australia.

By the mid-1960’s, Indigenous opposition to assimilation was strengthening and an Indigenous civil rights movement was growing under the banner of self-determination.

Information Sheet - from the Australian Human Rights Commission.

An overview of the Indigenous rights movement from the beginning of the century.

Here is a timeline that details Indigenous people's fight for recognition throughout Australian history.

Best of History Web Sites contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

The acclaimed Churchill Archive (normally available by subscription) is free to Schools worldwide and Sixth Form Colleges, exclusively through JCS. All you need to do is to complete the very short registration form.

Covering a range of topics in modern history, the free classroom-ready resources on this site have been designed to introduce students to working with archive content.

This unit of work focuses on the background to the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the Governor-General Sir John Kerr on 11 November 1975.

Award-winning resources for students and teachers.

From medieval times to the present day, explore collection items chronologically in this beautiful interactive timeline. Discover a wide range of historical sources that reflect everyday life as well as major political events.

Is a model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools. It offers a treasury of teaching units, lesson plans, and resources.

The Commonwealth is an association of sovereign nations which support each other and work together towards international goals.

Europa.eu is the official website of the European Union. It is a good starting point if you are looking for information and services provided by the EU but you don't know your way around our sites.

The League of Nations was an international organization that existed between 1920 and 1946.

Satyagraha was the key aspect of all revolutions of the Indian National Movement in the Gandhian era of Indian history.

The United Nations homepage. Here you will find related information and links.

This guide will assist you to locate relevant resources for your VCE Australian history studies. Many of the items listed in this guide are available online.

Working with non-government organisations (NGOs) is an integral part of Australia’s approach to achieving the five strategic goals of the aid program.

From The Oxford Companion to American Military History.

The timeline includes major political, education, legal and social milestones for Australian women.

Explore an A-Z of selected concise biographies which depict famous and notable historical figures.

Best of History Web Sites contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Best of History Web Sites contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Best of History Web Sites contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Contents include: Germany: The Weimar Republic; National Socialism; Hitler; Elections; The Churches and the Nazis.

GHDI is a comprehensive collection of primary source materials documenting Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. It comprises original German texts, all of which are accompanied by new English translations, and a wide range of visual imagery.

Global Firepower provides an analytical display of data concerning today's world military powers.

A collection of articles concerning the liberation movement.

Leaders, propaganda and racial laws relating to Nazi propaganda.

The Holocaust Resource Center provides you with easy access to in-depth information about the Holocaust.

This sourcebook attempts to present online documents and secondary discussions which reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas.

Abstract: The issue of legitimizing political power has specific dimensions determined by the historical context.

From HistoryOrb.com website.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica online.

This page is a collection of English translations of National Socialist propaganda for the period 1933-1945, part of a larger site on German propaganda.

Explore the chronology and the context of the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1960s to 1980s Britain.

This guide will assist you to locate relevant resources for your study of VCE History: Revolutions. The guide highlights books and articles that can be accessed online. SLV also has extensive print resources relating to the American, French, Russian and Chinese revolutions.

During the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. Listen to clips taken from the oral histories of Jewish men and women who survived the horrors of Hitler’s reign.

Archie Brown discusses the contributions of historians to the understanding of Communism and why it failed.

Reports, publications, and news broadcasts covering America's fight for racial justice, with firsthand analysis of race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

Anti-Slavery International works at local, national and international levels to eliminate all forms of slavery around the world.

Translated news broadcasts and publications on the international reaction to apartheid throughout the African continent and from around the world.

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories.

Learn about the origins and history of the transatlantic slave trade and the subsequent campaign for its abolition. What can we learn from the abolitionists about equality and justice? How might their campaign inspire our own?

How do people respond to the world they live in when they disagree or dream of change? Do they act within society’s rules or against them? This site introduces some of the visionaries, dissenters and rule breakers of past centuries.

The mission of this site is to promote an interest in history, to help us understand where we have been so we can know where we are going, and to provide high-quality history materials free of charge to everyone.

Links to external websites relating to Human Rights.

Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century.

Human Rights are the very foundation of a society that guarantees equality, dignity and freedom for each human being.

U-S-History.com is a product of Online Highways LLC. The site is designed for anyone interested in American history.

The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is the national umbrella body for refugees and the organisations and individuals who support them.

This is the site for the United Nations and Human Rights.

Full text of the Declaration.

This is a three-part program broadcast by the ABC in the 1980s as part of an educational series called A New World (for sure).

Videos related to the Cold War, from History website.

John Green teaches you the history of the world in 42 episodes of Crash Course.

You cannot properly understand current world events without understanding the history of the 20th Century. This topic takes us on a journey from the end of Imperialism through two world wars and the Cold War and brings us to our modern world.

Experience the sights, the sounds and the stories of the Vietnam War.

Experience the sights, the sounds and the stories of the Vietnam War.