Friday, August 17, 2012

Friday's Links to the Past - 17 August 12






In the past few months I have been terrible at blogging regularly. I really must change that.. 



This week's BBC podcast

Richard Carwardine explores religion in the USA and David Lees considers Vichy France's role in the Holocaust.



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What is the American Historical Association reading this week? 

This week’s roundup of interesting articles and links from around the web includes the marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with a new portal, important news related to higher  education  funding, a fun featurette on archive exploration, the visual history of typewriters, and  much more

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Google Maps is adding many new sites (Pre-Hispanic) to it's street views feature

Google used a three wheeled trike to ride around Mayan monuments to capture 360 degree images for its Street View project. This is Chichen Itza, a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya civilization.


The sites already online include Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan and Monte Alban.  

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History Today posted an interesting article entitled, "Witchcraft in Tudor Times" which looks at some surprising tolerance not often found for "witches".  

Witches by Hans Baldung Grien (Woodcut, 1508)
Witches by Hans Baldung Grien (Woodcut, 1508)http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/08/witchcraft-tudor-times 

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