Outreach Materials: High School Level

Please send your questions, comments, and suggestions to Jacqueline Olich.

Suggested Reading

• Origins- free monthly publication by the the History Department at The Ohio State University

• Enigma variations

• Famine, Politics and Memory in Ireland and Ukraine

• Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online

• Sputnik

• Kosovo: A Bitter Struggle in a Land of Strife

• The Arctic: Rivalry or Cooperation?

• Study Questions for Gloria Whelan, Angel On The Square (Harper Trophy, 2001)

• Differentiated Activity Options, Gloria Whelan’s Angel on the Square

• From Beijing to St. Petersburg: Riding the Rail through Asia via Film and Literature

• Annotated Bibliography for K-12 (from the University of Illinois REEC)

• Themed Book Reviews

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Lesson Plans and Syllabi

• The Central Asia Middle School Education Project

• Globalization 101: The Silk Road Revisited

• Lesson Plans About Kosovo

• Just a "Fellow Traveler" in the Human Experience (Exploring How the Launch of Sputnik Changed the World)

• The Cultures and Cuisines of Eastern Europe

• The Mongols in World History

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Local Programs and Events

• Cary, NC: Russian Art Gallery

• Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Global Music

• Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Libraries' Andre Savine Collection

• Charlottesville, VA: UVA Exhibit "The Firebird and the Factory: Modern Russian Children's Books"

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Interactive Websites

• The Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore

• BBC: The Putin Project

• BBC: Inside Europe

• BBC: On This Day...

• Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era

• EurasiaNet.org

• The Mongols in World History

• NPR "Russia Under Putin: Echoes of the Soviet Era"

• Seventeen Moments in Soviet History

• Smithsonian Global Sound

• Space Race Exhibition

• Women in Aviation and Space History

• Yugoslav Wars, 1991-1995: Quiz

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Other Helpful Links

• ALA's Internet Resources: Children's Literature

• Encarta 1998: Yugoslavian Wars of Succession

• Internet Resources by Country

• Internet Resources for the Teaching of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies

• Childhood in Russia 1890-1991: A Social and Cultural History

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