Anniversaries this month

There are a couple of significant anniversaries this month linked to Second World War and the Cold War that you could discuss with your students:

1. The 80th Anniversary of Operation Market Garden

Student Access

With the term well underway now, don't forget that you can give your students access to the History InThinking site as part of your subscription. This allows you to:

• Give students direct access to some - but not all - pages on the site.
• Create various types of tasks for your classes or for individual students.
• Give online feedback, monitor student progress, and view grades in the online grade book.

Details on how to set this up is on the left-hand side of the home page under the heading Student Access.

Site update

We are continuing to update existing pages and, in addition, have added a new source paper to PS4: Rights and Protest.

Books to read in September

This new book on the First World War examines the significance of the fighting on the Eastern Front. We often cover this with students as more of a side show to the horrors of the Western Front, but as Margaret MacMillan points out in her review of this book in the Financial Times entitled 'The Eastern Front by Nick Lloyd — truth bombs', the fighting on the Eastern Front was significant not only for the horrors of human loss, but also for the legacy of this fighting:

We are used to the casualty figures in the west: 900,000 dead from the British empire; more from Germany or France. The number of those who died in the east may be even larger if civilians are included. Some two million Russian soldiers alone died there and 1.2mn from Austria-Hungary. Serbia started its war with Austria-Hungary with an army of 420,000; by 1915 it had 140,000 left. At the end it had lost more men in proportion to its population than France. 

The following book examines lesser known individuals who played a key role in US history from the founding to the Ciivl Rights Movement: