Kenneth Wilburn
Department of History
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC, USA 27858 wilburnk@ecu.edu
Click on your Internet assignment below and follow instructions given in class.
Journal Internet Assignments:
26 June: Calculate your birthday according to the Jewish, Islamic, and Persian calendars below. Print out each result. Calculate the Muslim prayer times for Greenville, NC for 14 January 2004 and print out the result. Summarize and react to the introductions of the three calendars in a single Internet journal entry. Include a paragraph on H-World's discussion of BCE and CE.
Go to Common Era Dating, June 2005, H-World.
Once there, click on each posting's "view" link, read each posting, then click on your back icon and repeat the process until you have read most if not all of the postings to get a feel
for the debate. This assignment should form about two paragraphs (pro and con) of your Net entry summary on the calendars.
27 July: Explore the Timeline of the Viet-Nam War [click on each series of years], then visit The Virtual Wall. While at the Virtual Wall read the memorials to Harold Smith of Sumter, S.C. and
Jerry Lee of Rocky Mount, N.C.
"Native Americans and the Land,"The Columbian Exchange: Plants Animals and Disease Between the Old and New Worlds, Alfred W. Crosby, University of Texas at Austin, National Humanities Center
Maps of Viet-Nam
Includes Viet-Nam in 1954 and the TET Offensive. Created from the "West Point" Atlas map
collection, Edward J. Krasnoborski, cartographer.
North Carolinians on the Wall
Lists by last name the Tar Heels who died in Viet-Nam. Vietnam War Memorial:
A block of marble, and twenty six letters of the alphabet, enable history to accommodate,
so many young names. Wandering alone, an old woman has at last found her only child,
amid the mass grave, and with her eyes tightly shut, she is now feeling for the mortal wound,
with her trembling fingers, on his ice-cold forehead. (William Marr, Autumn Window,
Arbor Hill Press (1996).
Vietnam Stories since the War
Sponsored by PBS, this site, so haunting with its black background, contains
links to such topics as women in Vietnam, the Wall and Maya Lin (the designer
of the Wall), Jan Scruggs and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation
(raised funds for the Wall), and the Vietnam Veteran's homepage.
Vietnam War Bibliography
Professor Emeritus Richard Jensen was the first director of H-Net and a pioneer in
the scholarly use of the Internet. Here he continues to compile bibliographic data
on the US war in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War Declassification Project
The staff of the Gerald R. Ford Library reviewed for some 40,000 pages of National
Security Adviser files to exhibit here. Included is a list of the library's
core holdings on the war.
The Virtual Wall
Heroes fallen are memorialzed by family and friends on this interactive replica of The Wall.
For example, see Harold Smith and
Jerry Lee of Rocky Mount, N.C. A link is also provided that lists all soldiers on The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in
Washington, DC. The Virtual Wall is a member of the Vietnam Veterans Webring.
World Civilization:
H-World, the Home Page of H-World, a Member of the H-Net Family