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VISUAL TOURS
Revolution and
Maoism in China: This tour of
China begins with the geographic factors shaping the country's history, then
deals with issues of ethnic diversity, land pressures that contributed to the
1949 Revolution, Mao's peasant strategy and his subsequent campaigns such as
the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, and finally population growth
as one of Mao's many legacies for contemporary China.
Peasants
and the Chinese Cultural Revolution: This
museum exhibit on peasant life is an example of popular Chinese art during
the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. The exhibit emphasizes the
suffering and oppression endured by peasants prior to communist rule and
their eventual liberation by the revolution. The exhibit includes
the text that accompanied the figures in red print.
Eastern
Europe in the postwar world: This
tour provides a general introduction to some of the main themes and events in
the postwar history of this broad and diverse region, from industrialization
and urbanization to the imposition of communist control and struggles against
it to the utter poverty of the Balkans region in Southeastern Europe.
Images
from an Emerging Empire: This stop
on the Global History website presents information on U.S. attitudes
toward Cuba and other Caribbean island countries at the dawn of the twentieth
century. The main source of information comes from a set of political cartoons
published in U.S. newspapers just after the Spanish-Cuban-American War
of 1895-98.
Images
of Guatemala: This collection
of photos and images looks at Guatemalan history, its people and culture,
and its contemporary history of conflict and resistance. Click on
each of the images on the Index Page to see a larger image with explanatory
text.