http://historiaimedia.org Digitalizacja historii. Historia obecna w mediach. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:11:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland’s Heritage is an international, educational exhibition which presents the history of tolerance and cohabitation of various ethnic groups in the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Site designed by huncwot was made for National Library of Poland and polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Part of the Armenian collection Project is ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/04/22/a-commonwealth-of-diverse-cultures-polands-heritage-internet-project/ In 1896 Danz, a forester from Gdansk, made an inscription from the trees in the Oliwa forest. Among pines and spruces he planted birches is such way, so they made an inscription "DANZ 1896". As Gazeta.pl writes, his work could be seen till the beginning of 20th century. After the WW2 ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/03/28/citizen-historians-discover-the-historical-mystery-of-the-birch-inscription/ Feeds is our new tiny tool for all RSS-readers interested in topics of digital history. In this project hundreds of RSS sources from digital history blogs is being put into one feed after the appropriate selection (we want to show most interesting news and resources). Using the base of RSS sources ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/03/13/historiaimediaorg-launches-a-new-tiny-rss-tool-for-digital-historians/ The history of Latin America is full of mysteries and unspoken tragedies. This continent suffered by the dictatorships, by unstable governments or by military juntas. The most visible fact of analysing the history of this region is that tragedies affected the simple families, whose members were murdered in unclear circumstances. ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/02/27/after-dictatorship-in-argentina-1976-83-and-chile-1973-1990-visual-representations-of-collective-experiences-documentaries-comics-and-shortfilms-on-youtubecom/ Almost all of polish newspapers alarmed about the german auction in Duesseldorf, where famous collector Manfred Schulze put over 120 exhibits consisting of stamps, envelopes and private letters. Finally, this unique collection of Uprising's souvenirs was bought by the Warsaw Uprising Museum for 190.000 Eu, which was an opening price. Big ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/02/15/unique-collection-of-warsaw-uprising-mail-returns-to-poland/ Historical reenactment and living history projects become in Poland more and more often commercial concepts. We have written about the brand new castle bulit near Opole. Every year medieval events such as Grunwald Battle are not only a chance for discovering and commemorating history, but also to make money on ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/02/08/earn-as-a-professional-knight/ It is a time for publish another edition of monthly historical posts round-up. First of all, we would thank for all the submissions and remind you that the next edition of History Carnival will be hosted on 1 March at Spinning Clio. Sport arena may become a territory of an ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/02/02/history-carnival-61/ People visiting this museum don't need special slippers, because they don't even look at the exhibits closed in the glass. In this case, it is usefull to have a notebook connected to the internet and to use GPS. Visitors walk through the forests of łódzkie voivodship, from Koluszki, to Krośniewice ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/01/25/museum-big-as-a-half-of-polish-province/ The newest Andrzej Wajda’s movie Katyn has been nominated for Oscar in the category of the best foreign language film of the year. Wajda got an Oscar for Life Achievement in 2000. Katyn describes the history of the massacre of Polish officers in 1940. Taken prisoner by the Red ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/01/22/andrzej-wajdas-katyn-has-been-nominated-for-oscar/ One of the most popular video among polish internet users now is a czechoslovakian song from 1978 titled Jožin z bažin (eng. Joe from the bog). English translation of the lirics one can find here. This song was showed even in the television news There are also many remixes of ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/01/18/jozin-z-bazin-and-archaeological-function-of-youtube/ In this year there is a 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising outbreak. As gazeta.pl writes, a one of the Warsaw historical reenactment group plans to prepare a performance showing fights of Jewish Military Union (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy, ŻZW) and Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) against german ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/01/17/tomasz-szarota-about-the-bounds-of-historical-reenactment-shows/ In understanding some social processes of the past, historians and social antropologists focus their attention on mythmaking as an essencial process of creating social identity. For last years, myths are not only defined by dreams and projections known from psychoanalisic discourse. They are perceived as immanent element of looking ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/01/07/mythmaking-and-its-role-at-forming-collective-identity-jugoslavian-german-and-polish-case/ We are very glad to maintain the first History Carnival hosted at the primary non-english-language blog. Our aim is to promote the idea of carnival among historical bloggers from the new countries, show how history can be described and experienced also by them and - of course - make a ... http://historiaimedia.org/2008/01/06/history-carnival-61-call-for-submissions/ In the polish academic internet magazine Kultura i Historia one can find the article by Piotr Witek (PhD on the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin) about film as a one of the most important contemporary ways of representing history. The text is available in english in the Creative Commons licence, ... http://historiaimedia.org/2007/12/13/film-as-a-way-of-representing-history/ Via The Wired Campus it can be found an article from BBC pages titled Students 'should use Wikipedia'. In his text Alistair Coleman presenting the problem of using Wikipedia in a school and academic research. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse younger students access to the site are ... http://historiaimedia.org/2007/12/11/jimmy-wales-about-using-wikipedia-in-school-researches/