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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 World Since 1945 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 1898.
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.