Learning About KOSOVO
On the World Wide Web
Source: "ABC News Special Report: A Beginner's Guide to the Balkans"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/balkans/index.html
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Learning About KOSOVO On the World Wide Web |
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By Nancy Bauer
The WWW can be very useful for finding historical information to aid in the understanding of current events, such as the war in Kosovo in 1999. The WWW provides a unique opportunity to have information easily accessible at any time. Please use the links to the web sites below to learn more about the situation in Kosovo.
"ABC News Special Report: A Beginner's Guide to the Balkans"
The ABC News Special Report web site provides a great deal of background information pertaining to important events in the former Yugoslavia, historically and more specifically, since the collapse of Communism. The site provides also provides geographic, cultural, religious and political analysis and includes a timeline dating back to BC2000. While it is a more popular site, it contains a great deal of explanatory information that is useful.
"BBC News: Kosovo Crisis"
The news agency BBC provides another look at the crisis in Kosovo from a popular news viewpoint. This site provides an archive of BBC coverage, an image essay, "Fact Files" including history since 1900, and the current Week In Review. This site does more to cover events as they are in progress, but does provide some worthy background information and has great images.
"Refugees Return"
Source: BBC News: Kosovo Crisis
http://news1.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/nato_gallery/return_default.stm
"War and Peace in Kosovo: Brookings Scholars on The Balkans"
The Brookings Institution provides scholarly, in-depth analysis of issues related to the crisis in Kosovo. This site chronicles all Brookings Scholar writings and interviews on topics dealing the crisis.
"What's In The News: Feature - Kosovo"
What's in the News is a production of Pennsylvania State University and has as its counterpart a television series. WITN is directed at 9-12 year olds, but provides plenty of information useful to anyone attempting to understand an issue. This site also provides teacher material for presenting the topic to students. Also very worthy of attention on this site is a play called "The Prince Whom Time Would Not Forget", by Katie O'Toole,
http://www.witn.psu.edu/2131/teacher.htm , which goes to great lengths to represent the Serbian view of the conflict in Kosovo.
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Nancy Bauer
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Nancy Bauer is a graduate student in Education at Western Oregon University. |
This page was created as part of an assignment on researching current events on the internet for History 507: History and the Internet, Summer '99, taught by Prof. K. Jensen at Western Oregon University. |