Teacher Resources

This video provides teachers with an introduction to the Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square option for the HSC Modern History topic 'Change in the Modern World'. It is primarily designed to support teachers who are new to teaching this topic by providing some broad insights into the nature of the content and some programming suggestions.

In this brief video, Michael Street offers some general ideas about teaching the Apartheid in South Africa option for the HSC Modern History topic 'Change in the Modern World'. It is primarily designed to support teachers who are new to teaching this topic and provides some broad insights into the topic and some programming suggestions.

This episode features an interview with Dr. Benjamin Jones from Central Queensland University. We discuss some of the themes and issues raised in his co-edited book 'History in a Post-Truth World: Theory and Praxis' published by Routledge in 2021.

This episode explores the history and historiography of witch trials and witch hunts. Our guest is Michael Street, history teacher and recipient of a 2019 Premier's Teacher Scholarship sponsored by HTANSW. Michael used his scholarship to travel to the United States and England to study the history of witch hunts and has written a chapter on this topic for the second edition of the History Extension Resource Book (HTANSW, 2020).

Dr. Peter Whitewood (York St. John University, UK) has written an authoritative account of Stalin's purge of the Red Army in the lead up to the Second World War. He joined us to talk about the history of state violence in Russia prior to 1917 and how terror became an important feature of the Soviet system after the October Revolution.