Jose Ortiz-Villalobos

Dr. Gretchen Beasley

Digital history 390

February 14, 2023

Welcome to the Gulag

One of the projects that we had to review was database for the Soviet gulags that would show actual documentation, photographs, and memorial for those who were in these harsh work camps. This website act as a good model for my work in class, because it highlights what my project needs to look like if it was to be an archive and what I should avoid making the project flusher and working. The webpage works as a nice base point as a database, because it contains the proper documentation and photographs necessary and as an archive as it stores many primary sources that were preserved from the events that happened, stories of the prisoners, pictures within the gulags, photos of memorials that honor the dead. When you click on the website the first thing you will see on the home page is a quote that reads “Gulag: many Days, Many Lives presents an presents in-depth look at life in the Gulag through exhibits featuring original documentaries and prisoner voices; an archive filles with documents and images; and teaching and bibliographic resources that encourage further study.[1]”

Vietnam War prisoners and Japanese WWII prisoners or How the French revolution helped shape the current world.

Throughout World War II, the Japanese and the Americans were biting at each other’s necks as they would both try to make a claim on the Pacific Ocean with Japan trying to expand their empire, while the United States would attempt to stop there expansion. Many ally soldiers would be capture and sent to isolated camps that would keep them as prisoners. The Vietnam war was a smaller scale conflict then, the second world war, but it would share in its horrible practice. During both of these brutal conflicts many Allie soldiers had the misfortune of being capture by the enemy and taken to horrible prisons that would treat them as if they weren’t human, and torture these poor men for information. This is important because many people don’t know how horrible the conditions were for the prisoner or than some didn’t get out of there alive.

The French revolution is considered by many historians as one of the bloodiest revolutions in history as many individual would meet there end by the guillotine or would get involved in the bloody revolution. The French revolution would cause an insane chain of events that would eventually lead to some of the largest events in world history such as the world wars and the cold war. If the French revolution never happened, then Napoleon won’t have risen to power. It is important that people see the French revolution as the catalyst for these events as many events could be traced back the the French revolution such as the rise of Napoleon and the conference of Vienna.

[1] Roy Rosenzweig, Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives, 2008–2021