Home
110 items | 67 visits
-
Topics in Chronicling America
Chronicling America provides free access to more than a million historic American newspaper pages. Listed here are topics widely covered in the American press of the time. We will be adding more topics on a regular basis. To find out what's new, sign up for Chronicling America’s weekly notification service, that highlights interesting content on the site and lets you know when new newspapers and topics are added. Users can use the icons at the lower-left side of the Chronicling America Web page to subscribe. If you would like to suggest other topics, use the Ask a Librarian contact form available on the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room site.
-
Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Unit Plan Index - By Subject
Project based Units to Engage Students
-
100 Best Blogs for the Literati - Online Courses
"If you feel that you’re destined to be an intellectual long after you graduate from college, you’re going to have to work a little harder to keep up with high brow culture and scholarly debates on your own. These 100 blogs will help you jump in on the discussions influencing the art, literature, political and culture worlds, even without the support of your professors and fellow classmates."
-
MIT Visualizing Cultures
Visualizing Cultures weds images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history. Founded in 2002 by MIT Professors John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa, Visualizing Cultures exploits the unique qualities of the Web as a publishing platform to enable scholars, teachers, and others to: (1) examine large bodies of previously inaccessible images; (2) compose original texts with unlimited numbers of full-color, high-resolution images; and (3) use new technology to explore unprecedented ways of analyzing and presenting images that open windows on modern history.
-
History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home
The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.
-
TakePart Social Action Network: Controversial Issues, Activism, Environmental, Human Rights, Political News |
Your part in changing the world Starts here
-
CWIHP Virtual Archive : Collection
Cold War International History Project
Virtual Archive 2.0
primary Sources -
Global Issues - A place to think about issues facing our world
The world is a changing place that is continuing to change at an ever increasing pace. Take a look at this video that was made by a friend of mine who works in a high school in Colorado. It has been watched on Youtube over 3 million times. What do you think of this?> What do you think of this change and how the world is changing? What do you think it will mean for your future?
List Comments
(0)
List Info