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Sep
22
2010

Bring history to life for your students. Ready to use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom. The National Archives

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Jan
15
2010



Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests โ€” called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world โ€” to measure unconscious bias.

Take a test at Project Implicit's website and see what may be lingering in your psyche

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American history is filled with the stories of influential innovators, whose ideas and entrepreneurial spirit gave birth to commercial milestones like the steamboat and cultural touchstones like the Barbie doll. Twelve of these individuals are profiled in They Made America, a four-part television series from the producers of American Experience.

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Apr
17
2009



These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5โ€“8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic.

Each activity addresses a range of specific literacy strategies. All 15 activities promote monitoring comprehension, synthesizing, asking questions, developing vocabulary, connecting prior knowledge to new learning, and developing a topic in writing.

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Jan
15
2009

Maps-of-War was established in September of 2006. The site was created to help people understand current events, as seen on TV and in our newspaper headlines, as being one small chapter in the much bigger and longer story of human history. Maps-of-War is produced by one individual, a graphic-design hobbyist and professional history-buff.

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Jan
13
2009

BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes available a wealth of materials on African American history in one central location on the Internet. These materials include an online encyclopedia of over 1,500 entries, the complete transcript of over 125 speeches given between 1789 and 2008, over 100 full text primary documents, bibliographies, timelines and four gateway pages with links to 50 digital archive collections. Additionally 75 major African American museums and research centers and over 400 other website resources on black history are also linked to the website. The compilation and concentration of these diverse resources allows BlackPast.org to serve as the "Google" of African American history.

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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps.

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Jan
12
2009

Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida

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Dec
23
2008

The Institute maintains this website to serve as a portal for American history on the Web; to offer high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public

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Nov
14
2008

Where History, Geography, and Technology Meet

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