The Renaissance Connection was created by the Allentown Art Museum to support learning about the Renaissance in an engaging way.
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From the National Heritage Academies comes American Immigration 1830-1920 History Interactive. Contents include: Overview, Vocabulary, Irish Potato Famine, Asian Immigration & Chinese Exclusion, Immigrants in Cities and Towns, The American Dream, and The Melting Pot with a Immigration Timeline at the bottom of the screen.
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Wanderlust enables interacting with a few famous historical and literary journeys (e.g., Amelia Earhart’s second attempt to circumnavigate the globe and Jules Verne’s A Journey to the Center of the Earth).
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From the site: The Online Library of Liberty (OLL) is a project of Liberty Fund, Inc., a private, non-profit educational foundation based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The aim of the OLL is to provide thousands of titles about individual liberty, limited constitutional government, and the free market, free of charge to the public, for educational purposes.
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History Link 101 provides organized and annotated links related to different eras of world history.
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"You Be the Historian" can be an excellent springboard for class discussion about primary and secondary sources and the historical process. The "what about you?" sections of the activity encourage students to think the history we are creating every day and what that will look like to future historiansl.
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Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past.
The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available
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From the site: Find a treasure trove of reproducible primary sources, lesson plans correlated to national standards, and cross-curricular connections.
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Chronicling America enhances access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1890-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
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National Archives Charter of Freedom--primary source access online to The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights
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Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection.
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This section presents research on the Department's history plus a selection of historical source materials.
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From the NSF, this Birth of the Internet includes a mix of timelines, images, videos, interviews, etc. through which users can gain understanding of the stages of development as well as future directions.
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This multimedia presentation by MSNBC covers some of the nuances and historical underpinnings of the Iraq War.
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"Jump Back in Time" aligns with the National History Standards to guide student exploration of American History.
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The Natural History Museum London website includes a variety of resources for research, including a library section and a research projects section (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/).
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From the state department, this online publication presents 15 chapters on U.S. history: early America, the colonial period, independence, formation of a national government, westward expansion and regional differences, sectional conflict, the Civil War a
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Historians on America is a series of individual essays that selects specific
moments, decisions, and intellectual or legislative or legal developments and explains
how they altered the course of U.S. history.
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The timeline of art history available from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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