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American Revolution Center
The American Revolution Center will establish the first national museum to commemorate the entire story of the American Revolution and its enduring legacy. The museum will display its distinguished collection of objects, artifacts, and manuscripts from the American Revolution era and will offer programming, lectures, symposia, and interactive learning for teachers, students, and the general public.
Museum Box
"This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others."
Trailblazing
"Welcome to Trailblazing, an interactive timeline for everybody with an interest in science. Compiled by scientists, science communicators and historians – and co-ordinated by Professor Michael Thompson FRS – it celebrates three and a half centuries of scientific endeavour and has been launched to commemorate the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary in 2010.
Trailblazing is a user-friendly, ‘explore-at-your-own-pace’, virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty fascinating and inspiring articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 published by the Royal Society between 1665 and 2010."
Playing History
"There are tons of free historical games, interactives and simulations on the web. Playing history aggregates info on these resources in a simple, searchable database making it easy to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 130 shared games. "
HBO Archives: Archival Collection: The March of Time®
From 1935 to 1967, Time Inc's newsreel series, "The March of Time®" chronicled the events of our lives. The March of Time® separated itself from its competitors using its trademark "pictorial journalism," mixing highly-produced, long-form, documentary-style stories with dramatic re-enactments. These award-winning motion pictures recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and then later, television. The collection also contains historic footage dating back to 1913. More than 70 million feet of 35mm films are currently being restored to their original luster. In addition, the HBO Archival Collection includes hundreds of hours of vintage Government films and Universal Newsreel programs.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Google News Timeline
Type in a topic and a time frame, and get a column-by-column breakdown of certain Google News sources' headlines on the topic. The Timeline can also pull from specific news sources and dated Wikipedia entries.
Europeana
Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4 million digital items.
-Images: paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
-Texts: books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
-Sounds: music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
-Videos: films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, libraries, audio-visual collections.
Organizations ranging from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London, to the Louvre in Paris.
You can use My Europeana to save searches or bookmark things. You can highlight stuff and add it to your own folders. This website is a prototype. Europeana Version 1.0 is being developed and will launch in 2010 with links to over 10 million digital objects.
Europeana.eu is funded by the European Commission and the member states.
Historical Tweets
Brilliant ... and great to use with students:
Books have been ruining history. So many unnecessary words. Now, with Historical Tweets, history’s most amazing men and women can be fully understood, a mere 140 characters at a time. Check back daily (or subscribe!) if you care at all about understanding history.
Inauguration Scrapbook
This site was built over a couple of days right after the 2009 presidential inauguration by a group of Obama-supporters/friends in various states. We were unable to make it to D.C for various reasons but still wished to engage in the moment. There are many (infact millions!) of other people that wished to make it to D.C., but were unable due to family, work, and other obligations. We therefore created this site for anyone to share, view, and vote on images capturing that special series of days. Whether you were in D.C. or not, you probably did something special. Yes, YOU! Because really, this was the people's election
Museum Box
Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.
History of the Internet (vimeo)
"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
Unlocking Archives
Unlocking Archives provides you with the key to three of the world’s most extraordinary collections, complete with an ever expanding set of ready-to-teach activities, original sources and our unique ‘Mindshow’ tool that lets you create fantastic, interactive, media-rich mind-map presentations. By combining documents from The National Archives, film from the British Film Institute and photographs from English Heritage with the latest web technology through South East Grid for Learning, you have everything you need to explore, discover and present a 1000 years of history.
The National Archives | Research and learning
The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing 900 years of history with records ranging from parchment and paper scrolls through to digital files and archived websites. The National Archives makes open records available to all, either onsite or online, continuously developing new tools to make history tangible for everyone.
Maps of War
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. Each map is well-researched and based in fact, and none of the work is meant to be biased or political. No spin or opinion, just fact-based conclusions about the history of war.
LIFE photo archive
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
The Presidents
| American Experience | PBS
Presidential biographies; infor for teachers; available online or for download
Veteran's Day
History of Veterans Day - History.com
This U.S. holiday stretches back to the end of World War I and commemorates the nation's thousands of combat veterans who fought in the service of their country.
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