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Imagebase
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco had more works of art in their warehouses than they could hope to display in their museums. With a grant from IBM, they have digitized more than 70,000 works of art and made them available to use as a searchable database. [191]
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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Interstate Commodity Shipments
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You get a map of the United States. Click on a state and you get another map of the U.S. with states color coded by the weight or value of commodities shipped there from the originating state. There are also supporting tables of data.
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U.S. Department of Transportation
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National Agriculture Statistics Service -- US Crop Rankings
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This spreadsheet includs arces planted, yield, and price. Moving this data into a spreadsheet and removing some of the columns would leave students with a file of data in which they could install formulas to calculate comparative values of different crops. [87]
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Students might look at this data comparing crops and relative quantities of crops with nutritional needs of people.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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U.S. Air Force Museum
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Learn about the history of the United State Air Force through descriptions and images of its air planes and jets.
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USAF Museum
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1200 anni di scultura italiana(1200 Years Of Italian Sculpture)
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An online database of sculptures from Italy. The images can all be zoomed. [230]
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You might ask students to scan the scuptures and then select and download specific images to include as illustrations for creative writings.
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19th Century Advertising
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During the 19th century, one of the most consistently popular American
periodicals was Harper's Weekly, an illustrated paper whose circulation was
well in excess of over 100,000 on a regular basis. This fine site highlights
some of the many creative and inventive advertisements that were prominently
displayed in the periodical during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The
project was the brainchild of John Adler, a longtime history buff, who came
across a complete set of the periodical for the period from 1857 to 1916. On
the site visitors can browse through advertisements for appliances,
insurance, foreign travel, farm land, and various medicinal potions. The
selection of ads includes one for "pain paint," which begins with a brief
doggerel that includes a mention of the impeachment of President Andrew
Johnson in 1868. [460]
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HarpWeek
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3D Animated Molecules
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 This is a typical clipart site with many images that can be integrated into personal web sites. However, this section, "3D Animated Molecules" might be of special use chemistry teachers to demonstrate various molecular structures. [249]
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Chemistry teachers can use these images published on web pages to demonstrate to students various aspects of molecular structure. Students might also use the images to illustrate their learning.
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IconBazaar
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3D Body Scanner
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Body scanning is a focus of research at Cornell University that uses three-
dimensional visualization technology to create accurate digital models of
the human body, with the goal of enabling cost effective, custom-fit
apparel. This Web site describes the process of capturing a 3D image and how
it can be applied to enhance online shopping. The section called Virtual
Try-On illustrates how "a consumer's body scan is merged with scans of pants
sized for a set of fit models."
Includes Flash media [427]
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Students might be asked to speculate on other products that might be customized by 3D scanning.
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Cornell University
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A Biography of America
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These are the web resources for a telecourse offered by Annenberg. This is a rich resource for the study of the United states. [275]
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Annenberg
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A Civil War Soldier
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A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment documents the Civil War
experience of Captain Tilton C. Reynolds, a member of the 105th Regiment
of Pennsylvania Volunteers. Comprising 164 library items, or 359 digital
images, this online presentation includes correspondence, photographs,
and other materials dating between 1861 and 1865. The letters feature
details of the regiment's movements, accounts of military engagements,
and descriptions of the daily life of soldiers and their views of the
war. Forty-six of the letters are also made available in transcription. [477]
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Library of Congress
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A S I A for E D U C A T O R S | Columbia University
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An initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, Asia for  Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. [483]
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Columbia University
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African Burial Ground
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As the city of New York has grown up, out, and over an increasingly vast
area of land during the past few centuries, various sites of human activity
and habitation have become one of the many layers that continue to interest
urbanologists, sociologists, planners, and anthropologists. One such layer
is the African burial ground that was found in lower Manhattan in 1991, and
which has been celebrated by a diverse group of individuals ever since.
Visitors will want to start by looking at the "Rites of Ancestral Return"
section. Here they may elect to view video clips from past celebrations and
view an interactive map that highlights the various ways in which the
colonial African experience has been relived and commemorated along the
Eastern seaboard. The other section on the site is also quite engaging, as
it allows visitors to explore the African burial ground through educational
features about the artifacts and graves found within the context of the
bustling city which had grown up around the site through the ensuing
centuries. [516]
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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AirPhoto
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The Airphoto stock library and on-line Gallery feature such subjects as: Weather, Agriculture, Environment, Geology, National Parks, Lighthouses, Lewis & Clark, Marine, Aviation, & Junkyards. The geographic coverage is from Alaska and Labrador to Costa Rica and the Lesser Antilles, and everyting between. Some 1500 aerial photographs are posted in the Gallery. [291]
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Valbros Rankers Inc.
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AltaVista Photo Finder
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This is an incredible resource for educators. You simply enter a keyword and AltaVista provides thumbnail results that link to the photo or art image. "Family Filter" is an additional feature that eliminates most inappropriate images from search results.
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Alta Vista
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America from the Great Depression to World War II
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164,000 photographs of life in the united states from 1935 to 1945. The images are arranged by subject alphabetically and can also be searched. [263]
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These images can be selected and used as a teaching resource, and also by students for their multimedia presentations.
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Library of Congress
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American Radio Works
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Radio documentaries have been around almost since the beginning of regularly
scheduled radio programming, but not all are created equal (or with great
aplomb), and the American Radio Works is certainly one of the finer
documentary production units in the field. Based at Minnesota Public Radio
in St. Paul, Minnesota, Radio Works' primary themes include public affairs
documentaries on major social and economic issues, investigative reporting,
and the Living History series, which seeks to document the 20th century
American experience "through the lives of those who witnessed it." The web-
browsing public will be glad to know that all of the radio projects are
available online here, and can be listened to in their entirety. Visitors
can listen to close to 40 of their productions, including their most recent
production which deals with the extensive phone conversations recorded by
Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, and Nixon during their terms in the White House
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Minnesota Public Radio
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American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
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The Mid-Atlantic region of North America -- stretching from New York south to Virginia -- was a pivotal area in the early development of the American colonies and the United States. This website looks at this region and its history through maps created up to 1850. [372]
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The new York Public Library
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Ancient Greek Civilizations
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The Ancient Greek Cultures exhibit includes information on the Minoans,
Myceneans and Greek cultures such as the Dorians, Ionians, Aeolians and
Phoenicians. Also included are the full length texts of the Illiad and
the Odyssey by Homer. [223]
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This site would make a great resource for any study of ancient civilizations.
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Jennifer Taylor
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Ancient India
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The Ancient India Web site from the British Museum is designed especially
for middle schoolers and teachers, but all ages will enjoy exploring. There
are six chapters: Buddha, Geography, Hinduism, Indus Valley, Time, and
Writing; each with divisions entitled Story, Explore, and Challenge. Story
in the Buddha chapter is the life of the Buddha; Explore under Hinduism
features trading card-sized images of 16 Hindu gods and short descriptions;
and the Geography Challenge is to plan a pilgrimage to see holy sites of the
Buddha's life, traveling on foot. Other fun sections include the Writing
section challenge, where students decipher ancient Indian writing, and the
interactive timelines in the Time chapter. Throughout the site, clicking
linked words in the text pops open a glossary with definitions of difficult
terms. [461]
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The British Museum
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Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu
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Founded 900 years ago, the city of Timbuktu (located in what is now the
country of Mali) was a center of major commercial importance and a place
where many Islamic scholars received their education. This exhibit,
developed by the Library of Congress (with the use of manuscripts from the
Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library and the Library of Cheick Zayni Baye of
Boujbeha) explores some of the many important literary traditions and
scholarship developed during this period of scholarly effervescence. Here
visitors can browse over 30 primary documents, including texts designed to
train scholars in the field of astronomy and the nature of Islamic
mysticism. The exhibit is rounded out by several maps, such as a map from
1743 that shows the region in and around Timbuktu. [439]
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The first thing that I thought of as I viewed the digitized texts was the currency of the issues (i.e. commerce). When exploring these issues in classes, these documents might be printed for students as an example of the history and heritage of these ideas and that they WERE NOT just European concepts.
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Library of Congress
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Ancient World Mapping Center
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Located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Ancient
World Mapping Center is funded by the UNC College of Arts and Sciences and
the American Philological Association. The Center is primarily designed to
promote the usage of cartography and geographic information science within
the field of ancient studies. The Center's main web page begins with a host
of recent news events related to ongoing research dealing with the ancient
world from various fields, including geography, archaeology, and history.
Equally helpful is the New Sites and Finds area, which gathers together new
and useful sites dedicated to investigating various aspects of the ancient
world. Of course there is also the map room area where visitors can download
any one of a number of detailed maps (many of which have been created by the
staff at the Center) of the ancient world. Some of these maps include those
of Byzantine Constantinople, Ptolemaic Egypt, and several of ancient Greece. [442]
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University of North Carolina
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Ancient World Mapping Center
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Classics Unveiled was developed by Neil Jenkins, Sumair Mirza and Jason Tang
as a way to teach the web-browsing public about the various aspects of the
ancient world, ranging from the massive world of Greek and Roman mythology,
Roman history, Roman culture, and the Latin language and its pervasive
influence on English. The site is divided into four primary areas, and
visitors may opt to browse through any of them and their accompanying
features, which include primary extended essays and informative games and
quizzes. In Rome Exposed for example, users will learn about Roman
residences, entertainment, attire, cuisine, and several other aspects of
Roman culture and mores. In MythNET visitors can learn about the twelve
Olympian gods, read about the Trojan War, and explore genealogical charts
that trace the various relationships between the pantheon of Rome and
Greece. [443]
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http://www.classicsunveiled.com
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Anne Frank - Anne Frank NL
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The Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam was the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary during World War Two. Excellent Holocaust and World War Two resource. [482]
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Anne Frank Stichting
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Anne Frank: The Writer
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In honor of its 10th anniversary year, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is
displaying Anne Frank's original writings, accompanied by this online
exhibition. The Web site uses a combination of audio and animation, so that
visitors experience Anne's essays and diary entries read aloud, accompanied
by images and automatically turning pages. The complete text of all the
writings exhibited is available for those who prefer a more traditional
reading. There is also a series of video interviews with Anne's relative,
Buddy Elias, and the curators of the exhibition. [431]
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
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Art of the First Cities
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Designed to complement "Art of the First Cities" -- an exhibition at the
Metropolitan Museum through August 17, 2003 --this Web site presents almost
two dozen examples of Third Millennium B.C. art from the region called the
"cradle of civilization," an area stretching from the Aegean and Eastern
Mediterranean across Iran and Central Asia to the Indus Valley. The site is
divided into eight thematic sections: Masterpieces, Cities, The Ruler, The
Divine World, Death and Burial, Writing, Seals and Sealing, Clothing and
Personal Adornment. The Masterpieces section is almost a checklist of
featured items, showing images that reappear in other sections, such as the
Standard of Ur, appearing in Masterpieces and The Ruler. The Cities section
includes both architectural artifacts and views of the ancient cities of
Troy, Uruk, Nippur, Ur, Mohenjo-daro, for example, a cone mosaic fragment
from Uruk, accompanied by a photographic reconstruction showing columns with
cone mosaic applied; or a nineteenth-century engraving showing Troy. Over
700 more Third Millennium artifacts are depicted in the exhibition catalog,
_Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean
to the Indus_. [438]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Asian Historical Architecture: A Photographic Survey
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Edited by a number of professors and graduate students from Columbia, Yale,
and the University of Virginia, this site offers thousands of photographic
images of Asia's diverse architectural heritage. In total, the site contains
over 6450 photos of 457 sites across seventeen countries. The geographical
parameters of the site are limited to areas heavily influenced by Buddhism,
Confucianism, or Hinduism. [419]
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This site makes a wonderful reference source for culture in Asia. Many images are available for use in multimedia projects (under Fair Use provisions).
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Bach Digital
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To say that Johann Sebastian Bach was a gifted and prodigious composer would
be like saying that Shakespeare merely wrote a few plays. This Web site is a
loving tribute to his work, undertaken by the main repositories of Bach's
compositions, including the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig and the University of
Leipzig. [381]
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University of
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BaseballLibrary.com
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"BaseballLibrary.com is a hulking colossus of online baseball arcana ... that can serve up ample portions of the most obscure baseball history." The New York Times [387]
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BaseballLibrary.com
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Beetle Science
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As this Web site proclaims, "We live in the age of beetles," and given that
one out of five species of all living things is a beetle, this seems like a
fairly accurate claim. This engaging site, developed at Cornell University,
highlights material related to bugs and beetles in an informative and well-
designed fashion. Visitors will want to start by clicking on the "Species-
Scape" illustration, which symbolically portrays the relative abundances of
various life forms on earth. Clicking on each image (such as an elephant or
an earthworm) will bring up a text box that gives a brief overview of the
species. The "Virtual Beetles" section offers visitors the ability to
manipulate three different beetles, including the Japanese rhinoceros
beetle. Finally, visitors also have the ability to explore the research
laboratories of Professor Quentin Wheeler, an entomologist at Cornell. Flash [424]
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This would be an excellent springboard for a small group project for middle school or high school students doing a project on beetles.
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Cornell University
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Best of History Web Sites
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Best of History Web Sites is a portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History. [306]
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This site can be used in a wide variety of ways. It is so rich, that you might assignment students exclusively to this site as a portal reresources for any specific product, especially multimedia projects.
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Thomas Daccord
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers\
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. [532]
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. Because of the enormity of the collection, the digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm is broken into more than one phase. Phase I, which can presently be found on this site, concerns the period from 1841-1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the eleven years during which an index was published. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching. [404]
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Brooklyn Public Library
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CalPhotos
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This UC Berkeley Digital Library Photo Collection includes over 35,000 images of California plants and habitats, animals, and Department of Water natural resources. Browse or search by common or scientific names, by location or subject (natural resources), or even by predominant plant color. [7]
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Teachers might use this web site as a source for images to show students various plants and animals in biology and other life sice classes. Students might also use the images from the site to prepare a photo album of a ficticous trip across the USA. The images can technically be downloaded.
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Centauri Dreams
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Alpha Centauri and other nearby stars seem impossible destinations not just for manned missions but even for robotic probes like Cassini or Galileo. Nonetheless, serious work on propulsion, communications, long-life electronics and spacecraft autonomy continues at NASA, ESA and many other venues, some in academia, some in private industry. [510]
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Paul Gilster
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Chemistry Comes Alive! Sample Movies
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Sample Movies from Chemistry Comes Alive!
The movies on Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs have been carefully produced, edited, and compressed into high quality QuickTime movies. Movies are only available on the Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs, but several samples are provided here. Please note that the movies were designed to play from CD-ROMs. Downloading via the Internet may cause delays. You must have QuickTime 4 or later to play these movies. If you do not have QuickTime, you can download a free copy from Apple Computer. [540]
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Journal of Chemical Education
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CIA World Factbook 2000
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The US Central Intelligence Agency has recently released the 2000
version of its well-known annual country information reference book
(last described in the September 24, 2000 _Scout Report_). Data are
available for more than 260 countries. For each country, map and
flag, geographic, population, government, economic, communication,
transportation, military, and transnational issue information is
provided for the latest date available (January 1, 2000 in most
cases). Users can also browse the Factbook by field and topic. For
instance, selecting Literacy under the People heading displays
definitions and literacy rates for all countries, listed
alphabetically. [233]
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This site makes a wonderful reference tool and can be used as a resource for a wide variety of WebQuests.
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Central Intelligence Agency
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Civilisations
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Civilisations is an entirely new way to explore human history - a multi-dimensional picture of the world, where you're in charge of the timeline. [408]
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BBC
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Color Landform Atlas of the United States
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An extensive listing of various maps (relief, county, regional, satellite, and historic) for the states of the United States. [440]
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This site can be a huge resources for teachers of geography and science. The images can be includes as WebQuest resources, used on handouts (following fair use constraints).
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Ocean Remote Sensing
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Columbia University Excavations at Amheida
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Columbia’s excavation at Amheida is a unique multidisciplinary project that innovatively links the sciences and humanities. This site features a graphical/geographic navigation of the excavation site with QTVR files for exploring. [327]
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Students can use this site to speculate on the finds at Amheida and what they tell us about the society, culture, and technology of the people who built this city.
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Columbia University, Department of Art, History, & Archaeology
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Conquistadors
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A web site based on PBS' program, Conquistadors. The site includes a wealth of information about Cortes, Pizarro, Orellana, and Cabeza de Vaca. [277]
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PBS
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Dance Instruction Manuals: Ca. 1490 - 1920
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presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. The list begins with a rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents. Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one another. [266]
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These publications provide a unique view of life before TV. Ask you students, as they browse through the manuals, why they think this subject was of such interest to people in past centuries?
In PE, use the manuals to teach some folk dancing.
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The Library of Congress
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history. [538]
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Digital Book Index
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Digital Book Index provides access to more than 80,000 titles records.
It is the sole index that gathers both commercial and non-commercial
eBooks from more than 1800 publishers and private publishing
organizations. Titles range from the Ancient Agriculture to Space Flight
in most major disciplinesLiterature, History, Science and the History of
Science, Social Science, Medicine, the Arts, Religion, and various Area
Studies (Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Women's Studies), etc. An
extensive Reference section includes more than 2000 Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias, Thesauri, Glossaries, Bibliographies, Timelines,
Chronologies, Literary Histories, and includes, as well, a section on
Writing & Style Guides that would be hard to surpass anywhere. Library
subscribers to NetLibrary will find most of those eBooks indexed as well.
More than 25,000 titles from public archivesall indexed hereare available
free, while many others are available at very modest cost. Thousands more
contemporary titles, ranging from the Nancy Drew mysteries to Star Trek,
Ernest Hemingway or John Le Carr, are available from many leading
publishers." [449]
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Digital Book Index
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Digital History
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This is a rich site with features that include: onloine textbook, encyclopedia, biographies, essays, interactive timeline, primary sources, visual history, and special resources for teachers and students.
This site was created through a partnership with University of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Project for the Activie Teaching of American History, and the National Park Service. [514]
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Digital History
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Digital Saskatchewan : Width=(1344)
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Digital Saskatchewan is designed for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students, although its contents are available to the world through the WWW. Teachers may use the resources of Digital Saskatchewan to stimulate interest in Saskatchewan studies and to create presentations and instructional materials for their classrooms. Students can use its resources to illustrate reports, to create multimedia presentations, and to see what other students and teachers throughout the province are doing and learning. [533]
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Tisdale School Division
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Digital Scriptorium
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The Digital Scriptorium was conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers. [370]
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University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries
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Dinosaur Illustrations
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This site's purpose is to help you locate great illustrations of dinosaurs that have been posted on the Internet.
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Teachers can use this site as a source of pictures to use with students study of dinosaurs. Students might use the pictures in creating a picture book about pre-historic life. The images can technically be downloaded from the Net.
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David Goldman
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Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World
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Diotima "serves as an interdisciplinary resource
for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean
and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about
women and gender in the ancient world." [394]
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University of Kentucky & Southwestern University
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Discovering Lewis & Clark
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A detailed synopsis of the expedition by historian Harry Fritz is enhanced by photographs, interactive maps, audio files, and illustrations from the expedition journals. [486]
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Discovering Lewis & Clark
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Discovery Channel :: Colosseum: A Gladiator\
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Serving as the inspiration for countless other arenas of sport and battle
over subsequent millennia, the Colosseum in Rome (finished in AD 80),
continues to hold a great deal of interest for both scholars and the general
public. Recently, the Discovery Channel teamed up with the BBC to create a
special television program dedicated to this most august structure, along
with a nice website that contains some useful features. Visitors will want
to start by heading to the section that allows them to explore a virtual
reconstruction of the Colosseum, which includes the opportunity to learn
about the importance of different architectural elements and, of course, the
Gate of Death. [480]
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Discovery Communications Inc.
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Ditto.com
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Ditto.com is an image database. You type in a key word, and ditto delivers thumbnail images related to your key word. Ditto also includes the URL of the web site where the picture was found. This is unique among the image databases available on the web and makes it easier to seek permission to use digital images in teaching and for student learning. [238]
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In Your Classroom:
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There are many ways that digital images might be used for teaching and learning:
- Teacher prints the digital image to transparency film for presentation to the class via an overhead,
- Teach downloads the image and inserts or pastes it into a handout, worksheet, or study guide for students,
- Students might include an image in their written, web, or multimedia presentation report,
- The teacher might load the image into a graphics program and annotate the image with explanations for use by students, or
- The teacher might give the digital image to the students and ask them to annotate it as a way of expressing their new knowledge.
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ditto.com, Inc.
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Dittrick Medical History Center
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The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the medical past through a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. The Dittrick originated as part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association (est. 1894) and today functions as an interdisciplinary study center within the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. [403]
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Case Western Reserve University
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Drawing the Western Frontier: The james E. Taylor Album
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Of the many photographic albums in the National Anthropological Archives, perhaps the most interesting and historically important is a scrapbook kept by an American illustrator, James E. Taylor (1839-1901). A professional artist, Taylor?s newspaper illustrations served to popularize stereotypes of the Western frontier during the post-Civil War years. Like other illustrators and writers of the period, he depicted Indian-White relations in terms of savagery versus civilization and encouraged Americans to visualize the nation?s Westward expansion in heroic terms. In many ways, Taylor?s professional legacy as a "reporter" is lodged between the technological juncture that existed between newspaper publishing and photography in the 19th century. [405]
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National Anthropological Archives
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Earth Observatory
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This is a fabulous web site with a vast amount of information and data about our planet. Not only does it contain valuable information, but it allows teachers and students create images and animations based on data comparisons. A highly recommended site and also the winner of the 2002 Webby awards in the category of Science. [305]
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Students can create animations that trace various atmosphic conditions over a series of months and include them in science presentations. This is only the tip of the iceberg for this wonderful web site.
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NASA
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EarthRISE
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EarthRISE is a graphical, easy, and fun to use front end to a large (and growing) database of photos of the Earth from space. [11]
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Geography teachers might ask students to find illustrations of geographical characteristics by searching or browsing this site for space-based pictures of earth formations
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center
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EDSITEment - All Websites
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“Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning,” Digital History includes a variety of primary and secondary documents, maps, images, audio archives of speeches and lectures by historians, a database of more than 1,500 annotated links, and a rich interactive timeline. [485]
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University of Houston
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Egypt Name Translator
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A very interesting tool that takes the letters that you type in using the keypade (up to 11 letter) and converts them to heiroglphics. [508]
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Have students create heiroglphs of their name in art class.
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InterCity Oz, Inc.
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Einstein Archives Online
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This impressive digital archive
features the writings, scholarship, and thoughts of Albert Einstein, one of
the 20th century's greatest scientists. The site allows visitors to view and
browse 3,000 high-quality digitized images of Einstein's writings, ranging
from his travel diaries (many of which are in German) to his published and
unpublished scholarly manuscripts. [423]
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The travel diaries might be used by German classes as a source of information to translate. Notes might be used to enhance the study of contributions by scientists in the area of Physics.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem & California Institute of Technology
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EMuseum
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The EMuseum, which is associated with Minnesota State University in Mankato, is a wonderful web site with a wealth of information on cultures, history, anthropology and archaeology. Its entry here is in context with the history resources availabe through the EMuseum. Here are some links to specific resources:
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This is a well organized and rich source that would be ideal as a link to history or culture based WebQuests.
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Minnesota State University
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ePodunk - Profiling more than 25,000 communities across America
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Search for a town!
Any city or town!
Anywhere in the US! [505]
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ePodunk Inc
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Erwin E. Smith Collection Guide
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Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) always wanted to be a cowboy and an artist. When he was a boy growing up in Bonham, a town in Fannin County in North Texas, the era of the great trail drives was over, and he feared that the old ways of the cowboy were disappearing. [390]
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Erwin E. Smith Foundation
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EuroNews
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Created in 1992 in Lyons, France, EuroNews is a European Broadcasting Union initiative that was started by a group of European public broadcasters interested in providing European viewers with a diverse set of perspectives
of regional and international news. The site will be of interest to anyone with an interest in viewing recent news briefs about a number of important topics of relevance, such as political affairs within the European Union, cultural activities, and technological innovations within various parts of the EU. Visitors can also view a weekly schedule for EuroNews, or elect to view the latest news update from EuroNews. As might be expected, the site may be viewed in a number of languages, including German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. [500]
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EuroNews.Net
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European Butterflies
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Photographer and butterfly enthusiast Mario Maier combined the talent of several European photographers to produce this magnificent European Butterflies Website. Available in English or German, the site offers crystal-clear color images of hundreds of butterfly species, organized by each of seven Families: apilionidae, Pieridae, Danaidae, Libytheidae, Nymphalidae, Satyridae, and Lycaenidae.
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Students can use these images in a game to identify the characteristics that distinguish the different families.
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Mario Maier
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European Space Agency: Mars Express
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Europe reclaims a stake in Mars exploration! The European Space Agency has
launched this informative site in conjunction with the Mars Express mission
which lifted off on June 3, 2003. Before the live Webcast of the craft
arrival in December, 2003, visitors to this well organized site can track
the progress of the spacecraft. You can also learn a lot about early
attempts to explore mars and investigate the possibility of life on Mars.
The European Space Agency also has given the public detailed technical
information on Mars Express and the Beagle 2 Lander that will actually land
on the surface of the red planet. This site is an exciting way for
educators, students and the general public to be actively involved with this
historic event. [416]
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ESA
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First World War.com - A multimedia history of World War One
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This website strives to provide a general overview of the First World War. At present just a couple of a years in the making the site is inevitably sketchy (or plain bare) in places. Hopefully glaring omissions will be corrected over time as the site develops and expands.
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Michael Duffy
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Forgotten NY
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THE PAST is all around us in New York. It's on the buildings high above and in the subways and tunnels deep below. It's even in the paths the streets take. This site is your gateway to a New York City that existed long ago -- and still exists in a hidden form today. [421]
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Midnight Fish
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Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
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Thirty-four years later, thanks to a $3.5 million gift from Stephen M. Silberstein, the University of California Berkeley Library and the Bancroft Library began an ambitious program to document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement - a legacy that can still be traced in political activism and educational reform throughout the country. [298]
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Students might read through some of the texts and view selected video clips. Then they might create posters supporting or condeming the protests. Each student or team should back up their poster with facts.
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Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Freedom: A History of US. Home | PBS
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Come along on an exciting journey through Joy Hakim's story of freedom in America. Explore a webisode and see why the promise of freedom has attracted millions of people from all over the world to come to America. Hear for yourself why generations of men, women, and children have lived for, sacrificed for, and died for that freedom. It is a story that is still unfolding today. It is your story too. [376]
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PBS
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Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War
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Cornell University Library's seven-millionth volume is an 1865 edition of
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, containing one-hundred
original photographic prints, mounted on boards and accompanied by
letterpress-printed captions. Thirty prints are presented at this Web site,
which combines the best of historical photography, digitization, and
hyperlinked navigation. The images are divided into seven thematic sections,
or by selecting the Images link at the main page, titles of all thirty
pictures are displayed in a table. [418]
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In Your Classroom:
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This collection could serve as a unique reference source for studies of the American Civil War. The images might also be used (under Fair Use provisions) in multimedia presentations.
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Cornell University Library Rare & Manuscript Collections
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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This site provides materials for Harvard University's Chaucer classes in the Core Program, the English Department, and the Division of Continuing Education. (Others of course are welcome to use it.) It provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer's works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages. At the moment the site concentrates on the Canterbury Tales, but the longer-term goal is to create a more general Chaucer page. [402]
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President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Geologic Explorations
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Geologic Explorations allows you to explore a variety of unique geological formations using Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas and digital still imagery. [14]
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Students might be asked to select from images provided from this site, the one(s) that illustrates the geologic formation being covered in class. The QTVR files can also be used by the teacher to illustrate geologic characteristics using a data projector.
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Science Junction/North Carolina State University
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Global Trees Campaign
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Along with increasing concerns about the extinction of different animal
species, there has been increased interest in monitoring the fate of plant
species, particularly those of various trees. Drawing on a partnership
between Flora & Fauna International and the UNEP World Conservation
Monitoring Centre, the Global Trees Campaign Web site serves as an online
conduit for information about endangered tree species. First-time visitors
will want to read the various tree profiles along the right-hand side of the
homepage. Some of the species covered here include the African blackwood,
Honduras rosewood, and the monkey puzzle tree, which grows naturally in
Chile and Argentina. The resources section of the site is also worth a look,
as it contains a database with information on close to 7,300 tree species,
and list of suggested readings -- including several that are available as
PDF files. For those interested in the projects initiated by the Global
Trees Campaign, a section detailing their various initiatives around the
globe is also available for consultation. [433]
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UNEP-World Conservation
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Global Trees Campaign
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With some of the most exquisite frescoes in Europe, the Vatican created this
Web site that highlights some of their remarkable holdings, many of which
are situated within the various rooms of the Apostolic Palace. As many
travelers may be unable to wait in the seemingly endless lines that are a
hallmark of visiting the Vatican, the site offers a nice overview of some of
the works that have been commissioned by different popes over the past five
hundred years. In the "Vatican Museums Online" section, visitors can browse
through the various rooms, including the Sistine Chapel, the Ethnological
Missionary Museum, and the Gregorian Egyptian Museum. Visitors may also take
a virtual tour of each room, aided by a Java interface that includes a zoom
and scroll feature. Additionally, a highlights section features 30 works of
great importance within the Vatican, among them the works of Raphael,
Botticelli, and Michelangelo. [Java VR] [434]
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Vatican Museums
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Hadrian\'s Wall Web Site
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HADRIAN'S WALL is the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain. It is the best known frontier in the entire Roman Empire and stands as a reminder of past glories of one of the world's greatest civilisations. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1987, Hadrian's Wall ranks alongside the Taj Mahal and other treasures of the great wonders of the world. [319]
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Students might be asked to compare and contrast Hadrian's Wall with the Great Wall of China or the Berlin Wall.
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Hadrian's Wall Tourism Partnership
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Hamrick Software - U.S. Surname Distribution
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Enter a surname (last name) into the form below and you'll get a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. [492]
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Hamrick Software
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Historic Cities: Maps & Documents
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This site is a joint project of the Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library. The project was made possible by a generous grant of the Council for Higher Education in Israel - Planning & Budgeting committee (VATAT).
The site is intended to contain maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and to facilitate the location of similar content on the web. [357]
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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HistoryWiz
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This is a wonderful web site about world history. The foundation of this site are the multimedia exhibits. They consist of slides images based on various themes and events in history. You can either access a list of exhibits, or you can access them by region or by timeline. [245]
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You might ask students to pretend that they are taking a vacation on a time machine. Ask them to select ten images from HistoryWiz's multimedia exhibits and then write a story about their vacation travels using the pictures as illustration. Students would have to conduct research on the periods and regions in order to write effectively.
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History Wizard
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How Everyday Things Are Made
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It is difficult for many individuals to fathom the exacting and complex
processes used to manufacture an airplane, car, or even candy. Stepping in
to help explain how many everyday things are made is this fine Web site
developed by the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford
University and design 4x, a company that develops online courses on
manufacturing topics. The site begins with a brief introductory video clip
orienting new visitors to the materials available on the site, and on how
best to navigate the site's features. Dozens of products are covered here,
including airplanes, motorcycles, cars, jelly beans, chocolate, glass
bottles, crayons, and golf clubs. Additionally, the site also contains
information on various careers in manufacturing, along with a list of books
on the field of manufacturing. Another helpful aspect of the site is the
Think About It feature, where visitors are asked to offer their comments on
how they think a certain process works, along with reading the previous
comments of other visitors. [432]
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Stanford University
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HST: Hubble Space Telescope
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A wealth of data and images from the Hubble Space Telescope archives. [209]
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You can use the images and data in this resource to illustrate astronical phenomenon for your class.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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Human Anatomy
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Links to images from the various anotomical systems of the human body, including: skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory, urogenital, and nervous systems. [284]
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The teacher might use these images for lecture, for worksheets, or study guides. The teacher might also develop a series of problems in human anatomy and require students to find, identify, and include the appropriate images from this site to solve the problems.
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Dr. James A. Strauss -- Penn State University Biology Department
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Humor\
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Nearly as old as news itself is the political cartoon. It's the page readers
flip to for a more succinct, and even more accurate, depiction of the dramas
and news of the day. Of all of the cartoonists out there, one of the most
talented and influential is Ann Telnaes. Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize
(the second woman in history to do so for Political Cartooning), Telnaes
recently donated 81 original drawings to the Library of Congress. At this
site, visitors can view the collection as well as see the cartoons that
earned the Pulitzer. [504]
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Library of Congress
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Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826 - 1919
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For illustrations of puckish glee, turn to this digital collection from the
University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries, which includes selections from
twelve works by and about William Shakespeare (and a few other British
playwrights), originally published in places ranging from Philadelphia to
Leipzig, dating 1826 - 1919. The books chosen for this digital collection
are heavily illustrated versions of Shakespeare. While some text is
available, such as picture captions, title pages, bits of dialogue, and
synopses of plays -- all of which is fully searchable -- the collection is
really designed to enable users to flip to the pictures. For example, a 5
volume set, The spirit of the plays of Shakspeaire [sic], drawn and engraved
by Frank Howard, 1833, consists of a series plates for each play, with some
explanatory text. The dramatic souvenir: Being literary and graphical
illustrations of Shakespeare and other celebrated English dramatists,
published by Charles Tilt, also 1833, has about two pages per play: a
synopsis, and several pictures. [447]
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Libraries -- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Imaging Everest
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Named for the Surveyor-General of India, Sir George Everest, Mount Everest
is the tallest mountain in the world, and is part of the Himalayan range
within South Asia. This fine collection of images dedicated to this storied
mountain was launched on May 29, 2003 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
the ascent to the top of the peak, accomplished by Sir Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay. This online exhibit is part of a larger exhibit that is
currently on display at the International Mountaineering Museum in Nepal.
The images themselves are divided into nine thematic areas, such as The
History of Everest, Tibetan People, Sherpas, and Tenzing and Hillary. [426]
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This site contains a great deal of content and many digital images, both recent and historical that might be used in teacher and student presentations.
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The Royal Geographical Society
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Index of Civil War Information Available on the Internet
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This is an extremely comprehensive list of topics related to the U.S. Civil War with numerous links to other Net resources. [224]
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This site can be an valuable site for conducting research projects or WebQuests. The information is highly organized and rich with information links.
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U.S. Civil War Center
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Index on George Washington
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Includes texts for many of his speeches and writings. [206]
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Ask your high school students to read some of the writings and speeches of George Washington and other revolution era U.S. leaders and then ask them to hold a debate, pressing their leader's positions in the students' own words.
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The American Revolution - an .HTML project
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Interactive Weather Information Network
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A variety of images and animations indicating the curren weather conditions around the country. One feature is an animation that illustrates cloud movement across the country over the past six hours. [272]
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Using QuickTime or other video tools, students might splice together many videos available through this site to track a weather pattern across the country.
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The National Weather Service
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Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
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The creative people at the
Internet Archive have also created this wonderful Moving Images Archive
which contains thousands of various educational films, television
commercials, and a number of other visual materials. The best part is that
viewers can add their comments about the films after watching them. Of
course, visitors can perform keyword searches within the Archive or view
lists of the most popular films located here. One rather amusing film is the
social hygiene educational adventure titled Are You Popular? (from 1947),
which shows examples of proper and improper dating etiquette and how to be
courteous to one's parents. [459]
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Internet Archive
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Internet Geography
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Created by teacher Anthony Bennett, the Internet Geography Web site seeks to
be a center for shared geographical resources and knowledge. A wide range of
information and teaching tools can be found here, including links to
original works that describe general physical, environmental, human, and
economic geography subjects. [395]
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Anthony Bennett
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Internet Public Library: POTUS
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 Welcome! In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site. [361]
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The Internet Public Library
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IRIS
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The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.
IRIS programs contribute to scholarly research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, and the verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. [444]
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National Science Foundation
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J-2 Space
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This website features photographs of many of the planets, space craft including Apollo, Shuttle, Mir, and the Internet Space Station projects, and general astronomy archives. [17]
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Ask students to select images from this site and arrange them in a photo album that illustrates a virtual fieldtrip into space. Images can technically be downloaded and used for student work. It is a very good idea to seek permission.
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J-2 -- Jay Jacobson
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Jack London's Ranch Album
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In 1905 American writer, Jack London, had purchased 129 acres of ranch land in the Sonoma valley, and over time he continued to add adjoining acreage. While writing remained his vocation, farming became his avocation. As an enthusiast of scientific farming, he set out to make his "Beauty Ranch" the most modern in the west. [349]
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Jack London's Ranch Album
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Journey Through Tikal
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This is another QTVR tour of ancient places by the folks at Studio 360. This tour features Tikal, the ruins of the Mayan city that flourished in Central America 2000 years ago. An interesting feature of this site is a map of the city with spots marked where QTVR panoramas are provided. [74]
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Studio 360
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Lewis Carroll Home Page
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Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll began his writing career
writing lines of verse and is best remembered today as the author of
_Jabberwocky_ and, of course, _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. For
students and persons looking for any number of links about Carroll's life,
his works, and teaching aids and materials to be used in conjunction with
his writings, this Web site should provide ample resources. [410]
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Lewis Carroll Society of North America
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Lost Cities Adventure
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A variety of QuickTime VR panoramas of the ancient city of Machu Picchu. The quality is quite good.
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Studio 360
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Lycos Multimedia Search
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A search tool that helps you search for video, audio, or images on the Internet. [304]
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Lycos, Inc.
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Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images
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In order to provide scholars and
other interested parties with a selection of maps and visual ephemera
related to the area's history and development, the American Memory Project
at the Library of Congress developed this fine online collection. The entire
online collection consists of 16 maps, ranging from a 1655 Dutch map of the
coastline around Macau to a 1991 map that shows the three areas that
constitute the Territory of Macau produced by the Portuguese cartographic
service. One gem in the collection is the map depicting Macau that was taken
from the British Buccaneer Atlas of 1696 that was prepared and used by the
infamous pirate Bartholomew Sharpe. Uses Mr Sid [425]
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This wold be a gem for studying the history of Asia.
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Library of Congress
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Map Collection
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This site hold an enormous archive of maps from all continents, including historic maps.
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University of Texas at Austin
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Map Collections: 1597-1988
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Historic maps that fall into the following Categories: cities & towns, conservation & environment, discovery & exploration, and others. [78]
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The Library of Congress
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Map Machine
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Map Machine is a powerful array of tools and features to help any teacher of learner of geography and wide range of influences.
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National Geographic
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Map Resources
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One of the characteristics of working and living in the later years of the Twentieth Century is that we think about geography differently. The likelihood that people will change jobs, careers, and where they live during any one-year has increased dramatically. There is no reason to think that this trend will not continue. A result is the way that we look at and think about geography. Here are a number of geographic name lookup services and map builders on the Internet:
Here are web sites that generate maps and driving directions when you type in an address:
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Map-a-Planet
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Access global imagery of the planets and satellites from a variety of missions in an easy to use web interface. Customize and download your own image maps of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other planets and moons. To get started, select a planet or moon from the buttons on the right. If there's more than one dataset to choose from, you'll be presented with a list of available datasets. Finally, choose a level of customization. If you're new to Map-a-Planet, choose the Easy version and click the image map to zoom in on an interesting area! [511]
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NASA
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Maps in the News
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A collection of links to maps from a variety of sources (CNN, etc) of places of current relevance in the news.
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John R. Borchert Map Library
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Maps.Guide.com
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This is an informational web site that answers a variety of questions about geography. Another useful feature is a list of other map links.
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Guide.com
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Medieval Writing
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Developed and maintained by Dr. Dianne Tillotson, this site is a good
location to begin learning about handwriting and manuscript production in
the Middle Ages. Needless to say, the art and science of deciphering these
manuscripts is terribly time-consuming and complicated. The site is divided
into approximately thirteen sections, and first-time visitors would do well
to read the "What is paleography?" essay first, in order to learn about this
elaborate decoding process. The other sections of the site describe (through
words, illustrations, and photographs) the life of a scribe during the
Middle Ages, the tools utilized to produce the manuscripts, and the various
forms that manuscripts took during this historical era. One rather
delightful aspect of the site are the paleography exercises where visitors
can try their hand at deciphering various passages from medieval
manuscripts, including Dante's Inferno and the Book of Hours. [Flash] [435]
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Dr. Dianne Tillotson
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MESS Image Packs
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Lots of Images of the earliest desk top computers, including Apple I, Kapro, and Laser. A walk back in the past (for some of us). [513]
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TK Mame
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MicrobeLibrary.org
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This site, provided by the American Society for Microbiology,
showcases a searchable database of over 150 images of microbes. The
images, submitted by professional microbiologists, have been
carefully reviewed for their educational quality and are presented in
formats ranging from high-powered microscopic stills to QuickTime
animations and film footage. [215]
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This site contains a wealth of multimedia material that can be used by teachers in their presentation of microbiological concepts and by students in their reports and presentations.
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MicrobeLibrary.org
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Military Campaign Maps Home Page
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This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation. Some of the maps are manuscripts drawn on the field of battle, while others are engraved including some that have manuscript annotations reflecting the history of the battle or campaign. A significant number of battle maps provide information about the locality that is not available elsewhere such as the location of plantations, the names of landowners in the area, the configuration of small towns and villages, and indications of prior settlement by native Americans. [497]
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An excellent resource for studying American military activities. One application might be to have students animate the maps using multimedia software.
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Library of Congress
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Millennium: A Thousand Years of History
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An educator's guide to the CNN program series. Lots of maps, timelines, and perspectives.
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CNN
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MOC Images Suggest Recent Sources of Liquid Water on Mars
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Recently, the press reported that the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) had
captured compelling images of gullies and slope failures that might
be associated with the presence of liquid water on Mars. Now you can
see these famous images at Malin Space Science Systems' MOC Website.
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This site and images can be integrated into any study of the solar system and our growing knowledge about our space environment.
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Malin Space Science Systems
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Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1915
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Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations). Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events. [269]
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These motion pictures will make excellent presentation media for teacher and student.
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Library of Congress
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Motion Pictures of the Edison Manufacturing Co.
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Information and MPEG & QuickTime files of early Edison movies, brought to us by The Library of Congress.
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The Library of Congress
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Moving Here: 200 Years of Migration to England
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Though it can truly be said that during the nineteenth and most of the
twentieth centuries that "the sun never set on the British Empire," the
story of those who came to Britain from various far-flung corners of the
Commonwealth is sometimes overlooked. This lovely archive of documents,
images, and first-hand narratives celebrates and explores why people came to Britain, along with looking at the current experiences of these various
groups today. Gathered from over 30 local, national, and regional museums and libraries around Britain, the site primarily looks at the Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian communities.
Moving Here hopes this is just the beginning or a programme which might look at additional content and communities in time [413]
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The National Archives
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Moving Image Archive
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Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films. [325]
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This resource provide access to a rich archive of movies including old advertisements, propaganda of the '50s, educational files, etc. The clips could be included as multimedia components of lessons or incorporated into digital products by students.
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Internet Archive
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Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885
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 Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. [339]
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This resource can be used to integrate music and history. You might ask members of your middle school or high school band to perform various works of a time period you are studying and then discuss when and where such pieces would have been performed in a time without TV, Radio, Motion Pictures, etc.
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Library of Congress
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Mysteries of the Nile
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Explore the Pyramids, temples, and other monumental architecture of ancient Egypt through riveting 360° photos shot during this NOVA/PBS Online Adventure.
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PBS
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Napoleonic Caricatures: A Brown University Digital Collection
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With the rise of mass printing techniques through the 18th century, many
public figures began to be parodied and satirized through caricatures
created by the many artists that worked for newspapers, broadsheets, and
other types of publications. One such figure was Napoleon, and this
collection of 271 caricatures includes a number of renderings of both him
and his contemporaries. The satires are housed in the Anne S.K. Brown
Military collection of the John Hay Library at Brown, and have been recently
placed online in order to make them more accessible to the public. [454]
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Brown University
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National Gallery of Ar Classroom
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The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the presen.
Search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria. [429]
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National Gallery of Art
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National Geographic Photo of the Day
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 A daily stunning, knock-your-eyes-out photograph from the talented
photographers of National Geographic Magazine. Great for wallpaper. [261]
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These pages can make excellent springboards for short and long term research and discussion projects.
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National Geographic
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National Geographic: Secrets of Egypt (Photos, Diagrams)
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While ancient Egyptian civilization has captured the public interest and
imagination in recent decades, this well-designed site from the National
Geographic Society places its focus on the pyramids created several
millennia ago. In the site's most compelling feature, titled Explore the
Pyramids, visitors can scroll across the different pyramids, revealing their interior organization and a number of facts about their construction and so on. A brief timeline also gives some information about each of the different Egyptian dynasties. Educators will find much to enjoy here, as the site provides different lesson plans for students, complete with critical questions for discussion and lesson objectives. Finally, there is an online journal written by National Geographic reporter Nancy Gupton that documents her own personal experiences traveling around the pyramids of Egypt. [341]
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NationalGeographic.com
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Native American Tribes & Chiefs
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A fairly extensive list of links to web sites related to Native American tribes and famous chiefs of those tribes. [235]
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This would make a very good resource for WebQuests related to Native Americans.
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Gerry Domagala
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Newton's Castle
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A stimulating journey into the revelations of Sir Isaac Newton. Learn about his discovery of Gravity and Optical Theories. Learn why cars roll uphill, why dogs chase cars and Newton's secret library. [539]
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John F. Kennedy High School
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OilPainting.Com
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At oilpainting.com, you will find access to the world of Chinese oil paintings, that is, oil painting done in China. This page was inspired by the travels of David Leung to China, where he found scores of talented oil painters without a market for their canvasses. At the moment you may be puzzled by the single link on "the artists" link; please check back regularly as we implement links to the artists David has come to know and admire. [295]
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OilPainting.Com
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Old Stones
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This is a website about selected topics in ancient art and archaeology. The material on this site includes original photographs, images, essays, timelines, and links to related art history pages. [240]
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Michael D. Gunther
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Open Collections Program: Women Working
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Women Working, 1870 - 1930 provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard's library and museum collections. This collection explores women's roles in the US economy between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Working conditions, conditions in the home, costs of living, recreation, health and hygiene, conduct of life, policies and regulations governing the workplace, and social issues are all well documented. The collection will contain more than 2,200 books and pamphlets, 1,000 photographs and 10,000 pages from manuscript collections. [525]
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Harvard University Library
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Open Video Project
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While many digital image projects and archives offer a few brief video clips
of historical and other interests, the Open Video Project contains close to
2000 digitized clips and complete short films, and will be of great interest
to those researching visual culture. Sponsored and developed at the
Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library
Science and the University of North Carolina, the project began in 1998 with
approximately 195 video segments. The archive available here provides video
clips from a variety of sources, including quite a few obtained from U.S.
government agencies. The entire archive may be searched by keyword, or
browsed by genre, duration, or thematic collection. There are some rather
compelling files to peruse here, including a collection of classic early
television commercials (including one for Jello), a short silent film titled
2 A.M in the subway, and an educational film titled A is for Atom, produced
by the General Electric Company. [462]
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University of North Carolina
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Paleomap
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The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years.
This site includes some rather innovative uses of QuickTime VR to produce controllable animations. Very Cool!
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This site can be used by the teacher or for student presentations to illustrate continental shift and its effects on plate tectonics. The animations would be especially usefull for this.
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Christopher R. Scotese
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Pics4Learning - Tech4Learning
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Below is a categorized list of images found in the Pics4Learning collection. The number in the parentheses indicates the number of sub-categories for that topic. [503]
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Tech4Learning
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Picturing Modern America
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It is difficult at times for young people (and people in general) to
understand the past, even the more recent past of the past century or so. It
seems almost banal to observe that many aspects of life have changed
dramatically, and perhaps not so banal to note that many things have in fact
not changed as much as we think. This fine site contains a number of
interactive exercises (drawing on the vast collections of the American
Memory Project at the Library of Congress) that will help deepen students'
understanding of common topics in the study of modern America from 1880 to
1920 and to build their skills in analyzing primary sources. Teachers and
student alike will appreciate the "Investigations" area, which contains
exercises such as "Picturing Social Change", "Modern Women", and "Picturing
Prairie Life". Through the exercises, visitors will be asked a variety of
questions that draw on the visual materials contained within each thematic
section, such as "What brought people to the prairie?" or "Why might people
have left the prairie?". Visitors also have the opportunity to build their
own exhibits by choosing their own theme or question about modern America,
and through choosing their own images and documents for their exhibit. [515]
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Education Development Center, Inc.
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Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art From World War II
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This online exhibit features 33 posters and 1 sound file from a more extensive exhibit that was presented in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, from May 1994 to February 1995. Like the original, this exhibit is divided into two parts, which represent two psychological approaches used in rallying public support for the war.
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National Archives and Records Administration
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Presidential Trivia
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Here is a list of odd facts about our presidents. [337]
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These facts can make a tantilizing introduction to the study of various U.S. Presidents.
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School of Education, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
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The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images providing access to about 60% of the still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division, as well as some images found in other units of the Library. [502]
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Library of Congress
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Quick Maps
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This web site has an extensive index of maps and geographic details that can be freely downloaded so long as you give credit to the publishers.
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Photius Coutsoukis and Information Technology Associates
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San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
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Like many public library systems in major American cities, the San Francisco
Public Library has begun to place a number of their historical photo
holdings online, much to the delight of the web-browsing public and local
residents. In total, the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
contains over 250,000 photographs, approximately 30,000 of which are
available here. Visitors can search for photographs by neighborhoods, or
through a list of subjects, which includes monuments, nightclubs,
orphanages, parks, and stadiums. [453]
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One of the most interesting things about this resource is it shopping cart application. You typically select images, as if selecting a product, and then, finally, have them shipped to you via e-mail. You can have specific photographs e-mail to specific students based on the projects they are engaged in.
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San Francisco Public Library
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Sapphire Swan Dance Directory
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A web links resources which points to information about dance in cultures around the world including: Chinese, Indian, Irish, Cajun, etc. [92]
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Sapphire Swan
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Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)
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At any particular time, the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) is involved in providing visualization products, systems, and expertise to various NASA projects and missions. This page briefly describes our current activities, with links to more information. You can see a listing of series of SVS animations. [363]
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NASA
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SDSS SkyServer DR3
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This website presents data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project to make a map of a large part of the universe. We would like to show you the beauty of the universe, and share with you our excitement as we build the largest map in the history of the world. [531]
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Microsoft
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The full text of Shakespeare's sonnets with commentaries and pictures. [254]
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Since large numbers of the sonnets are printed to single web pages, students (and teachers) can use their browsers find function to find sonnets with specific keywords and phrases.
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Oxquarry Books Ltd
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Skyscrapers.com
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Skyscrapers.com is the world leader in building information. Through an international network of many editors we manage and maintain this database of tall buildings. Here you will find 43,536 skyscrapers, tens of thousands of companies and facts. [317]
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Geometry students might study the shapes of the world's tallest buildings and building in your city or a city nearby.
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SBDC
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Southeast Archeological Center
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The Southeast Archeological Center is a division of the National Park
Service specializing in archeological research within the southeastern
United States and the Virgin Islands. [335]
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This site has many pictures and a great deal of information about what we are learning about our past from archeology. It would make an excellent resource for student productions and teacher presentations.
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National Park Service
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SpaceWeather.com
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Space weather forecasts that appear on this site are based in part on data from NASA and NOAA satellites and ground-monitoring stations. Predictions and explanations are formulated by Dr. Tony Phillips; they are not official statements of any government organ or guarantees of space weather activity. [296]
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Bishop Web Works
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T.rex the Killer Question
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This is the companion Web site to a new _Tyrannosaurus rex_ exhibit at the
Natural History Museum in London. The exhibit explores evidence that this
famous dinosaur may have actually been a scavenger, not the ferocious
predator we all know and love. Virtual visitors can weigh some of the
evidence for themselves with Predator or Scavenger? [422]
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This site is an excellent way to convey to students that there are still many misteries, even about the past that scientists continue to investigate and explain.
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The Natural History Museum
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Televisioncommercials.com
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They make us laugh, they make us spend money, they define our culture. They are commercials. This is an online database of television commercials in streaming video and audio. Great for history, media literacy, and for fun. [93]
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Televisioncommercials.com
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TerraServer
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Imagine being able to aim a satellite-based camera to just about any space in the United States and many other countries. What could you do with access to these images to help your students learn? Well, you can¹t. But you have the next best thing. TerraServer, a work in progress, will soon be the largest database in the world. It holds satellite images of nearly every spot in this country. You can find an image by typing in the name of the place, by clicking on a map, or by entering its map coordinates. Then you zoom in, enlarge your image, and start identifying trees, buildings, roads and driveways.
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Use satellite images to...
- illustrate geologic concepts such as earthquake fault, mountain range actions, etc.
- identify community components in the school¹s own community
- illustrate historic events
You can use MapBlast (http://www.mapblast.com) find the map coordinates of a specific street, and then use Terraserver to locate that spot via satellite. Try Elm Street, Dallas, Texas to see the Texas Textbook Depository and the infamous grassy knoll.
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Microsoft
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The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
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The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress will comprise a selection of approximately 4700 items (totaling about 38,000 images). This first release contains 1400 items consisting of correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. [210]
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Ask students to study this web site and to speculate on how being a scientists in the 19th century compares with being a scientist today. Then ask students to pretend that they are scientists in the past writing letter to current day workers in science.
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Library of Congress
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The Chinese in California 1850-1925
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Drawn from the collections of the University of California Berkeley and the
California Historical Society, this addition to American Memory presents
about 8000 digitized items that document the Chinese in California from 1850
to 1925. Like other American Memory collections, both searching and browsing
options are available. One nice feature is the Topical Overview section,
where users can read short essays on a variety of themes, from Chinese and
Westward Expansion to Sentiment Concerning the Chinese: Images from
Periodicals. [406]
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Library of Congress
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The Columbus Navigation Homepage
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Examining the History, Navigation, and Landfall of Christopher Columbus [246]
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This site, especially aspects dealing with navigation can be used to integrate history with mathematics.
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Keith A. Pickering
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The Dinosauria: The Truth is Stranger than Fiction
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This is a rich web site about dinosaurs. Its main purpose is to dispell many of the myths about this planet's former inhabitants. [239]
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This site would make a wonderful resource for a WebQuest
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University of California, Berkeley: Museum of Paleontology
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The Dynamic Earth
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The reason we know that glaciers covered certain areas of the globe while
continental plates buckled elsewhere is because of rocks. Thanks to these
gatekeepers of the past, we are better able to understand the earth's
history and the present. The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, offers this really interactive and engaging site to teach about
science of the earth. The three main sections of the site include: Rocks at
Earth's Surface, Rocks Below Earth's Surface, and Mining. [409]
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Smithsonian Institution, The National Museum of Natural History
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The Forum at Pompeii
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This is a web site that I use to demonstrate six years ago as an example of the types of applications that will be feasable years from then. It is now!
You are presented with an areal drawing of the ruins of Pompeii. You click on the section of the city you want to visit and receive a close-up drawing. In the drawing are icons for cameras, each point in a specific direction. When you click on one of the cameras, you receive a photograph taken in the direction indicated by the camera. Very cool, and forward thinking of these folks. [244]
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Obviously, this tool could be used for presentation by history teachers. However, as a writing project, you might ask students to take a virtual walking tour of ancient Pompeii, retrieving the pictures and describing what they see and their impressions.
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Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
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The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
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Widely understood to be one of the single most important inventions in human
history, the development of movable type by Johann Gutenberg in the 15th
century made it possible to produce a large number of copies of a single
work in a relatively short period of time. Utilizing their own copy (one of
48 remaining around the world) of Gutenberg's Bible, the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has created
this informative site about both this amazing book and the printing process
used to create this work. [414]
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Most visitors will want to start by viewing
selected passages from this remarkable book available here, among them
excerpts from Genesis and the 23rd Psalm. One particularly engaging feature
is the "Anatomy of a Page" section where visitors can learn about the
different parts of the pages in the Gutenberg Bible, including the
abbreviations made by the scribes, the illuminations, and rubrics added by
the scribes indicating the conclusion of a given book within the Bible.
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Hart Ransom Humanities Research Center
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The Hemingway Resource Center
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Ernest Hemingway was the most influential writer of the last century. Explore our site to learn more about his adventurous life and his groundbreaking literary work. [407]
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The Hemingway Resource Center
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The History of Ancient Egypt
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 A timeline of ancient Egyptian history from 1981 BC to 4950 BC. The links include significant people, maps, information about cuture, and religion.
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Mankato University
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The History of Costume
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An archive of images depicting the dress and costumes of history. Chapters include:
- Egyptians, Moors, Turks
- Ancient Near East...
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Fourth to the Sixth Centuries
- Byzantine Empire
- and much more!
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Braun & Schneider
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The History Place
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This is a feature-rich web site with a wealth of resources for teachers and studiers of history. Sections include:
- Child Labor in America 1908-1912
- World War II in the Pacific
- John F. Kennedy -- Photo History
- The Rise of Adolf Hitler
- Biographies of Nazi Leaders
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The History Place
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The History Place -- Great Speeches
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Another archive of famous and infamous speeches including some less frequently found on the web. Authors include:
- Susan B. Anthony
- Frederick Douglass
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
- Maximilien Robespierre
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The History Place
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The House at 7 Middagh
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In its heyday, the house at 7 Middagh was home to an illustrious collection of literary and artistic figures that included the novelist Carson McCullers and the poet W. H. Auden. [529]
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The New york Times Company
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The Jazz Age Page
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An archive of text, images, and sounds of the Jazz Age, the 1920s. [236]
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This site has many resources for constructing reports and presentations about the Roaring Twenties. Students might also use the audio files as part of their F2F presentations or multimedia products.
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R. Richard Savill
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The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
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The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music is part of Special Collections at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University. It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. All pieces of the collection are indexed on this site and a search will retrieve a catalog description of the pieces. An image of the cover and each page of music will also be retrieved if the music was published before 1923 and is in the public domain.
[396]
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Johns Hopkins University
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The Medici Archive Project
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The Medici family is widely considered one of the most famous and respected
patrons of arts during the Renaissance, and their legacy perseveres in the
numerous works of art, music, and sculpture that were produced as a result
of their beneficence. The archive of the Medici Grand Dukes contains almost
three million letters, and offers "the most complete record of any princely
regime in Renaissance and Baroque Europe." Currently, the Medici Archive
Project is developing this site to place many of these letters online, along
with a strong interest in the history of costumes and Jewish history during
the Renaissance. [397]
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This site would make a great dedicated resources for advanced Western Civilization independent studies. Teachers might also use the art work in class presentations.
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The Medici Archive Project
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The Nineteenth Century in Print
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This collection presents twenty-three popular periodicals digitized by Cornell University Library and the Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress. They include literary and political magazines, as well as Scientific American, Manufacturer and Builder, and Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry. [267]
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For history classes, students might be asked to research 19th century life through these periodicals. You might also ask them to role play as writers of a previous time, and use some of the images from the periodics to dress student written publications.
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The Library of Congress
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The Norman Rockwell Museum
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With a style that is immediately recognizable, Norman Rockwell was America's
foremost illustrator throughout the 20th century, working for the _Saturday
Evening Post_ for over forty years, and then for _Look_ magazine. Located in
Rockwell's longtime home of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the Norman Rockwell
Museum was founded in 1969 with the assistance of Norman Rockwell and his
wife, Molly Rockwell. [428]
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Students might be asked to caption and discuss the pictures of Norman Rockwell within the context of the times.
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The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge
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The Northern Great Plains, 1880 - 1920
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These two collections from the Institute for Regional Studies at North Dakota State University contain 900 photographs of rural and small town life at the turn of the century. Highlights include images of sod homes and the people who built them; images of farms and the machinery that made them prosper; and images of one-room schools and the children that were educated in them. [265]
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In Your Classroom:
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There are many pictures here that might serve as a backdrop, or even a background for student written stories or poems.
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The Library of Congress
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The Open Science Project: Molecule Viewers and Editors
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This metasite is an excellent resource for chemical researchers and educators. It provides links to three free software programs:
JchemPaint, Jmol, and OpenChem. JchemPaint, developed at the Max
Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, is a Java program for drawing 2-D chemical structures. [212]
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Students may be motivated by being able to create their own 2D renderings of molecules. There may be a way to turn this into a contest.
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The Open Science Project
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The Open Video Project
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The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval. [491]
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The Open Video Project
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The Original Old Time Radio (OTR) WWW Pages. Old-Time Radio at its Best
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If you are interested in radio programs from "radio's golden age", these are the WWW pages for you. They are filled with many entertaining and educational topics for fans of nostalgic / old-time radio shows.
[520]
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The Original Old Time Radio
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The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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[260]
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The National Security Archive
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The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I,
1918-1919
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The Stars and Stripes was a newspaper written by troops (and for the troops)
serving in the American Expeditionary Force of the United States Army during
the United States' involvement in World War I. The newspaper's existence
was endorsed by official order of General John J. Pershing, who wanted the
publication to strengthen the moral of the troops and to promote unity
within the American forces. The paper ran from February 1918 to June 1919,
and by the time it ceased publication, it had a readership of over 500,000.
As part of the American Memory series of online collections, the Library of
Congress has created this Web site containing a complete digitized and
searchable run of the Stars and Stripes for the general Web-browsing public.
Users may elect to browse the issues by date, or to search the entire
collection of papers. Additionally, the site features an in-depth look at
the paper, including a detailed discussion of the noted editorial staff that
ran the paper, along with a complete roster of the paper's employees. [448]
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Library of Congress
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The Supreme Court Historical Society
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Celebrating more than 25 years of service to the Supreme Court, the legal profession, historians, and the public, the Supreme Court Historical Society was incorporated in 1974 for the purpose of expanding public awareness of the history and heritage of the Supreme Court of the United States. [398]
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Supreme Court Historical Society
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The Ultimate Space Place
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The Ultimate Space Place is a world leader for space information and history along with space related autographs, photographs and memorabilia. With a combination of photographs and words, we tell the story of mankind's quest to leave the earth and give you an opportunity to own a piece of that history through our collection of autographed photographs, books and space memorabilia. [276]
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The Ultimate Space Place
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The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
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You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to.
And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it? [378]
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National Geographic Society
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The Vincent Voice Library
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This site includes WAV and MPEG2 files of many U.S. Presidents going back to Benjamin Harrison. Talks include:
- William McKinley in one of his front porch speeches
- William H. Taft talks about having a sense of humor
Also included are Florence Nightingale and Will Rogers. [102]
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Michigan State University
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The Virtual Cave
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From the comfort of your keyboard, browse the mineral wonders unique to the cave environment! We've collected images from around the world and combined them to generate an 'ideal' cave-one that contains an example of every major type of speleothem, or secondary mineral deposit. [226]
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Teachers can use this sites in a smart chalk board style applications to teach students about caves.
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Good Earth Graphics
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Tiger Map Server
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The Tiger Map Server is an extremely powerful interactive mapping system that allow the creation of a variety of information-rich maps. Each local or broad geographic map can feature a number information markers including: city labels, grid, census points, congressional districts, highways, railroads, streets, water bodies, and zip code points to list only a few.
[104]
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Tighsolas
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This is an extraordinary web site, in the making, that includes information relics of a Canadian-born, Canadian schooled man (Norman Nicholson), hemlock bark dealer, turkey salesman, Town Public Works Clerk, Inspector for the Transcontinental Railway and The Quebec Streams Commission, (I have all the documentation) was a work-a-day sort, devoted husband to the spirited feminist-minded Margaret McLeod, (also a Lewis descendant) doting father to three feisty and ambitious daughters Edith, Marion, Flora and one lost soul of a son, Herb.
An excellent source for making students real historians. [534]
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Dorothy Nixon
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Tutor History
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The purpose of the site is to share my interest and thoughts on Tudor history. Therefore, the primary audience is folks who share that interest. My original goal of the site wasn't for school kids doing class projects, although I know that's one of the main demographic groups of my readers and I have tried to keep that in mind as I expand it. [523]
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Lara E. Eakins
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US Centennial of Flight Home Page
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At the heart of this site is the celebration of the Wright Brothers first Powered flight, here in North Carolina. The bulk of materials fall into three main sections: the timeline, essays,
and images. The essays provide helpful background reading on almost every
topic related to flight, ranging from the aerospace industry, inflight
refueling, air power, commercial aviation, and aerodynamics. The timeline
can be searched by year, keyword, or category. The image database can be
searched by category, most of which correspond to topical themes delineated
by the essays. For those looking to attend events related to the centennial,
a searchable calendar of events is also provided. [393]
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Fantastic video clips for use in the classroom. The timeline will also make a great story-starter tool.
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U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
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Views of the Solar System
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Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos. Views of the Solar System offers enhanced exploration and educational enjoyment of the solar system and beyond. [229]
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In Your Classroom:
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Here is another great resource that can be used as a basis for a WebQuest
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Calvin J. Hamilton
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Virtual Skies - A NASA Educational Web Site
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Explore the exciting worlds of aviation technology, air traffic management, and current research in this web site designed for use in high schools and flight technology programs. [343]
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NASA
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Visible Earth
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The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. These images will be useful to the
interested public-at-large, as well as representatives of the media, scientists, and educators. Whether it be for personal use or for presentations, hopefully this collection and its organization will provide maximum benefit. [222]
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This resource provides a wealth of media that can be used for presentation by teachers and for special projects by students.
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NASA
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Voices of Civil Rights :: Home
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AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, which serves as both a living memorial to those who were a part of the civil rights experience and a tribute to the quest for equality that continues today. Begin by learning about the power of a story.
[493]
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AARP
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Vote for Women
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The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. They are a subset of the Library's larger collection donated by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in November of 1938. [268]
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Ask students to read through some of the texts and then extrapolate some of the justifications that we had for refusing women the right to vote. Then ask them to compare those beliefs with some beliefs that are apparent in the world today.
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The Library of Congress
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Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
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Nope, it's not about dinosaurs but it is just as fascinating! "Walking with
Prehistoric Beasts is the Discovery Channel's new television series on the
creatures that inhabited Earth after the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million
years ago (mya). The program's companion Website offers fabulous graphics
and games, with a little bit of informative text mixed in, about such beasts
as _Gastornis_, a meat-loving bird the size of a tall human,
_Propalaeotherium_, a 43 million year old cat-sized horse, and
_Andrewsarchus_, a furry, land-dwelling ancestor of the whale. [303]
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Discovery.com
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WeatherCAMs
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UM Weather's newly-expanded WeatherCams page provides access to over 800 weather cameras across North America, the largest list on the web! [221]
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In Your Classroom:
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This resource can be used in a number of ways, from identifying terrain of various locations, recording social characteristics.
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UM Weather
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Welcome to Cool Cosmos!
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This great educational site from Cal Tech offers all sorts of great
resources to assist in learning about the universe. Using the fun gear-like
menu on the left of the screen, visitors can pick from site areas such as
the Cosmic Classroom (which offers classroom activities, lessons, reference
info., and an Ask an Astronomer option), Cosmic Kids (where kids can learn
about what's in space through stories and resources like the Infrared Zoo),
the Video and Image Galleries, and lots more. The site should be a great
resource for teachers introducing students to the study of the universe or
those visitors who are simply interested in getting lost in space for a
while. [501]
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Infrared Processing & Analysis Center
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Welcome to The Mark Twain House
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Step back to the Gilded Age during guided tours of the 19-room, Tiffany-decorated mansion where Mark Twain raised his family and worked from 1874 to 1891. During this incredibly productive period, Twain created such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
[333]
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The Mark Twain House
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Who2
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This is a rich web site with basic biographies and lots of links to famous people. There is an alphabetical interface and a search tool for finding the person you are teaching about. [208]
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Assign each student in your class a famous person in history. Then allow them to research their famous person through Who2 or one of the other biography sites. Then ask each student to write a letter, or e-mail to their famous person. Have the e-mails sent to other students in the class or in another class where those students answer them in character.
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Who2
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William Gedney Photographs and Writings
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From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney was able to record the lives of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy. These photographs, along with his notebooks and writings, illuminate the rare vision of an intensely private man who, as a writer and photographer, was able to reveal the lives of others with striking sensitivity. Included here are selections from Gedney's finished prints, work prints, contact sheets, notes, notebooks, handmade photographic books, book dummies, and correspondence.
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Students might browse these photographs to include in their multimedia presentations. Remember to properly cite resources -- Citation Machine
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Duke University
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Wired for Books
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For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. [518]
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Ohio University Telecommunications Center
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World Atlas
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You see a list of countries & regions. Click on the country or region and receive a map and a wealth of data and information about the country. [113]
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InterGO Communications, Inc.
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World Heritage Tour
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The purpose of the World Heritage Tour site is to offer greater exposure to
the truly diverse set of cultural heritage sites designated by UNESCO around
the world. While there are over 750 cultural and natural sites on the World
Heritage List, only 52 sites are currently covered on the site. The site
itself features over 250 virtual reality movies from 52 sites, ranging from
the Philippines to Egypt. Visitors can browse a list of sites currently
covered, with each list noting how many virtual reality movies are
available, along with providing the UNESCO identification number assigned to
each site. From the site's homepage visitors can sign up to be notified when
new movies become available, contact staff members, and read a paper about
the World Heritage Tour. -- [QuickTime VR] [430]
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WHTour.net
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World Paper Money Home Page
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This is in essence an online museum of paper money from around the world. I'm not sure how this information might be used, but I'm sure that more creative teachers could find a way.
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Ron Wise
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World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
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The World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed city views, street and harbor scenes, landscapes, local inhabitants, and Commission members as they travelled through North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. [211]
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Use these images to illustrate a wide variety of social studies concepts and cultures.
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The Library of Congress
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