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Cantaria
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Cantaria is a learning library of bardic songs. This library currently contains lyrics for over 80 songs, most with accompanying sound clips of the songs being performed. Songs are categorized under the headings below.
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Chivalry Music and Internet Publishing
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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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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 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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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 Folklore: Famous American folktales and legends, Native American myths, weather folklore, ghost stories and more from each of the 50 States.
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This folklore site contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. You can read about all sorts of famous characters like Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Jesse James, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and many more. So grab a cup of coffee or a soda, pull up a comfy chair, and stay awhile. [329]
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This web site makes a wonderful source for story telling. One student centered way of using these stories might be to have students illustrate them, build presentation slides, or even create a video of the stories.
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Freelance Author, Sandra E. Schlosser
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American Journeys
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With over 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration,
the American Journeys Digital Library and Learning Center is the result of a
collaboration between the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by
private donors. Much of the work was done at the Wisconsin Historical
Society in Madison, Wisconsin, and visitors with an interest in digital
projects and their creation and management will want to review the section
that details how the website was built. Visitors with a limited amount of
time will want to peruse the highlights section, which offers a number of
noteworthy historical accounts, including the first encounter of Europeans
with the Grand Canyon and the arrival of Captain James Cook in Hawaii. The
resource section for educators is well-developed and includes suggestions on
integrating documents into lesson plans, information on interpreting
documents, and addressing sensitive content. As might be expected, the
complete contents of the digital library may be searched in any number of
ways, including by topic, author name, document type, and by keyword or full
text. [451]
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Wisconsin Historical Society
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American Notes: Travel in America, 1750 - 1920
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While Alexis de Tocqueville's, Democracy in America may remain one of the
most important and compelling commentaries on the American condition, the
American Memory project at the Library of Congress has compiled this
wonderful collection of 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign
visitors from the period of 1750 to 1920 for the convenience of the Web-
browsing public. [452]
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Ask students to read some of the historic letters about travel in the U.S. Then ask them to write letters pretending to be from another country, describing their travels through your local area.
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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 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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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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Professors & graduate sutdents from Columbia, Yale, and University of Virginia
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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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BBC World Service Audio
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Real Audio of BBC News, Science, Religion, Business, Features, The Arts, Sports, Education, and Youth programs. [44]
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BBC World Service
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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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Census 2000 Gateway
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This is a rich portal to a variety of products related to the 2000 census and its trends. Products include a street address reference, American FactFinder, State & County Quick Facts, Rankings and Comparisons, and much more. [487]
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U.S. Census Bureau
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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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Civics Online - Envisioning the Democratic Community
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Civics Online is a collaborative, online project providing a rich array of primary sources, professional development tools, and interactive activities to facilitate the teaching of civics. [484]
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Civics Online
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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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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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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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David Rumsey
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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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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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Diplomacy Monitor
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More and more countries around the world are releasing official policy
documents, communiques, and other crucial communications via the Web, along
with more traditional means. The Diplomacy Monitor at the St. Thomas
University School of Law is a fine way to keep track of various
communications, as it allows users to globally track diplomatic and
international official statements, press briefings through their readily
accessible monitoring system located at their site. Utilizing their own
proprietary technology, the staff at the Diplomacy Monitor review annotate
and categorize these documents several times throughout the United Nations
business day. The site includes a brief introduction to using the Monitor,
along with the option of full-text searching of every document archived
within the database. For additional discussion of how the Internet affects
global diplomacy, the site also contains some interesting working papers and
reports, such as The Rise of Netpolitik-How the Internet is Changing
International Politics and Diplomacy. [446]
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St. Thomas University School of Law
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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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Discovers Web
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This web site holds a wealth of information about explorers and discovers of human history. Some of the catagories include: Prehistory, Egypt, Phoenicia, Irish Monks, The Vikings, Marco Polo, Voyages to America, etc. Don't miss this site on your evening browsings. [53]
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Andre Engels
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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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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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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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E-Conflicts World Encyclopedia
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The E-Conflict World Encyclopedia site profiles each nation and province in the world. There are hundreds of pages including information on world history, weather, governments, economies, people, etc. You can view maps, flags or listen to national anthems. You may want to add it to your list of Internet resources.
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Emulate Me
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EarthCam
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This free
site is a helpful way to take a peek at literally thousands of places
(including some rather unusual ones) around the world. Visitors will want to
begin by exploring some of the fun cameras set up by the EarthCam group in
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Seattle, Dublin, and Las Vegas. Also featured on
the Web site's home page are the Top Ten Cam Sites, which feature the most
popular Web cams from around the world. [420]
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It can help to set atmosphere in your room when you have a Webcam display up of the place that your are studying showing as students come into the room.
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EarthCam Inc.
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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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Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
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The best encyclopedia ever written was published over 90 years ago! And now you can find right here on the web! This 1911 encyclopedia is filled with historical information that is still relevant today. [391]
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1911encylopedia.com
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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 (18861947) 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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FedStats
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A wide variety of statistical information about the United States. [274]
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FedStats
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Foreign Government Resources On the Web
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If you need to know anything about a country's government, i.e
economics, embassies, anthems, flags, constitutions, elections,
government hierarchy, etc., then this site should be able to lead you
to your information. [241]
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You might ask teams of students to pick a continent and to study, through this web site, various characteristics of their governments. Then as they identify certain categories, they could color code a map of the continent expressing visually the political make-up of the area.
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University of Michigan
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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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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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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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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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Historical Maps of the U.S.
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This site features U.S. historic maps of early inhabitants, exploration and settlement, territorial growth, historic maps of U.S. cities.
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University of Texas at Austin
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History Travel
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You pick a region of the United States, and then a state. Then you get a list of history sites in your state. You can also get a more powerful search engine for selecting specific types of sites.
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The History Channel
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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 Far is It?
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This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
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Bali & Indonesia On the Net
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iLoveLanguages - Your Guide to Languages on the Web
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iLoveLanguages is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The more than 2000 links at iLoveLanguages have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, iLoveLanguages probably has something to suit your needs. [524]
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Tyler Chambe
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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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International Information Programs
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This is a rich resource for information about the international affairs of the United States. Resources fall under the following categories: U.S. Policy, Regions, Issues in Focus, and Information Services, [285]
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Students can use this site to do focus research on issues in current events.
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Department of State
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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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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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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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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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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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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 of the States
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A resource for maps of the US states, provinces and territories of Canada, Australian states and European countries.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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National Park Service Data Information
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The National Park Service Data and Information Web site contains several
helpful links for data related to the Parks. The Data Clearinghouse link has
national and regional data sets such as civil war and land status data,
local and regional historic and scenic trails data sets, and information on
the Virgin Islands in a well designed and easily browseable format. The
Interactive Map Center allows visitors to explore the National Parks using
interactive interfaces, while other links explain the National Park
Service's standards and specifications, and how to use metadata correctly
with other data. The unique and limited scope of the data makes the site a
good example of how the Web is increasingly becoming an excellent source for
hard-to-find free information. [401]
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Much of this data can be imported into a spreadsheet for analysis and graphing. Some a compatible with GIS software.
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National Park Service
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NationMaster.Com
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Welcome to NationMaster.com, a handy way to graphically compare nations. Using the form, you can generate graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics. What's more, you can select exactly which countries you want to include. [399]
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NationMaster.com
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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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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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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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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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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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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 canıt. 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 schoolıs 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 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 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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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 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 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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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.
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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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U.S. Census Bureau Data Map
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This is an impressive work that provides a graphical/geographic interface to census data. You click on the state, then the county, and receive rich census data on that particular area. [107]
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Have students choose their state and their county. The have them select one of the Summary Tape Files and generate a report on various demographic aspects of their county such as ages. Then ask the students to read the report and talk about the impact that the age trends might have on their county.
Another idea might be to select the population estimates for all counties in your state and look at growth trends there. Which parts of the state are growing in population and which are not, and what is the impact.
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U.S. Census Bureau
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United Nations Statistics Division
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Statistics on economic, environment, demographics, and other information. [273]
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The United Nations
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United States Facts
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This site features very basic facts about each of the 50 states.
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Eddie Bear Productions
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United States Historical Census Data
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The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960. [247]
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Students can look at data across the decades to search for evidenct in migration patterns and economic conditions. Students might also be asked for whom this data could be valuable, how they might use it at help people today.
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University of Virginia Library
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Vanderbilt University News Archive
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The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. [323]
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Vanderbilt University
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Vietnam News Agency
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This news service will feature the most current information on happening in Vietnam, one of the most popular countries in the world right now.
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Vietnam News Agency
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Virginia Indians for Younger Readers
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This site offers links to the history, Internet resources and bibliographies related to Virginia's native peoples. This site is also searchable. [110]
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James Madison University
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VirtualTuner.com
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This website links to Real Audio radio stations from the US and Europe. Across the ocean, you can listen to radio stations from more than 30 countries including one station in Liechtenstein. If your class is studying Europe and you have classroom access to the Internet, then students can listen to a radio station from the country they are studying while working on classwork. [52]
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VirtualTuner.com
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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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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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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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In Your Classroom:
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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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Wonders of the African World
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"Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he takes you on a journey to discover
a wealth of African history and culture in Wonders of the African
World. Click on an icon above to explore each episode, or explore
specific themes by using the menus at left or below." [300]
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PBS
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Words Without Borders
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Hosted at Bard College, with a dispersed staff composed of distinguished
writers, translators, and publishing professionals, Words Without Borders
(WWB) seeks to address the current "dangerous imbalance" in publishing
(about 50% of all books in translation worldwide are translated from
English, but only about 6% are translated into English). Browse the Web site
by issue -- July/August, September, and October 2003 are available -- or
select literature geographically. Readers will find both fiction and non-
fiction in the form of essays, poems, and excerpts from longer works. There
are also book reviews, brief biographical information about authors, and a
link to sign up to receive the journal via email. [441]
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Bard College
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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 News Map
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This is an intriguing resource that builds a map of the world with icons that indicate news stories related to headlines, politics, war, crime, accidents, business, sports and coming events. You click the geographically placed icon, and a CNN report appears. You can also click a continent and see only its map and there is also a news timeline. [535]
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Mikhail Poyzner
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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 POPClock Projection
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This web page displays data on the projected world population during the coming months. It also gives the estimated population on the current day. [115]
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U.S. Census Bureau
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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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In Your Classroom:
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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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WorldNews.Com
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"Global news providing up to date stories on current events and the
latest news on business, entertainment, environment, sport, health, human rights, fashion, travel and women. Search top news,
breaking news, television, headlines and radio sites. Special Reports on global hot spots." [243]
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The WorldNews Network
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Yahoo's Language Reference Tool Links
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Yahoo links to web-based reference tools in the following languages:
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Yahoo
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