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Biography Website
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A searchable database of over 20,000 personalities both contemporary and historic.
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If you have a classroom web site with a reference section for students to use in the classroom or from home, this is a must for studying the personalities behind the science.
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A&E Network
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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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U.S. Bill of Rights
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The text of the U.S. Bill of Rights
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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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American Memory
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An absolute wealth of searchable material on Americana. For instance a search of 'banjo' returned 52 hits including a 1939 Real Audio recording of 'Soldiers Joy.' [42]
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This rich archive of media can be used in a number of ways:
- Teachers can use images and audio to demonstrate ideas to the class
- Students can integrate images and audio into their multimedia presentations
- Teachers can play audio files to introduce specific discussions to add atmosphere and prepare the class
- Students can download annotate images with a graphics program to illustrate the relationship between the image and the topic of study.
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Library of Congress
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American Museum of the Moving Image
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The power of television in determining the successful candidate for
president of the United States over the past fifty years has been immense --
and something that every candidate is aware of, for better or for worse.
This engaging online exhibit from the American Museum of the Moving
Candidate offers television commercials for each presidential candidate from
the years 1952 to 2000, along with an analysis of each major party, their
advertising campaigns, and a map showing the results of each election. There
are some real gems here including the advertisements from the fractious
campaign of 1968, the powerful uses of various shock issues in the campaign
of 1988, and Harry Belafonte speaking on behalf of John F. Kennedy in 1960.
The site is rounded out by a selection of helpful educational materials,
including a teacher's guide and a complete program guide to the presidential
campaign television advertisements. [495]
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American Museum of the Moving Image
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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 Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
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A wonderful web site with links to important speeches, both real and ficticious. They include christian rhetoric, movie speeches, news, rhetoric of 9-11, top 100 speeches, and more. [541]
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American Rhetoric
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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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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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Art of the First World War
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An exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe. World War I as seen by 54 painters on both sides. There are also French and German versions of the site. [43]
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Teams of students might be asked to prepare a multimedia presentation on World War I, and limited to use only images from this site as their visuals. Their presentations should be arranged such that they are encouraged to interpret the paintings and reflect.
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UNESCO
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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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Black Facts Online
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Black Facts Online is the world's largest FREE online database of Black History information. Use Black Facts Online for research, education and fun 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Black Facts Online is a public service of Inner-City Software. [385]
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Inner-City Software
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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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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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Chief Joseph Speaks
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This web page includes selected statements and speeches of Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce. [48]
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PBS
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Chronology of US Historical Documents
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Links to the full text of historic documents from 1215 to 1998. The list is in cronological order. [49]
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University of Oklahoma Law Center
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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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Colonial and Revolutionary America
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This site features a wealth of primary resources on colonial and revolutionary America. An example is digitized images of issues of 'Poor Richard's Almanac.'
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Timothy J. Shannon
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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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Crime Statistics
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This list if websites with crime statistics was posted as an e-mail message to Net-Happenings by Shirl Kennedy. U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Information Systems http://www.ch.search.org/ National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics http://www.search.org/ Crime Data Sources in Criminal Justice http://www.ncwc.edu/~toconnor/data.htm Uniform Crime Reports: County Level Data (1995 seems to be the latest year) http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/crime/ National Archive for Criminal Justice Data http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/ Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ Easy Access to the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports 1980-1995 Easy Access to Juvenile Court Statistics 1986-1995 Easy Access to FBI Arrest Statistics 1991-1995 http://www.ncjrs.org/ojjdp/html/ezaccess.html Justice Research and Statistics Association Statistical Analysis Centers with Web Servers http://www.jrsainfo.org/sac/sacsites.html Criminal Justice Statistics WWW Sites http://www.ncjrs.org/statwww.htm United Nations Crime & Justice Information Network Statistics and Research Sources http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~uncjin/stats.html [51]
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74. The Dictionary of the History of Ideas also appeared in Chinese- and Japanese-language editions. [530]
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University of Virginia Library
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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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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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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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Early America Archive
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 This site features documents from early America including maps, newspapers, historic documents. In most cases the material is digitized images, but some text files are available. [55]
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The images of this site can be download, printed, and used on a classroom bulletin board during a study of the United States' early years.
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Archiving Early America
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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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Environmental Health News: Compiled by Environmental Health Sciences
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www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org is published daily by Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to help increase public understanding of emerging scientific links between environmental exposures and human health. EHS publishes 3 websites:
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Environmental Health Sciences
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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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Evening News Abstracts
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The Archive began taping the evening news broadcasts of the three major networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC, on August 5, 1968. The Abstracts can be browsed by date or searched. Imagine students being able to compare the networks' approaches to various historic events as a way of developing media literacy.
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Vanderbilt University
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Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project
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Developed by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, this
site offers visual and written testimony about the experiences of United
States veterans ranging from those who served in World War I, to those who
served in the first Gulf War. The documents are organized into three main
topical areas, including courage, patriotism, and community. The community
section features recollections of the communal experience found by many who
served in the Armed Forces, including those of John Walter Earle, who was a
Special Services Officer during World War II. [400]
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The Library of Congress
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Federal Bureau of Investigation - Uniform Crime Reports - 2003
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Every year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) produces its annual
complete crime report for the United States, and the report for 2003 was
recently made available in a variety of formats on the agency's website.
While the report is a bit overwhelming (it is 516 pages in length), novice
users may want to start by looking at page v, which explains how to read and
understand the numbers contained within the report. Section II contains
details on all offenses reported, including violent crime, property crime,
and hate crime. In brief, the report reveals that violent crime in the
United States dropped three percent last year, and that 62 percent of last
year's murders have been solved to date. It is also worth noting that during
the past 10 years, total violent crime in the U.S. has dropped 25 percent.
A number of separate tables are available in the Excel format, including
"Murder Victims by Age, by Weapon" and "Arrests by State". [519]
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There is a large amount of data here. Students can align various categories of crimes with other data related to economy, media, etc. to look for correlations.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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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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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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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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Frederick Douglass (American Memory, Library of Congress)
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The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the
papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who
escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an
outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.
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Library of Congress
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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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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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Gifts of Speech: Women
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Speeches made by influential contemporary women around the world. [542]
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SweatBriar College
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GovSpot
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A rich resource with links to a wide variety of government web sites including world, federal, state, and local site.
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StartSpot Mediaworks,Inc.
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Great American Speeches
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80 years of political oratory arranged by time line. All speeches are provided in full text with many in audio and a few in video. Other features include a history challenge, pop-up trivia questions, and ideas for teachers.
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PBS
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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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Harris Interactive: The leader in Internet market research
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Harris Interactive is a worldwide market research and consulting firm, best known for The Harris Poll® and for its pioneering use of the Internet to conduct scientifically accurate market research. The company combines the power of unique methodologies and technology with international expertise in predictive, custom and strategic research. [476]
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HarrisInteractive
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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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Historic Documents
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This is another archive of historic, mostly political, documents. It does have some files that are not represented in other archives including:
- Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses - 1517
- Augsburg Confession- 1530
- Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky, by Daniel Boone
- George III's Letter on the
- Loss of America - 1780s
- Susan B. Anthony on a Woman's Right to Vote - 1873
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The National Center for Public Policy Research
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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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Historical Text Archives
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This website features text archives and other resources on more obscure fasites of U.S. history, including: Yorktown, pre-1700 documents, Georgia before Oglethorpe, and northwest coast indian history [66]
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Mississippi State University
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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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Human Rights Watch: World Report 1999
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The fifty years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have seen a transformation in the way that governments are expected to treat their people and each other. Although the language of the declaration has not been altered, its operational significance has changed dramatically. [69]
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Human Rights Watch
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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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Inaugural Addresses
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This is a hypertext verson of the Inaugural Addresses. You just click on the president's name and get the full text of his speeches.
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Columbia University Bartleby Library
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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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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 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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Loyalist, British Songs & Poetry of the American Revolution"
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The full text of songs and poems of the British and loyalists. An interesting and potentially valuable find.
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M. Christopher New
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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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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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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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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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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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Observatory of the Information Society: An International Gateway
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This particular site, organized and maintained by UNESCO,
brings together hundreds of resources on the development of the Information
Society from around the world, including various reports on the digital
divide, online governance, e-commerce, intellectual property rights,
infostructure, and virtual libraries. Visitors to the site can browse the
available materials by region, country, or by thematic topic of interest.
The homepage also provides a frequently updated news section that contains
links to related events, recently released studies, and other materials
generated by UNESCO and partner agencies. [455]
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UNESCO
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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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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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Politics & Political Campaigns
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Welcome to the history of politics & political campaigns website, a site about politics which goes beyond the traditional history course, uncovering the hidden world of the historical political campaign. This website links the concepts of politics together, in an intuitive and comprehensive website on the history of politics and political campaigns, and all that are associated with them.
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ThinkQuest Project
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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 Inaugural Addresses
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This single file holds all of the Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, from George Washington to Bill Clinton. [178]
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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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Private Art
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A collection of World War II Letters to and from the home front. These pages require Java. [90]
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Enviromedia. Inc.
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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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Rutgers Oral History Archives of WWII
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The fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War has sparked a growing realization among both scholars and the public alike that a generation is in danger of disappearing from historical memory. Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and then went on to confront the twin threats of German fascism and Japanese militarism are now in their seventies and eighties. If we do not act immediately and record their oral memoirs and stories, we will forever prevent their experiences from becoming part of the historical record of this vital era. [315]
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Use various interviews to spark inspire interest in 1940s history for high school and middle school students. Ask students to read interviews and then tell a human story about WWII.
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Rutgers University
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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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social change
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The basic question of interest is: How to understand today's society? For example, why are some countries modernized while others are not? What is globalization and how is it happening (or is it happening)? How far will democratization spread and in what forms. [550]
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British Sociological Association
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The Avalon Project
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This is yet another rich source of full text historical documents. The archive is arranged chronilogically so that you can click 18th Century and receive a list of those documents. [94]
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Yale Law School
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The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
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The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. [321]
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Yale Law School
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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 Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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The full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from England.
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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
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The full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from England.
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The History Channel
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This is perhaps on of the most valuable and powerful history resources on the Internet. One of the more intriguing features of this site is the archive of recorded speeches from the past 100 years or so.
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The History Channel
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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.
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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 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 Nuclear Files
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This page comprises links to primary source documents including treaties, governances, and personal correspondences. There is also a teachers resources page available. [228]
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One of the most interesting aspects of this site is the personal correspondences. For instance, Einstein's letter to FDR in 1939 where he warns the president about scientific developments in Germany.
It might be beneficial during a study of World War II or of the 20th Century to ask students to read some of these letters to gain insites into the players of the development of nuclear weapons and then have them carry out a contemporary debate in character with the authors.
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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
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The Papers of George Washington
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This website holds a significant representation of the 'Papers of George Washington' which was established in 1969. They include letters written to Washington as well as letter and documents written by him. A new feature of this site is the search engine that allow use to keyword search the papers of our first president.
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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A timeline of the Pulitzer Prize winners going back to 1917. [237]
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You might have students create a database of the prizes, especially in journalism, and categorize them. Then the students might look for trends or patterns in issues that were awarded during different decades.
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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The National Security Archive
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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 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 Uses & Abuses of the Constitution
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This particular issue provides an intriguing roundtable discussion that tackles questions surrounding the uses and abuses of the Constitution. Essays by scholars such as Rogers Smith, Jack Rakove, and Linda Kerber, as well as leading journalists such as James Banner and Joshua Micah Marshall, address the role of the Constitution in landmark cases and
pivotal topics such as the Bush vs. Gore controversy, the Clinton
impeachment, the gun control debate, and the rights of women. Offering a "common-place" for a variety of readers (academic or not), this special issue is sure to prompt some sort of discussion. [307]
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Students in U.S. History might be asked to respond to some of the arguments in this series of essays from the perspective of specific founding fathers. What might Thomas Jefferson have thought or said about the Clinton Impeachment.
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Common-place The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Inc
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Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
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This is perhaps one of the richest websites on the Internet, especially from the perspective of U.S. citizens. Thomas features a wide variety of information and data about the Congress that is both up-to-date and historic. [103]
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The Library of Congress
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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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U.S. Constitution
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The full text of the U.S. Constitution.
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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 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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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.
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AARP
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Voices of the Civil Rights Era
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This site includes sound files (.wav) of major speeches of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. Because the files are .wav files, you can download and archive them for later use and for use away from the Internet. [111]
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Webcorp
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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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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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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 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 Values Survey
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Started in 1981, the World Values Survey is an ambitious worldwide
investigation of sociocultural and political change being conducted by an
international network of social scientists at universities across the globe.
Since its inception, a total of four waves of representative sample research
have been conducted producing "evidence of gradual but pervasive changes in
what people want out of life." The survey shows that the basic direction of
these changes is, to some extent, predictable. Following from this
intriguing (and perhaps contestable) thesis, the website provides access to
a number of the publications that have been generated from the group's
scholarship, along with information about ordering various monographs and
other publications. Visitors can also view the various questionnaires used
to sample the different population groups, and read news updates about their
work. As mentioned, the site also allows visitors to download some of the
most recent work done by the scholars at the World Values Survey, including
papers dealing with democratic aspirations and ideals in East Asia and
postmaterialism. [464]
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International Network of Social Scientists
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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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