Teachers Discovering History As Historians

Historical Journals & Electronic Texts

History Journals

Teaching History With Technology Newsletter

An excellent source offers resources, lesson plans, and tech tips to help history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.  Created by the webmaster of the exceptional Best of History Website.

          http://thwt.org/

 

The Organization of American Historians: Magazine of History

For all the educators participating in our Summer 2003 seminar, Lee Formwalt provided an interesting overview of the mission of the Organization of American Historians.  This site provides access to their most recent magazine and the ability to search articles in their archives.

http://oah.org/pubs/magazine/

 

You may also like to visit the OAH Homepage  http://oah.org/.

 

The Journal of American History

The Journal of American History is the leading scholarly publication of the OAH in the field of U.S. history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, and teaching of our nation's past.

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/

 

Suggestions on using this publication in the classroom are provided at

http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/teaching/

Exceptional Listing of History Sources

Designed by the Organization of American Historians includes:  General Links for the History Profession, Teaching and Research Sources and State Historical Societies.

http://www.oah.org/announce/links.html

Common Place

A common place for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture. A bit friendlier than a scholarly journal, a bit more scholarly than a popular magazine, Common-place speaks--and listens--to scholars, museum curators, teachers, hobbyists, and just about anyone interested in American history before 1900

http://www.common-place.org/

 

Winterthur Portfolio:  Electronic Edition

An interdisciplinary journal committed to fostering knowledge of the American past by publishing articles on the arts in America and the historical context within which they developed.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/WP/journal/

Electronic History Textbooks

Digital History:  Our Online American History Textbook

A new and exceptional digital history text created by a partnership between the University of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history and other organizations.  Includes a full textbook, guided readings, documents, timelines, exhibits, reference Materials, study guides, and other materials for teaching American History.  PLEASE VISIT

          http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/hyper_titles.cfm

 

Online Textbooks and Materials utilized by students of teachers participating in the local Teach American History Seminar:

Rick Walters:  Jamestown, Maple Grove, Frewsburg, and Panama High Schools, Westfield Academy, and Jamestown Community College.

Nation of Nations offers a very comprehensive Online Student Learning Center. Click on the link below, Select the appropriate chapter and you will have access to: Chapter Objectives, Chapter in Perspective, Chapter Overview, numerous Interactive Activities, Primary Source documents and my favorite--Internet Exercises/Recommended Sites Related to the Specific Topics.

          http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072417722/student_view0/

 

Recommended Articles:

More than bells and whistles?  Using Digital Technology to teach American History.    Journal of American History, 2003

"Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye":  E-Supplements and teaching American History   Journal of American History, 2003

 

 

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