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- Obviously, each time period's technology limits the
availability of audio and video materials. However,
the first two sites are always worth review for general
interest and topic related materials
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A new and exceptional digital history
text Includes a full textbook, guided readings,
documents, timelines, exhibits, reference materials, study
guides, and other materials for teaching American History.
Offers many multimedia materials including Speeches, Images,
Music and Maps.--links to these materials are on the left
side of your screen.
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The History Channel:
Audio and Video Collection
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http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/
- On the RIGHT side, an expanding collection of over one hundred speeches/
audio clips related to Politics and Government; Science and Technology:
Arts, Entertainment and Culture; War and Diplomacy. To review
the items available Click on the phrase
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Full Speech
Archive
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- On the LEFT side,
is the video collection. Click on the phrase Browse
Videos by Category. You will have access to some excellent
visual
- materials in a variety of
categories including: This Day in History; Historical
- Icons; Military and War; Arts and Society; Science and Technology.
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Best of
History Websites: Multimedia Links
- Access The Journal for Multimedia History, collections of pictures, The
National Public Radio (NPR) database, Online Speech Bank, and numerous other
sites related to picture, audio and video access.
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http://www.besthistorysites.net/Multimedia.shtml
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Visit below for a
variety of Multimedia Selections
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A Biography of America: The
Coming of the Civil War
- An EXCEPTIONAL site
dealing with the sequence of events leading up to the
Civil War, including: the topic of slavery, the
Compromise of 1850, growing tension between states,
secession, a detailed map, a flash movie showing the
history of slavery and states, as well as a webography of
sources.
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/index.html
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Index of Civil War Information
- An amazing compilation of
links to resources dealing with the Civil War, including
- graphics, audio, Flash features, and much more.
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http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm
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History Matters: Digital Blackboard
- This feature provides successful
Web-based assignments—some developed by this site, others
developed by the Library of Congress and the National
Archives—as practical models for integrating new media into
the classroom.
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New content is often added and I cannot guarantee there is a
lesson for this
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specific topic.
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http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/digblack/
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Exceptional
Internet Resource, Hotlists and Webquests
- Created by the Missouri Instructional Networked Teaching
Strategy Project.
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eThemes is an extensive database of
content-rich, age-appropriate
- resources organized around specific
themes. These resources are created by
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educators to use in their classroom. Over 750 themes,
designed with a
- wealth of embedded electronic resources. Click on
the Resource Index. Includes geography, history, literature, science, math
and other topics. Excellent.
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http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
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Sample: World
War I
- These sites cover the events of
World War I (1914-1918). Read eye witness accounts and view
photographs and maps. Other topics include the assassination
of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand, trench warfare, Choctaw Code
Talkers, President Woodrow Wilson, war propaganda, Treaty of
Versailles, the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman telegram.
Includes biographies, letters, images, posters, video, and
audio clips.
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Learn Out Loud
- A very comprehensive and timely
site which is defined as a one stop destination for
audio and video learning. Browse over 10,000
educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts and DVD
videos. For our purposes, visit History, Social
Sciences, Politics, Educational & Professional.
- Under History there are many free
significant speeches in Global and United States History
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http://www.learnoutloud.com/Home
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- Center For History
and New Media
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CHNM combines cutting edge
digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship to promote an
inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad
historical literacy. Access to a variety of exciting Projects, Tools,
Resources and News related to history.
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http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Here are just a few of the items
available:
History
News Network
This web-based magazine
features articles by historians of all political
persuasions. The site places current events in historical
perspective. Edited by Rick Shenkman, HNN is regularly read
by tens of thousands of historians and people interested in
the intersection of the past and the present.
Exploring US History
Online teaching
modules for a U.S. history survey course covering the 18th,
19th, and 20th centuries, including topics on indentured
servitude, runaway slaves, antebellum popular culture, and
advertisements in modern magazines.
World History Matters
This portal to world
history on the web offers direct access to two
projects—World History Sources and Women in World
History—that provide resources to help world history
teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from
primary sources and further their understanding of the
complex nature of world history, especially issues of
cultural contact and globalization. Use the search engine
from the portal to search both sites at the same time or
visit and each site separately.
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THE ANNENBERG VIDEO SERIES
A Biography of America at
http://learner.org/resources/series123.html#
is an exceptional video instructional series for high
school and college students produced by WGBH Boston in
cooperation with the Library of Congress and the National
Archives and Records Administration. These thirty minute
lectures incorporate first person narratives, photographs,
film footage and documents related to various historical
time periods (Twenty-six lectures listed below) .
You can view Annenberg/CPB
programs of your choice online with a broadband connection
whenever you see this icon.  There
is no charge for this service.
Simply select a
program and go to the individual program description
listing and click on the icon. Free sign up required for
first-time users. To hear the sound and view video, you
should have
Windows Media Player, DSL, a cable modem, or a LAN
connection to a T1 line or greater, and have Javascript
enabled. For more information, please visit our
broadband FAQ.
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New World Encounters * Industrial
Supremacy
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English
Settlement * The
New City
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Growth and
Empire * The
West
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The Coming of
Independence * Capital and Labor
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A New System of Government * TR and
Wilson
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Westward Expansion *
A Vital Progressivism
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The Rise of Capitalism
* The Twenties
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The Reform Impulse
* FDR and the Depression
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Slavery
*World War II
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The Coming of the Civil War *The
Fifties
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The Civil
War
*The Sixties
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Reconstruction
*Contemporary History
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America at Its Centennial
*The Redemptive Imagination
Additional Series
Democracy in America,
a video course for high school civics teachers covers topics
of civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions recommended by
The Civics Framework for the National Assessment of
Educational Progress developed by the U.S. Department of
Education. Also appropriate for high school and college
students as an introductory or concluding lecture. The
15 half-hour video programs, hosted by national television
correspondent Renée Poussaint, and related print and Web
site materials provide inservice and preservice teachers
with both cognitive and experiential learning in civics
education.
http://learner.org/resources/series173.html#
Bridging World
History
is a multimedia course for secondary school and college
teachers (Also
appropriate for high school and college students as an
introductory or concluding lecture)
that looks at global patterns through time — seeing history
as an integrated whole. Topics are studied in a general
chronological order, but each is examined through a thematic
lens, showing how people and societies experience both
integration and differences. The course consists of 26 units
(half-hour video, interactive Web activities, and print
materials) that can be explored at either introductory
levels or as more advanced study. The course videos feature
interviews with leading world history textbook authors and
nationally known historians. The Web site includes an
archive of over 1000 primary source documents and artifacts,
journal articles from the Journal of World History
and other publications, and a thematic interactive activity
on interrelationships across time and place. Topics
include:
http://learner.org/resources/series197.html#program_descriptions
American
Passages: A Literary Survey is a 16-part American literature course. The video programs,
print guides, and Web site place literary movements and
authors within the context of history and culture. The
course takes an expanded view of American literary
movements, bringing in a diversity of voices and tracing the
continuity among them. The materials, which are coordinated
with the Norton Anthology of American Literature, can
be used as the basis of a one or two-semester college-level
course or for teacher professional development.
http://learner.org/resources/series164.html
The
Social Studies in Action teaching practices library,
professional development guide, and companion Web site bring
to life the National Council for the Social Studies
standards. Blending content and methodology, the video
library documents 24 teachers and their students in K-12
classrooms across the country actively exploring the social
studies. Lively, provocative, and educationally sound, these
lessons are designed to inspire thoughtful conversations and
reflections on teaching practices in the social studies.
http://learner.org/resources/series166.html
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HyperHistory
- HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project
presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive
combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Enjoyable, informative and provides the "big view of
history"--what is happening throughout the world in each
time period.
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http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
The Presidency in Action and the
Presidency in History. An exceptional site with
many multimedia components and standard text elements.
For each President: biographical information, key
events, time line, related resource links and multimedia
applications when available.
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A Listing of
Exceptional United States History Programs from PBS
- Information, photographs, documents, lesson plans, etc.
for various American history topics. EXCEPTIONAL! Works well with the BOCES PBS Collection.
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http://www.pbs.org/history/history_united.html
- The Library of Congress
Homepage
- Access to words, pictures, sound, special sites and
portals. Thomas is exceptional for legislative issues.
- http://www.loc.gov/
SPECIFIC SITES OF INTEREST FROM THE
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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Library of Congress:
American Memory
- Access to hundreds of collections, over seven million
digital items, lesson plans, and various materials for
classroom use and general research.
- http://memory.loc.gov/
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Access maps, motion pictures,
photographs, prints and sound recordings
- within the many collections available.
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American Memory Learning Page Especially for Teachers
- Lesson plans, activities, features and collection
connections to help develop your students' critical thinking
skills.
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
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America's Library
- Special stories and activities for younger students.
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http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
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OTHER SITES
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Maps (15th-19th Century)
Advertisements,
Photographs, Sketches, Maps and other
Images from our history--pre-colonial through 20th
Century
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