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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
 

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.

The History Channel:  Audio and Video Collection
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
          Full Speech Archive
 
          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.
 
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.
http://www.besthistorysites.net/Multimedia.shtml
OYEZ
Home Page including a comprehensive database of major Constitutional Cases and multimedia resources including audio.  http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
 

Using a Quick time Plug in (link at the site) you may start your tour by walking up the stairs in front of the building.

 
Exceptional Internet Resource, Hotlists and Webquests
Created by the Missouri Instructional Networked Teaching Strategy Project.
           eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate
resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created by
          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.
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/
 
         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.
 
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
           http://www.learnoutloud.com/Home
 

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.

·          New World Encounters                                     * Industrial Supremacy

·          English Settlement                                             * The New City

·          Growth and Empire                                            * The West                          

·          The Coming of Independence                         * Capital and Labor

·          A New System of Government                        * TR and Wilson                 

·          Westward Expansion                                        * A Vital Progressivism

·          The Rise of Capitalism                                      * The Twenties

·          The Reform Impulse                                          * FDR and the Depression

·          Slavery                                                                  *World War II

·          The Coming of the Civil War                            *The Fifties

·          The Civil War                                                       *The Sixties

·          Reconstruction                                                   *Contemporary History

·          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

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. 
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

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/
         

Access maps, motion pictures, photographs, prints and sound recordings

within the many collections available.

 

 

 
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