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Context transforms information into knowledge! Context brings meaning to what you learn and helps you understand and remember events, locations, people and concepts. This is an American Civil War-limited beta release of the ContextU application.

the site newsela.com This site takes news stories and allows you to change the reading level for a particular story. Topic listings include: war & peace; science; law; health; arts; money and kids. The site is in beta right now and is free. You do need to create an account. For those of you who want to find nonfiction articles for your classes this is one way of doing it. Our databases are another source for nonfiction articles.

History in Motion offers powerful, easy-to-use features so you can create historical scenarios, animate events, share your work with others, and explore history in a way that was never before possible.

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.