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American History: Maps

Comprehensive online textbook

interactive and animated site to illustrate historical events.  Currently features maps, modules, other  material on American, European, Latin American, and African history.

Interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and illustrations of historical events.

Over 200 films related to American culture and history available to watch online.

A list of pictures books for the American Revolution

I hope you know better than to use any resource from such a biased source in the classroom without one from the opposite side, say the Brookings Institution in this case. I found your posting of this article from this anti- free thought organization that is a puppet of big business and the far right on an education site plain wrong.

Well, the truth is I did not intend to share this bookmark with Diigo Education, but somehow it was posted in the group. I had intended it only for myself as part of research I am doing.

Categories:  Student Use, Teacher Use, Web-Based Learning, Exploration, Interactive Learning Brief Description:  Fairly comprehensive set of links to popular culture and US history decades sites.  

The Avalon Project is a site from Harvard University that contains thousands of documents relevant to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. These documents also include links to supporting documents that were referred to in the text. The documents are sorted by date range and go all the way back to 4000BC. The documents are fully searchable and are also sorted by collections such as American Revolution, Jefferson Papers, Geneva Convention, the Middle East, and more. There are even transcripts of witness testimony in the Nuremberg Trials. Pretty amazing stuff. This is a priceless resource for any educator or student, teaching or learning, reading or researching these topics. These documents are primary sources and can be used for a variety of learning.

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. The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document.

If you aren't familiar with the institute, they have loads of free resources for US History teachers at all levels - including primary sources, images, and lesson plans. You can also apply, for free, to be an associated institution which will give you access to even more material!

Americans must learn other languages! Pick one to learn, any one! Pick one that interests you. Pick one from your community, your family history... Just pick one and enlarge your mind, your connections, your world! Support others learning as well, especially your own children if you have any. 

issue of history of racism, American exceptionalism

Unless we move with urgency, today's young people will be the first generation in American history to be less educated than their predecessors. Consider this a sobering wake-up call - and an urgent appeal for action now. ...4 of every 10 public college students are able to attend only part-time. Which means leaders have been making policy decisions about higher education absent critical information about 40 percent of the students, as if their success or failure was less important than that of "traditional" full-time students... Seventy-five percent of today's students are juggling some combination of families, jobs, and school while commuting to class; according to the U.S. Department of Education, only a quarter go full-time, attend residential colleges, and have most of their bills paid by their parents.... Part-time students rarely graduate.... Poor students and students of color struggle the most to graduate.... Students are taking too many credits and too much time to complete.... Remediation is broken, producing few students who ultimately graduate. ...The Big Idea: Time is the enemy of college completion.

This site provides articles on the history of and definition of transcendentalism while also highlighting transcendentalist writers.

Thanks!!! This will be really helpful for my American Dream class where we spend quite a bit of time initially on Transcendentalism.

A speech by Cathy Davidson-- including pedagogy and theory -- on the role of the humanities in the digital age and the history of the American educational system.

per a classroom 2.0 seminar

Excellent resource, including teaching guides.

Professional development programs for educators. Online science courses offered from the American Museum of Natural History. Can earn grad credit.

Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), was recently launched to provide free access to documentary films highlighting some of the most dramatic events in recent American history. As America marks the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in 2013, NEH is introducing a website making four outstanding NEH-supported documentaries about the civil rights movement available for use in communities and schools across the nation.

Hmmm. The info under the "What's New" button says: "The most important news is that as of June 1, 1996 this site became an archive of the humanities computing work in American Studies programs at UVA. The site continues to be managed regularly and to add new materials created by alums and other interested parties, but the programs that originally created the site have been closed.You can find more imformation about the current programs here." JUNE 1996? Makes one wonder, m'thinks.