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Animated maps, perfect for illustrating historical events

This looks awesome! I emailed our district head of this kind of stuff so they could check it out! let us know how your students like it!

Like it. Wish they were free though, but not much is now-a-days.

A collection of primary sources focussing on medicine.

'Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day.'

In commemoration, below are links to nearly 40 original New York Times front page images and articles reporting on World War II milestones, from our On This Day in History archive.

Only unsolved hijacking in US history. The official FBI stance is that he died while parachuting to the ground. Just as with Alcatraz, where all uncaught escapees are "missing and presumed drowned."

Here it is! If you'd like to become involved just please let me know and I'll give you teacher privileges. You can then approve your students' membership and monitor them. Any helpful feedback would be really appreciated - this is a collaborative effort and if we all feel ownership and have input it could be a great benefit to all of us. I suspect that especially our stronger students will benefit from this - those A students who need that extra stimulation can nerd it up on the network and help each other improve. Hope it works!

Several new members have joined in the last couple of days. I'd encourage you to get your students involved in 2010. Early results have been promising and we'd love to have you along!

I'm adding this again to try to drum up business; shameless promotion, I know. I'd encourage you to join up; it would be a great experience for your students. Hope to see you there...

An interesting blog from Canada seeking to collect a, um, collection (it's the first day of the holidays and my frontal lobe still has not recovered from the marking season. Sorry...) of articles by historians which are relevant to the broader community. His argument that history has become too specialised and irrelevant is compelling. It gels with much of what I experienced at university, anyway. As I've said before, I use a blog reader (e.g. Google Reader, Bloglines) to collect these types of sites into one place. I get many of the sites I post to the group that way.

I've uploaded a few documents related to Habits of Mind in AP World History to my Scribd page. Does anyone else use Habits of Mind in their teaching? My school is implementing it next year and I'd be very interested in learning from the experiences of others. 

Yes my school has been using Dimensions of Learning for the last three years. Keep an eye out for Art Costa who comes out from the States to inservice teachers in Brisbane on Habits of Mind. I really enjoyed my day with him. Very practical stuff. If you are interested you can join a learning hub; go to http://www.nsn.net.au/habits_of_mind_hub This link is a some what old but you can join and receive email updates on various events they are running.

Thanks Louise. I'll check it out.

Primary sources and teacher resources on the Soviet Gulag system. Part of the excellent Center for History and New Media, George Mason, University

When historians look through more evidence they come to understandings that students never get to see becuase their teachers may only rely on the evidence that is part of the liturgy of the US History narrative canon. In this instance, routine court records will tell us much more about puritan Massachusetts than a John Winthrop sermon.

Day by day accounts & pics from WWII on twitter... could be a good discussion starter

"Happy Patriots' Day - 7 Revolutionary War Resources"

Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s.  These maps created the practice and the term redlining.  Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.

Topics: U.S./1945 - 1991; World/Russia; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cold War;

Two education kits have been designed to support senior secondary student engagement in the exhibition A Day in Pompeii. VCE Classical Societies and Cultures for Victoria, and HSC Ancient History for NSW students.

This biography presents the thousand days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, from his inauguration in 1961 to his tragic death on November 22, 1963. Emphasizing Kennedy's and America's hopes for his term as president, it is narrated by Gregory Peck and was produced for distribution around the world.