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Yale Makes 260,000 Images Available Online - With No Limitations On Their Usage: http://j.mp/mHcIwC. Yale Digital Commons.

VLC free player can convert videos

Might be interesting as a compare/contrast activity with interviews/media accounts from September 12, 2001?

After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)

An excellent collection of some important historical works, downloadable for free. Some people may lament that students won't read them anymore, but hey isn't it better than them just watching MTV? Controversial...

PARLINFO Discover facts and create your own reports about the important events and people that shaped Parliament since 1867.

Has some very good powerpoints with accompanying podcasts which were produced for an AP World History class in Minnesota. The powerpoints can be downloaded but if you want to play the accompanying podcast with the presentation (would be great for the classroom) you have to stream it live.

Just realised you can download the mp3 of the podcast if you have one of those naughty YouTube downloader things. You can then play the podcast and the presentation simultaneously. Tricky but possible.

Place to find classical music mp3

Very cool! You can download free audiobooks (and for once not all of them are C19th originals; some are quite recent) in a format that plays through iTunes and on your iPod/iPhone. For those of us who use iTunes to get our podcasts/lectures/etc this is good news indeed!

A great source for integrating music in history lessons.