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Goes through some of the basic errors of high school and university students in historical research and writing.

Images, documents and recordings relating to many topics around American conflicts of the mid-C20th.

Has some neat tips. Might be useful in helping your students develop their historical thinking skills.

"Our Page in History collects Western Australian history and also captures what life looks like today for future generations. We will also provide supportive assistance and information orientated towards assisting you in understanding how to protect and conserve your historical content. There are many useful links below and our e newsletters will be full of valuable information."

This one is for those wanting to assist in preserving Australian history. Could be an interesting project for a middle school history class???

podcast

Are you a Dan fan too, Sue? Sorry to keep harping on this everyone, but I've found iTunes an excellent central place to get podcasts from. On the most recent version iTunesU is even better; there are thousands of university lectures and seminars there freely available. I put them up on moodle for the kids to use for research, homework, etc or the students just get them straight from iTunes. Definitely worth a look.

Great tool for teaching students how to evaluate websites.

Set of links from Pearson.

Educational Materials Please do not hesitate to request information material such as: - Study Guide "The Last Flight of Petr Ginz" (available in English, French and Spanish) - Women and the Holocaust educational DVD and study guide (available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese (subtitles)) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume I (available in all UN official languages) - Discussion Papers Journal, Volume II (available in English) - Footprints for Hope educational video DVD (available in all UN official languages (subtitles)) - Posters (available in English, French, Spanish and Russian) - Commemorative DVD (highlighting the first universal observance of the International Day of Commemoration on memory of the victims of the holocaust

I added War on Terror study at http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20Internet%20Libraries.htm#The_War_

This site has links to websites with primary sources on european, american, military and women's history (among others).

Has some choice images of ancient and medieval Italy which would be useful for assessment design, classroom resources or research. I found some of the information accompanying the images a little superficial, however.

Another of the excellent sourcebooks run by those Jesuits at Fordham Uni. This is the best online primary source research for the ancient world I've found.

An archive of primary sources from the c15th to the late c19th maintained by professors from significant universities in Europe and funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council. Easily searchable.