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An interesting reference for students when it comes to Latin calendar dates and numerals. Unfortunately though, they don't have a money converter.

Podcasts of interviews with prominent historians.

Wonder if any of those no-doubt steamy phone conversations between Marilyn and JFK made it in there? I'm guessing the 'steamy' section of the JFK recordings might be kinda large...

Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of their meetings and telephone conversations. Through a combination of historical research and annotated transcripts the Miller Center's Presidential Recordings Program aims to make these remarkable historical sources more accessible to scholars, teachers, students, and the public.

Ontem (13/11/2011) um homem reacionário conversou comigo no twitter. Ele me falou sobre Mário Korel Filho, jovem soldado que foi morto num atentado da VPR (Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária) ao QG do II Exército, em São Paulo, em 26/06/1968. Já conhecia essa história. Li sobre isso no livro de Alfredo Sirkis, Os Carbonários, leiam o trecho abaixo

A site which you can use to determine historical values of different currencies etc.

Thanks for adding that mate. I just went to a conference on the National Curriculum and came away less informed on what we have to do than before I went! Come to think of it, I might start a conversation on that.

You can use this to have students discuss photos, political cartoons, videos, etc

"o listen to a sound, click on the file name of that selection. Real Audio is required for these recordings. If your system does not have Real Audio, it can be downloaded for free at http://www.real.com. "

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Pentagon Memorial Fund, and the Flight 93 National Memorial offer a free online conference, September 11: Teaching Contemporary History, for K-12 teachers. Designed to provide educators with resources and strategies for discussing the September 11 attacks at the 10th anniversary, the conference will include roundtable discussions with content experts and six workshop sessions. These sessions and the conference website highlight resources available at each organization, provide background information on September 11, and encourage conversations on how to document, preserve, and interpret recent history and current events.