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Has access to online history scholarship, although by the looks of it some of the materials there can only be accessed after you've paid membership.

Freely available; you can download individual articles as pdfs. Looks like they take submissions too.

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."

"The Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, and the ARTFL Project, (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) have cooperated on a project to digitize pamphlets and periodicals from the French Revolution of 1848 held by CRL as a test of electronic distribution of archive material via internet.

Digitised pamphlets from the period of the French Revolution. From what I can tell they're all in French. C'est la vie (I probably misspelt that).

'Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.'

This webquest, 'Hunters with amnesia', is an example of an activating teaching method (activating instructional format) called the AQUA, which stands for Activating prior knowledge, asking Questions and searching for Answers. The AQUA is related to  problem-based learning.  'Hunters with amnesia' is an assignment about the life of hunters and gatherers in prehistoric times, but is also an assignment about activating prior knowledge, misconceptions, the formulation of questions and about the search for information (information skills) and cooperative learning.