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Homepage for the USIP - Great lesson plan ideas and essay contest for high school students under Education & Training tab.

The essay contest for 2009-10 is not up yet, but the topic is the effectiveness of nonviolent civic action. My students participated last year when the topic was crimes against humanity and it lead to really great discussions.

Examines in-depth EVERY SINGLE State of the Union Address. Also includes a word cloud, graph, and timeline describing major events happening around the time of the speech.

These H-Net mailing lists are a useful way of getting in touch with other humanities educators. Just subscribe & you're in!

I'd be careful using some of these excerpts by themselves (out of context) - but it can be a good resource to get some info and lead you to other information. I like to use some of this when I teach about the Reformation and Luther - not to paint Luther in a bad light, but to show the facets of him so that they understand he was human and had faults...

access original books, like Vesalius's book on human anatomy and more.

also has audio clips on each page giving explanations and little tidbits - as well as zoom controls and when you scroll your mouse over a page, a zoomed pop up appears with info...since we discuss Vesalius's book on Anatomy, it was a great way for my students to view the actual resource and draw correlations between him and the Renaissance - as the audio and extra info discusses his desire to help sculptors and painters...

'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.'

A well-organised collection of excellent primary sources for the study of American history.

O fotógrafo carioca José Roberto Ripper tem como proposta colocar a fotografia a serviço dos Direitos Humanos. Sua especialidade é a fotografia social, documental e o fotojornalismo. Com militância trabalhista e sindical e longa experiência em jornais e revistas, Ripper criou e coordenou a Imagens da Terra, nos anos 1990, entidade sem fins lucrativos especializada na fotografia documental de denúncia social. Entre os temas que permeiam o trabalho do fotógrafo estão a vida do homem do campo, o habitat indígena, a seca do Nordeste, o trabalho de carvoeiros a crianças em Mato Grosso do Sul.