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Resources that parents and teachers can use to equip children with the skills needed to search wisely, recognize unreliable material and stay safe while surfing the Web.

Free Internet leadership learning materials for students, teacher, and professionals.

The Online Historical Population Reports (OHPR) collection provides online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937. The collection goes far beyond the basic population reports with a wealth of textual and statistical material which provide an in-depth view of the economy, society (through births, deaths and marriages) and medicine during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Digital Library of Appalachia provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.

The online version of the Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress comprises a selection of 4,695 items (totaling about 51,500 images). This presentation contains correspondence, scientific notebooks, journals, blueprints, articles, and photographs documenting Bell's invention of the telephone and his involvement in the first telephone company, his family life, his interest in the education of the deaf, and his aeronautical and other scientific research. Dates span from 1862 to 1939, but the bulk of the materials are from 1865 to 1920

A very large collection covering all aspects of Graham Bell's work.

Britain's Open University has put a great deal of old material online, and has made several interesting apps available to help work through the course notes and resources. You will need to register

"The History Faculty offers FREE video & audio lectures by leading UK historians. Please register for access to all our materials. There's no catch. We will not use your details for any commercial purpose." That's what they say. Let's hope there's more of this type of thing in the future - a place where the excellent materials produced in universities can be used for secondary level teaching.

Resources for teachers

UPDATED INFO!! - The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education helps educators gain confidence about their rights to use copyrighted materials in developing students' critical thinking and communication skills.

From 1893 to 1933, the Anti-Saloon League was a major force in American politics. Influencing the United States through the printed word and lobbying, it turned a moral crusade into a Constitutional amendment. The League left a legacy of printed material at a site bequeathed to the Westerville Public Library which houses the Anti-Saloon League Museum

A sterling example of the good old-fashioned moral crusade. Of course, we don't have them anymore, do we...?

A highly interactive site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum on the 1930s where students can view primary sources from the period, including video and audio materials, as well as make their own documentary movies.

About fifty libraries contain free Internet information on academic subjects and materials to help students, teachers and professionals.

A n extensive collection of materials to help teachers, parents, and administrators. \n\n

The function of this website is to present photographic images relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The images presented here cover many aspects including material captured on the day, to suspects, organizations and connected individuals who played a part in history.

A searchable database of full-text periodicals from the C18th and C19th US.

Accessible Archives © was founded in 1990 with the goal of utilizing computer technology to make available vast quantities of archived historical information, previously furnished only on microfilm. In pursuit of this vision, primary source material has been selected to reflect a broad view of the times, and has been assembled into databases with a strict attention to detail allowing access to specific information with pinpoint accuracy

CongressLink is a resource for teachers that provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. The site also hosts lesson plans and reference and historical materials related to congressional topics. This site is maintained by The Dirksen Congressional Center.

Information on each of the US Presidents. The information is cursory however would be useful for preliminary or activities where only basic biographic information is required.

'A comprehensive collection of material about the Presidents of the United States and the history of the presidency. This web site features essays about the President's life before, during, and after each presidential term. It additionally provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration. A collection of essays on the President at Work delves into the function, responsibilities, and organization of the modern presidency and traces the history and evolution of presidential duties.'

A very good collection of primary source materials on early America.

Resources and support materials for HSIE

Good example of using an LMS (Learning Management System [cool jargon to know!]) for a class. My school uses Moodle and BlackBoard is popular at Australian universities. I organise mine by lesson and direct the students to go through the materials before the lesson, usually podcasts, PowerPoints, links to a source site, etc, depending on what materials I'm using for the lesson. After the lesson I put the podcast of it up there for the students to use for revision, along with the notes they've taken during that lesson. Much more effective than a textbook, I reckon!

The British School at Rome Archive (BSR) thanks to the Getty Foundation, made freely available digital copies of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. A website of the "BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts". But "the majority of the digital images displayed on the website are represented by the photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides."

Seems to focus more on the history of the British School at Rome rather than Roman history. Should revise the tags at this point but this summer heat here in Queensland is making me lazy...