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Digital publishing: Google's big book case | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/...displaystory.cfm Google_books e-books digital_collections digitization
shared by Kay Cunningham on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Kay Cunningham on 05 Sep 09
     
    'Google has a big economic incentive to ensure that its online library is widely available: it makes most of its money from search advertising, so the more people that use its services, including the online book archive, the better. It also has a legal incentive to watch its step. The agreement stipulates that institutional subscription prices must be low enough to ensure that the public has "broad access" to digital books, while at the same time earning market rates for copyright owners. So if lots of libraries refuse to sign up for Google's service because it is too costly, the company could be slapped with a lawsuit.'
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Welcome to The Anti-Saloon League Website... - 0 views

www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon america usa modern sources documents images primary sources c20th c19th temperance prohibition alcohol wwi 1920s 1910s 1930s
shared by David Hilton on 22 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    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
  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    A sterling example of the good old-fashioned moral crusade. Of course, we don't have them anymore, do we...?
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History Engine: Tools for Collaborative Education and Research | Home - 2 views

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shared by scott klepesch on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
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  • The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work—researching, writing, and publishing—of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database
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  • Kay Cunningham on 12 Sep 09
     
    'The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database.'
  • David Hilton on 15 Mar 10
     
    Might be useful for lesson activities or research practice.
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CongressLink - A Resource for Teachers Providing Information About the U.S. Congress - 0 views

www.congresslink.org Unitedstatesgovernment Unitestateshistory Congress primarysources USG.3.9 USI.21
shared by Bob Maloy on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Bob Maloy on 27 Sep 09
     
    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.
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ULIB - 5 views

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shared by David Hilton on 30 Sep 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 30 Sep 09
     
    "Digital technology can make the works of man permanently accessible to the billions of people all over the world. Andrew Carnegie and other great philanthropists in past centuries have recognized the great potential of public libraries to improve the quality of life and provide opportunity to the citizenry. A universal digital library, widely available through free access on the Internet, will improve the global society in ways beyond measurement. The Internet can house a Universal Library that is free to the people."
  • David Hilton on 30 Sep 09
     
    Couldn't agree more. They reckon their collection will grow to over 10 million texts. An electronic Alexandria. It's the ability to sort the wheat from the chaff that makes Diigo such a powerful tool. Especially now it looks so sexy!
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Vintage ToonCast | Free public domain classic animation, cartoons, and high quality sho... - 12 views

www.vintagetooncast.com public free tooncast
shared by Shane Freeman on 23 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Shane Freeman on 23 Jul 10
     
     I have used this site for years.  It has a great collection of propaganda cartoons.
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How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
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Slavery Images - 28 views

hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/...index.php slavery history primarysource slavetrade socialstudies america europe africa sources documents primary sources c19th c18th usa
shared by Deven Black on 28 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Deven Black on 28 Nov 10
     
    The approximately 1,275 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.
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Redistricting the Nation - 8 views

www.redistrictingthenation.com census primarysources mapping interactive geography
shared by Lance Mosier on 19 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Lance Mosier on 19 Nov 10
     
    Redraw the map on redistricting. Legislators have long used redistricting as an opportunity to select their constituents, rather than empowering voters to elect their representatives. The redistricting following the 2010 Census is an opportunity to change how the process is conducted. Armed with knowledge and the right tools, the public can redraw the map on redistricting.
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Coffin Nails:  The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century - 4 views

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shared by Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10 - Cached
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  • Kay Cunningham on 28 Feb 10
     
    "As a public service, HarpWeek has compiled this 50-plus year history of tobacco controversy and criticism as shown in the editorials, articles, news briefs, cartoons, illustrations, poetry, and advertisements of Harper's Weekly. The items are augmented with historical commentary by HarpWeek historian Dr. Robert C. Kennedy."
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CIA FOIA - Overview - 4 views

www.foia.cia.gov modern europe america usa asia russia britain cold war espionage ussr terrorism sources documents primary sources c20th cia
shared by David Hilton on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) electronic reading room of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offers several primary source collections for the study of Central and Eastern Europe during and after the Cold War period. The FOIA Electronic Reading Room web site was established by the CIA "to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents." Direct web access to the following collections is now possible: # The Soviet and Warsaw Pact Military Journals is a PDF collection of "sensitive Soviet and Warsaw Pact military journals from 1961 to 1984 providing a view into Warsaw Pact military strategy". # Preparing for Martial Law: Through the Eyes of Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski is "a captivating collection of over 75 documents concerning the planning and implementation martial law in Poland from mid-1980 to late 1981. The collection release coincided with a CIA symposium honouring Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, a member of the Polish Army General Staff and the source of the documents."
  • David Hilton on 16 Dec 09
     
    Seems to focus especially on the Cold War. Definitely one for the conspirary theorists.
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- the european archive : home page - - 5 views

www.europarchive.org medieval europe modern britain france germany italy russia sources documents images primary sources c20th c19th archives audio video movies culture
shared by David Hilton on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 14 Dec 09
     
    The European Archive, part of the LiWA (Living Web Archive Project), offers access to archived web sites and multi-media materials with the aim to preserve the whole European Digital Cultural Heritage. We provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
  • David Hilton on 14 Dec 09
     
    An excellent site for sources on European cultural history.
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ANU - ADSRI - The Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute - ADSRI - 3 views

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shared by David Hilton on 18 Dec 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 18 Dec 09
     
    - The home of the Australian Social and Political Observatory - A reliable source of public information on population and society - The official repository for Australian social science data collections
  • David Hilton on 18 Dec 09
     
    Has links to archives with information on Australian demography, society, politics, etc. You need to register to be able to access some of the data.
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Online sources of early Medieval Europe - 13 views

www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/sources.php medieval europe britain france germany italy russia sources documents primary sources images manuscripts holy roman empire vikings normans middle ages
shared by David Hilton on 21 Jan 10 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 21 Jan 10
     
    "This is a collection of hyperlinks to digitized editions of source-documents and literature concerning early medieval Europe that can be found on the internet today. Sources listed here are all available to the public, free of charge. Currently there are 3696 entries in this collection. "
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Search the PopSci Archives | Popular Science - 4 views

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shared by Deven Black on 11 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Deven Black on 11 Mar 10
     
    We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology's incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
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NYPL Digital Gallery - 6 views

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shared by Kendra Nielsen on 16 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • Kendra Nielsen on 16 Mar 10
     
    New York Public Library's free digitized archives.
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TitanPad - 8 views

titanpad.com collaboration interactive writing
shared by Lance Mosier on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
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  • Lance Mosier on 28 Apr 10
     
    Create a public space for group collaboration on the fly. Might be a great tool to have on-line discussion with students, or a place for students to collaborate on an assignment.
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The Plantation Letters, Home - 17 views

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shared by Jennifer Garcia on 03 Mar 11 - Cached
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  • Jennifer Garcia on 03 Mar 11
     
    "This teaching resource includes digitized selections from the Cameron Family Papers extracted from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill. The resource is designed for non-commercial use by educators and students interested in themes associated with antebellum plantation life. The original Cameron Family Papers (1757-1978) include some 35,000 undigitized items available for public perusal in the university's Wilson Library. This web resource presents only a small fraction of the total available documents, as identified and digitized by the site designers to best represent themes associated with traditionally underrepresented persons on antebellum plantations, namely slaves, women, and children. The Camerons regularly communicated by post with their family, friends, and business associates (overseers, tradespersons, and merchants). The level of detail provided in their personal communication provides a rich context for the study of antebellum plantation life in the southern United States. Site users may either search for letters related to a particular theme, or browse available letters using the index of letters page. All letters have been tagged by subject/theme. Letters are available in Macromedia Flashpaper format (.swf). Users may choose to view the original source letter, a typed transcription of the original text (easier to read), or both. The transcription is recommended to teachers and students with limited time, given the difficulty in deciphering original text. "
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Talking History - 10 views

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shared by Lance Mosier on 21 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Lance Mosier on 21 Mar 11
     
    Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.
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