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Creating History - 15 views
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Could be useful for classroom or homework activities.
History of the Monarchy - 6 views
Social Studies Web Sites for Teachers - 25 views
Museum Syndicate: Experience Art and History - 15 views
The Free Information Society - Educating and Entertaining since 2003 - 7 views
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Images, sound files, newsreels and other videos, and more on history, science and more.
History Now: American History Online | Teachinghistory.org - 9 views
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The NHEC has some excellent resources for history teachers.
Glossary of Historical Terms - 7 views
History Resources - refdesk.com - 8 views
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Large collection of links to pages with historical information, sources, etc.
Asia for Educators | Columbia University - 8 views
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Excellent site for Asian history resources.
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Check out Visualizing Cultures site as well, from MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html -
That's cool! Thanks.
European History/Contents - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks - 6 views
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It is a wiki, however contains useful overviews of the most significant periods in European history.
Howstuffworks "History Videos" - 23 views
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Large collection of short historical videos which you can download if you have a YouTube downloader in your browser. Or else if you are lucky and your school has decent internet, you could just watch them in the classroom (*wistful sigh*).
Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie - 7 views
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Excellent tool for creating short historical films for your students. They even have a free Napoleon one you can download. Very funny.
Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government - 15 views
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Animated maps showing the imperial history of the Middle East and the spread of religions. The graphics are beautiful and provide a simple overview of the broad sweep of history. I've found these useful at the start of a unit/semester/term to provide a general introduction. My students think they need a hard rock track in the background as a soundtrack...
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Feature Where has democracy dominated as the world's most popular form of government? See 4,000 years of democracy in 90 seconds... > Go to Map History of Religion How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries? Imperial History of the Middle East Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of world events?
YouTube - schoolhistory - 14 views
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A large YouTube group for history teachers to share resources for history lessons.
ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases: Login - 10 views
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I just had a look at the month-long free trial and this looks like a great resource for lessons or student research on history and geography. I'm waiting to receive a quote on how much an annual subscription costs. Subscriptions like this, I believe, can become excellent substitutes for textbooks.
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My school has I believe all the ABC-CLIO Databases and I recommend them highly. They come out of our library budget. All teachers should at least try a free trial.
Podcasts from the University of Oxford - 5 views
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Comprehensive feeds of the lectures put online by Oxford University. Useful for senior students for homework activities or research.
Parallel Archive - 13 views
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Parallel Archive (PA), an "invented" archive repository accessible for everybody wishing to upload primary sources, is developed by the Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. PA is, "at once a personal scholarly workspace, a collaborative research environment, and a digital repository".
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Has primary sources uploaded by people who have registered with the site in many European languages, including English. Come to think of it, is English a European language anymore? Interesting...
History of Spain: Primary Documents - EuroDocs - 5 views
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EuroDocs rocks!