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"...add pictures, videos and other resources to create mini museum exhibits. The site is not limited to history teachers. Students can use museum boxes to provide evidence to support an argument, describe a scientific or mathematic concept or create portfolios of their writing and artwork. Each museum box is made up of individual cubes and features 8 cubes per layer. What students put on each side of the cube is up to them. A searchable image gallery offers multiple historical pictures and other primary source documents. Registering for the site gives students the opportunity to upload videos, audio files and other documents to add to their virtual exhibits. A special teacher section allows you to create accounts for students and monitor the boxes they create or save money on field trips by taking students on a virtual field trip that you create for them."

This could be a great presentation tool.

"Created by the National Constitution Center in conjunction with the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the National Museum of the United States Army, Art of the American Soldier unveils powerful works of art created by American soldiers in the line of duty. Drawn from the Army's rarely seen collection of over 15,000 paintings and sketches, the exhibition showcases the artistic response of soldiers from World War I through the present day."

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From the museum of moving image- presidential campaign commercials 1952-2008

This is a free online resource from the Museum of the Moving Image, with more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952 It includes lessons for teachers and links to other online resources.

Great site for teaching about the election process but about media and digital literacy as well.

Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History's Research Library provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations. Use the tabs above to view Collections and Exhibits, or choose Browse to see all the images digitized to date. Enter terms in the box above to search across all our images or choose the Advanced Search option.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used. "

Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker began smARThistory in 2005 by creating a blog featuring free audio guides in the form of podcasts for use in The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Soon after, we embedded the audio files in our online survey courses.

Open Source materials for Art History. Narrative slideshows about different time periods.

Open Source material for infusing art history into the classroom. Definitely worth exploring

list of sites leading to art museums and other information.

lots of art history resources

British Library site that has animated stories from the sacred texts of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism

Some excellent ideas to use in your classes.

"The National Archives holds a range of records on the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad, from 1896 to the present. We have made these available online for the first time, providing you with access to this rich resource on sporting and cultural history."

Brian, this site might be good for your sports history class.

"Rag Linen is an educational archive of rare and historic newspapers, which serve as the first drafts of history and the critical primary source material for historians, authors and educators. "

Looks like an excellent resource.

Terrific site with all sorts of information about children's games. From the British Library.

If we are going to be talking about gaming in education maybe we should see the historical significance of games. Very interesting site.

100 yrs. of photos from the National Archives.

Great site for finding images by time period

An interactive timeline of world history

Very interesting way to view ancient and medieval cultures.

"This interactive timeline chronicles the events of 9/11 using images, audio and video from the 9/11 Memorial Museum's permanent collection. The timeline tells the story of the day as it unfolded in the air and on the ground. It's filled with first-person accounts from survivors, first responders and witnesses."