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C-Span has uploaded virtually all of its video archives to the Internet. The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations.

National Archives Experience! Create a poster or movie using the digital vaults.

"The Soweto '76 3D Interface is a unique, three-dimensional archive interface that allows visitors to easily guide themselves through a 3D re-creation of the township, combining both education and exploration as they learn about the places, people, and past of Soweto."

Learning Curve content is matched up to an appropriate unit of the National Curriculum.

BBC Motion Gallery brings you easy access to a wide range of unique, high-quality stock footage. Looking for superb HD? Rare archival shots you simply can't find anywhere else? It's all here, sourced from some of the most remarkable collections in the world, ready for you to preview, purchase and download immediately. We're also your gateway to 2.5 million hours of content offline

The case of the Orlando Project offers a useful interrogation of concepts like completion and finality, as they emerge in the arena of electronic publication. The idea of "doneness" circulates discursively within a complex and evolving scholarly ecology where new modes of digital publication are changing our conceptions of textuality, at the same time that models of publication, funding, and archiving are rapidly changing. Within this ecology, it is instrumental and indeed valuable to consider particular tasks and stages done, even as the capacities of digital media push against a sense of finality. However, careful interrogation of aims and ends is required to think through the relation of a digital project to completion, whether modular, provisional, or of the project as a whole.

"View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $2.97 (Consumer); $40 (Pro)."

"Using DocsTeach, educators can create interactive history activities that incorporate more than 3,000 primary-source materials from the National Archives"

"An anthropology professor from South Africa has successfully used Google Earth to find a new human ancestor. To be exact, he found two partial skeletons, dating from between 1.78 and 1.95 million years ago, that belong to the species now known as Australopithecus sediba."

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more. Footnote.com is more than just an online repository for original documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people who are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history.

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