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A Short History of smARThistory smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static 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.

Free Streaming Video Software

"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)."

With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles. ChartGizmo may be useful for those who need to visualize financial, scientific or other type of data.

With your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles. ChartGizmo may be useful for those who need to visualize financial, scientific or other type of data.

Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital resources from public television and other leading media producers, designed for classroom use and professional development.

eachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital resources from public television and other leading media producers, designed for classroom use and professional development.

A review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them. Ideas for technology integration in education.

More free documentaries and films for streaming.

A compilation of free Educational Video Clips/Mini Movies on multiple topics. A collaboration between Don Donn and Philip Martin.

It appears that Google Scholar is not yet part of the Google Alerts application. However, you can create your own alert using two free, simple to use online tools.

It appears that Google Scholar is not yet part of the Google Alerts application. However, you can create your own alert using two free, simple to use online tools.

I hope this site helps you place today's current events into a greater historical context. Each map is well-researched and based in fact, and none of the work is meant to be biased or political. No spin or opinion, just fact-based conclusions about the history of war. Maps-of-War is created by a Flash-Designer hobbyist and professional history- buff. Enjoy your visit and feel free to save or share our work for your own use!

Kids find the religion map absolutely fascinating. We used this map in our Islam unit, and kids were blown away at how quickly Islam had spread. The map also helped contexualize the history of Judaism.

MilestoneDocuments.com combines famous primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Designed for teachers, students, and researchers, MilestoneDocuments.com explores the speeches, laws and legal opinions, proclamations and executive orders, and other documents that influenced the course of history. At present the site only covers documents from American history, but we will be adding coverage of primary documents from world history later in 2009. Also coming soon is a greatly expanded set of resources for teaching with documents. For now, see our free monthly e-newsletter for U.S. history teachers.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Welcome to "We the People" - a place for our forefathers to meet and network! For safety and ease of moderating, this network is "by invitation"; only Stevenson Faculty and 6th graders will participate. If you are visiting, please feel free to browse this front page.

"Step back in time and discover what life was like in Norman times with the free Hands on History activity packs. Learn how to host your own Medieval feast, build your own castle and create your own Bayeux tapestry, and print off an 'I Spy' checklist for your Norman days out. "

"In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries."

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."

These free, Web-based "Top 25" sites selected by the Association of School Librarians are chosen for their innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are user friendly and community minded.

Webspiration is online mindmapping from the creators of Inspiration. Many of the same features as the for-purchase Inspiration and completely free. Includes plenty of templates and you can download mindmap as Inspiration or Word file. Key feature is collaborative editing; simply invite a colleague/student via email and you can collaborative form anywhere with an Internet connection. You can post mindmap on a web page, too.