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The eye-catching way to share the web. With a simple click of the mouse, you can create visually compelling clips and quotes of web content that are easily embedded in blog posts, email, forums, and websites. Curate.Us is the new and innovative way to share content across the web, enhancing its reach and relevance and giving it new life of its own. Put online content into your own context by going beyond the link.

There are so many more ways to study history than looking at simply military, nation-state analysis. This site addresses other tools historians use to investigate world history, such as the frameworks of geography and chronology. A geographical area can be used to explore commonalities across political borders to discover the effect of trade, disease, and migration. Included in this unit are readings, resources, maps, audio clips, a video to watch, as well as a transcript of the video. Pertinent questions and activities are also provided.

ProCon.org is a nonprofit research organization that presents pros and cons of controversial issues in a nonpartisan format. There are currently 42 issues being covered in a comprehensive manner. The site organizes each issue into sections like "Did You Know?", lists of Pros and Cons and then moves on to background information, media references and relevant video clips. There's a lot of information here for students to gain enough perspective to make their own decisions about issues.