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On this site, you will find several hundred pages of information describing the flow of history, from the evolutionary processes that formed our bodies, to the forces of globalization that exploded in the 1990s. It is detailed, engaging reading-the result of over 25 years of continuous refinement for actual classroom use. Reading about a period will fill your head with facts and names about your chosen topic like any good history textbook. But you won't remember the important lessons-the ones that history classes exist in order to teach us, so that we don't each have to learn them on our own. Good students studying traditional History texts learn much about the past, but even the best rarely take the lessons of the past with them when they leave class. As a history teacher at University High School in Urbana, Illinois since 1979, I have developed a method for teaching history, using a series of about 200 cross-referenced flowcharts and over 100 powerpoint multimedia lecture outlines to help students see history as a dynamic process of causes and effects, not just a meaningless list of names and dates. With this website you can help bring about a revolution in the History classroom, producing students that deeply understand the past and enjoy learning about it. » printer-friendly version

To find oral history projects available on the internet, try the following resources:American Slave Narratives (University of Virginia)Conversations with America (Chicago History Museum)Conversations with History (University of California, Berkeley)Go for Broke (National Education Center)Guardians of Freedom (Nieman School)Oral History Collections (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)Oral History Archives (Rutgers University)Mississippi Oral History Project (University of Southern Mississippi)Regarding War (PBS)Shoah Foundation Institute (University of Southern California)Southern Oral History Program (University of North Carolina)Telling Their Stories (Urban School of San Francisco)Tibet Oral History ProjectVeterans History Project (Library of Congress)Veterans Remember D-Day (Encyclopedia Britannica) The Vietnam Center and Archive (Texas Tech University)Voices of the Dust Bowl (Library of Congress)What Did You Do in the War Grandma? (Brown University)The Whole World Was Watching (Brown University)

" More than 1,000,000 words on world history in linked narratives "

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