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Kenneth O'Regan

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - 2 views

historymatters.gmu.edu

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shared by Kenneth O'Regan on 29 Oct 09 - Cached
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "contains 1,000 primary documents in text, image, and audio that emphasize the experiences of "ordinary" Americans throughout U.S. history. All of the documents have been screened by historians and are accompanied by annotations that address their larger historical significance and context. Browse a list of documents sorted by time period, beginning with the earliest. Or visit the Advanced Search to quickly locate documents by topic, time period, keyword, or type of document."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. "Making Sense of Documents" provide detailed strategies for analyzing online primary materials (including film, music, numbers, photographs, advertisements, oral history, and letters and diaries) with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. "Scholars in Action" segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources (from cartoons to house inventories), allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself and then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis."
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "is our annotated guide to more than 850 useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies. We have carefully selected and screened each site for quality and provide a 1-paragraph annotation that summarizes its content, its strengths and weaknesses, and its utility for teachers. Information is provided on the type of resource (text, images, audio, and video) available. Browse sites by topic and time period or look through a list of some of our favorite sites. Or visit the Advanced Search to quickly locate WWW.History sites by topic, time period, keyword, kind of primary source, or type of resource. We also include extended scholarly web reviews as a regular feature of History Matters. In collaboration with the Journal of American History (JAH) we review approximately 25 websites per year. The reviews are co-published by the JAH and History Matters and appear in both venues. The archive page offers all featured web reviews."
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      "Between 1997 and 2003, History Matters presented historical puzzles and quizzes. We are no longer adding new puzzles, but we include here an archive of 20 past puzzles that can be used in classrooms to inspire creative thinking and challenge assumptions."
  • more on this site)
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
       
      This link has fantastic descriptions of what you can find in each of the sections of the site. I've posted some of the more exciting ones below but this site has a ton of useful history information . . .
  • Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
    • Kenneth O'Regan
      Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
       
      I dont know how to undo or ignore the sticky notes of the previous user of this site...Ill post my own and I guess they will all just get mixed up.
  • Laura Wood on 29 Oct 09
     
    From the website: History Matters is "a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Visible Knowledge Project. . . . Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence."
  • Kenneth O'Regan on 03 Oct 10
     
    Well, it looks like a student in this group shared this in the past, but what a great website! I'll put up some more sticky notes. This website features a large number of primary source material of different media and is strong in its content. Beyond that, this site features information about the methods historians use (interesting to high school students, applicable to college students), a database of reviewed websites, lesson plans, syllabi, and teaching tips. A pretty comprehensive resource.
Samantha Greenwald

Bill of Rights: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Lib... - 2 views

www.loc.gov/...billofrights.html

primary document bill of rights american government

shared by Samantha Greenwald on 19 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Samantha Greenwald
      Samantha Greenwald on 19 Sep 10
       
      This can be used especially on Constitution Day (September 17th).
    • Samantha Greenwald
      Samantha Greenwald on 19 Sep 10
       
      A bibliography is provides as well as other external resources for students and teachers to explore.
    • Samantha Greenwald
      Samantha Greenwald on 04 Oct 10
       
      This site provides exhibitions and primary source documents which provide more detailed descriptions of certain events/people which teachers can use to expand student learning.
    • Samantha Greenwald
      Samantha Greenwald on 04 Oct 10
       
      This is one site of three that provides primary documents. The other two discuss national expansion and reform and the civil war and reconstruction.
  • Samantha Greenwald on 19 Sep 10
     
    This Library of Congress website provides access to primary documents including letters, notes, papers, Washington's inaugural address, and copies of the amendments to the US Constitution.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    Any other ways in which teachers might use this site?
jbdrury

EuroDocs - 2 views

eudocs.lib.byu.edu/...Main_Page

primary documents history europe european history primary source documents

shared by jbdrury on 06 Nov 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      These are the links for seperating the resource pages by time period, below they are broken down by country.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      I am particularly favorable to this page: The European Digital Library, because of its rich collection of digitized documents.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
       
      Each of the links here are very useful and technically more user-friendly; however I continue to bookmark this page because it has provided such a simple, straight-forward and extensive collection of links.
  • jbdrury on 06 Nov 09
     
    In looking for primary sources and documents for lesson plans, I have noticed that most of the search results center on U.S. history and its related documents. I wanted to find a website that might provide links to a broader collection of documents on world history. This website has links to European historical documents, broken down by country as well as time period. Each link leads to a collection of other links where one can search for primary documents. It's admittedly a bit curious that this website is the product of an employee of Brigham Young University; I cannot tell if this bears any reflection on websites that are linked here, but the collection is extensive.
jbdrury

PBS - THE WEST - Documents on Anti-Chinese Immigration Policy - 4 views

www.pbs.org/...chinxact.htm

west american west china chinese immigration california san francisco exclusion treaty exclusion act primary source document

shared by jbdrury on 16 Oct 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Both the exclusion treaty and the exclusion act are included
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      Each of these episode tabs also includes more primary source documents and images
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      The use of the term "embarassments" is interesting
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  • WHEREAS, in the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities within the territory thereof
  • he coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country or of any locality within the territory thereof
  • If Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any other class, now either permanently or temporarily residing in the territory of the United States, meet with ill treatment at the hands of nay other persons, the Government of the United States will exert all its power to devise measures for their protection and to secure to them the same rights, privileges, immunities and exemptions as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and to which they are entitled by treaty
  • and the embarrassments consequent upon such immigration
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      I think it is fascinating to read the language of this document; how they managed to couch discriminatory practices in such legalise
  • That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and may be also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.
  • SEC. 14. That hereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
       
      This definition covers just about anyone
  • SEC. 15. That the words "Chinese laborers," whenever used in this act, shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.
  • jbdrury on 16 Oct 09
     
    I was frustrated by my inability to find primary source documents on my last mini-lesson for the Conscription Act; however I was happy to stumble upon these in regards to this week's Takaki reading. PBS already provides a great wealth of resources to teachers - including lesson plans - and I couldn't resist posting this one. The rest of the site includes other primary source documents as well as images, all broken down over periods that correlate to episodes from their "The West" series.
Nate Merrill

Primary Sources for History & Literature Teachers - America in ClassAmerica in Class - 0 views

americainclass.org/primary-sources

Resources history socialstudies World History US History education reference primary sources social_studies Primary_Sources

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  • Nate Merrill on 15 Nov 13
     
    "Collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions."
jbdrury

NHEC | Understanding and Interpreting Political Cartoons in the History Classroom - 7 views

teachinghistory.org/...21733

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shared by jbdrury on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Oct 09
       
      The particular value of this proposed lesson plan is that it is designed to set your students up with the skills and strategies to be able to critically interpret political cartoons throughout the school year.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Oct 09
       
      This is the hyperlink to download the "Cartoon Analysis Checklist"; its proposed use is outlined in the lesson plan.
  • A lesson that introduces a framework for understanding and interpreting political cartoons that can be used throughout your entire history course.
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  • A Cartoon Analysis Checklist, developed by Jonathan Burack, is presented here as a tool for helping students become skilled at reading the unique language employed by political cartoons in order to use them effectively as historical sources
  • 1. Symbol and Metaphor 2. Visual Distortion 3. Irony in Words and Images 4. Stereotype and Caricature 5. An Argument Not a Slogan 6. The Uses and Misuses of Political Cartoons>
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Oct 09
       
      This is a breakdown of how the lesson plan should be organized and proceed.
  • Students need to understand that political cartoons are expressions of opinion.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Oct 09
       
      Much like other sorts of primary source documents - the caveat that "political cartoons are expressions of opinion" is an important thing for students to keep in mind.
  • They are evidence only of a point of view
  • The Library of Congress also has a fine collection of political cartoons by cartoonist Herb Block.
    • jbdrury
      jbdrury on 23 Oct 09
       
      This is a short bio summary of the author of this lesson plan; he would appear to place great emphasis on the value of primary source analysis.
  • jbdrury on 23 Oct 09
     
    Because political cartoons are somewhat of special category of primary source images, I thought it would behoove us to find a particular strategy for analyzing and interpreting them - much along the same lines as the SOAPS method but one specifically designed for political cartoons. This lesson plan, and its "Cartoon Analysis Checklist" is a start.
  • Lindsay Andreas on 24 Oct 09
     
    Thanks for this add, I can use this for my lesson plan on Chinese immigration.
Laura Wood

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - 5 views

www.free.ed.gov

lesson plans Primary documents Social Studies Civil War resources education curriculum teaching Animations Music Art photos science lessons

shared by Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09 - Cached
  • History & Soc Studies
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      Okay so there isn't quite as much information on this site as I was hoping there would be. You CAN search by time period within the United States History. So if you're working through a US History text, this might be a great one stop shop to hit up and see what sorts of primary documents are available in a wealth of federal sites. For example, 1607-1763 has links to colonial documents from: the National Park Service; the Smithsonian; the National Endowment for the Humanities; History Matters; the National Archives, etc You can also search by US History topics (Government, Famous People, Wars, or Ethnic Groups . . . hmmm) or by World Studies. Each of these branch out into more subtopics. It's worth checking out.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      Haha. My new web browser hates Diigo. This is supposed to say "Animations" So the animations page is super science heavy. They do have a couple of links to global warming and environmental issues and a link to a Napolean Game where you can wage wars and see how well you do at Waterloo . . .
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      There are 135 Primary documents. I would recommend searching for these in a different way.
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    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      The video section is also worth checking out. 30 links to videos, some are about science but some are clips of Roosevelt or McKinley. Again, US History stuff. The only place I've found World History stuff is specifically under the Social Studies, World History links.
    • Laura Wood
      Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
       
      This lists all of the topics contained on the site in each of the subheadings (Of particular interest: World History, US History, US Time Periods. Check it out!
  • Laura Wood on 23 Oct 09
     
    FREE is a website pool of teaching and learning resources from various branches of the federal government. From the website: "More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. . . . FREE is maintained by Peter Kickbush and Kirk Winters, Office of Communications and Outreach, with support from the Development Services Team in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Education."
  • Lindsay Andreas on 23 Oct 09
     
    This site is amazing, I was just playing around with it and I am definitely using some of the resources for my unit. :)
Margit Nahra

Creating the United States -  Exhibitions - myLOC.gov (Library of Congress) - 9 views

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library of congress declaration of independence bill of rights constitution

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    • Margit Nahra
      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      Great source for lesson plans, primary sources, bibliographies and web casts to supplement teaching about the documents governing the United States.
    • Margit Nahra
      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      The drafts featured on this site would be great to illustrate the points of compromise negotiated by the Founding Fathers and to get students to think about how the documents and ultimately, our country's governing principles, might have turned out differently.
    • Margit Nahra
      Margit Nahra on 16 Sep 10
       
      This site also features helpful teacher training materials for how to evaluate and utilize primary sources.
  • Margit Nahra on 05 Oct 10
     
    This site uses primary sources to document the source and evolution of key phrases and concepts in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
kyleassad

Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy - 1 views

avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

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shared by kyleassad on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      I would use this site as a reference for students who are looking for primary sources to supplement text books.  It helpful to see the actual text of documents instead of trying to read the handwriting.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      This site would be useful for social studies teachers as they navigate many different topics, and would like to use primary source text to augment their teaching.  It lacks certain citing items, which hurts credibility, but it is the Yale Law School, which lends credibility.
    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      It is a comprehensive resource for primary sources across history.  It doesn't speak to how they arrived or were able to translate the sources. 
kyleassad

Avalon Project - 17th Century Documents : 1600 - 1699 - 1 views

avalon.law.yale.edu/...17th.asp

History education teaching primary sources

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    • kyleassad
      kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
       
      It is a comprehensive resource for primary sources across history.  It doesn't speak to how they arrived or were able to translate the sources.
  • kyleassad on 04 Oct 10
     
    Primary sources across many millenia.
  • Adrea Lawrence on 04 Oct 10
     
    How might teachers use the site and its resources?
Farren Maillie

The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources - 0 views

www.gwu.edu/...index.htm

WWII primary history

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  • Farren Maillie on 12 Feb 09
     
    Interesting and extensive lists of primary sources dealing with the Atomic Bomb. Includes various diary entries. Shows mostly a US side.
Jamie Gravell

Awesome Stories - 6 views

awesomestories.com

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  • Jamie Gravell on 09 May 10
     
    Pre-categorized primary sources--such as "disasters" or "inspiration". Seems great for first exposure to primary sources as research or going deeper than the textbook
Maria Mahon

Immigration History--Lesson Plans, Primary Sources and Activities from The Tenement Museum - 4 views

www.tenement.org/education_lessonplans.html

tenement museum primary sources immigration

shared by Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Maria Mahon on 09 Nov 09
     
    While not located in the DC area, the Tenement Museum in New York City has a great website. You can dowload primary sources and other great resources. Navigating from this page is helpful.
Samantha Greenwald

The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden - 1 views

americanhistory.si.edu/...home.html

presidents primary sources exhibits

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    • Samantha Greenwald
      Samantha Greenwald on 03 Oct 10
       
      This timeline gives a brief description of all of the presidents as well what era they lived during and what that era consisted of. This can be used by teachers to give an introduction to the American presidents but students can use this to do further research.
    • Samantha Greenwald
      Samantha Greenwald on 03 Oct 10
       
      One thing is that this seems to be a bit out of date (the latest timeline did not include President Obama) so it is good to look at the past presidents but wouldn't be helpful for understanding the current presidency.
  • Samantha Greenwald on 03 Oct 10
     
    This exhibit from the Smithsonian Museum of American History looks at the American Presidents from how they got elected, life in the White House, and how they communicated with the public. There are primary source artifacts that can be seen for each president.
Alan Edwards

Children and Youth in History - 0 views

chnm.gmu.edu/cyh

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    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      This site is maintained by George Mason University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. GMU does a lot of work with new media through their Center for History and New Media
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      This site dedicated to the agency and involvement of children in history. The focus is international with a collection of primary sources organized by regions of the world.
    • Alan Edwards
      Alan Edwards on 02 Oct 09
       
      In addition to primary sources from around the world, the site also contains a collection of case studies and teaching lesson plans/curricular units. They also include a section of helpful sites related to Children's History.
Maria Mahon

Visiting Winterthur - 0 views

www.winterthur.org/...school_programs.asp

Primary Sources Winterthur research

shared by Maria Mahon on 01 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Packets may be borrowed in three-week blocks. A reservation can be made by phone but is not complete until we receive a $10 deposit.
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 01 Oct 09
       
      I thought the idea of borrowing the packets for $10 for three weeks is an interesting copy. This might be useful for schools without the budgets to purchase more expensive packets of materials.
  • Education in America from the Colonial Period to 1850
    • Maria Mahon
      Maria Mahon on 01 Oct 09
       
      JoEllen, I think maybe you were working on the Colonial Period. Under "For Teachers" tab, Winterthur also provides a useful bibliography.
  • Maria Mahon on 01 Oct 09
     
    Winterthur (in Delaware) is the former country estate of Henry Francis duPont. He was one of the first avid collectors of American fine and decorative arts and the museum (aside from being a beautiful place to visit) is now a leading center for scholarship in the field. The museum has created packets of primary-source materials that can be used in classrooms if a field trip is not possible.
Jordan Manuel

Cold War - 1 views

www.ibiblio.org/...coldwar.html

history primary sources

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    • Jordan Manuel
      Jordan Manuel on 19 Sep 10
       
      This site makes excellent use of primary source documents to portray the climate of Soviet-US relations in the Cold War. Telegram cables between the govts and reports from USSR Central Committee meetings.
    • Jordan Manuel
      Jordan Manuel on 19 Sep 10
       
      I would make wide use of this site in a U.S. history class. I would be able to show my students the Soviet perspective on US activities during the Cold War, which I think would be valuable as a comparison to our historical accounts of the same events.
    • Jordan Manuel
      Jordan Manuel on 19 Sep 10
       
      As far as usability, it is a rather basic site. However it does provide a wealth of primary source documents that would be helpful for any social studies teacher.
  • Jordan Manuel on 19 Sep 10
     
    U.S. and Soviet Perspectives on their relations amidst the Cold War.
Margit Nahra

ThisNation.com--Rutherford B. Hayes - 1 views

www.thisnation.com/...hayes.html

presidents inaugural address state of the union biographical information

shared by Margit Nahra on 03 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Margit Nahra on 03 Oct 10
     
    Media gallery for the ThisNation.com site has links to illustrations and reproductions of primary source documents. Also includes a presidents' gallery with links to brief biographical information and copies of inaugural and state of the union addresses for most, if not all, U.S. presidents.
  • Margit Nahra on 03 Oct 10
     
    Media gallery has links to illustrations and reproductions of primary source documents. Also includes a presidents' gallery with links to brief biographical information, copies of inaugural addresses, and copies of state of the union addresses for most, if not all, U.S. presidents.
Jonathon Gordon

Smithsonian Teaching Sources - 2 views

www.smithsoniansource.org/...viewdetails.aspx

Lessons Smithsonian Source

shared by Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Artifacts —the objects we make and use—give history its tangible form. They can be as important and useful as primary sources as are correspondence, pieces of legislation, and other documents. Studied together, artifacts and documents help students understand the complexity of any historical question.
  • Jonathon Gordon on 03 Oct 10
     
    This site provided by the Smithsonian provides teachers with lessons that help students understand how to use primary sources in historical research. It would be very useful for any upper secondary social studies teacher. 
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