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Instant cash loans are the easy deal where one can get speedy money with their poor credit history. Short term loans that are easily available in market without any stress .

from digital public library of America; great sets to accompany a text (great gatsby), or history unit

Flickr stream of Library of Congress Historic Newspapers

The Library of Congress has digitized all the micrfiche of all the newspapers it had access to from 1836-1922. You can search by term or name within any state

This looks like a great app for collaborative projects, but I also like the Featured Timelines. I just used one of them to do a lesson with my library assistants. http://www.hstry.co/timelines/1-the-history-of-the-web

Fantastic encyclopaedia-type reference. Very visual

If one of your New Year's Resolutions was the classic "read more books" and you haven't so much as opened a magazine, we're here to provide some inspiration. TED-Ed asked a few of our favorite educators to weigh in on the best books in their subject - for students, teachers and lifelong learners alike - to crack into during 2015. Here, find a list of their top 5 picks in literature, science, math and history.

Libraries are in rough shape these days. Long treasured as bastions of knowledge, they're being assailed on two fronts: funding cuts and technological disruption. Why borrow a book when you've got the Internet and a Kindle?But rumors of the library's demise are greatly exaggerated.

ruby bridges civil rights picture

Retracing Our Steps Although now a remote, dusty city at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert in present-day Mali, 700 years ago Timbuktu was a bustling commercial and academic center. Traders exchanged salt and gold, while Muslim scholars collected and wrote texts on Islam, medicine, astronomy, math, politics and more.

"Storytelling has been around since the start of Mankind. Storytelling was the basic communicational strategy through which culture, traditions, mores, ways of life and early literature was transmitted from one generation to the other. With the advent of internet and web technologies, storytelling has got some new and wider dimensions. The journey of storytelling from its early beginnings to its actual state is the subject of this wonderful graphic below. It documents the major periods and forms of storytelling that was pervasive during each era. It is really amazing to take a pause and take a look back into history to see how storytelling has evolved to be what it is now."

An amazing interactive video in 4 parts, created from images from the NY Times archives. At any point you can stop and explore the content in more detail.

February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114

"LUNA Commons is a new source for finding valuable educational content from digital collections built in the Insight Software from Luna Imaging Inc."