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ArtsEdnet: The Getty’s Art Education Web Site
The J. Paul Getty Museum.
Developed by the Getty Education Institute for the Arts, this site offers assistance to arts educators of all levels, focussing on K-12 teachers. The site includes lesson plans and curriculum ideas, online image galleries and exhibits, as well as essays and articles advocating arts education.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
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Official Time
Time Service Department, U.S. Naval Observatory.
Resources Available: TEXT.
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Comics
United Media.
This site features daily and archived editions of over 100 comic strips syndicated by United Media. Daily comics appear one week after their newspaper publication date. This site displays comics for only 4 weeks, beginning one week after publication. I don’t really see any historical value or teaching value for the US history survey. I’ve changed the priority from “2” to “4”. I don’t think it should be included on www.history.—ks
Resources Available: IMAGES.
Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica.
[SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED FOR FULL ACCESS] Offers abstracts of Encyclopedia Britannica entries to all visitors and full-text articles to “premium service” subscribers. Users can browse alphabetically and by subject, or enter search terms for links to relevant journal articles and sites. “Classic Voices” reproduces selected entries from previous editions by well-known contributors identified only by their initials, including “Yosemite” by John Muir, “Conjuring” by Harry Houdini, “Psychoanalysis” by Sigmund Freud, “Motion Pictures: A Universal Language” by Lillian Gish, and “Wilbur Wright” by Orville Wright. The “BritannicaSchool” subscription service offers K-12 curriculum activities designed to conform with state and national standards. With a wealth of information provided in abstract form, the site is of great valuable even to non-subscribers.
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Website last visited on 2001-07-25.
Pluralism and Unity
David Bailey, Michigan State University, and David Halsted, H-Net.
Presents a wide array of materials that explore “the struggle between these two visions” of pluralism and unity in early 20th-century American thought and life. Arranged into six major sections: “The Idea of Pluralism”; “The Idea of Internationalism”; “Culture and Pluralism”; “Labor and Pluralism”; “Race and Pluralism”; and “Gender and Pluralism”. The site links to major sites on such topics as ethics, politics, culture, sociology, anthropology, religion, economics, imperialism, hegemony, world systems theory, League of Nations, Jim Crow laws, eugenics, the Niagara Movement, NAACP, KKK, unions, strikes, modernism, the genteel tradition, localism, and ragtime. Outlines the perspectives of important public figures including William James, Eugene Debs, Randolph Bourne, Daniel DeLeon, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Horace Kallen, Scott Nearing, Max Eastman, William Cowper Brann, Madison Grant, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Charles S. Peirce, Margaret Mead, Woodrow Wilson, John Reed, and Irving Berlin. Although many of the site’s direct links to texts by these figures are no longer operable, users can access sites containing important writings through the “Concepts” section of each of the six major parts. Also includes 12 audio components and dozens of photographs. For its inclusion of links to many extremely useful sites from a variety of perspectives, this site will be valuable to those studying early 20th-century American ideas and debates and their resonance throughout later times.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-09.
Building an Archives
National Archives and Records Administration .
A history of the Washington, D.C., building that houses the National Archives and Records Administration and information for educators and students to build their own archives. Includes a 1,000-word history of the Archives with more than 20 photographs and links to relevant documents. The site also offers a description of the architecture and guidelines on “establishing and maintaining a school archives,” including notes about technology, student involvement, and items to collect, as well as six titles for further reading. Includes links to additional Archives sites on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, and to other primary documents arranged according to a variety of teaching activities. Provides a practical guide to collecting archival documentation as well as a reasoned rationale: “Developing a school archives provides a valuable service-learning opportunity for students and creates a lasting research tool and legacy from which future students and the archival community can benefit.”
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Website last visited on 2008-10-08.
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
PBS Online.
See JAH web review by Leonard J. Sadosky.
Reviewed 2009-06-01.
A PBS companion site for the film “The Journey of the Corps of Discovery” by Ken Burns. The site contains brief biographies of members of the expedition, historical sketches of the Native American tribes encountered by Lewis and Clark, a semi-searchable selection of transcribed journal excerpts from seven expedition members, over 800 minutes of unedited interviews with scholars and other specialists, over 30 links to related Web sties, a bibliography, and an interactive story section. The site also offers teaching resources, including lesson plans and printable activity sheets, as well as a video interview and email forum with filmmaker Ken Burns. An easily navigated site.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES, AUDIO, VIDEO.
Website last visited on 2008-10-06.
Virtual Jamestown
Crandall Shifflett, Virginia Center for Digital History.
See JAH web review by David Jaffee.
Reviewed 2003-03-01.
A work in progress, Virtual Jamestown is a good place to begin exploring the history of Jamestown. This site includes 63 letters and first-hand accounts, available in original-spelling or modern-spelling versions, 100 public records, from census data to laws, 55 maps and images, and a sample of documents on labor contracts. The site will add court records, including deeds, wills, and court order books. There are a number of excellent K-12 teaching tools and classroom activities, including “Jobs in Jamestown” that teaches students to use census data to research occupations of colonial settlers, “Jamestown Newsletter,” that helps students research questions about life in the colony, and “Planning an Escape,” in which students study runaway slave advertisements and investigate the range of factors a slave had to consider before escaping. The reference section includes a timeline extending from 1502 to the present, narratives by prominent historians, including Bernard Bailyn, links to 25 related sites, and a bibliography of over 20 primary and secondary sources.
The Complete Works of John Smith and John Smith’s Map of Virginia have recently been added to the site, while 3-D recreations of Jamestown’s Statehouse and Meetinghouse as well as an archive of Virginia’s first Africans will be added in the coming months.
Resources Available: TEXT, IMAGES.
Website last visited on 2007-10-23.
Tennessee Online
Tennessee Historical Commission.
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
David Halberstam’s The Fifties
The History Channel.
1950’s America: politics, pop culture, and technology broken down by year
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Feminist Studies
Department of Women’s Studies, University of Maryland.
Resources Available: TEXT.
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The History Net
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Website last visited on 0000-00-00.
