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“History is the
foundation of informed discourse.”
Anonymous
Best of
History Web Sites
The Center For Teaching History With Technology has
provided over 1000 links to topically arranged web sites on this page. There are also
oral histories, map sources and lesson plans.
Among the Educator Resources at
the National Archives are these worksheets to help
students analyze primary documents. The worksheets provide
prompts tohelp students understand photographs, written
documents, artifacts maps and more...
AHA
Resources from the Texas Conference on Introductory
History Courses
A number of interesing and useful articles on this
page. Some other associated readings of interest include:
"The End of
the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the
Coverage Model," Journal of American History
97:4 (2011), and The
History Survey Project: Improving Introductory History
Courses," OAH Magazine of History (July
2013).
The Chronicle of Higher
Education
Only subscribers to the Chronicle have complete
access, but there are useful articles and links. ACC faculty, staff
and students have full text access to Chronicle
articles through Academic
Search Premier.
An enormous database of images on wide
variety of topics. You might also look for images in The History
Project, American
Memory and of course Library of Congress which
has more than 7,000,000 digital items. The Prints
& Photographs Online Catalog makes for
easy access to view holdings from 44 collections which
include baseball cards, Ansel Adams's photographs of
Japanese-Americans interned at Manzanar, WWI posters,
Civil War photographs, a variety of graphic arts and more.
Historical
Stock Photos is aother useful database of
photographs.
Teaching with
Movies
While geared to secondary students, this site does offer
useful ideas on teaching history with film. There is a
searchable database and along with brief descriptions of
the movies and ways to use the film in class. Films
on Demand gives you access to 1000s
of streaming videos available from the Film Media Group.
Go to the Library
Home Page and begin your search. You can search
these titles You might also want to see the films
owned by ACC.
PhotoGraphicLibraries.com
An educational resource site with links to stock and
moving images, media services, photo and ad agencies,
graphics, and clip art. There is also a library
and archive collection of national and private
photographic collections. The
Living Room Candidate offers television
commercials of each presidential candidate from 1952 to
2004 along with analysis of each party's campaign
strategy. The American
Presidency
Project has a wide range of materials -
presidential communications, election data, speeches,
party platforms etc... There are audio and video clips
from late 1800s to the present. The PBS webpage on
The
Presidents is geared toward teaching
the history of the American presidency. Biographies
provide links to primary documents.
History
Matters
A product of the American Social History Project and
Perry-Castaneda
Map Collection
One of the great collections for historical maps.
Map
Quizzes
Some basic geographic knowledge is critical for students
to understand American history and events happening around
the world. Students can test their geographic knowledge at
this site.
H-TEACH
A variety of resources for teaching history at all levels.
The site includes recent book reviews, links to other
useful sites, course syllabi, and information on how to
subscribe to discussion forums pertaining to specific
academic interests.
Community College
Historians Network
A Yahoo Group to discuss issues pertaining to Community
College Historians. You might also look at Faculty Focus
which is a frequently updated blog from Magna Publications
thgat helps college professors stay current with trends
and teaching strategies and more including the "app of the
week." The American
Association of Community Colleges includes a
variety of useful resources for community college
professors and administrators.
H-Net
Review
This site has searchable reviews of new literature in the
social sciences that date back to 1993.
The
Programming Historian
This site hasmore than 60 tutorials to help historians
learn how to use digitial tools in their research. These
are "novice friendly" lessons with step by step
instructions.
Social
Media For Teachers
A good arcticle from Edutopia to help teachers reach
students through social media. Links to 33 different
articles that offer tips on how to use these tools.
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