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| Links Best of History Websites - Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 1000 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Included are links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages. However, useful general resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well. eHistory - eHistory consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 5,300 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 350 biographies; and thousands of images and maps. Top of Page or Internet Resources Index AMDOCS: Documents for the study of American History - A directory of primary documents available on the Web. Browse by time period, beginning with 1492 and continuing into current times. Includes inaugural addresses, diary extracts, treaties, letters, speeches, and more. Maintained by the University of Kansas. A Virtual Library site. American Slave Narratives - From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief. Battle Lines: Letters From America's Wars - "Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars, an online exhibition created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq. The letters explore such topics as leaving home, life in the military, and the concerns of those left behind. Although technology and circumstances have changed over time, the themes expressed in these letters have remained contant throughout history, reappearing whenever men and women have gone to war." Core Documents of U.S. Democracy - An electronic collection of current and historical United States government documents which define the American democracy. These legislative and legal, regulatory, presidential, demographic, and economic documents are selected and authenticated by the Government Printing Office's GPO Access service. Includes the Bill of Rights, Constitution, Federalist Papers, and statistical reference sources. Eyewitness to History - An award-winning website presenting history through the perspective of those who actually lived it - from the ancient world through the 20th century. Internet Modern History Source Book - is part of a series of sourcebook pages that provides primary material for modern Western civilization. The range of resources on this page cover the Reformation to through World War II. Other sourcebooks are: African , East Asian, Indian , Islamic , Jewish , Women's , Global , Science. World War II Primary Documents - The Primary Source Document Collection holds several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII. The Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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African History & Heritage Site: Teacher Toolkit for Grades K-12 -
A huge number
of links related to the black experience. The "Reference Offline" section
provides a generous quantity of "basic reference resources every library should
have," including books, CDs, videos, curriculum guides, and more. African Americans in New Jersey - e-book in pdf format.
African
American World -
This site covers history, arts and culture,
race and society, biographical profiles, and more. Features include a timeline
of African American history from the 1400s on, links to public television
readings and programs, a page for children, African American history teaching
modules, and pro and con opinions on social issues. Black History Hotlist - The following resources come from all over the Internet. Some are provided by companies like CNN Interactive while others are the products of university scholars or amateurs. Use these sites as the raw material for your own study of African-American history and issues. Remember to read critically and look for hidden agendas, bias, or errors that might creep into the Web pages.
Black Studies -
A browsable webliography featuring dozens
of annotated links to high-quality Web sites related to African American studies.
Prepared by Grace-Ellen McCrann of the Cohen Library at the City College of
New York (CCNY). Encyclopedia Britainica Guide to Black History - "This site presents a vast array of articles, hundreds of images, and a wide assortment of audio clips, film clips, and multimedia presentations. The timeline traces two millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in black history. Our image and multimedia galleries provide snapshots of black culture throughout the ages." Mathematicians of the African Diaspora - Profiles of black mathematicians, computer scientists, and physicists; a history of Blacks in modern mathematics; a section on Black women in math sciences; math in ancient Africa; job listings; and links to Black organizations and journals in the field are some of the features of this site. Searchable. National Civil Rights Museum - Click on "Exhibits/Gallery" for extensive treatment of the struggle for civil rights in America. Top of Page or Internet Resources Index Historical Atlas of the 20th Century - Top of Page or Internet Resources Index Perseus Digital Library - Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Originally begun with coverage of the Archaic and Classical Greek world, has now expanded to Latin text and tools, Renaissance materials, and Papyri. Contains hundreds of texts by the major ancient authors and lexica and morphological databases and catalog entries for over 2,800 vases, sculptures, coins, buildings, and sites, including over 13,000 photographs of such objects. Mrs. Donns Daily Life in Anceint Civilizations - Provides basic information and links for the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, China, and the Pacific Northwest Coastal Indians, with an additional section on Early Man. The information is suitable for elementary students, and there are lesson plans and classroom activities for teachers.
Ancient Mapping Center - This center "exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies." The center's Web site provides articles and news related to ancient geography and cartography, maps and images, updates to the "Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World," annotated Web links, and related resources. Searchable Top of Page or Internet Resources Index What Exit? New Jersey and Its Turnpike - "In the exhibition, travel back to the 1950s and find out what it takes to build a 118-mile long superhighway in only two years. See how cars, roads, traffic and people have all come to bear on the Turnpike driving experience. And understand the Turnpike from the employees' perspective: their stories capture the ins and outs of working alongside the nation’s busiest toll highway. Do all this through photographs, funky souvenirs, oral history interviews, '50s film footage, and more!"
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