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The History Channel
- A companion to the
television channel, this commercial site contains a myriad of
features and highlights for educators and students alike. Key
offerings include: study guides and activities, ideas from
teachers, special exhibits, speech archives, discussions, and
"This Day in History"
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- BBC Online History
- BBC History offers a wide
assortment of educational exhibits and features. Check out the
Multimedia zone for audio, video, games, galleries and more
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- Maps101.com
- Get access to over 4000 maps ready for use in
class or as part of a presentation. All Brunswick students and
faculty have permission to sign in. Username:
cbrunct
Password:green8
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PBS
Online-History
- A great source for information
on a slew of historical events and personalities. PBS's assorted
and diverse web exhibits supplement specific individual television
series and generally include a resume of each episode, interviews
(often with sound bites), a timeline , a glossary, photos, and links
to relevant sites. Categories include American History, World
History, History on Television, and Biographies.
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- Center
For History & New Media
- CHNM produces historical works
in new media, tests their effectiveness in the classroom, and
reflects critically on the success of new media in historical
practice. CHNM's resources include a list of "best" web sites, links
to syllabi and lesson plans, essays on history and new media, a link
to their excellent History Matters web site for U.S. History, and
more. Resources are designed to benefit professional historians,
high school teachers, and students of history.
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- Library of Congress
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In case you
didn't know, The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal
cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress.
It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120
million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The
collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million
recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million
manuscripts. You name it, they got it!
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- EyeWitness
- This Web site was developed so that users could
"experience an historical event through the words of those who
witnessed it." The site includes eyewitness stories and accounts
such as "The Death of John Wilkes Booth," "U-boat Attack," "On
Safari with Theodore Roosevelt," and "The Murder of Thomas Becket."
"The Battle of Gettysburg" for example, which is told by a young
girl, and "The Nazi Occupation of Poland", which is told by a
physician---are described by average people, not generals, leaders
or history scholars; that will appeal to students.
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- The History Net
- Offered by the National
Historical Society and About.com, this well-organized covers a
diverse set of topics in World and American history. Noteworthy
features include a picture gallery, archives, links to full-text
historical magazines, eyewitness historical accounts, special
features and book reviews
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Daily Geography
Quiz
- A special thanks to Mr. Jeff
Harris for this site...commercial site that gives $60 daily to the
first person to correctly answer their geography quiz. They
provide up to four clues over the course of the day. If you
figure out the place they are talking about BEFORE the fourth hint,
you win!
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The
Living Room Candidate
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traces the history of presidential campaign commercials
from their beginnings in 1952 to the present. More than 180 digitized
commercials are presented in their entirety, along with analysis, historical
background, and results from each election. You will need at least a
cable modem to view these commercials. We suggest using the Real
Video option as well--the Windows Media option freezes too often.
Soon you will be singing, " I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike
for President!"
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- Ad*Access
- presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements
printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television,
Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent
view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved
in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University.
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Culture
Matters Workbook
- Teachers and students in classrooms from
8th grade to college can benefit from the cross-cultural training workbook,
Culture Matters, specifically developed by the Peace Corps to help new
Volunteers acquire the knowledge and skills to work successfully and
respectfully in other cultures.
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PBS Frontline
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Frontline has served as PBS's flagship public affairs
series. Hailed upon its debut as "the last best hope for broadcast
documentaries," this site provides you with a
summary of all the stories covered over the 20 years--some of the shows are
available for viewing online.
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Not by Bread Alone
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You can tell a lot about a culture by its
eating habits. That's why the Cornell University Library put
together this exhibit of rare books, photographs,
advertisements, and other documents about gastronomy in America.
Start with the simplistic cookbooks published between the 16th
and early 19th centuries. Then discover how America evolved from
a frontier economy with simple tastes to a society that began to
embrace fine French cooking late in the 1800s. America's puritan
heritage played out in the Victorian temperance movements, but
cocktail culture returned with a vengeance in the 1930s. Food
tastes even show up in fashion, or at least in society's
attitudes towards corpulence and leanness. Throughout the 20th
century, technology, and food processing all had a dramatic
impact on our dinner table. This exhibit shows that America's
culinary heritage is a rich stew that's been simmering for
nearly 400 years.
(Yahoo picks for December 22, 2002)
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Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman
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Leonardo da Vinci accomplished much more in his
lifetime than just painting the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa. To
honor the artist, the Metropolitan Museum of Art designed an exhibit that
showcases 140 of his drawings; 40 of these
images are available online. This ultimate Renaissance man lived a long
and productive
life, yet was legendary for his inability to finish projects. He
completed only 15 paintings, but his drawings number four times the body of
work of even the most prolific draftsmen during his era. Even when he was
alive, collectors sought these beautiful and technically precise drawings.
For example, the
Codex Leicester notebook illustrates Leonardo's skill as an engineer and
his interest in science. For further detail on this master's life, a number
of experts offer comments about Leonardo's works in the
audio guide.
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