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Teachers can find accessible texts at the following websites:

__**The Gilder Lehrman**__ Institute, an online history journal – look on the left hand side for Past Issues, also lesson plan data base [] **__PBS__** Teacher lesson plans often include CASE STUDIES that ask students to read more than watch – look to the right hand side for CONTENTS Case Studies [] **__EBSCO HOST__** – not just for student research! Great for current articles. Located through InfOhio Teachers can find many useful articles about many useful topics that relate to specific courses. Choose Resources for 9 – 12. Choose EbscoHost. Choose All Database Search. Choose a database that fits your subject. @http://www.infohio.org/ **__New York Times__** – also has teacher lesson plans based on recent articles. [] Try searching for a unit topic in **__Google and add BLOG__** to get some biased take on a subject. Interesting and usually pretty timely. Great for identifying bias. []

TEACHERS CAN FIND A MULTITUDE OF PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIAL AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES

Oral History from Vietnam American in Vietnam - try student from Marc Selverstone!!! great resources!!! Our Courts - Superb lessons Examining Primary Sources Internet Movie Archive - great for Suburban Advertising in the 1950s Examining US History and Accelerating Student Learning

New Deal Posters

Thomas Nast

Harper's Weekly

Outreach Resources for Workshops

American Memory from the Library of Congress

Our Documents

Centennial Exhibition Digital Collection

How Stuff Works.com - what you missed in History Class

Back Story with the American History guys

American FolklIfe Center

PBS Webisodes

Mike Wallace Interviews

Supreme Court Cases

Audio Sounds

American Rhetoric - speech database!

History Matters - Making Sense of Documents

Federal Resources for Educators

History Now - resources for articles on American History topics

Lincoln's Virtual History

Museum of Westward Expansion from the National Parks Service

Oral History from Baylor

Oral History How To

Toolkit for Oral History

Miller Center White House Tapes - Presidential recordings

The American President

Presidential Oral History

Cuban Missile Crisis Primary Sources

Cuban History Timeline (Revolution to 2007)

Kennedy on South Vietnam Coup 1963 Primary Sources

Sounds of History lesson plan archive

The History Net

Extensive Women's History by Era

Little Rock 9 lesson from Zinn Project

Teaching Tolerance

US HISTORY SITES

World War II: Experiences from the Front and At Home be sure to click enter site then Enter Multimedia Version of this Site - mid page link

Japanese Internment NPR story

Cold War Culture

Early America

TECHNOLOGY FOR SOUNDS

Audacity - free software download that allows you to CLIP audio files, save them as WAV files or MP3s - add LAME plug in for best results

Voice Thread - This is a way for students to add voice to slide shows. FREE - does require a microphone to plug into your computer.

Glogster - This is a way for students to create posters online in a video format. FREE SERVICE MUST REGISTER!

PREZI - a different and less linear version of powerpoint -can add video and sound

Screencast- nice place to store larger files on line. FREE

Animoto - animate a 30 second slide show FREE - better with paid upgrade

Photo Story for Windows - animate photograph/slide show - FREE DOWNLOAD

Picasa - photograph animation FREE

WORLD HISTORY RESOURCES

African History Crisis in Haiti Pod Cast Women in World History Primary Sources Not primary sources, but nice place to begin for History of Empires WORLD EVENTSo in political cartons 1940s - 1960s Jus In Bello lesson The War for Educators Office of the Historian located in the State Department - great Thematic information! US State Department Educators Site HOWARD ZINN

Service Learning
ugive.org

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working thesis for next year's AP US History course: The United States has

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