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Declaration of Independence [1776] (Wordle)
This is a wordle visualization of the final text of the Declaration of Independence. The final text of the Declaration of Independence was…
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Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
The Soviet Gulag existed neither as a single unified experience, nor as a single unified institution. This massive and lethal machine influenced the…
Lower East Side Tenement Museum Virtual Tour
It was easy to overlook 97 Orchard Street. The building was but one of the thousands of tenements that sprouted up on the Lower East Side during the…
A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
During the opening months of World War II, almost 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of them citizens of the United States, were forced out of…
Mapping Colonial America
Explore colonial maps from Colonial Williamsburg's collection in an online exhibition that includes maps dated from 1587 to 1782. The online…
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
In the pre-dawn hours of February 29, 1704, a force of about 300 French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of…
New Media Consortium: Horizon Reports
The Horizon Project, as the centerpiece of NMC's Emerging Technologies Initiative, charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching,…
Google Docs
This cloud software allows individuals and groups to share and edit word processed documents. Documents can be shared privately or published to the…
Social Explorer
Social Explorer is a premier U.S. demographics website. Our online tools help you visually analyze and understand the demography of the…
True North: Mapping Minnesota's History
With the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in collaboration with Minnesota's Land Management Information Center, the…
Digital Storyteller
A digital story combines text and images with narration in the student’s own voice to form a short digital movie.
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This site includes materials related to teaching history and historical thinking skills with Web 2.0 tools. They were assembled originally for a talk given at the National Council for History Education Annual Meeting, in Boston, MA on March 13, 2009. Use the Registration/Login in the upper right hand corner to add notes to items and collect them into your own personal collection.
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Resources
This collection includes some websites and sources of digital history materials.…