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This website is based on the work of Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife’s Tale focused on an ordinary midwife, Martha Ballard, who lived in Maine in the late 1700s. Ulrich pieced together a full story of the midwife’s life and her world based on a diary that she left behind. The website emphasizes the techniques that Ulrich used. -
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Harvard’s Open Collections Program brings together thousands of primary sources from the university’s libraries and allows users to search and view them online. This extensive collection of historical material is available to the public free of charge. The site includes manuscripts, books, and images on the subjects of “Women and Work, 1800-1930" and "Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930." -
2voteThis collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world. These lesson plans are also included in GEM, which links to over 40,000 online education resources.
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3voteGoogle Earth is a fabulous software application that allows the user to view different areas of the world via satellite images. The user is able to significantly zoom in and out of locations with remarkable graphics.
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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) web site for educators is an amazing resource for teacher and students of American history and civics. The site features everything from primary documents (original Brown v. Board of Ed. decision, Washington’s Farewell Address…all the good ones) to lesson plans for different era to interactive online activities. -
1voteAn annotated bibliography of suggested online history resources, screened for content accuracy. Links are organized by historical content area, with a section for teachers with recommended sites to assist with lesson planning. Some of the link categories are subdivided into more specific subject matter groupings, and all links are rankon a five star system and include descriptions.
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