Digital History Websites

advertisement
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the past on the Web
Daniel Cohen & Roy Rosenzweig
On-line version of text available: http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/index.php
Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
An extensive web project by John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History Steven
Mintz in combination with John Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Sara McNeil, Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction from
the University of Houston. It is designed to engage students more forms of media and
actively immerse them in the learning process. This website is a large compilation of
multiple historical tools, documents, links and multimedia of American History.
Digital History: http://digitalhistory.unl.edu/about.html
Digital history is an emerging and rapidly changing academic field. The purpose of this
site is to educate scholars and the public about the state of the discipline by providing
access to:
 Presentations about the field by noted scholars
 Interviews with scholars about topics related to digital history
 Information about many aspects of digital history, including reviews of
major online projects and reviews of tools which may be of use to digital
historians
 A clearinghouse of current events and news items of interest
 A selected bibliography of Digital History resources
The site is made available through the support of the John and Catherine Angle
Fund and received production assistance from the New Media Center at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
EDSITEment: http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Humanities on the Web from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
Verizon Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources
from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities
directly to your classroom.
Doing History: http://dohistory.org/
Doing History is a creative historical experience built around Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's
work on Martha Ballard, an American midwife from the Northeast.
The site demonstrates how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived
based on a case study: Martha Ballard. The site also includes a section called On Your Own that
provides a History Tool Kit and links to good resources.
http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/index.html
Thinkfinity: Verizon Foundation Free Educational Resources
http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx?ShowIndex=Yes
Download