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Digital
History is committed to providing high-quality historical resources
for teachers and students for free and without advertising. We
have been fortunate to develop partnerships with a number of archives and
museums that share this vision and have granted us permission to draw upon
their resources
We have created
a host of new resources that allow students to do history.
These include:
Annotated
documents in Asian American history
Supplementing
our extensive collections of texts in African American,
Mexican American, and Native American history, Asian American
Voices includes a timeline of Asian American History, biographies of
key individuals, and a guide to Asian American history resources
on the World Wide Web.
Historical
music
Our
site includes a massive collection of pre-1923 copyright-free
music plus links to other historical music that is available
on the World Wide Web. Among the hundreds of pieces included
on our site are spirituals, Tin Pan Alley songs, parlor music,
folk songs, band music, and songs of the Civil War, World War
I, and World War II.
eXplorations
These
are inquiry-based, interactive modules designed to give students
the opportunity to do history: to conduct research, analyze
primary sources, and draw their own conclusions.
There
are units on such subjects as: Zheng He, Timbuctu, Cahokia,
Columbus and the Columbian exchange, fugitive slave and indentured
servant advertisements, Pocahontas, Squanto, music and the American
Revolution, the Alamo, Indian removal, children and the westward
movement, children and the Civil War, the late 19th century
West, turn of the century, photography as history, lynching,
Worlds Fairs and history, and children of the Great Depression,
and many other topics.
User-Created
Online American History Exhibitions
Students
and teachers can create multimedia presentation featuring
historical images from our extensive database, which currently
contains over 600 photographs, art works, and digitized letters.
Users can easily incorporate their own text in their exhibitions.
These presentationscan be e-mailed, downloaded, or saved on
our servers.
Trailers
of Historically Significant Films
Hollywood
has shaped our most vivid images of the historical past. Our
collection of film trailers allows users to see how the film
studios promoted the films that are most deeply impressed in
our collective imagination.
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