Digital History>Credits
Credits
This Web site was designed and
developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12
schools and colleges and is supported by the College of Education
at the University of Houston.
Information
about citing Digital History
The materials on this Web site
include a U.S.
history textbook; over 400 annotated
documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, supplemented by
primary sources on
slavery,
Mexican
American, Asian
American, and Native
American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal
history; succinct essays on the history
of film, ethnicity,
private
life, and technology;
multmedia
exhibitions; and reference resources that include a database
of annotated links, classroom
handouts, chronologies,
glossaries,
an audio archive including speeches
and book
talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds
of
historical
maps and images.
Our
website offers a variety of ways for students and teachers
to
actually do history. We have created 72 inquiry-based interactive
modules that we call eXplorations.
These modules provide extensive primary sources on such topics
as Mexican, Tejano, and Texian perspectives on the battle of the
Alamo; Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to relocate Japanese Americans
during World War II and the Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to escalate
American involvement in the Vietnam War in 1964 and 1965; and
children's perspectives on slavery, westward migration, and World
War II.
We also allow students and teachers to create multimedia American
history exhibitions. These exhibitions can include 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 presentations
can be e-mailed, downloaded, or saved on our servers.
Digital
History offers many other ways to engage students in the study
of history, from fact checks (multiple choice quizzes on every
era of American history), to 19th
century high school entrance examinations, a
time machine, an
interactive timeline that links to primary source documents,
and a
flash overview of American history.
For
teachers, we have created learning
modules, each of which includes a succinct historical overview;
recommended documents, films, and historic images; and teaching
resources including lesson plans,fact checks, and activities.
The
site also contains resource
guides for historical eras and topics. Each includes a
historical overview, links to the relevant Digital History textbook
chapters, bibliographies, classroom handouts, charts, chronologies,
film guides,historic newspaper articles, primary source documents,
lesson plans, historic maps, music, cartoons, quizzes, and images.
This site was created by a collaborative
team:
Historical
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Steven
Mintz
Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning, University of Texas System
Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin |
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Site
Design and Curriculum Development |
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Sara
McNeil
Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Houston |
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Engines
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John
Lienhard
M.D.
Anderson Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Houston |
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Database
Development and Cold Fusion Coding |
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Grace
Lin
Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii |
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Technical
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Michael Rapp
University of Houston |
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