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Indiana Historical Society: Digital Image Collections

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Vast database of images and artifacts tells the story of Indiana and its people. Search by keyword or browse preset special collections of notable Hoosiers, the history of African Americans in Indiana, or Indiana military history, among...
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Digital Imaging in Education

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource is a 15-page PDF that gives a good history of the shift from film to digital photography and applications for digital imaging in the classroom. Included are nine lesson plans which include project ideas, guidelines for...
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Library of Congress

World Digital Library: United States History: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials presented on a timeline that showcase events in the history of the United States from 1625 on. Click on an image to go to a page with descriptive information about each item. Each description has...
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Library of Congress

World Digital Library: United States History: Map

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that explore a wide scope of events in the history of the United States from 1492 on. Click on any numbered circle and a popup appears showing one or more thumbnails and where the...
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Library of Congress

World Digital Library: Chinese Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Prints: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials presented on a timeline that explore the history of China from 1200 B.C. to 1931. Click on an image to go to a page with descriptive information about each item. Each description has an audio...
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Gutenberg Digital: Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Bible

For Students 9th - 10th
An incredible website offering the entire Gutenberg Bible, information about Gutenberg and the history of printing. Rich variety of images and a wealth of information. Loading times will be slow, so be patient. Interactive and complete -...
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Rochester Images: The Erie Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of digitized images that reflect the time and life on the Erie Canal.
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From History to Her Story:yorkshire Women's Lives Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Showcased are the lives of women in Yorkshire, England, from the 2nd century CE to the present day. The site presents 85,000 digitized images and microfilmed documents from the collections of the archives and libraries in and around...
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Library of Congress

World Digital Library: World History: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials presented on a timeline that showcase events in the history of the world beginning with Moses and the Ten Commandments in 1240 B.C. Click on an image to go to a page with descriptive information...
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Library of Congress

World Digital Library: World History: Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of primary source materials linked to a map that explore a wide scope of events in the history of the world. Click on any numbered circle and a popup appears showing one or more thumbnails and where the material is located....
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University of Virginia: Rome Reborn 2.0

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource presents 3D digital models that have been created to illustrate the urban development of ancient Rome. Follow the history of this project, chose the time period to re-create, and view the photo gallery of images.
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New York Public Library: Images of African Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
An image database that includes pictures of African Americans from the 19th Century. Each image includes a description.
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University of California

University of California, Davis: The History Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The History Project is a growing collection of lesson plans, teaching tools, digitized images, and documents for the teaching of history. Includes assignments for having students apply analytical skills to primary sources.
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A Gathering of Nations: Images of History of the Indian Tribes of North America

For Students 9th - 10th
A selection of twenty-four images from The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, each representing a different Native American Nation. Each image is accompanied by a brief description.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Basic Concepts in Optical Microscopy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the microscope in great detail. Content includes a focus on the microscope's basic functions (including a general diagram), the history of the microscope, each feature of the microscope, differing objectives,...
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Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Did World War Ii Advance Minorities, Women, and Poor?

For Students 9th - 10th
A unit probing into the progressive development of women, minorities, and the poor as a result of World War II. Pore over documents and images, circumstances, probing questions to understand what might have caused the societal...
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Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Who Won? Student Protest and Politics of Campus Dissent

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore American college students' political views, convictions, and concerns in the midst of the war in Vietnam through several articles, images, further reading, and writing assignments. Student protests on campuses across the nation...
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Alberta Airphoto Collection, 1922 1956

For Students 9th - 10th
The Alberta Airphoto Collection consists of around 30,000 public domain images from the University of Calgary Library's collection of airphotos. The images cover urban areas at various scales and years between 1924 and 1952. These...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Elizabeth Venditto, "Immigrant Stories: Ways of Preserving and Teaching"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article focuses teaching student to create digital immigrant stories. Immigrant Stories teaches participants to create digital stories about their personal or family immigration experiences. Digital stories are brief (3-5 minute)...
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Archives & Museum Informatics: The Digital Hammurabi Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the Digital Hammurabi Project at The Johns Hopkins University. Its purpose is to advance scanning technology in order to produce high-quality 3-D images of cuneiform tablets, and to store these in a digital library...
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Digital History

Digital History: America's Reconstruction

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Reconstruction provided by the University of Houston. Provides images and the political climate that occurred during this part of American History.
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Digital History

Digital History: Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the testimony of a Pueblo Indian, captured by the Spanish after the Revolt of 1680, giving his ideas of why the Indians attacked the Spanish and destroyed the images of Christianity they found.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Ending of Reconstruction

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 1870's, violent opposition in the South and the North's retreat from its commitment to equality, resulted in the end of Reconstruction. By 1876, the nation was prepared to abandon its commitment to equality for all citizens...
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Digital History

Digital History: From Slave Labor to Free Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. Learn how plantation owners and freed slaves adapted to this massive shift in the...