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Brown University
Brown University Library: Lincolniana at Brown
Digital archive of newspapers, objects, graphics, letters, and similar resources that document Lincoln's life and legacy. Browse the collection to find newspaper reports of Lincoln's assassination, badges of mourning worn at his funeral,...
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Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
The Densho Project is a digital archive of oral history interviews, historical photographs and related documents that captures, shares and preserves the experiences of Japanese Americans before, during and after World War II.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Race to the End of the Earth
Multimedia-rich exhibition documents the race, in 1911, to be the first to reach the South Pole. Two teams undertook the perilous journey, one British, led by Robert Scott, and one Norwegian, led by Roald Amundsen. With digital dioramas,...
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Widener University: The Nat Turner Project
The Nat Turner Project is a digital archive of primary source materials related to the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion, beginning with the experiences and living conditions of slaves prior to the revolt. The archive houses newspaper articles,...
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Musei Capitolini: Museum History
This museum is one of many under the umbrella of Rome City Council. It is also the oldest public museum in the world, having been established in 1471. Throughout the site, there is extensive information about its history and collections,...
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University of Southern Mississippi: De Grummond Children's Literature
The de Grummond Children's Literature Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the manuscript collection located at the University of Southern Mississippi. Includes illustrations, manuscripts, letters, photographs,...
Oklahoma State University
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture: Farm Security Administration
An overview of the ambitious goals of the Farm Security Administration as part of the New Deal. Find out the many ways the FSA wanted to help farmers help themselves. Because this article is from the Oklahoma Historical Society, special...
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Underwater Photography
"The most visited site for underwater photography since 1996." A great reference tool for equipment, images and information. There is an online photo course, equipment for sale, video, etc.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for middle schoolers of all levels.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
Everything you wanted to know and more about Harry S. Truman, from biographical information to love letters.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres and to support the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text
You will learn how to evaluate graphics for their clarity in communicating meaning and achieving a specific purpose.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Bio Media Associates: Learning Programs for Biology
This site provides photographs, animations, essays, teaching resources, multimedia, and other information about biological systems and organisms. It features a monthly contest and quiz in which students and teachers identify a mystery...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: The American Dream
With the help of digitized primary documents -- pictures, photograph, recordings, and written accounts -- students will explore and define what the "American Dream" meant for people over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth...
Library of Congress
Loc: Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
Digitized original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and contains approximately 130 items, including newspaper clippings, photographs, and a limited number of manuscript materials, collected between 1855-72.
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European Library: A Roma Journey
Digitized collection of materials (photographs, paintings, recordings, texts) communicates the essential character of Romany culture, with some documentation related to persecution of the Roma by the Nazis.
Brown University
Brown University: The James Koetting Ghana Field Recordings Collection
This project of digital recordings contains one of the largest collections of field recordings from Ghana; including recorded interviews, musical demonstrations, field notebooks, photographs, commentary, and other original source material
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Amsterdam Centre for Architecture
Follow this link to the homepage of the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, which puts a spotlight on architects, buildings, and urban developments in the Netherlands. Includes an interactive timeline and a digital map of prominent...
Kent State University
Kent State University: Kent State Shootings: May 4 Collection
A digital collection of newspaper articles, photographs, and videos about the May 4th shooting on Kent State campus.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: American Civil War Battles
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about American Civil War battles. Explore Civil War military conflicts on land and sea, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox. Use maps and documents to...
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Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.
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Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Multiflash Photography
These methods illustrate different ways to do multiflash photography, where the camera creates successive images at regular time intervals on a single frame.
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Do History: Using Primary Sources
This site explains the difference between a primary and secondary source. It also provides students with questions to ask when gathering evidence about a primary source document.
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Montana State University: Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
"The Native Peoples of Northern Great Plains Digital Images Database includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's."