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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Tailoring Employment Documents for a Specific Audience
Excellent lesson that describes how to organize and emphasize specific documents for a potential employer. Includes organized and sequential steps to compiling a successful credential file.
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Adobe: Page Maker Tutorial Hyperlinking Documents in Page Maker
Are you looking to add hyperlinks to your online documents? Use this site to learn the basics of adding linked information to your PageMaker documents in this tutorial.
George Mason University
George Mason University: World History Sources: Official Documents
A guide to dissecting official documents. Learn how to find the author of documents, the primary audience, and other important information.
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Digital Docs in a Box: Westward Expansion at Its Impact on Native Americans
With the documents and images contained in this Doc Box, students can inquire, investigate and create documentaries exploring expansion and the impact on Native Americans. With the detailed documents describing the general view of Native...
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Images of the American Revolution
The National Archives and Records Administration provides a lesson plan on the American Revolution. Content includes excellent historical background, as well as several primary source documents, pictures, and engravings detailing various...
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Wiwhc: Documenting Women's Lives Anglo Saxon England
Interesting activity using excerpts from a variety of primary sources to have students draw conclusions about the lives of women in Anglo-Saxon England.
George Mason University
George Mason University: World History Sources: Newspapers
Discover how historians use newspapers and learn about the development of the modern newspaper. Get answers to many questions about different newspapers.
Library of Congress
Loc: Policies and Problems of the Confederation Government
This teacher resource includes imagesand historical documents, alllowing readers to trace the creation of our government from the Continental Congress through the Articles of Confederation. An overview helps to clarify the policies and...
Henry J. Sage
Sage American History: The Progressive Era: 1896 1920
A comprehensive and detailed look at the changing political, social and economic landscape during the Progressive Era, 1896-1920. Readers will find well-organized links to readings, documents and external sources.
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Indiana County History Preservation Society: History of Indiana
An in-depth look at the first 100 years of Indiana statehood. Includes general information about the history of the state, important landmarks, historical documents, key events, the story of New Harmony, and much more. (Some pages...
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Adobe: Customize Your Adobe Pdf Files With Styles
Make Adobe PDF files for varied uses with styles. Start with an Adobe InDesign document and then create styles for different output. This tip sheet shows you how.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Letters From Frontier: Primary Documents
George Catlin made extensive observations on the various native peoples that he encountered on his travels in the West. He recorded his experiences in letters and notes. These documents provide us with critical information on the culture...
PBS
Pbs Frontline: The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua & Felicitas
The actual prison diary of a young Christian women who as killed in Carthage in 202 C.E. for her religious beliefs. Excellent primary source document.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Jewish Soldiers in the Allied Armies
Approximately 1.5 millions Jews fought with the Allied powers in WWII. Read a synopsis and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, artifacts, and documents pertaining to the Jewish soldiers.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M4: L4: And This! Inserting Objects and Content
In Module 4 Lesson 4 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to insert text, graphics, and charts into a spreadsheet. They will learn how to import and export data and images between different types of documents. Includes a...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Reconstruction and Rights
Historical documents give evidence to the question of rights in the South following the Civil War. Historical narratives and government reports tell of giving the male slaves the right to vote and hold office while denying these rights...
Library of Congress
Loc: Learning Page: Civil War Soldiers' Stories
Included here are primary source documents that tell the story of Civil War soldiers in their own words. These historic documents tell why men and boys joined so enthusiastically, and what trials and suffering were endured.
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The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery: The Earhart Project
The Earhart Project is an international group of scientists, historians, and other individuals who are investigating whether there is any truth behind the idea that Amelia Earhart and her flight navigator, Fred Noonan, might have been...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Andrew Jackson
The Library of Congress presents a brief biography of Andrew Jackson, with portraits, additional articles about his life, and photos of documents from their archives.
City University of New York
Chinese Cultural Studies: Confucius Kongfuzi: The Analects, Excerpts
Provides a large number of excerpts from the "Analects" by Confucius. These quotes are divided into seven themes of Confucian teaching, humaneness, the superior man, rites, music, learning and teaching, government, and rectifying the...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing for a North American Business Audience
This lesson gives guidelines for business writing in Western (North American) culture. From Purdue University.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Purdue University: Tone in Business Writing
Excellent resource for those interested in professional, business, or technical writing. Gives definition, uses, and guidelines for the element of tone in a written work.
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The Great War Primary Document Archive: York, Alvin C. Sergeant
Offers a brief biographical sketch of Sergeant Alvin C. York who fought in France during World War I.
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Famsi: Proyecto Santa Barbara, Yucatan, Mx (2001)
Structures documented indicate Puuc style architecture.