George Mason University: Digital History: A Guide

Reference guide material discusses how to research, write and read for history.

Through the context of history, a collection of speeches, assignments, and additional resources students will use this learning module to determine whether Richard Nixon helped or hurt the United States during his presidency despite his...

Tenth graders analyze different types of photographs. For this Digital Records lesson, 10th graders create a digital history of a specific topic in World History. Students present their story boards to the class. 

This letter from George Mason shows his Anti-Federalist opinions and opposition to a planned centralized government.

Digital History tells the story of children's lives during the Civil War through their own words. The eight sections are titled: Child Soldiers, Conditions in the Contraband Camps, The Southern Homefront, the Northern Homefront, Near the...

This Digital History article provides a complete picture of Italian immigration, looking at reasons for immigration and the areas Italians were likely to live and work.

Digital History provides a short article written about whether women gaining the right to vote made a difference in the election of 1920 and the issues of that decade.

Explore women's history through films and filmmaking. An innovative research project prompts class members to create their own screenplay about a figure in women's history. After outlining their characters, settings, and plots, young...

This site has a comprehensive overview of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., including information on Osama bin Laden's background, the formation of Al Qaeda, the attacks themselves, the US response, civil liberties and national...

A rich collection of streaming video samples of television news footage from 1950 to 1970, along with an assortment of primary source documents, first-person accounts, a glossary of terms, and essays and analysis for learning about the...