Resources for Teachers
U.S. and World History
History/Education 188C
Teaching the Past: History Pedagogy
May 29, 2003
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Librarian Contacts:
| Joan Ariel
History & Women's Studies Librarian 386 Main Library 824-4970 jariel@uci.edu |
Ellen Broidy
[UCI History Librarian 1985-2000] History & Women's Studies Bibliographer UCLA ejbroidy@library.ucla.edu |
Stephanie Davis-Kahl
Research Librarian for Education Outreach and SPIRIT Librarian 396 Main Library 824-9826 sdaviska@uci.edu |
This guide provides an introduction to freely available web-based resources
for primary materials in U.S. and World History useful in elementary and
secondary curriculum. It also includes sections on representative sources
licensed for the UCI Libraries and thus not available via remote access
except with UCI Net ID. However, these sources may be of general
interest and may be used within the UCI Libraries.
Note: It is linked from UCI Libraries website/Services/Workshops
& Classes/Library Instruction for UCI Classes/Web Pages & Handouts
Contents:
| 1. Sources for Historical Research: Review |
| 2. Website Identification and Evaluation |
| 2.1. Definitions |
Everything you always wanted to know about....
The Living Internet
"...web site is designed to make accessible, in-depth
information about the Internet available to everyone around the world.
"
Includes key definitions (e.g., internet, web, email,
MUDS, etc.) as well as history, design, basic and advanced usage, and other
information.
| 2.2. Access and Identification |
Search Engines: A handy list of search engines with links located on the UCI Libraries Website.
Selective web directories often can be even more useful. These include:
| 2.3. Selection, Evaluation and Citation |
Websites and internet resources, like any other "publication," require critical asssessment and evaluation. Before you begin, consider criteria for evaluating these sites and their sources and information including the following:
| 2.4. Citing Web resources |
Many style manuals now include sections on how to cite Web/internet resources. The UCI Libraries website provides a sampling of the more important Dictionaries, Styles, Manuals.
For instance, the MLA provides instructions to cite
web pages. Click on "Frequently Asked Questions", then click
on "How do I document sources from the World Wide Web?"
| 3. History General: Selected Web Resources |
The following sites are generally available free to the public. They may provide leads to primary and/or secondary sources as well as graphic images for curriculum projects. Please keep in mind that the Web is HUGE and the sites below are extremely selective. Use links from these pages and the search engine(s) and web directories listed in Section #2 above to expand on this list. Remember to apply search strategy principles that you have used in searching other resources, e.g., careful selection and combination of key words, etc.
American
and British History Resources on the Internet
Produced by the History and Political Science librarian
at Rutgers, includes full-text documents by period and subject sections
on Women's History, and others of possible interest.
Early Modern
Women Database
Provides links to Web resources useful for the study
of women in early modern Europe and the Americas. It focuses on the period
ca. 1500 to ca. 1800. Resources have been selected for their scholarly
value by librarians of the Arts and Humanities Team of the University of
Maryland Libraries. Materials range from bibliographic databases to full-text
resources, images, and sound recordings. Most of the resources linked here
are free. Some require a license for access.
Eighteenth-Century
Resources
Aimed especially at scholars and students, this collection
of websites by Jack Lynch at Rutgers includes information on literature,
history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around
the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on
eighteenth-century topics.
The History Place
Includes graphics, photos, timelines for U.S. History
including American Revolution, Civil War, etc.
H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences
Online
Teaching section includes extensive collection of teaching
resources including teaching focused discussion network (one focuses on
teaching High School history), H-Net regional teaching centers, syllabi,
links, conference papers on multimedia teaching, and web-based teaching
projects.
HyperHistory
Online
Provides 2,000 files covering 3,000 years of world history
with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.
An amazing site with useful links and information integrated throughout.
For example, click on History among left hand navigation buttons, then
choose a time period.
Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
"One of series of history primary sourcebooks. It is
intended to serve the needs of teachers and students in college survey
courses in modern European history and American history, as well as in
modern Western Civilization and World Cultures...efforts have been made
to include contemporary narrative accounts, personal memoirs, songs, newspaper
reports, as well as cultural, philosophical, religious and scientific documents.
Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important
to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians
and gays are also well represented here." For more information, click
on
Introduction from top page.
Includes among many other sections:
The National Archives Learning
Curve (U.K.)
Learning Curve is an on-line teaching resource, structured
to tie in with the British History National Curriculum from Key
Stages 2 to 5. The Learning Curve contains a varied range of original sources
including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings. Includes
an index for American audience, teacher's guide, and other useful links
and resources.
Voice of the Shuttle:
History Page
An excellent gateway to many web resources for history.
Provides access by geographic area as well as selected topics and teaching
resources. "VoS
is woven by Alan
Liu of the U. California, Santa Barbara, English Department, with a
team of department graduate students and others. "
World History
Archives
"Documents for teaching and learning about world history
from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective." The site is
arranged geographically and includes The World; Asia and Oceana; The Americas;
Africa; and Europe.
World Wide Web Virtual Library
History Index
An integrated and international network of indexes to
history materials online. The oldest historical information resource
on the Internet. Access components include: Countries and Regions; Eras
and Epochs; Historical Topics; and Research: Methods and Materials.
Note: The Art section includes many websites providing
graphics and images.
| 4. U.S. History: Selected Web Resources |
| 4.1. General Sources |
The following list is just a sampling; there are many more "out there" waiting to be discovered.
American Memory: Historical Collections
for the National Digital Library
A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to
the history and culture of the United States with special sections
on how to incorporate these resources into lesson plans. The site offers
more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Covers a wide range of topics including immigration, Civil War, African
Americans, Japanese Internment, folk music, Thomas Jefferson, to name just
a few, providing texts and images.
American Women's History: A Research Guide Digital Collections of Primary Sources
Digital Scriptorium:
Duke University
includes, for instance:
Ad*Access
(1911-1955)
African-American
Women
Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement
Emergence
of Advertising in America, 1850-1920
Documents in
Law, History, and Government: The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Provides some useful documents in
U.S. history arranged by time period: pre-18th century; 18th century; 19th
century; 20th century; and 21st century. Includes a search engine.
From Revolution to Reconstruction
and What Happened Afterward
A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period
until Modern Times produced by the Department of Humanities Computing,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands. "The main body of this hypertext
project, which was started in 1994, comes from a number of USIA-publications:
An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An
Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature.
The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched
with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet
sites, and to other Outlines."
The Making of America
"Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary
sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education,
psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000
journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major
collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical
texts."
Online Archive of California
"A core component of the California Digital Library,
the Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource
that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts,
photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and
other institutions across California. The OAC is available to a broad spectrum
of users -students, teachers, and researchers of all levels."
| 4.2. Resources on Specific Topic/History Areas: A Brief Sampling |
In addition to the examples listed above, the following offer more disclipline and/or topic specific sources and information.
American Civil War:
Valley of the Shadow:
Two Communities in the American Civil War
"The Valley of the Shadow Project takes two communities,
one Northern and one Southern, through the experience of the American Civil
War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources for the
period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta County, Virginia,
and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources include newspapers, letters,
diaries, photographs, maps, church records, population census, agricultural
census, and military records. Students can explore every dimension of the
conflict and write their own histories, reconstructing the life stories
of women, African Americans, farmers, politicians, soldiers, and families.
The project is intended for secondary schools, community colleges, libraries,
and universities."
American Revolution:
The History Place: American Revolution
Liberty the American Revolution
Includes:
American Memory:
"California As I Saw It"
First person narratives
American Memory: Early California History
California History Online
California Historical Society
Counting California.
1850-
A California Digital Library initiative committed to
enhancing California citizens' access to the growing range of social science
and economic data produced by government agencies. In a departure from
more static formats, Counting California's single interface enables users
access to actual raw data compiled by federal, state, and local agencies,
and also allows users to collate and integrate data by topic, geography,
title, and provider.
Online Archive of California (OAC)
"A digital information resource that facilitates and
provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works
of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across
California. The OAC includes a single, searchable database of "finding
aids" to primary sources and their digital facsimiles. Primary sources
include letters, diaries, manuscripts, legal and financial records, photographs
and other pictorial items, maps, architectural and engineering records,
artwork, scientific logbooks, electronic records, sound recordings, oral
histories artifacts and ephemera."
Immigration:
American Family History Center:
Ellis Island
Located in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and on
the World Wide Web, the American FamilyImmigration History Center (AFIHC)
allows visitors to explore the extraordinary collection of immigrant arrival
records stored in the Ellis Island Archives.
Native Americans:
WWW Virtual Library:
American Indians
An index of several thousand organized links to Native
American and related websites
American Indian History
and Related Issues
This world wide site is a developing site supervised
by Professor Troy Johnson and is dedicated to the presentation of unique
artwork, photographs, video and sound recordings which accurately reflect
the history, culture and richness of the Native American experience in
North America and has been expanded to include Indian people of Central
America and Mexico
| 5. World History: Selected Web Resources |
The Cold War:
The National Archives Learning Curve: The Cold War
Economic History:
The Food Timeline
The Food Timeline was created in response to students,
parents and teachers who frequently ask our librarians for help locating
food history and period recipes ... Description: Origins of foods, historic
recipes, extensive teaching resources and web links.
Medieval History and Early Modern History:
Diotma: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Early Modern World
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Early Modern West
Medieval History
An Award winning Educational Reference site to research
all aspects of Medieval History
WWW Virtual Library History Index Medieval World
Revolutions:
The Development
of Civilization - World History - Revolutions
Includes sections with many resources and links: American
Revolution; French Revolution; Political Revolution; Scientific Revolution;
Art.
Social
History: Revolutions and Social Movements
Part of the Open Directory Project, "the largest, most
comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web." Includes links
to sites on a number of different revolutions.
Vietnam War:
The Vietnam War Internet Project
World Wars:
Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II
World War I Document
Archive
Archive of primary documents from World War I assembled
by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). "International
in focus and intends to present in one location primary documents concerning
the Great War." Includes WWI Image Archive with flags, medals, maps
and photographs.
| 6. Additional Curriculum Resources |
Asian Educational Media
Service
Media materials for "learning and teaching about the
cultures and peoples of Asia." You may search by Region or Country,
Subject (including History), Title Words, Media Type, and Audience.
Bring History
Alive
Profiles two sourcebooks for teaching World and U.S.
History in grades 5-12 from National Center for History in the Schools.
Website includes 3 examples from World History and 3 from U.S. History.
Film and Video Media Resources
Guide to Finding
and Using Educational Films for Humanities and Social Science Educators
Linked from the AEMS website above, "this tutorial is
intended to help educators, particularly those who teach history and global
studies, better locate and use documentaries and feature films. Simply
choose the region you are interested in teaching, and you will be directed
to a comprehensive list of media centers and film distributors that carry
educational videos about that area. After selecting suitable videos, click
on Using Educational Films, for a list of sites that discuss how to best
utilize them in the classroom."
History Channel
Provides media resources on history, many useful for
teaching. Includes a classroom section with a search engine, study
guides, discussions.
Facets
One of the nation’s largest distributors of over 40,000
foreign, classic, cult, art, and hard-to-find videos.
Movies Unlimited
An extremely large distributor of videos and DVDs, many
quite reasonably priced. Browse By Category feature includes a section
on Historical and War with the option to browse by decade or subject.
PBS Teacher Source
Includes lesson plans and activities
PBS:
History for Teachers
Media for teaching history on Shop PBS for Teachers.
| 7. Selected Full-Text Electronic Resources Available at UCI |
Note: These resources are licensed to UCI/UC; they are available to the general public from within the UCI Libraries. Again, this is a sampling of resources we have available; happily new ones are being added all the time.
AccuNet/AP Photo Archive
The contents of AP Photo Archive includes Associated
Press's current-year photo report and a selection of pictures from a 50-million
image print and negative library dating from 1844-present. The archive
currently contains approximately 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary
images made since late 1995. The site also provides useful
curriculum resources including K-12 lesson plans, Teacher's
Guide to American History, etc.
African American
Newspapers: The 19th Century
Beginning in 1827 with the Freedom's Journal, the first
Black newspaper in America, this database includes biographical material,
essays and editorials concerning slavery and emancipation; social, political
and economic observations; poetry and prose; advertisements and other representations
of African American culture and experience in the 19th century.
American Civil War:
Letters and Diaries
Detailed firsthand descriptions of historical characters
and events, glimpses of daily life in the army, anecdotes about key events
and personages, and accounts of sufferings at home - and thousands of other
experiences. 100,000 pages of published memoirs, letters and diaries from
individuals plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished materials. Drawn
from over 500 sources including online resources and microform. 1,000+
biographies.
American Periodical
Series Online, 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines
and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Published between 1741 and 1900, the more than 1,000 titles include Benjamin
Franklin's General Magazine, the first American professional journals,
and several popular magazines still in publication, such as Vanity Fair,
Harper's, and Ladies' Home Journal. Users can trace America's transition
from colony to world power, or conduct in-depth research. Topics include:
Revolution and independence; Slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and
Jim Crow; Opening and settling the frontier; The changing role of women;
The short story as an emerging genre; Advances in medicine and technology;
Trends in politics, science, and religion.
Note: If the above link does
not work, go to CDL
list for history then link from American Periodical Series.
The Civil War:
A Newspaper Perspective November 1860 - April 1865
Drawing from both Union and Confederate newspapers published
between November 1, 1860 and April 30, 1865, this database contains more
than 12,000 articles and 700 maps. It covers 2,500 issues of The New York
Herald, The Charleston Mercury, and The Richmond Inquirer, encompassing
descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of
battles of the Civil War but also including non-military social and cultural
concerns of the day.
Early Encounters in North America:
People, Cultures and the Environment
Assembled from hundreds of primary sources, this database
documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North
America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts
and provides unique perspectives from all of the protagonists, including
traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, native peoples, and
officials, both men and women.
Early English Books Online
Citations from early English texts from 1475 to 1700,
presented as digital images. Includes works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus,
Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by
Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars,
and many other primary sources.Citations from early English texts from
1475 to 1700, presented as digital images. Includes works by Malory, Bacon,
More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell
and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs,
calendars, and many other primary sources.
Evans Digital Edition: Early American
Imprints, Series I (1639-1800)
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles
Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century
America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy,
literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft,
and more.
Gerritsen Collection, Women's
History Online, 1543-1945
Women's history in the world from 1543 to 1945. 4,700
publications from Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New
Zealand, tracing the evolution of feminism within a single country, as
well as the impact of one country's movement on those of the others.
Godey's Ladys
Book 1830-1865
The first successful American journal for women, Godey's
began in 1830, circulated for nearly seventy years and included contributions
from such celebrated writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allen Poe. It was also noted for
its handsome illustrations, which included hand-colored fashion plates,
mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts, and ultimately chromolithographs. Godey's
provides a significant source for the study of women's history, social
history, textile studies, and material culture and literature.
HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly,
1857-1912 full text; indexed 1857-1895)
The HarpWeek database provides full-image reproductions
of Harper's Weekly, one of the most important weekly magazines read by
Americans during the 19th Century. Besides coverage of news and opinion,
the database includes illustrations, cartoons, literature, biographies
and advertisements. Harper's employed noted artists like Winslow Homer
and the cartoonist Thomas Nast.
Historical New York
Times 1857-1999
Full-text access to the historical New York Times; a
goldmine of primary source material.
Historical Newspapers Online
Contains three major historical resources:
North American
Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950
When complete the collection will include approximately
150,000 pages of letters and diaries from individuals writing from
Colonial times to 1950. Represented are all age groups and life stages,
all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous.
The Pennsylvania
Gazette 1728-1800
Considered "the New York Times of the 18th century,"
Benjamin's Franklin's newspaper provides a unique first-hand view of the
social, political and cultural history of colonial America, the American
Revolution, and the New Republic. Also included is the full-text of such
important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution,
Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and The Federalist
Papers.
You may also check the following for UCI:
Electronic texts licensed to University of California
Selected
electronic text centers & projects
| 8. SPIRIT: School Partnerships in Research & Information Technology |
SPIRIT is designed to enhance the academic performance and university readiness of students in Orange County. The program works with high school teachers and librarians to teach their students library and information literacy skills that are essential for life long learning and academic success at the college or university level.
SPIRIT Mission and Sample Schools and Presentations
For more information, contact Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Outreach Librarian,
sdaviska@uci.edu.
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