HIST+152+Shuttle

COURSES

ASSESSMENT

Quizzes How do profs manage weekly quizzes How to handle regular quizzes. Students bring a scantron to reuse? Google Forms Can Now Automatically Grade Quizzes http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/06/google-forms-can-now-automatically.html#.V6UnokpHarV

Multiple-choice exams

Reflections: more of them, more often

Periodization of the course; make it seem like a drama with various acts immigration, religious and ethnic diversity

TEACHER

NEVER EMBARRASS A STUDENT IN CLASS

First day

Email of welcome prior to the first day of class

Learn names and faces: student pictures

My thorn in the flesh http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Thorn+in+the+Flesh

Icebreakers http://www.lcc.edu/cte/resources/teachingettes/icebreakers.aspx

First day of classes https://chroniclevitae.com/news/669-what-do-you-do-on-the-first-day-of-class

Ice breaker: photo from your phone http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/08/summer-stories-back-to-school-activities.html#.V63ysUpHarU

Ice breaker: interview your parents on their reaction/where they were on the day of 9/11

Ice Breakers use a picture from your photo roll to tell us an exciting thing from this summer http://www.lcc.edu/cte/resources/teachingettes/icebreakers.aspx https://chroniclevitae.com/news/669-what-do-you-do-on-the-first-day-of-class

Have syllabus in hard copy

Notes from Why History

Christian/history: Need some good examples from Fea, Gertz, and McKenzie (along with SHEG) to start off the semester.

Use material from why a history major as well http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/History+Major

A failure of empathy https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/failure-empathy?

Teaching history outside the box Learn the history of things they love: sports, fashion, cooking http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-history-outside-the-box-dan-carlin

Harvard professor article How to live wisely. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/education/edlife/how-to-live-wisely.html?contentCollection=smarter-living

A failure of empathy Fea: Why History? Fea: Thoughts from "What can you do with a history major? Christian history: Fea, Gertz, McKenzie

Seeing the election through my daughter's eyes https://pietistschoolman.com/2016/06/09/seeing-the-election-through-my-daughters-eyes/

Teacher: My son broke my heart when he said nobody in his class notices him. Then he asked if I ignore my students https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06/08/teacher-my-son-broke-my-heart-when-he-said-nobody-in-his-class-notices-him-then-he-asked-if-i-ignore-my-students/

A professor takes his classes on a walk https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/05/31/professor-takes-his-classes-walk-essay?

SHEG: sourcing, contextualization, corraboration, close reading

My dream for you What my dream is for you one year or five years from now when you run across me at Vons or the Huntington Hospital.

Faith integration discussions right from the beginning and throughout the semester

Why History Point of View Faith integration Freshmen Seminar

Learning how to learn Review articles

Easel paper (stick-on)

Grade book

Teaching resources http://www.apu.edu/itt/teachingresources/

Sakai user guide for faculty (Terri Rowley) https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/13rq-ccw-Mxsf-cVyHHlqrBbGmI89Lvl8r2L3hkCIVgM/mobilebasic?pli=1#id.71dnl0uyvnp9

Setting up gradebook in Sakai https://support.apu.edu/hc/en-us/articles/221900708-Gradebook-Setting-up-Your-Gradebook-in-Sakai

IDEA (Stephanie Fenwick) plus how to do reflections and grade with rubric Freshmen seminar: what they teach, website Easel paper (stick on)

Learning how to learn: blogs, book reviews, best book lists

Review articles http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lsl/help/modules/review.html

ANNENBERG

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making

a. Units http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/units/

b. Support materials (terrific facilitator guides) http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/support/

Concerning Emancipation: Introduction http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/emancipation/introduction.html

c. Historical Thinking Skills Interactives http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/

Placing artifacts in time (chronological thinking): Pocahontas http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/pocahontas/index.html

Analyzing artifacts http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/artifacts/index.html

Evaluating Evidence: Civil War http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/thesis/index.html

Balancing Sources http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/sources/index.php Stamp Act Alien and Sedition Act

ART

Who does art history?

Name of art prof who was our dean? Susan Ney

Early American Paintings [great] http://www.worcesterart.org/collection/Early_American/

Best of Art History websites []

Portrait of George Washington http://www.history.org/history/paintings/george_washington/

Easy, Erect, and Noble : George Washington painting article http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/summer02/peale.cfm

Picturing America []

Picturing America educator resources (130 pp) https://picturingamerica.neh.gov/downloads/pdfs/Resource_Guide/English/English_PA_TeachersGuide.pdf

Paul Revere's ride interactive https://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/virtual.html

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License []

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere: Fact, Fiction, and Artistic License []

Boston Massacre painting http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/revolution/revolution_art.cfm

Boston Massacre painting http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=8&psid=2373&filepath=http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/primarysources_upload/images/the_bloody_massacre_l.jpg

Using Visual Fine Arts to Enrich Understanding []

Analysis worksheets (National Archives) []

Analysis worksheets (Library of Congress) []

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

Works of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Colonial Period http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works/#?theme=56

Colonial Period http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/essays/#?theme=56

Slave trade http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/slav/hd_slav.htm

Shaker furniture http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shak/hd_shak.htm

Religion and culture, 1600-1700 http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/recu/hd_recu.htm

Civil War Photography http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/phcw/hd_phcw.htm

Paul Revere (1734-1818) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rvre/hd_rvre.htm

19th century American folk art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/afkp/hd_afkp.htm

Manilla galleon trade (1565-1815) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mgtr/hd_mgtr.htm

Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stua/hd_stua.htm

George Washington http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wash/hd_wash.htm

Europe and the age of Exploration http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wash/hd_wash.htm

Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate in Early Colonial America http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/coff/hd_coff.htm

Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550–1850 http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/spam/hd_spam.htm

BIOGRAPHY

Teaching American history through biography http://teachinghistory.org/tah-grants/lessons-learned/19088

American Passages--A Literary Survey https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/index.html

American Passages: A Literary Survey

Bio essay Teaching tips Author questions Selected archive items

Corridos https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit05/authors-5.html

Unit #2: Exploring Borderlands https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit02/authors.html

Bartolomé de las Casas https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit02/authors-2.html

Bernal Diaz del Castillo https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit02/authors-3.html

Christopher Columbus https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit02/authors-5.html

John Smith https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit02/authors-8.html

Unit #3: Utopian Promise

William Bradford https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit03/authors-1.html

John Winthrop https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit03/authors-9.html

William Penn https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit03/authors-6.html

Mary Rowlandson https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit03/authors-7.html

Unit #4: Spirit of Nationalism

Jonathan Edwards https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit04/authors-3.html

Benjamin Franklin https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit04/authors-5.html

Thomas Jefferson https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit04/authors-7.html

Phyllis Wheatley https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit04/authors-10.html

Unit #7: Slavery and Freedom

Frederick Douglass https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit07/authors-4.html

Harriet Jacobs https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit07/authors-7.html

Harriet Beecher Stowe https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit07/authors-10.html

Abraham Lincoln https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit07/authors-8.html

Sorrow Songs https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit07/authors-9.html

BROADSIDES

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/

An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera - Collection Connections | Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/time-capsule/file.html

CARTOONS

Analyzing and Making Political Cartoons - The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/drawing-for-change-analyzing-and-making-political-cartoons/

Using Political Cartoons in the Classroom : Colonial Williamsburg http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume3/october04/teachstrategy.cfm

Interpreting Political Cartoons in the History Classroom http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/21733

More than 100 Editorial Cartoon Lesson Plans http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/01/more-than-100-editorial-cartoon-lesson.html

Cartoons for the Classroom : Association of American Editorial Cartoonists http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm

Analyzing a Thomas Nast Cartoon http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/cartoon.htm

Cartoons for the Classroom :: AAEC - Association of American Editorial Cartoonists http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm#

History toons for the classroom http://nieonline.com/aaec/cftc.cfm?cftcfeature=history

Cartoon analysis: AP Central - SOAPSTone: A Strategy for Reading and Writing http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/preap/teachers_corner/45200.html

Cartoons (24 pp PDF) Print their analysis sheet http://www.clrep.org/uploads/1/7/7/6/17760533/political_cartoons.pdf

Cartoon rubric https://static01.nyt.com/images/blogs/learning/pdf/2015/StudentEditorialCartoonContestRubric2015.pdf

Cartoon Analysis Guide - It's No Laughing Matter: Analyzing Political Cartoons- Classroom Activity | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/political-cartoon/cag.html

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/political-cartoon/resources.html

Reading Political Cartoons http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/educators/types/lesson3.html

DEBATES

Google search term: teaching US History with debates

What is an inquiry lesson? http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/24123

Document based whole-class discussion http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/25620

Using Deliberative Techniques (232 pp.) http://idebate.org/sites/live/files/handouts/Using%20Deliberative%20Techniques%20to%20Teach%20U S%20Histor.pdf

Bringing debates into the classroom http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2011/oct/20/debate-activities-classroom-resources

DIARIES/JOURNALS

Martha Ballard http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Martha+Ballard

What kind of historical source are letters and diaries? http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/letters/whatkind.html

Analyzing Nineteenth Century Letters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/letters.htm

Letters Between Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Warren http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/dearmadam/index.html

Journals of Lewis and Clark online [] [] []

DIGITAL HISTORY

Images on the web http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/references/images.cfm

Historically Significant Newspaper Articles (from NYT) http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/references/news/newspapers.cfm

Historically Significant Newspaper Obituaries (from NYT) http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/references/news/obituaries.cfm

Historically Significant Supreme Court Cases http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/references/court_cases/supreme_court.cfm

Landmark Documents (organized by era) http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/references/landmark.cfm

Historic maps http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/maps/maps.cfm

DIIGO

Diigo: highlight feature []

FAMOUS TRIALS

Famous Trials http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

Martin Luther (1521) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/luther/lutherhome.html

Salem Witchcraft (1692) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

John Peter Zenger (1735) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zenger.html

Boston Massacre (1770) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/bostonmassacre.html

FILM

Making Sense of Films http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/

Teaching US History with movies http://www.brighthubeducation.com/history-lessons-grades-9-12/61503-teaching-us-history-with-movies/

Best movies to teach US History http://www.teachwithmovies.org/best-us-history-hs.html

Teaching with Historical Film Clips http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/24299

"The Patriot" movie as history http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/revolution/revolution_patriot.cfm

Films about the colonial period http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_film.cfm?mediatypeid=2&eraid=2&psid=3712

GOOGLE EARTH

Google Earth https://www.google.com/earth/

Google Earth blog http://www.gearthblog.com/

Airplane boarding tickets for Google Earth http://teacherlingo.com/resources/items/airplane-boarding-tickets-for-google-earth.aspx

Teaching with Google Earth []

Google Earth http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/tech-for-teachers/24706

Google Lit trips (Google Earth) http://www.googlelittrips.org

INFOGRAPHICS

Teaching with infographics http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/teaching-with-infographics-social-studies-history-economics/

Using Infographics for Policy Deliberation on Afghanistan – The Choices Blog https://blogs.brown.edu/choices/2013/01/28/using-infographics-for-policy-deliberation-on-afghanistan/

INTERACTIVES

Best of History websites: games and animations []

Interactives for U.S. History: Revolution to Reconstruction | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/blog/2016/06/14/student-interactives-us-history-revolution-reconstruction

Interactives: Spanish-American War through Cold War | EDSITEment http://edsitement.neh.gov/blog/2016/06/20/more-edsitement-us-history-student-interactives-spanish-american-war-through-cold-war

Teaching American History website:

American Revolution []

Neutrality: America on the sidelines http://teachingamericanhistory.org/static/neh/interactives/neutrality/

LITERATURE

Google Lit trips (Google Earth) http://www.googlelittrips.org

American Passages: Herman Melville https://www.learner.org/series/amerpass/unit06/authors-8.html

Analyzing a Melville Story: Bartleby the Scrivner http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/melvillestory.htm

MUSIC

Making sense of American popular song []

Tapping the roots of American music: Teachers' guide []

Teaching American history through folk music []

Different drummers: using music to teach history []

Voices Across Time: American History through music []

Voices Across Time: Teaching American History through Song []

Analyzing blues songs http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/blues.htm

Yankee Doodle [article]:Song Collection Description: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200000025/default.html

Patriotic Melodies (Performing Arts Encyclopedia, The Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/patriotic/patriotic-home.html

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets | Digital Collections | Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/collections/nineteenth-century-song-sheets/about-this-collection/

America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets - Collection Connections | Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/america-singing/file.html

Lift Every Voice: colonial era example http://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/lifteveryvoice/hymns/joyfull

Music and the American Revolution http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/revolution/revolution_music.cfm

Historical music http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/music/music.cfm

NEW YORK TIMES LEARNING NETWORK

15 Ways to Use The New York Times Learning Network http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/15-ways-to-use-the-learning-network-this-school-year/

10 ways to use New York Times for research http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/10-ways-to-use-nytimes-com-for-research/

200 Prompts for Argumentative Writing http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/200-prompts-for-argumentative-writing/

500 prompts for narrative and personal writing. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/500-prompts-for-narrative-and-personal-writing/

For the Sake of Argument: Writing Persuasively to Craft Short, Evidence-Based Editorials http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/for-the-sake-of-argument-writing-persuasively-to- craft-short-evidence-based-editorials/?_r=0

Topics of the Times - The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/topics-of-the-times/

ORAL HISTORY

Students interview their family members.

assignment to interview a member of their family (who is of their parents' age or older) about the 1960s had led to a kind of conversation they had never had before.

Making sense of oral history http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/oral.pdf

PHOTOGRAPHS

What Presidential portraits reveal http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/what-presidential-portraits-reveal

Making sense of documentary photography []

Analyzing Nineteenth Century Daguerreotypes http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/photo.htm

Making sense of documentary photography http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/photos/

Making sense of photos []

Teaching with visual documents: [] The two photographs [] Guiding questions []

Daguerreotypes - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/dag/

Daguerreotypes at Harvard http://preserve.harvard.edu/daguerreotypes/

POINT OF VIEW

All of our "Make Sense Of" articles and our entire approach this semester to last you for a lifetime. Know what you are seeing Don't be fooled. Be analytical. Critical doesn't mean to find fault.

Primary vs secondary, peer-reviewed http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Term+Paper

Cross-cutting cleavage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cutting_cleavage

Cognitive dissonance http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/cognitive_dissonance.htm

Why facts don’t matter to Trump’s supporters (David Ignatius) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-facts-dont-matter-to-trumps-supporters/2016/08/04/924ece4a-5a78-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?utm_term=.0b34b3a0ab65

10 ways to help students ask better questions http://www.spencerauthor.com/2011/04/10-ways-to-help-students-ask-better.html/

The art of close reading (part three) http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/critical-thinking-the-art-of-close-reading-part-three/511

Challenging assumptions https://facultyinnovate.utexas.edu/teaching/learning/critical-thinking/ct_attitude/challenging-assumptions

Current Events, Opposing Viewpoints, and Controversial Issues []

Fallacies http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/index.html#index

A list of fact-checking websites http://www.marketplace.org/topics/elections/list-fact-checking-websites

Politifact.com http://www.politifact.com/

FactCheck.org http://www.factcheck.org/

The Fact Checker (Washington Post) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/

Open Secrets.org (money in politics) http://www.opensecrets.org/index.php

Finding Opinions, Editorials, and Opposing Viewpoints (University of Texas) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/students/find/findoped.html

Leanings of Magazines and Newspapers (Lorain County Community College) http://libguides.lorainccc.edu/c.php?g=29395&p=183699

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (University of Texas) http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.php?id=458

The 100 most popular conservative news sites http://rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/the-100-most-popular-conservative-websites-of-2015/

The 50 most popular liberal news sites http://rightwingnews.com/top-news/the-50-most-popular-liberal-websites/

Periodicals - Liberal, Conservative, Non-Partisan http://libguides.pace.edu/c.php?g=63918&p=410866

Leanings of Magazines, Newspapers - Detecting Bias - LibGuides at Lorain County Community College [this is good] http://libguides.lorainccc.edu/c.php?g=29395&p=183699

Ranking the media from liberal to conservative https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/21/lets-rank-the-media-from-liberal-to-conservative-based-on-their-audiences/

POSTERS

Glogster [any DEL wiki page? My password?] http://glogsteredu.edu.glogster.com/

Poster session writing guide (PDF 21 pp) http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/pdfs/guide78.pdf

ROLE PLAYS

Memorable history lessons: dress up, role play and personal stories []

How to teach using role playing []

Tips for ensuring a successful Choices role-play experience with your students https://www.choices.edu/resources/documents/Tips_roleplay.pdf

Living History: using role plays and reenactments http://www.brighthubeducation.com/middle-school-history-lessons/65119-american-history-role-play-and-reenactments/

RUBRICS

Rubrics http://www.apu.edu/slapr/assessment/rubrics/

SHEG

(Stanford History Education Group)

SHEG: sign up User account | Stanford History Education Group https://sheg.stanford.edu/user/register&referring_node=home_page

SHEG: sourcing, contextualization, corraboration, close reading

Historical Thinking Matters: home page http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/

Historical Thinking Matters: Why Historical Thinking Matters http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/why/

SHEG lesson plans

Reading Like A Historian | Stanford History Education Group https://sheg.stanford.edu/rlh

Intro to Historical Thinking | Stanford History Education Group https://sheg.stanford.edu/intro-historical-thinking

SIMULATIONS

Google search term Teaching US History using simulations

Simulations can change how you teach history Print this out http://www.edutopia.org/blog/simulations-can-change-history-classes-matt-levinson

Where to find simulations? http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/ask-a-master-teacher/23691

Wake up your class with simulations http://ingeniousteaching.blogspot.com/2012/07/wake-your-class-up-with-simulations.html

Games and animations http://besthistorysites.net/general-history-resources/games-animations/

TECHNOLOGY

APU training http://training.apu.edu/

Office of Innovative Teaching and Technology - Azusa Pacific University http://www.apu.edu/itt/teachingwithtechnology/

Google Apps Learning Center []

Google Chrome Should I move to Google Chrome from Firefox

Google Blogger []

Is my blog from there []

Google Drive []

How to use Google Drive with students Ask Dan how he uses it

Google Docs []

Google Sheets (is this the new Excel) []

Google Slides []

Google Forms []

Google Hangouts []

TODAY'S MEET

Today's Meet https://todaysmeet.com/

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS

Discovering Jamestown: An Electronic Classroom Adventure for Teachers and Students http://www.historyisfun.org/sites/discovering-jamestown/

Colonial Williamsburg: Tour the Town http://www.history.org/almanack/tourthetown/index.cfm

Colonial Williamsburg electronic field trips http://www.history.org/history/teaching/eft/

Colonial Williamsburg multimedia library: HERO http://www.history.org/history/teaching/hero/

Colonial Williamsburg: interactives [check this out carefully] []

Virtual Field Trip | Plimoth Plantation http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/virtual-field-trip

Mount Vernon http://www.mountvernon.org/site/virtual-tour/tablet/

Monticello http://explorer.monticello.org/index.html https://www.monticello.org/site/families-and-teachers

Memorial Hall http://memorialhall.mass.edu/home.html

National Women's History Museum http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/

Women of Jamestown https://www.nwhm.org/html/exhibits/jamestownwomen/index.htm

Virtual Jamestown http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html

Plimoth Plantation http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/watch

National Portrait Gallery http://npg.si.edu/teachers/classroom-resources

Gettysburg http://www.virtualgettysburg.com

Ellis Island http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

US Holocaust Museum https://www.ushmm.org

Boston Freedom Trail http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/educational-resources/virtual-tour.shtml

University of Virginia online exhibits http://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/lifteveryvoice

Best Practices (University of Virginia) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~YP/best.html

National Museum of American History http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/national-resources/23516

National Museum of American History online exhibits http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/online

National Womens' History Museum (NWHM) online exhibits https://www.nwhm.org https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/

NWHM Exhibit: The History of Women and Education https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/education/introduction.html

(NWHM) Women of Jamestown https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/jamestownwomen/index.htm

Teaching with Historic Places (U.S. National Park Service) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/teachingwithhistoricplaces/index.htm

Old Sturbridge Village https://www.osv.org/

Bring the World Into Your Classroom with Virtual Field Trips - The Teacher's Passport http://theteacherspassport.blogspot.com/2016/07/bring-world-into-your-classroom-with.html

Entry Ticket - The Teacher Toolkit http://www.theteachertoolkit.com/index.php/tool/entry-ticket

Tips for planning a virtual field trip http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/2013/11/skip-the-school-bus-our-tips-for-planning-a-virtual-field-trip.html

Virtual Field Trip passport and boarding pass - Download and customize for your own virtual field trips! | Travel Theme Classroom | Pinterest https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/67554063131703707/

Editable Boarding Pass- Virtual Field Trip... by Adventures In C104 | Teachers Pay Teachers https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Boarding-Pass-Virtual-Field-Trip-Prop- Travel-Theme-Classroom-2318222

A Virtual Ticket to Ride -- THE Journal https://thejournal.com/Articles/2010/05/01/A-Virtual-Ticket-to-Ride.aspx?m=2&Page=1

WEB QUESTS

Teaching with webquests http://www.rayslearning.com/webquest.htm

Bernie Dodge home page http://webquest.org

WORDLE

Wordle http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/tech-for-teachers/20785

108 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom…Word Clouds in Education Series: Part 2 | 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/108-ways-to-use-word-clouds-in-the-classroom-word-clouds-in-education-series-part-2/

Ten Amazing Wordle Lessons for the Classroom http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-methods-tips/58905-create-lesson-plans-using-wordle-web-technology/

5 Ways To Use Word Clouds In The Classroom | Edudemic http://www.edudemic.com/5-ways-use-word-cloud-generators-classroom/

How to create custom word clouds http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/07/how-to-create-custom-word-clouds.html#.V6CjvEpHarU

ZOTERO

Zotero http://thelearningprofessor.wikispaces.com/Zotero

COLONIAL AMERICA DOCUMENTS

Colonial Williamsburg: interactives [check this out carefully] []

Analyzing a Colonial Newspaper http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/newspaper.htm

Colonial education NMWH https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/education/1700s_1.htm

Jamestown, Québec, Santa Fe: Three North American Beginnings | National Museum of American History http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/jamestown-qu%C3%A9bec-santa-fe-three-north-american-beginnings

American Journeys http://www.americanjourneys.org

Africans in America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/rb_index_hd.html

Teaching American History http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/colonial/

Library of Congress: primary source sets http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/colonial-america/set.html

Library of Congress: exhibitions and presentations http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/colonial-america/exhibitions.html

Avalon Project (Yale University) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/statech.asp

Best of Colonial History websites (EdTech teacher) http://besthistorysites.net/american-history/colonial/

Salem Witchcraft trial (1692) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm

John Peter Zenger trial (1735) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/zenger/zenger.html

Boston Massacre trial (1770) http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/bostonmassacre.html

National Archives https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/

National Humanities Center http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/tblibrary.htm

Divining America http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/divam.htm

Freedom's Story (African-American) http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/freedom.htm

Nature Transformed http://www.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/nattrans.htm

Colombian Exchange http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/columbian.htm

First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, VA http://www.first-landing-state-park.org/

Women of Jamestown https://www.nwhm.org/html/exhibits/jamestownwomen/index.htm

Placing artifacts in time (chronological thinking): Pocahontas http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/interactives/pocahontas/index.html

SHEG lesson plan on Pocahontas

Virtual Jamestown http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html

Plimoth Plantation http://www.plimoth.org/learn/MRL/watch

Three Sovereigns for Sarah http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/28/arts/television-the-witches-of-salem-get-a-new-hearing.html

Raid on Deerfield http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/

Common-Place (The journal of early American life) http://common-place.org/

ARTICLES TO PUT IN COURSE MODULES

Resources | Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War - The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/resources-abraham-lincoln-and-the-civil-war/

100 Years Later: Examining the Impact of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/100-years-later-examining-the-impact-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/

Teaching the Cold War With The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/teaching-the-cold-war/

The Korean War on Its 60th Anniversary - The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/the-korean-war-on-its-60th-anniversary/

Cuban Missile Crisis Lesson Plan and Slide Show - The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/flash-points-searching-for-modern-lessons-in-the-cuban-missile-crisis/

Teaching World War I With The New York Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/teaching-world-war-i-with-the-new-york-times/

Yarrow Mamout, a freed Muslim slave, takes his place among presidents and generals at National Portrait Gallery https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/08/11/yarrow-mamout-a-freed-muslim-slave-takes-his-place-among-presidents-and-generals-at-national-portrait-gallery/

Founder's Online (National Archives) http://founders.archives.gov

The First Virginia Convention http://makinghistorynow.com/2016/08/this-week-in-history-the-first-virginia-convention/

Arguments for and against the Confederate battle flag https://faithandamericanhistory.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/make-the-confederacy-great-again/

The many meanings of Rio’s massive Christ statue https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/08/09/the-many-meanings-of-rios-massive-christ-statue/?wpisrc=nl_faith&wpmm=1

The Depressing Food of the Depression, in ‘A Square Meal’ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/dining/great-depression-food-square-meal-book.html?_r=0

The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic/index.html

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from WWII http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

Analyzing an 1804 Inventory http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/inventory.htm

Analyzing Abolitionist Speeches http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/speeches.htm

The Diary of a Civil War Nurse (NMAH) http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/nursing_1.html

Bittersweet Harvest: Bracero Program National Museum of American History http://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero/introduction

Harriet Tubman https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/GwIC_10DOod5KA

Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/

David R. Swartz. Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism

David R. Swartz. Trump, Evangelicals, and the Democratic Party []

We're helping deport kids to die (Honduras) []

Author’s Corner: Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President https://thewayofimprovement.com/2016/07/28/the-authors-corner-with-barry-hankins/

Letter from Barack Obama on His Muslim Heritage http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_1801_1850/letter%20from%20barack%20obama%20on%20 his%20muslim%20heritagehtml.htm

Religion and the War of 1812 http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2016/07/religion-and-war-of-1812.html

How James Madison and Alexander Hamilton would counsel Republican convention delegates []

What happened the day after the Boston Massacre https://psmag.com/what-happened-the-day-after-the-boston-massacre-58363758af06#.4f7ynkuin

US Constitution annotated https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/

Joe McCarthy was brought down by attacks on his decency. Trump will lose the same way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/01/joe-mccarthy-was-brought-down-by-attacks-on-his-decency-trump-will-lose-the-same-way/

Tlatelolco at 40 years on (1968-2008) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/specials/2008/tlatelolco/

The Umbrella Man http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/opinion/the-umbrella-man.html

I gave out baskets of money in Iraq https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-disrespects-us-soldiers-who-actually-work-to-make-america-great-again/2016/06/16/a7e7fd68-33c6-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html

First Landing State Park, Virginia Beach, VA http://www.first-landing-state-park.org/

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 89, the Unwavering Iranian Spiritual Leade http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/04/obituaries/ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini-89-the-unwavering-iranian-spiritual-leader.html

Two Weeks in January: America's secret engagement with Khomeini [Jimmy Carter presidency] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36431160

Antwerp to Ellis Island: Journey of a Lifetime http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/arts/design/antwerp-to-ellis-island-journey-of-a- lifetime.html?contentCollection=weekendreads&_r=0

Body Count Points to a Mexican Military Out of Control http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/world/americas/mexican-militarys-high-kill-rate-raises- human-rights-fears.html

How Evangelicals Turned from a Born-Again Christian to a Divorced Hollywood Actor [Carter to Reagan] http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2016/05/how-evangelicals-turned-from-a-born- again-christian-to-a-twice-divorced-hollywood-actor/

Moving On in Vietnam, but Remembering Its Lessons http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/opinion/moving-on-in-vietnam-but-remembering-its-lessons.html

How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/world/europe/how-the-saudis-turned-kosovo-into-fertile-ground-for-isis.html

The secret pact that became a scapegoat for all of the Middle East’s problems https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/17/the-secret-pact-that-became-a-scapegoat-for-all-of-the-middle-easts-problems/

Balkans War: a brief guide http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17632399

Obama's visit raises ghosts of Hiroshima http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/world/asia/hiroshima-atomic-bomb.html?_r=1

One of Russia's biggest holidays is a WWII anniversary Americans don't even think about https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/one-of-russias-biggest-holidays-is-a-wwii-anniversary-americans-dont-think-about/2016/05/06/9c14204c-113f-11e6-a9b5-bf703a5a7191_story.html

Cold War 20/24: Soldiers of God [Afghanistan war against Soviets]--1977-1988 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7_nHy3-vk&feature=youtu.be

The first global terrorists were anarchists in the 1890s http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/opinion/the-first-global-terrorists-were-anarchists-in-the-1890s.html?_r=0

Sykes-Picot: The map that spawned a century of resentment http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36300224

Q & A: Armenian Genocide Dispute http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-16352745