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A Blog About History
http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/
A Blog About History
This is a blog about history. It is edited by me, Sevaan Franks, and features news articles and links to interesting anthropology, archaeology, geology, paleontology and other general history-related items from around the world.

50 Things You Need to Know About British History
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/microsite/50things/
50 Things You Need to Know About British History
The History Channel has devised a rundown of 50 things you need to know about our island nation.
Explore the events, the people and the culture at the very core of our nation's DNA.
Why not take advantage of some brilliant new teaching resources brought to you by Teachers TV and The History Channel? 50 Things is packed with exciting tales of transformation, exploration, revolution and conflict to give students an insight into the very nature of Britain.

YouTube School History Group
http://www.youtube.com/group/schoolhistory
YouTube School History Group
Videos created by members of the History teachers discussion forum for use in History lessons.

Historical Maps
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/maplinks.htm
Historical Maps ... an excellent collection of links

Guidance on teaching 20th-century Indian history
http://www.qca.org.uk/17910.html
Guidance on teaching 20th-century Indian history
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has produced a new unit on 20th century India for the key stage 3 history scheme of work.
The new unit, called 'How and why is the legacy of British rule in the Indian subcontinent interpreted in different ways?', suggests how teachers can cover the key background to the struggle for independence, looking at why India was such an important part of the Empire and the events leading up to and after independence. It considers the impact of the key figures in the struggle for independence, and to what extent the legacy of partition still influences the Indian subcontinent today.

Center for History and New Media
http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php
Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
We sponsor more than two dozen digital history projects and offer free tools and resources for historians.

Moving History (History Videos)
http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/
Moving History (History Videos)
This research guide to the United Kingdom’s twelve public sector moving image archives presents detailed information on these fascinating and valuable film and television collections.
The Moving History guide aims to encourage research into archive film and film history, and to promote the value of these resources to all, including academics and students across the arts and humanities in higher education. It is hoped that the information found here will be of interest to all those who seek to expand their understanding and use of moving image material.

The Domesday Book
http://www.domesday1986.com/
In 1086 King William I of England published the Domesday Book, hand written on vellum and now on display at The National Archives in London.
In 1986 the BBC published its Domesday Project on a pair of twelve inch laser discs with a laserdisc player and microcomputer.
In 2003 LongLife Data, supported by The National Archives, BBC and ATSF, created a Windows version of the 1986 Domesday Community data which is available to use at The National Archives.
In 2004 LongLife Data created this web version.
Domesday Book: record of a British census and land survey in 1085-1086 ordered by William the Conqueror

The History Cooperative
http://www.historycooperative.org/
The History Cooperative
Four leaders in historical scholarship and cutting-edge technology have joined forces to create the premier resource for historians on the Web. The American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the University of Illinois Press, and the National Academy Press have announced the launch of The History Cooperative on March 30, 2000.
Full text History journals online.
Nonsubscribers can purchase a research pass that will allow full access to the journals at the History Cooperative site.

Year by Year
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
Year by Year
Events in History ... listed by year for twentieth century.

Newsplayer
http://newsplayer.com/index.asp
Newsplayer unlocks the news vaults of the past 100 years.
Play moving images from throughout the 20th century from the birth of flight to the Space Shuttle; from the Jitterbug to the Spice Girls; and from the First World War to Mandela? march to freedom. Enjoy history at your fingertips.
Subscription ? a year

Secrets of Great History Teachers
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/secrets/
Secrets of Great History Teachers
In these interviews distinguished teachers share their strategies and techniques. Good teaching is more often honored in rhetoric than reality. And great teachers are generally known locally within their own schools, but less often to a larger group of national colleagues. Our goal in this section is, in part, to identify and honor those people who have taught with excellence, dedication, and distinction. But more than that, we believe that these teachers have lessons to offer the rest of us and that there are remarkably few forums for hearing their wisdom.

Past Explorers : Teachers Room : Key Stage Two
The Prehistoric periods | The Iron Age | The Romans | Early Medieval | Medieval | Post Medieval | Modern | Archaeology, survey and treasure |
Past Explorers : Teachers Room : Key Stage Two
Welcome to PASt explorers, the Portable Antiquities Scheme's education website. This website is designed for use in the classroom, museum or at home. It has been split into 3 distinct sections - Fun, Teachers and Database, each of which contain teaching and learning resources.
The resources are primarily aimed at Key Stage 2 of the English National Curriculum, in other words are aimed at children between the ages of 7-11. However, they are just as much fun for older learners (including adults)!

We didn't start the fire ....
http://home.uchicago.edu/~yli5/Flash/Fire.html
We didn't start the fire .... wonderful resource to start a history project on the 20th century with older students.
Lasts about 5 minutes .....

Online (free) History Journals
http://www.doaj.org/expand
Online (free) History Journals

History Department Toolkit (film studies)
http://www.filmeducation.org/toolkit.html#history
The History Department Toolkit has been developed to allow students not only to study the ways in which historical moments have been portrayed on the screen but also to allow students an experience of creating their own historical documentaries, thus enhancing and enlivening their study of the use of sources, the creation of secondary sources as well as ways in which propaganda is created.

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Digital History

Becta : History Lesson Plans (using ICT)
http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/WebX?230@85.FvfjantctaM.0@.efa6b5a
Direct2U : Week 4 - History lesson plans
http://forum.ngfl.gov.uk/direct2u
Year 1: Time for change! | Year 2: Write a biography of Mary Seacole | Year 3: Evacuated! | Year 4: Historical glossary | Year 5: Obituary column | Year 6: What can we learn from pictures? |

History News Service
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/
Founded in 1996, the History News Service (HNS) is an informal syndicate of professional historians who seek to improve the public's understanding of current events by setting these events in their historical contexts.

History Teachers WebRing GB and Ireland
http://t.webring.com/hub?ring=historyteachersr
History Teachers WebRing GB and Ireland

ThinkHistory
http://www.thinkhistory.btinternet.co.uk/
ThinkHistory is a teacher designed website, designed to allow students, parents and teachers to access homework and revision resources and links, games & quizzes, powerpoint presentations and schemes of work for all of the topics taught by Mr Drew at KS3 and GCSE History, AS & A2 Level Politics and AS Level Sociology.

Learn History
http://learnhistory.org.uk/
Learn History has FREE History resources such as PowerPoint lessons, revision content, quizzes and research help.
GCSE Coursework | GCSE Vietnam coursework |

USA History Lesson Plans
http://marchand.ucdavis.edu/lessons.shtml
USA History Lesson Plans

World War I Rotogravures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/
World War I Rotogravures
During the World War I era (1914-18), leading newspapers took advantage of a new printing process that dramatically altered their ability to reproduce images. Rotogravure printing, which produced richly detailed, high quality illustrations?ven on inexpensive newsprint paper?as used to create vivid new pictorial sections. Publishers that could afford to invest in the new technology saw sharp increases both in readership and advertising revenue.
The images in this collection track American sentiment about the war in Europe, week by week, before and after the United States became involved. Events of the war are detailed alongside society news and advertisements touting products of the day, creating a pictorial record of both the war effort and life at home.

Maunder Web
http://www.maunderstudios.com/MaunderStudiosMenu.htm
Maunder Studios provides educational media and services for educators. Maunder Web contains video and audio for classroom applications.

Center for History and New Media (CHNM)
http://chnm.gmu.edu/
Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has used digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people?cholars, students, and the general public?earn about and use the past. We do that by bringing together the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship.
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web | The September 11 Digital Archive | History News Network | Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution | World History Matters | Teaching American History | The Blackout History Project | Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation | The Journal of Social History | The Radical History Review |

EU History department of the Virtual School
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/vs-history/entry_page.cfm?id_area=21
The History department of the Virtual School has a number of interesting articles on history as well as different projects and other resources.
The department has a dedicated community for History teachers.

MITs OpenCourseWare - History
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/index.htm
Welcome to MIT's OpenCourseWare : a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
MIT OCW: Is a publication of MIT course materials | Does not require any registration | Is not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity |
The MIT History Faculty offers about 70 subjects in the areas of Ancient, North American, European, East Asian, and Middle Eastern history.

Free printable USA history worksheets
http://www.tlsbooks.com/historyworksheets.htm
Free printable USA history worksheets
Visions of America | Constitutional Crossword Puzzle | U.S. Presidents | Flag Facts for Kids | Bill of Rights | People From American History |

Historical Voices
http://www.historicalvoices.org/
Historical Voices
The purpose of Historical Voices is to create a significant, fully searchable online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century - the first large-scale repository of its kind. Historical Voices will both provide storage for these digital holdings and display public galleries that cover a variety of interests and topics.
The primary goals of Historical Voices are to develop both a rich set of exhibits and educational curricula that fully incorporate sound files.

History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Welcome to History Matters, a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. For contact information, and to find out more about the people behind the site, visit the About Us page.
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
We emphasize materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence. We welcome your participation in expanding and improving the site.

Trenches on the Web - World War One
http://www.worldwar1.com/
An Internet History of The Great War
You are at the "Trenches" Home Page. These pages contain information on the people, places, and events that comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history. Entire kingdoms were to vanish in the clash. The map makers of the world would be busy indeed!
The trenches are set up in such a way as to allow you to explore the "The Great War" at your own pace and in your own manner. If you don't know where to start then the Reference Library is a good bet. It is a complete catalog of everything out here. Then again, if you know what you are looking for, you can go right to the search facility (although I'd hate to think you're in a hurry to get out of here).
There is a review of this site at http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?docid=1511
WW1 | World War One | Great War |

Teaching with Techology
http://besthistorysites.net/teachwithtech/index.shtml
Welcome to Teaching with Techology, a resource created by a teacher, for teachers looking to incorporate technology into their classrooms!
I began teaching High School History in 1985, but I never used a computer in the classroom until I arrived at the Noble and Greenough School (Nobles) in Dedham Massachusetts in the fall of 1998.
Thanks to the training and financial support I received from Nobles’ Computer Department and Administration, I am now teaching laptop-based courses exclusively.
History | Teaching with Techology | ICT | IT |

Multimedia Guide | History
http://www.distance-educator.com/dn/dn2.phtml?id=6040
January 14, 2002 -- Historians at the University of Virginia will help the state’s high school teachers use the World Wide Web to make history come alive as they prepare their students for success with the Virginia Standards of Learning.
The special project is an in-depth Multimedia Guide to the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) for teachers and students in 11th grade U.S. and Virginia history, two subjects that must be passed in order to graduate. A joint effort of historians at U.Va.’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and Virginia Center for Digital History, the multimedia guide is intended to help history teachers apply the vast resources of the Web to their standards-based curriculum.
An early edition of the guide is online at http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/solguide.

History Firsthand
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/firsthand/main.html
Primary Source Research in Elementary School
History Firsthand has been designed to provide elementary children with experiences which enable them to begin understanding primary sources. Students move from personal artifacts to the vast American Memory collections and learn how archival collections are organized, how to interpret artifacts and documents, how to use primary sources to tell a real story and how to do on-line research.

Children of the Holocaust
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/display.php3?track_id=4263
This track is designed to help children better understand the feelings of children in the Holocaust. It includes video and sound clips from survivors and concludes with the student contributing to a wall of rememberance.

World War I, Using Primary Sources
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/main/display.php3?track_id=6755
This track will take a student through the process of analyzing primary source documents in an attempt to show the difficulty in writing history. The student will learn the process of photo analysis and document analysis. Drawing on those analyses the student will be asked to draw their own conclusions regarding the events in this project.

Internet for Historians
http://www.humbul.ac.uk/vts/history/index.htm
The Internet is a rich source of information and resources for students, lecturers, researchers and professionals. This tutorial covers the key information skills for the Internet environment. Learn how to use the Internet to help with your coursework, literature searching, teaching or research in history.

Key Stage 3 History
http://www.digitalbrain.com/user/sow/web/SOW/ks3%264historymapping/
Digitalbrain has linked with its own material that corresponds to the QCA schemes of work. Some topics have as yet no content and we would welcome you to submit modules you have created. If you require we could help you enhance your work by providing you with better graphics and interactivity.

Key Stage 1 and 2 History
http://www.digitalbrain.com/user/sow/web/SOW/hisks1%262mapping/
Digitalbrain has linked with its own material that corresponds to the QCA schemes of work. Some topics have as yet no content and we would welcome you to submit modules you have created. If you require we could help you enhance your work by providing you with better graphics and interactivity.

Interactive History Exhibits
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/
Medieval or The Middle Ages | Maya life | Russian Federation | Renaissance |

Port of Entry: Immigration
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/start.html
On this journey, you will assume the role of historical detective and search for clues to America's past in American Memory, the historical collections of the Library of Congress. You will investigate photographs and eyewitness accounts of immigrant life in America.

Schoolshistory.org.uk
http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/
This site provides Online History lessons, easy to access background material, GCSE revision tasks and downloadable resources for teachers.
This site has been set up to help History students with their revision during GCSE and to enable easier access to the curriculum in Key Stage 3. Schools History aims to provide students with a range of resources, background information and historical links relevant to their own studies. The site intends to offer research and revision tasks for Key Stages 3 and 4 and is an ever growing web resource for students and teachers of history alike.

schoolhistory.co.uk
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
I created this site to provide a safe and convenient place for history teachers and pupils to find information, download worksheets and basically have some fun using ICT!
Use of ICT is a National Curriculum requirement in all subjects. The potential of ICT for history study is enormous yet, in my opinion, it is vastly under utilised. This site attempts to offer innovative, exciting and above all beneficial ideas for the use of ICT in secondary school history.

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