The Internet History Sourcebook is a Fordham University site that has collected historical primary sources for educational use, “specifically designed for teachers to use in teaching”. The site was initially developed in the 1990’s and has continued to update its links regularly. IHSP has a page on the site dedicated to Copyright and Fair Use. […]
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Exercise 1 Teachinghistory.org I looked up Teachinghistory.org because I helped to work on the website and was interested to see if the information matched. Domain ID:D94380008-LROR Domain Name:TEACHINGHISTORY.ORG Created On:27-Jan-2003 02:18:16 UTC Last Updated On:12-Jan-2013 11:27:09 UTC Expiration Date:27-Jan-2014 02:18:16 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Domain.com, LLC (R1915-LROR) Status:OK Registrant ID:DOT-P78NVARPQGK6 Registrant Name:N/A Registrant Organization:Roy Rosenzweig Center for […]
The question that I am looking to research is, “Should the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 be viewed as a cause of World War I or an event that merely expedited the inevitable.” To start, I searched ProQuest Historical Newspapers to find background information and sources on the actual assassination and outbreak of war […]
Technology in 30 Years Lightsabers and/or Laser-shooting Guns The idea has already been thrown out there from Star Wars. I would actually be surprised if someone somewhere wasn’t already working on inventing these. How cool would it be to watch lightsaber battles? May the force be with you. Holographic Calling A combination of Skype/Facetime, but […]
Top links back on Google: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge whitehouse.gov millercenter.org/president/coolidge www.calvin–coolidge.org/ www.history.com/topics/calvin–coolidge www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/calvin_coolidge.html www.forbeslibrary.org/coolidge/coolidge.shtml www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/…/Calvin–Coolidge www.ipl.org/div/potus/ccoolidge.html www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/…/presidents-coolidge
In the article, “Promises and Perils of Digital History,” one characteristic of digital media that I found interesting was flexibility. Cohen and Rosenzweig state that flexibility allows us to “more easily preserve, study, and present the past in the multiple media that expressed and recorded it.” What is most important about this characteristic as it relates […]
My name is Ellen Weintraub, and I am just starting my last semester at GMU. It’s been a fun ride, but I am ready to graduate. For the past four years I have been active in my sorority, Alpha Xi Delta. I spent about a year volunteering at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, a semester […]