Websites for the Humanities Classroom
The following is a select list of Web sites used by educators in ASHP's teaching with technology faculty development programs. These sites provide examples of Web resources including online archives, teaching resources, exhibits, and new media resource centers. The sites are intended for use in American history and literature, American culture studies, or other interdisciplinary humanities classrooms.
American Social History Project A good introduction to ASHP, an organization which seeks to revitalize interest in history and challenge the traditional ways people learn about the past. Site includes information on ASHP books, films, CD-ROMs, and educational programs, as well as articles and links to history resources on the web. History Matters: Teaching the U.S. History Survey on the Web A gateway site for teachers of the US History survey, or other interdisciplinary humanities courses. Contains a searchable database of annotated web sites, classroom activities, primary documents, images, syllabi, and archive of the email discussion forum, "Talking History," moderated by noted scholars. American Studies Crossroads Project The Crossroads site contains pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies community. The site features Crossroads projects in curriculum innovation, including the use of new educational technologies, in American Studies courses. Center for History and New Media Contains a wealth of resources focused on researching, writing, presenting, and teaching about the past. Includes essays on new technology in history teaching; reviews of CD-ROMs; and a searchable listing of links to history departments around the world. H-Net, an interdisciplinary organization located at Michigan State Univ., has mounted reviews of CD-ROMs, books, films, and other multimedia resources; coordinates over 80 academic discussion networks; and announcements from professional organizations, conference programs, and fellowships. A comprehensive resource for teachers and scholars in a wide variety of fields, but especially historians. Access to primary source materials (print, image, sound) from the Library of Congress' national digital archive collections, recounting several centuries of American cultural history. Includes oral histories from the Works Progress Administration; Civil War photographs; rare pamphlets on African American life and culture, 1818-1907; and documents from the Continental Congress, among others. Site has searchable database, teaching guides, and classroom activities Thousands of pages of historical evidence--newspapers, diaries, census records, maps, images, and letters, et. al, organized in a searchable archive, focusing on two towns during the Civil War and Reconstruction period of American history -- Staunton, Virginia and Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. National Archives and Records Administration The on-line resource of an independent federal agency which preserves important documents related to the history of the United States (i.e. Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, etc.). Provides classroom activities, teaching guides, and training for educators and students. 19th Century American Women Writers Web A range of resources on the study of American women writers in the 19th century including links to Godey's Lady's Book; electronic texts on Sarah Hale, Sojourner Truth, and Lucretia Mott; a searchable database; tutorials on using the Web to teach the history of American women writers; and the archives of Legacy, an on-line discussion forum. This site features a database of thousands of primary source materials related to the New Deal, including photographs, speeches, cartoons, and letters. The "Documents Library" covers the years from 1939 to 1949 and treats a board array of subjects such as the Agricultural and Cannery Workers' Industrial Union, Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, Resettlement, and the Works Progress Administration. Worcester Women's History Project/Women 2000 Conference This site commemorates the 150th anniversary of the First National Women's Rights Convention, held in 1850 in Worcester, Mass. Provides an archive of primary sources related to the convention including speeches, letters, and newspaper accounts. Contains other resources concerning the 19th century women's rights movement. A resource for studying and traveling to Asia. Educational resources including maps, lesson plans, bibliographies, and audio-visual materials. This site is the online service to social studies educators. A searchable online database, sample lessons, previews of videocassettes, and classroom-ready Web-based activities. Links to other sites for the social studies educator. Hypertexts @ University of Virginia A collection of electronic books including Crane's Red Badge of Courage, Jacob's Incident's in the Life of a Slave Girl, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Twain's Huckleberry Finn and other important titles in American literature. The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory On-line exhibition commemorates the 125th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire (1871). Contains primary documents and a "Web of Memory," focusing on the ways in which the fire has been remembered.
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