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Primary Sources [|Smithsonian] [|Primary Sources-What Are They?] [|The Avalon Project]

The Avalon Project is a site from Harvard University that contains thousands of documents relevant to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. These documents also include links to supporting documents that were referred to in the text.

The documents are sorted by date range and go all the way back to 4000BC. The documents are fully searchable and are also sorted by collections such as American Revolution, Jefferson Papers, Geneva Convention, the Middle East, and more. There are even transcripts of witness testimony in the Nuremberg Trials. Pretty amazing stuff.

This is a priceless resource for any educator or student, teaching or learning, reading or researching these topics. These documents are primary sources and can be used for a variety of learning. [|Wayne Holly] on 22 Mar 11

The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. The Avalon Project will no doubt contain controversial documents. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement of their contents nor sympathy with the ideology, doctrines, or means employed by their authors. They are included for the sake of completeness and balance and because in many cases they are by our definition a supporting document. [|Kelly Boushell] on 19 Jul 11

[|NYTimes] lesson plans and teacher resources


 * Social Studies Resources LiveBinder **

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FROM THE HISTORY CHANNEL: || //**No Place on Earth: **//** Special offer for teachers and students **

 Sliding through a muddy hole in the ground, five Jewish families escaped into a pitch-black world to hide from the Nazis in 1942. With courage and ingenuity, these 38 men, women and children were determined to keep their families alive and avoid capture in southwestern Ukraine, a region where less than 5 percent of all Jews survived and virtually no families made it out of the Holocaust alive. They endured by creating an underground world of their own.

 **//No Place on Earth //** tells this incredible story of resilience, a story that was uncovered decades after World War II by intrepid American cave explorer Chris Nicola. After stumbling across decaying everyday objects in a Ukrainian cave, Nicola pieced together the remarkable story of these families. In **//No Place on Earth //**, many of these survivors tell their astonishing story for the first time on film. This film, directed by Janet Tobias, offers a gripping educational platform for young people to learn about the strategies of survival these families used, the unique physical and political adversities they faced, and the power of personal testimony in exploring the past.

 View the classroom guide.

 Visit the USC Shoah Foundation IWitness site, which offers outstanding resources for teachers and students, including a special Information Quest developed to complement No Place on Earth.

 **Note: The film opened in theaters in select cities on April 5; HISTORY will air the film later in 2013, date TBD. (We will include air dates in this email newsletter once they are announced.) **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Educators: ** If you're interested in bringing a student group to the theater at discounted rates, please email Neal Block at Magnolia Pictures (nblock@magpictures.com) for more information. Groups must be 12 or more, and payment must be made for these ticket buys in advance. View showtimes and locations.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> If you would like to have a screening of the film in your classroom, please contact Swank Motion Pictures at 800-876-5577. Classroom screenings will be available after June 1. Until then, the only way to see the film will be in theaters.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Watch the trailer and learn more about the film.

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**Resources for History Teachers wiki**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; text-align: center;">**American History**

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[|History Animated]blog from Neverending Search

[|Revolutionary War Animated] [|Civil War Animated] [|WWII Europe Animated] [|Pacific War Animated]

In addition to the animated maps (with their play commands and timelines), you’ll find descriptions of events with sources, photographs of the major players, and links to recommended books and films.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">American History blog [|Almost a Chosen People]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|National Archives Digital Vault]- create posters and videos

[|Image Detective] <span class="textReg" style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Build students' skills in analyzing historical documents.

[|National Jukebox]



About the [|National Jukebox]
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Civics = Civics wiki [|icivics.org]

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[|geography of Europe]

===[|GeoGuessr and GeoSettr | Rhondda's Reflections - wandering around the Web] - explains the resources and makes suggestions on how to use with students === [|rhondda.wordpress.com/...geoguessr-and-geosettr]

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[|Songs for History (Official site of The History Teachers)]