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Additional resources for this issue of History Now
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General Resources
While most teachers are expert in finding sources for
the classroom, we all know that no one can keep track
of everything in the fast-breaking world of 21st century
information technology. That's where HISTORY NOW and I
can be of some help. Don't hesitate to let me know, however,
when I'm giving you the wrong kind of help. HISTORY NOW
is a work in progress, and the format and content of the
Archivist's contributions will be the subject of continuing
attention and revision.
Before I turn to specific suggestions for the topics discussed
in the articles and lesson plans in this issue, I'll offer
a few suggestions for broadly useful websites you may
want to add to the list "Favorites" or "Bookmarks" on
your Internet browser.
1. If you don't know about it already, turn to the History
and Social Studies section of the National Endowment for
the Humanities' (NEH's) "Edsitement" website. You're probably
familiar with the NEH's programs for educators, so you
won't be surprised that their site offers excellent lesson
plans and links to websites useful to classroom teachers.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=3
2. On the most general level, I'd suggest that you take
a look at the University of Michigan's "Internet Public
Library" site. Within this site, you'll probably want
to focus on the "History - North America" section:
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.55.00
but don't ignore the broader scope of the site. You'll
find links here to research materials and reference tools
on the Web.
Finally, a word about a few websites that you'll find
cited in every issue of History Now.
3. First, there's the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History website. This site includes images and transcriptions
of hundreds of documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection,
a number that is constantly increasing. The site also
provides lesson plans, quizzes and other resources for
teachers:
www.gilderlehrman.org
4. There is the more broad-based "American Memory" series
at the Library of Congress. This website is dedicated
to the Internet publication of the Library's American
history collections in all formats - photos, newspapers,
books, manuscripts, broadsides, and pamphlets. You'll
see several elements of "American Memory" highlighted
in the lists of resources for this issue, but give yourself
time to go to the website to review the breadth of choices
offered in the list of all collections so far included
in this series:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.html
5. Lastly, there is the "Digital History" Website, the
product of a collaboration among the Chicago Historical
Society/University of Houston, Museum of Fine Arts of
Houston, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and the U.S. Park
Service:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
General resources on the history of abolition in the
U.S.
For general background on the question of the antebellum
abolitionist movement in the United States, you have a
wide choice of resources. Volumes in Garland Publishers'
"History of the American Abolitionist Movement"
series will appear in suggested resources for most of
the essays in this issue. Each volume contains a collection
of the most significant previously published articles
in a given area. These provide general background:
McKivigan, John R., and Stanley Harrold, eds. Antislavery
Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in
Antebellum America. New York: Garland Pub., 1999.
McKivigan, John R., ed. Abolitionism and American
Politics and Government. New York: Garland Pub.,
1999.
On the Internet you have an embarrassment
of riches. PBS's "Africans in America" website
is a lifesaver. The "Antebellum Slavery" section
will probably be the most useful, but don't ignore anything
here. Make sure to go the "Resource Bank" and
"Teacher's Guide" sections for each period:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
The Cornell University Library's online exhibition "I
Will Be Heard: Abolitionism in America" site provides
a thorough overview of abolitionism with a wide range
of primary documents:
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/index.htm
Library of Congress's "African-American Mosaic"
site provides an excellent section on abolition:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam005.html
Digital History's section on the antislavery movement
is worth referring to:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?TitleID=24
The ever helpful partnership of the University of Virginia's
Electronic Texts Center and Institute for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities provides an excellent website on Abolitionism
with images, music, and a good selection of pamphlet and
booklength literature:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/abolitn/abhp.html
And here's a dandy Web resource: "The Antislavery
Literature Project," a collaborative electronic publishing
venture based in the Arizona State University's English
department working in cooperation with the EServer, located
at Iowa State University:
http://antislavery.eserver.org/
If your students would like to explore the question of
the survival of human slavery in the twenty-first century,
you can send them to the "Free the Slaves" movement's
website, aimed at ending modern remnants of human slavery.
The site contains "Education Pack Downloads"
you may want to investigate:
http://www.freetheslaves.net/
There is also the website for Antislavery International,
the world's oldest antislavery organization. This site
also contains educational materials:
http://www.antislavery.org/
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