Browse Website Reviews
Discover quality websites on a range of topics and time periods. If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Among the student resources, teacher resources, and source databases, users will have access to materials with which they can discuss practically everything that happened in the world during Truman’s life (1883-1973) and even some things outside that time fram
Minecraft Education
Because Minecraft offers such a wide variety of sources and topics, it can be incredibly helpful to teachers. However, because game-based play poses particular risks, such as the possibility that students will not learn and only focus on playing.
Naval History and Heritage Command
Among the archive's digital collections users can find oral histories, biographies, underwater archeology resources, and infographics.
The League of Nations Archive
The archive offers an extensive array of primary sources that can be used in the study of global history, international relations, transnational conflict, national border creation, migration, human rights, and historical personages.
Exploring Africa
Its goal is to provide high quality resources about Africa and its nations for K-12 educators. Teachers and students can learn about themes relating to African history and information about specific countries in a well-researched, easily digestible format.
Olympic Museum
The modern Olympic Games have become a symbol of international cooperation and sportsmanship. The IOC states that the Olympics are a forum “where the world comes to compete, feel inspired, and be together."
Nobel Peace Center
However, most notable is their partnership with Minecraft Education. The Peace Center offers two Minecraft learning landscapes, Peace Builders and Active Citizen, both are targeted at students aged 8-15.
A Visual Guide to the Cold War
The goal of the site is to facilitate discussion around key themes of the Cold War and provide insight into both American and Soviet perspectives.
Germany: Memories of a Nation
"...MacGregor uses different artifacts and places to discuss specific topics or themes central to German identity, as well as providing historical context for each discussion."
A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: A Look at History and Popular Culture
By combining historical popular culture with traditional analysis, teachers could include popular series, films, video games, and books in lesson plans with the assurance of accuracy while also engaging students who may struggle to care about history.
Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Learning and Research
There are specific resources on the site geared specifically to educators and others geared toward students. Teachers can use the learning modules, lesson plans, and teaching resources that also include recommended documents, films, and historical images.
Visualizing Energy:
By combining written analysis with data visualizations, this project displays how energy policy can affect health and equity in a way that makes it interactive and easy to understand.
Globalizing US History
The strength of this site comes from the thorough lesson plans included in the modules. Further, the secondary and primary sources included in each would be a good classroom tool.
The Moundbuilders' Art: A Confluence of 'Ingenuity, Industry, and Elegance'
The amount of information and resources included in the exhibit are targeted and would likely not overwhelm a high school student. Alternatively, the site is full of resources that could be used separately, especially for younger students.
Mexicana: A Repository of Cultural Patrimony in Mexico
...this project seeks not just to aggregate existing digital collections but also to standardize metadata across institutions and encourage further digitization.
Robots Reading Vogue
Experimenting with data mining on over 2,700 covers, 400,000 pages, and 6 terabytes from Vogue, Robots Reading Vogue is a stunning runway show that provides a model of how big data techniques and methodologies can be applied to the humanities.
Electing the House of Representatives
Transforming electoral data into a clearer and more accessible form, the site is a nifty means of demonstrating democracy in action and provides an interesting visual record of how patterns of American voting have changed (or not in some instances) over time.
Inside the Decisive Network
Developing our understanding about photography ... Inside the Decisive Network is a much-needed flash of brilliance that problematises the image of the lone genius photographer and highlights the work of all those behind the camera