Ms. Mac's U.S. History
  • Welcome To Ms. Mac's Class
    • Class Syllabus
    • Class Calendar
  • World History
    • Industrial Revolution
    • French Revolution
    • Haitian Revolution
    • World War I
    • Russian Revolution to Soviet Union
    • Chinese Revolution
    • World War II in Europe
  • U.S. History
    • Pre-Columbian America and The Columbian Exchange >
      • Pre-Contact America: Clovis Points
      • Pre-Contact America: Buffalo Hunts and Whaling
      • Pre-Contact America: Cahokia-The Corn People
      • Christopher Columbus
    • Colonial Era >
      • Juan Cabrillo and the San Salvador
      • Jamestown
      • Pilgrims, Puritans and Colonial Wars
      • Atlantic Slave Trade and Anti-Slavery Literature
      • Early American Military History
    • Founding Era >
      • American Revolution >
        • Declaration of Independence
        • The Continental Soldier
        • Rappin' the Revolution
        • Founding Fathers on Broadway!
      • Constitution >
        • Constitutional Convention
        • Bill of Rights
        • School Court Cases
        • COTUS Booklet
    • Slavery >
      • Virginia Slave Laws
      • Frederick Douglass
      • Atlantic Slave Trade and Antislavery Art and Poetry
    • Western Expansion >
      • Lewis and Clark >
        • Native Americans
        • Members of Corps of Discovery
        • Jefferson's Vision
        • Mind of Lewis and Clark
        • Corps of Discovery
        • Ethnography
        • Scientific Discoveries
        • Adventures
    • American Civil War >
      • Introducing, Mr. Lincoln >
        • Lincoln's Daily Life in Washington
        • Lincoln Essential Questions
        • Understanding Lincoln
        • Gettysburg Address and Henry V
        • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
      • Civil War Simulation >
        • Massachusetts 54th
        • Berdan Sharpshooters
        • Irish Brigades
        • Zouaves
        • Calvary
        • Artillery
    • Reconstruction and Greater Reconstruction
    • Gilded Age
    • World War I in America
    • Great Depression
    • WWII in the Pacific
    • Cold War
    • Vietnam War
  • Special Projects
    • Bayard Wilkeson Project
    • Ford's Theatre Oratory Project
    • National History Day
    • Hamilton! Lesson Using the Broadway Show >
      • Rappin in the Classroom
      • Founding Fathers on Broadway!
      • Hamilton Traveling Exhibit Activities
      • Hamilton Sign Up!
    • 9/11 History versus Memory
    • The South in American History
    • Books of Study >
      • McCullough's 1776
      • Ambrose's Undaunted Courage
    • Digital History
    • Distance Learning for ALL >
      • U.S. History-Spring 2020 >
        • April 13th-17th
        • April 20th-24th
        • April 27th-May 1st
        • May 4th-May 8th
        • May 11th- May 15th
        • May 18th-May 22nd
      • World Cultures-Spring 2020 >
        • April 13th-17th
        • April 20th-24th >
          • Marshall Plan
        • April 27th-May 1st >
          • The Kitchen Debate
        • May 4-8
        • May 11-15
        • May 18-May 22
    • Facing Crisis Head On
  • Contact

Ed Ayers on Digital History

Digital History Website Analysis

What is the criteria of a solid "digital history" website? Most importantly, how does a teacher use a digital history website in the classroom? 
Abolition of the Slave Trade
Yellow and Purple
Trans-atlantic Slave Trade
Blue and Orange
Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner
Red and Green
Black New Yorkers

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Some of the
BEST Digital Websites

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Ed Ayers: The Valley Project details two communities one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's Raid to the end of the American Civil War,.
Ed Ayers: Renewing Inequality visualizes "blighted" or "slum" neighborhood displacements and urban renewal more generally.
Steven Mintz: Digital History is  an online museum of historical works includes links to a digital textbook, original documents, multimedia, reference and online exhibits.
Project Team: Colored Conventions  From 1830 until the 1890s, already free and once captive Black people came together in state and national political meetings called "Colored Conventions."
Valley of the Shadow of Death
Renewing Inequality
Digital History
Colored Conventions

"Dated" Digital History Websites

Although "dated" these websites are valuable in the arc of digital history projects. 
Lest We Forget

African Burial Ground

In Motion


Digital Service Learning

Douglass Day in 2018 With the Smithsonian Transcription Center and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Colored Convention Project had a transcribe-a-thon on the Freedmen Bureau Papers on Frederick Douglass's birthday.
Freedmen Bureau Papers

Eric Foner's Book Review

Lincoln and the Abolitionists

Digital History Project

Digital Historical Projects Created by Graduate Students 
Digital History Project
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