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?
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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,.
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Ed Ayers: Renewing Inequality visualizes "blighted" or "slum" neighborhood displacements and urban renewal more generally.
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Steven Mintz: Digital History is an online museum of historical works includes links to a digital textbook, original documents, multimedia, reference and online exhibits.
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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."
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"Dated" Digital History Websites
Although "dated" these websites are valuable in the arc of digital history projects.
Digital Service LearningDouglass 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.
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Eric Foner's Book ReviewDigital History ProjectDigital Historical Projects Created by Graduate Students
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