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The World is talking. Are you listening? Global Voices Online serves as the hub for an international community of bloggers who want to communicate with the broader world. Its main components are a blog, wiki, and aggregator of international blogs. Global Voices Online lives on a server run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which is a research think-tank focusing on the future of the internet and its impact on all aspects of human society. We’re based at Harvard University’s Law School.

Get the news in a graphical layout. Great way to see the top stories from everywhere on every subject

list of free video and audio podcasts from National Geographic

To put it simply, create an account, join a league, draft a team of real U.S. Members of Congress and have fun as you compete to score as many points as possible. As the Members of Congress you drafted put real legislation through the lawmaking process they will score points for your team. Like other sports, Fantasy Congress requires three things: a team, a system of scoring points, and a framework within which players can score. In this game, your team is a group of U.S. National Congress legislators, the legislators score points by pushing bills through the steps to create a law, and the framework within which they play is Congress itself.

Literally turn the pages of some of the world's oldest, rarest, and in some cases, most important books.Use the Magnify tool to view the text and images up close. Click the audio button for excepts from the books.

Join the adventure as Emmy awarded host Jeffrey Lehmann takes you to incredibly scenic destinations throughout North America and the world in the award-winning Weekend Explorer television series. Each episode features a unique destination and searches out that area's best kept secrets as well as exploring traditional landmarks. Experience the new spirit of travel with the host, while learning about each destination through his informative and humorous narrative that includes culture, history, nature, and wildlife.

Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question. See 5000 years of history in 90 seconds...

ideas for Google Earth grades 6-12

This site gives history students and teachers the power of GIS to investigate critical moments in American history (for example, here's our Great Migration map). Each investigation provides an interactive GIS map for studying patterns in historical census data over a period of time, a collection of historical documents chosen to help put the data into historical context, and lesson plans created by teachers and university instructors. We hope that this site makes American history more accessible to history students of all ages. Please explore!

This sourcebook from Fordham University collects and organizes online ancient history resources into the format of a textbook for classroom use. You'll find comprehensive information on Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Rome, the Hellenistic World, and more.

Online Exhibits from the National Archives....great place to spend some time on a myriad of topics!

The Concord Review, a journal of history that is the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students. Submit history papers to The National Writing Board to be assessed against an independent academic expository writing standard endorsed by such colleges as Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and many more. Learn how you can encourage the reading, discussion, writing, and enjoyment of history at your school through the National History Club.

What would you have done in the final days of the '04 campaign if you were managing the Kerry campaign? Would you have had the insight to drop your advertising in Florida and make that extra final push in Ohio? Could you have managed Bush's campaign and won one less state than in the 2000 race and still prevailed in the end? If you think you have the answers, Power Politics will let you test your political savvy and campaign skills by putting you in control of your favorite candidate's campaign. Can you make the key strategic decisions that will lead to victory?

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

With the simple click of a mouse button, travel 500 years into the past to discover many Renaissance innovations revealed through the Allentown Art Museum's Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art.

Engaging presentation illustrates the growth of the US from Post American Revolution through Post Civil War.

Patriotic Melodies tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage.

The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Graphically navigate by chronology and geography using timelines and maps, and then delve into a history lesson on the key events for a particular time and place anywhere in the world. T

Portal site for studying ancient Egypt. Try the Mummy Maker-- a simulation of the mummification process.

Compelling flash presentation which simplies statistics by scaling world population down to just 100. This thought-provoking presentation is a perfect launching point for class room discussion.

Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.

American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

The twentieth century has seen great deeds of heroism and bravery by significant leaders and the average people. It is also a time when some of those who have have risen to lead countries might classified as 'Villains'. Based on little seen documents from the National Arhives of events or episodes surrounding Churchill, Kennedy, Truman, Stalin, or Mussolini, you are asked to judge whether the figure in question is 'a hero or a villain?'

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/exhibitions.htm This is an investigation into life on the home front during the Second World War. There are seven galleries: preparations for war,evacuation,,bombing of Britain,Empire home front,everyday life,women at war, spies Each gallery is broken into various topics with sources and questions. The visual material is accessible to all pupils with or without teacher input. There are worksheets, timelines and a glossary. There is also a diary facility so pupils can save, edit and access their work directly from the net. The gallery contains a video archive using clips from the Imperial War Museum on many of the topics. Some galleries have additional activities to play: Lights Out; Escape the Blitz; Shelter from the Blitz; Empire Home Front; Shopping in the War; Spy Catcher. More resources available from Great Britain's National Archive.