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Museums & Digital Storytelling - Home. ITHAKA. A Study of Direct Author Subvention for Publishing Humanities Books at Two Universities: A Report to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation by Indiana University and University of Michigan. When we share, everyone wins. SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. Publication cycle v2 1. Research + Tools. Omeka Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is a platform for publishing online collections and exhibitions.

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Learn More | Visit the Site Zotero Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Learn More | Visit the Site PressForward PressForward is pioneering new methods to capture and highlight orphaned or underappreciated scholarship and share it with digital humanists across the web. Learn More | Visit the Site Scripto Scripto is a free, open source tool that enables community transcriptions of document and multimedia files. Learn More | Visit the Site Omeka.net Let Omeka.net host your collections, research, exhibits, and digital projects.

Learn More | Visit the Site Anthologize Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Learn More | Visit the Site THATCamp Learn More | Visit the Site Serendip-o-matic One Week One Tool. Copyright Information Center. Juneteenth: Discover Your Roots Using Freedmen’s Bureau Records. Historypin. American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by Category. The Library of Congress Film Archives (TV Movie 1994) - Quotes. Universal Newsreels : Free Movies : Download & Streaming. 25 years Ago - Mussolini poised to invade Ethiopia, allies met at Geneva, League voted sanctions, Pierre Laval, Fancour of France, Italian troops march, map of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie and his troops favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews ) (1) JFK in Oval Office, goes to inauguration, sits with Ike in stand, LBJ sworn in as VP by Sam Rayburn, JFK sworn in by Chief Justice Warren, JFK speaks "let the Word go forth ... torch been passed .. proud of our ancient heritage ... committted today at home and around the world ... to our sister republics south of the border in a new alliance of progress join with them to oppose subversion anywhere in the Americas" - lunch in the Capital - procession to the White House riding in... (1) "Faced with the most serious strike in its history, the U.

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S. is hard hit by a strike of railroad men, Delayed for five days, the strike finally does begin. Seattle "be-in" of students and hippies (partial newsreel) (1)"U.S. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. American Archive of Public Broadcasting. About · History Harvest. The History Harvest is an innovative new authentic learning initiative in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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This collaborative, team-oriented, student-centered and community-based project seeks to create a popular movement to democratize and open American history by utilizing digital technologies to share the experiences and artifacts of everyday people and local historical institutions. The Colonial North American Project at Harvard University · Colonial North American Project at Harvard. Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. Digital Public Library of America. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web.

This book provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium.

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

It begins with an overview of the different genres of history websites, surveying a range of digital history work that has been created since the beginning of the web. The book then takes the reader step-by-step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy-to-use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and how to reach and respond to an intended audience effectively. On this website, we present a free online version of the text. Hack Education. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Technology.