RESOURCES
Teaching Tools
History education comes alive when students learn to think and work like historians. When teachers apprentice students in age-appropriate ways, they learn to work with sources, consider different perspectives, analyze and interpret information, and marshal evidence in support of their conclusions. Here's how we do it:
The process of historical investigation provides a backbone for our approach. A team of teachers and scholars defined this process in our best attempt to nail Jell-O to the wall and delineate a linear process analogous to the scientific method.
- The Process of Historical Investigation, as defined by the History Project
We encourage teachers to lead their students in historical investigations big and small. Here's a sample lesson that uses just two sources to great effect:
Marchand Teaching Library
History Project Fellows can consider the Marchand Teaching Library their office on campus. It holds a cabinet packed with standards-based lessons developed by HP Fellows, and shelves filled with 1000+ history books, slide collections, CD-Roms, and DVDs. While Fellows have greater borrowing and copying privileges, other area teachers are invited to visit and use these resources-just let us know when we should expect you!
Image Archive
Top-notch scholars from the UC Davis History Department have generously shared their image collections for your classroom use. Following the 1997 death of our founder Roland Marchand, his family gave us permission to digitize the nearly 6,000 slides he had used in his teaching. We share them with you here so that his legacy can live on. Prof. Karen Halttunen, our long-time history faculty advisor, expanded this collection more recently-even as she left UC Davis for USC-by contributing the images she'd collected. Look for additional collections and improved search functions to come.
Documentary Source Problems
HP founder Roland Marchand, one of our founders, developed these documentary source problems for his students at UCD. Each assignment encourages students apply their analytical skills to a set of primary sources from which they can deduce and explain events from the past. Each has also been adapted by Project Fellows for use in high school and middle school classrooms.
Links
Academic Literacy & Historical Thinking Links
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History
A guide for college students in writing research papers.
ICYouSee: T is for Thinking
A Guide to Critical Thinking about what you see on the Web
World History Links
Art History Resources on the Web
Finding World History -- from George Mason University
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Considerable collection of documents for teaching world history
Images From History
Images from the history of world art and archeology for use in the classroom.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Sources for Ancient, Medieval & Modern History
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity Exploring the French Revolution
Essays, Images, Text Documents, Songs, Maps, Timeline and a Glossary
World History Archives
Documents for teaching & learning about world history from a working-class & non-Eurocentric perspective
World History Connected: The E-Journal of Teaching & Learning
World History for Us All
A model curriculum for world history in middle and high schools
World History Matters is an online resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact, globalization, and gender.
American History Links
Cornell Rare & Manuscript Collection
Check out the exhibitions based letters, diaries, photographs, documents.
Do History
Do History invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard.
History Central.com.
Source documents in American History
History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
Library of Congress: Exhibitions Online
National Archives & Records Administration's Digital Classroom
Repositories of Primary Sources
SCORE
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
The End of Slavery: The Creation of the 13th Amendment
100 milestone documents of American history
Geography Links
CIA World Fact Book
The CIA's World Factbook 2004 printed version provides a "snapshot" of the world as of 1 January, 2004. The online Factbook is updated regularly - generally weekly - throughout the year.
Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning Geography
Mission Geography
Mission Geography is curriculum support materials that link the content, skills, and perspectives of Geography for Life: The National Geography Standards with the missions, research, and science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Our Sponsors and Affiliates Links
California Subject Matter Projects
California History Social-Science Project
Professional Associations
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
National Council for History Education
California Council for History Education
National Council for the Social Studies