A guide for history and school library media specialists for creating technologically advanced, resource-based instructional units in American and World History in grades 7-12.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
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Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1: Using Critical Thinking Skills in History.
2: Using Primary Sources.
The Primary Source Sites.
3: Ancient Civilizations.
Diotima (3900 BCE–476 CE).
Vanished Kingdoms of the Nile: The Rediscovery of Ancient Nubia (ca. 3800 BCE–300 CE).
Duke Papyrus Archive (ca. 2600 BCE).
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (2500 BCE).
Mystery of the Maya (2500 BCE–950 CE).
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: China (2205–479 BCE).
Law Code of Hammurabi (1750 BCE).
Perseus Project (1200–323 BCE).
Rome Resources Project (753 BCE–476 CE).
The Dead Sea Scrolls (200 BCE).
The Silk Road (ca. 202 BCE).
4: Early Christian Era.
The Ecole Initiative (ca. 30–1500 CE).
Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius (79 CE).
Lepers (ca. 300 CE).
Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet (330–1453 CE).
Zen Buddhist Texts (ca. 500–1200 CE).
The Camelot Project (ca. 537 CE).
5: Eleventh-Fourteenth Centuries.
Peter Abelard: Historia Calamitatum, "The Story of My Misfortunes" (1079–1142).
The Crusades (1096–1270).
Robin Hood Project (ca. 1180–1210).
Statutes of Biella (1248 and 1348).
Extracts of Travels of Marco Polo (ca. 1300).
Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (1347–1351).
The Forbidden City (1368–Present).
6: Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries.
Tres Riches Heures (ca. 1412).
Leonardo da Vinci Museum (1452–1519).
Witchcraft: Joan's Witch Directory (1484–1692).
1492: An Ongoing Voyage (1492).
Extracts from Christopher Columbus' Journal (1492).
Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India (1497–1498).
Public Executions in Early Modern England (ca. 1500–1600).
Missionaries and Mandarins: The Jesuits in China (ca. 1500–1600).
