Link-o-rama!

Here are some excellent links that you may find educationally useful. They are mostly culled from Marylaine Block's Neat, New and Ex Libris newsletter.

Multiple Perspectives
This web page has been created to meet the needs of Multnomah County middle and high school students researching current social issues from multiple perspectives.

How Products Are Made
This is a fun site. For a wide variety of products -- chewing gum, refrigerators, shaving cream, fireworks, frisbees, baby carriers, Braille publications, you name it -- it tells you about the history of the product, the raw materials, and the manufacturing process.

SwarmSketch: Collective sketching of the collective consciousness.
This is intriguing. It gives a term and invites us to draw it, and then consolidates the drawings, keeping or eliminating lines based on people's votes. Browse through the results. This could be how we discover the platonic ideal forms for things.

Flash Animations for Physics
We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest. The animations will appear in a separate window.

Time Magazine Covers Archive
A browsable, searchable archive of covers (or if you prefer, articles) from 1923 to the present. Clicking on the cover takes you to the table of contents for that issue. Some articles are available free online, but full content is restricted to subscribers.

Audobon's First Octavo Edition
The online edition of an 1840 "First Octavo Edition" of Audubon's complete seven volume text, with Audubon's gorgeous images and original
text.

Government Document Search Engine
A much improved search engine for documents from the US, state, and local governments.

Lambiek Comiclopedia
An illustrated compendium of over 7,000 comic artists, listed under last name (or pseudonym). Please update your links to us. If you know of any published comic artists that should be added to the list, send more information.

World War One Sites

Here are some sites that deal with World War One.

The World War One Document Archive
Brigham Young University Library houses this archive of primary documents from World War I. It has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L).

Excerpt from A Hundred Years of International Relations
Mount Holyoke College has the the full text of chapter 5 "The Approach to the First World War".

The Great War Series
The War Times Journal brings a selection of primary source documents and images.

Wars and Conflict: World War One
The BBC gives a British perspective on The Great War.

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
This is the companion site to the PBS documentary "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century".

FIrst World War
This site is not peer reviewed, but contains an enormous amount of information.
A companion site to the PBS series.

First Call
American Posters of World War I from the collection of Roger N. Mohovich.

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
From Fordham University

The Great War
The University of Pittsburgh sponsors this site.