World History
JStor (stands for journal storage) is a collection of thousands of academic journals which I used to have to climb library stairs to get. Fortunately my school gives free access to it, but not everyone has that. Now JStor is offering free access to 1200 journals to anyone who is willing to register and then have their user information will be shared with JStor's partners. The other limitation is that you will only be able to read three journal articles every two weeks. But it's not as if you are going to be sharing lots of these articles with your students, so if you do not have access, the limitations certainly seem worth it. I found out about this from a Google+ post from
- Free Full-text Berkshire Encyclopedias
I do not usually like to give free plugs to commercial vendors of history products. However, I appreciate that Berkshire is giving a free preview of many of their new products including Global Perspectives on the United States and the Berkshire Encyclopedia...
- Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia And The Future Of The Past
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. This article is from the Journal of American History, Volume 93, Number 1 (June, 2006): 117-46. It was written by Roy Rosenzweig. Obviously, this article deals with the coverage of history...
- Teaching History: A Journal Of Methods
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. This journal was designed for history teachers at all levels who wish to read about, or contribute to, innovative methods of teaching history. It is a good journal. I have read several articles from it and liked...
- Itunes U And History Courses
ITunes University (which you can download as an app) and access through ITunes on your laptop has scores of courses in history as well as in most other disciplines. Some of the courses (I found a couple in religion) have embedded video clips that...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...
World History
Free Access to JStor
Roane Beard.
- Free Full-text Berkshire Encyclopedias
I do not usually like to give free plugs to commercial vendors of history products. However, I appreciate that Berkshire is giving a free preview of many of their new products including Global Perspectives on the United States and the Berkshire Encyclopedia...
- Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia And The Future Of The Past
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. This article is from the Journal of American History, Volume 93, Number 1 (June, 2006): 117-46. It was written by Roy Rosenzweig. Obviously, this article deals with the coverage of history...
- Teaching History: A Journal Of Methods
Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. This journal was designed for history teachers at all levels who wish to read about, or contribute to, innovative methods of teaching history. It is a good journal. I have read several articles from it and liked...
- Itunes U And History Courses
ITunes University (which you can download as an app) and access through ITunes on your laptop has scores of courses in history as well as in most other disciplines. Some of the courses (I found a couple in religion) have embedded video clips that...
- New Google Changes
Google has been making a lot of changes recently to streamline all of its offerings into one area (part of CEO Larry Page's design) and in turn get people to join Google+. I've read that it is up to 100 million, but my sense (and it is...