Best of History Web Sites: Multimedia Print

The Journal for Multimedia History
The Journal for Multimedia History a journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia technologies to merge audio, video, graphics, and text into a form that can only be communicated on the World Wide Web (WWW) or on CD-ROM/DVD mediums. Though designed for college and university professors, there are articles of use to secondary school history teachers.

NotablePics
Notable Pics is a tool that allows K-16 teachers and students to use their own photographs (or those which they have copyright permission) as the basis of a web-based lesson. Once the teacher has uploaded a photograph, the teacher can add facts to areas of the photograph to direct the students' attention to pertinent details. The teacher can then add instructions, content information and hyperlinks to create the rest of the lesson

pics4learning
Offers free pictures for teachers in various categories

AltaVista Photo & Media Finder
Can help you search for over 17 million images on the Web. Also searches for audio and video clips. Beware of copyright protection

Google
One the best search engines on the web, Google now offers a specific search category for images. Beware of copyright protection.

NPR Online- National Public Radio
Has an extensive and searchable database of their excellent programs.

Prints and Photographs Division Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Library of Congress)
The LOC offers more than 13.6 million images in its database, including photos, prints, drawings and more. There is an on-line catalog covering 26 categories and images grouped around select (American) topics, such as Ellis Island and Amelia Earhart. Some images may be copyrighted

The Online Speech Bank
Contains 291 active links to 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. Links are arranged alphabetically by first name and checked for errors

Social Studies School Service Links
A commercial site dedicated to social studies educators; sells social studies ebooks, videos, DVD's, CD-ROMS, and more.

DocuSeek: Film and Video Finder
DocuSeek is a search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational videos available in the U.S. and Canada. DocuSeek allows you to simultaneously search several leading film distributors' complete collections. In all, DocuSeek allows you to search through over 2,100 documentary films and videos according to general subject, title, study guide availability and even grade level (in addition to other categories). There are descriptions of each film or video as well as links to reviews.

Authentic History: Primary Resources from American Pop Culture
Contains an impressive array of pictures, audio, and video from the antebellum period to the 9/11 terrorist attack.

History and Politics Out Loud
History Out Loud is a collection of audio relating to U.S. history and politics.

Studs Terkel: Conversations
Produced by the Chicago Historical Society, this site explores the life and work of Studs Terkel, an important American oral historian. Galleries focus on interviews that Mr. Terkel did for his books and also contains a multimedia interview with him.

CHOICES program: Teaching With the News
This Brown University site helps students and teachers sift through important news stories. Such as with their new feature on Iraq, it offers policy options and links to debates.

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public to more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. Collections include: Web, Moving Images, Texts, Audio, Software.

History Clip Art
From Mr. Donn's Ancient History site

Webcorp Multimedia
A video and audio archive of mostly American historical topics and personalities. Check out the Watergate and McCarthyism clips.

Popular Songs of American History
Features links to American folk and traditional music with lyrics, information, and historical background.

The Mudcat Cafe
Contains a digital archive of over 9000 folk songs.

Images From History
Images from the history of world art and archæology for available for use in the classroom. Navigation is a little confusing. Click a folder to open its contents, a sheet of paper to see a catalog of thumbnail images, and a thumbnail to see the full image.

Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database is the "ultimate" online movie database covering over 325,000 titles and over 1,000,000 people with facts, trivia, reviews plus multimedia links from the earliest films to the latest releases. The Movie database can be searched by Movie/TV Title, Cast/Crew Name, Character Name and Word Search.

Graphics Library Index
Direct links to free graphics