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Hands-on Activity II,

The History Institute, University of Massachusetts / Amherst

 

 

Take an additional 30 minutes to explore another resource from the following, reflecting on the same types of questions listed in Activity I :

 

• Using local history to probe questions of race, justice, and equality: Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice, and the Settling of the Land (http://web.uvic.ca/history-robinson/) 
  
  
• Can you hear the voices? Primary sources and the power of contextualization History Matters (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/)  
  
  
• Using local history to explore questions of family life over time: At Home in the Heartland (http://www-exhibits.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/welcome.htm)
  
  
• Using local resource collections to explore the nature of war: The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/contents.html)
  
  

 

If you wish to probe additional history-related resources on the World Wide Web, check out the National Endowment for the Humanities' Edsitement! site (http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/websites-hist.htm) for sites and lesson plan suggestions.