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History and the Internet A Guide

Name: History and the Internet A Guide
Author: Patrick D. Reagan
ISBN: 9780072514568

by Patrick D. Reagan

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Overview

The Internet permeates contemporary American life, creating enormous possibilities for innovative use in history classrooms and student projects. This concise guide focuses on practical ways that students and teachers can utilize the growing body of library and archival catalogs, primary sources, web sites, images, and sounds to complement and enhance traditional ways of learning, teaching, and researching the human past. Available either as a separate work or packaged with textbooks in United States, Western Civilization, World History, and upper division history courses, this guide will help students to learn how to use e-mail, surf the Internet for quality history sites, employ search engines effectively, create online student projects, and explore the emerging world of multimedia history. Helpful for instructors who wish to learn how to use scholarly networks, professional web sites, and evaluate reliable web resources to bring new dimensions to the craft of understanding the past. An extensive appendix provides links to the best history-related sites on the Internet by time period and subject as well as resources for scholars and samples of innovative CD-ROM projects in history.

About the Author, Patrick D. Reagan

Patrick Reagan is the author of American Journey: World War I and the Jazz Age (2000), a multimedia history of the United States from 1890 to 1929, Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943 (2000) and co-editor of For the General Welfare: Essays in Honor of Robert H. Bremner (1989) and Voluntarism, Planning, and the State: The American Planning Experience, 1919-1946 (1988). He edits four web sites including theH-SHGAPE site for the H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine network, the Tennessee Tech History site, the AAUP site for Tennessee Tech, and a computer users’ group site. He has worked on the web site national committee for H-Net and with the New Media Classroom Institute sponsored by the American Social History Project and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997, he was the first recipient of the Dean’s Award for Innovative Teaching at TTU for work with Internet web sites.