School Is Out: Learn How to Keep History Alive at Home

25. Project Gutenberg and other resources

Project Gutenberg is a resource for students of far more than just history, though it supports them as well. It offers ebooks in several formats, including EPUB, Kindle (with and without images), and HTML. The digitized works of history scholars, as well as historical fiction, are free to download or read online. One finds journals of historical personages, as well as books written about them by contemporaneous authors. Students of history studying from home can use Project Gutenberg, as well as the somewhat similar Open Library, to supplement research on other sites.

For students studying America’s history in warfare, the US Army, Navy, and Air Force maintain Offices of History, with articles, research papers, and other information online. The US Naval Institute’s official magazine, Proceedings, maintains an archive containing articles about the Navy’s history as well as an extensive database of photographs. Proceedings’ archive contains readable articles on America’s Navy going back to 1874, written by those serving at the time or recently retired. Reading the archives of the magazine reveals how the Navy evolved from burning coal to diesel fuel to gas turbines and nuclear power. For high school level students of history the military resources available online offer alternative glimpses of America’s history throughout the 20^th century and into the present.

Where do we find this stuff? Here are our sources:

“Teaching Young Children with Personal Histories and Primary Sources”. Kelly Perry. Online

“Let’s teach America’s story…online”. TeachingAmericanhistory.org.

“Liberty’s Kids: American Revolution”. Full Series. Youtube.com

“Voting and voices classroom resources”. Learning for Justice. Online

“How to teach through storytelling”. Jenny Fulton, classcraft.com. February 27, 2017

“Online Learning Resources”. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Online

“Lesson Plans”. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Online

“National Museum of the American Indian”. Smithsonian Institution. Online

“The Louisiana Purchase”. Article, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. Online

“The Alamo is a rupture”. Raul Ramos, Guernica Magazine. Online

“Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum”. PBS.org.