We at Getarchive are experimenting with different ways of increasing the visual richness of educational materials: Please have a look at how you can easily embed large public domain collections into your blogs and web pages. You probably know that we created the largest online repository of public domain images: Picryl and working on another app that will …
We have taken another step in our efforts to increase the visual richness of educational materials: Please have a look at 6 minutes video about Andrew Jackson’s early life. We find it quite easy to perceive. This lesson is a collaboration effort between GetArchive and the popular educational project “Reading Through History” that was founded …
1929 It was 1929, and the Great Depression began. Families weren’t able to pay their bills, businesses collapsed, farmers were not able to borrow to raise money for a crop. The Great Depression caused so much misery and pain to each and every U.S. citizen that it is still remembered as the darkest period in …
In colonial America, broadsides delivered the latest news and much more: government proclamations, public service announcements, opinion papers, advertisements, and entertainment updates. Colonial broadsides address virtually every aspect of the American Revolution, providing a wide range of suitable classroom topics. In this lesson, students will use the resources from the Library of Congress collections to …
American colonists forced the British Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act in 1766 but in the succeeding years, similar taxes were levied by British Parliament and protested by many Americans. The American Revolution brewed in a context of Americans’ concern over contemporary events as well as awareness of historic precedents. Mindful of both, the founding …