Common Core Standards: History Standards
The Common Core standards for History, the basis of the new movement towards "authentic assessments" in education, are seconded to the English Language Arts Literacy Standards and are skills-based, rather than content-based.
British Petroleum (BP) Archives
The Archives of the British Petroleum (BP) company are held at the University of Warwick in the UK. This is a description of the basic holdings and includes contact information for accessing finding aids and other relevant information.
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
England
Tel: 024 7652 4518
Fax: 024 7652 4523 Email: BPArchive@bp.com
Colonialism Through the Veil
An exploration of settler colonialism and its legacy from multiple perspectives through an examination of the American Midwest and French Algeria as case studies.
Collaborative Bibliography
This link will take you to our collaborative bibliography.
John Stanley Mullin Papers
Collection Description (from finding aid): John Stanley Mullin was born in Los Angeles in 1907. He received an LL.B. from Harvard in 1933, the year he was admitted to the California bar. Mullin joined a law firm in Los Angeles and acted as a director of several corporations there in the course of his career. Mullin served his first official capacity on behalf of the International Ski Federation as the United States delegate to the 1951 Congress, a role he continued to fill for about 20 years.
The American Indian Policy Institute
Who We Are
The American Indian Policy Institute actively:
•Collaborates with Tribal Governments and American Indian Communities on issues that affect them
•Empowers Indian Tribes and Communities through the provision of information, expertise and certifications
•Nurtures innovation for American Indian sustainability
What We Do
Technical Assistance for:
•Tribal governments in the development of policies and structure
•State, local and federal policy-makers in working effectively with Tribal Nations
Mentoring Toolkit for Graduate Students and Junior Scholars
Often graduate students and junior scholars do not have adequate mentoring at their home institutions. The SAWH is committed to mentoring graduate students and junior scholars so we created this toolkit. Each article is written by an expert who can help you navigate particular issues.
We hope that you find this toolkit helpful.
New Deal Archaeology
Promoting the study of archaeology conducted under the auspices of federal work relief funding during the Great Depression and research using field records and archaeological collections generated as part of these New Deal-funded archaeological investigations
New Deal Network
The New Deal Network, an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s, is sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Development of the NDN was funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
European Association of Sinological Libraries | EASL
The EASL encourages communication within the worldwide community of East-Asia librarians and their respective libraries
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves.
The Southern Historical Collection
One of the oldest and richest sources of Southern history. The SHC regularly adds new online content.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
The Southern Historical Association
The Southern Historical Association was organized November 2, 1934. Its objectives are the promotion of interest and research in southern history, the collection and preservation of the South's historical records, and the encouragement of state and local historical societies in the South. As a secondary purpose the Association fosters the teaching and study of all areas of history in the South.
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