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A new video series uses the C-SPAN Library & Archives to explain the role of media in Presidential elections throughout history. The project is supported by Purdue University and includes references to some of the latest historical scholarship on this topic. This may be a good resource for educators, students and those generally interested in history.
Here is the first video:
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American Philosophical Society - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Open Library of Humanities just announced "the first of its software initiatives, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Birkbeck, University of London: Annotran.
Repeat photography is the practice of taking photographs of a specific location at two or more different times. It is a powerful visual resource for scientific study and education in forest and landscape management. From working forests to wilderness areas, such photographic pairs or sequences can help us understand ecosystem processes, and effects of human and non-human disturbances. They can inform our concepts of sustainability, help us understand the implications of public policy, and assess the results of management decisions.
John Rosinbum looks at ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World as a teaching tool:
John Rosinbum, "Teaching with ORBIS: Maps, Environments, and Interpretations in Ancient Rome," AHA Today, Sept. 19, 2016, http://blog.historians.org/2016/09/teaching-with-orbis-maps-environments-and-interpretatio...
