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Useful
American History Websites:
- AMERICAN PASSAGES: A Literary Survey
AMERICAN PASSAGES is an integrated multimedia college-level course in American Literature that can be used in a one- or two- semester setting. Its mission is to give instructors who wish to teach a diverse canon of American literature within a historical and social context an exceptionally coherent, rich, and supportive program of materials in several media. AMERICAN PASSAGES was created by Oregon Public Broadcasting and W. W. Norton and Company, with the sponsorship of the Crossroads Project of the American Studies Association. The project is funded by Annenberg/CPB. For more information about the American Passages Study Guide and Video programs, please click here.
The AMERICAN PASSAGES Web Site will be available to all
users free of charge through the Annenberg/CPB site, www.learner.org.
It will have 2 major parts:
- The Online Archive: The Archive provides searchable access to primary source materials-about 150-200 items for each of the 16 units - for student research, including visual art, newspaper articles, musical recordings and spoken-word sound files, government documents, diaries, maps, photos of cultural artifacts. All Archive materials are the site itself, rather than appearing as URLs linked to other sites. In addition, the Archive provides limited links to stable sites offering high-quality content. A special effort has been made to include collections that support the newer voices in NAAL6, with links to such sites as The Henrietta Marie Exhibit, The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- The Media Composition Software: This software allows students and teachers to compose audio and visual presentations using materials in the Archive. The "point and click" interface lets teachers create class presentations with multimedia and design multimedia assignments.
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