Friday, May 25, 2007
Useful history website
A History Website As a history teacher you are expected to know everything about history. If you do not know who the 23rd president of the United States was, what year the Crimean war started, or the date the Titanic sunk you lose face in front of people asking the question. It is also important to have primary sources readily available to you. That is why as an aspiring historian I use only the finest. TheHistoryNet (http://www.historynet.com) is an excellent site historical website. Completely reliable as a source and contains a wealth of information. While there are a lot of sites out there that deals with history it is mostly military history. TheHistoryNet has military history as well but also discoveries, exploration, and culture from countries all over the world from ancient times to modern. The site is easy to navigate but what I find most useful is that every article about a historical event will have a primary source(s) with it. Sometimes it is an interview, eyewitness account, or a document. This is extremely useful as adding primary sources to any presentation or paper will strengthen it. I encourage future history teachers to use this site or anyone who needs a primary source or any information in history.
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Great to see you were able to find a useful website. As a history teacher, you will need to be able to recall dates at the drop of a hat! I wonder if they have websites like that out there for other fields of education.
Great write up!
Nice write up. I am going to be teaching history soon and this site will help me find information that i have questions with. This is imporatant becuase i do not want to be that teacher who is called out by his students. Thanks for the tip
I checked out this website and I must say that it is incredible! I understand that I will be responsible for a plethora of knowledge when I become a teacher. Students will have a hard time stumping me with this site at my finger tips. This even looks like a site that I could go to for fun and continue my education even at home. I explored and went to the culture part of the site. After that I clicked on the wild west section and it had a ton of information, from Wyatt Earp to The Wounded Knee Massacre. The Wyatt Earp section even had a tab with a Wild West Magazine! So if I was seriously interested in this I could find a good magazine to subscribe to. Great Site!
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