Harry Gartner, oral history and personal primary sources

Harry Gartner passed away recently. And unless you’re a huge World War II history buff, that probably doesn’t mean much. For those who aren’t huge World War II buffs, Harry Gartner was drafted in May 1944, given 17 weeks of basic training and shipped to Europe in December. Within days of arriving in England with [...]

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Dick Winters, oral history and personal primary sources.

Dick Winters passed away in early January. And unless you’re a huge World War II history buff, that probably doesn’t mean much. For those of you who aren’t huge World War II history buffs, Major Richard “Dick” Winters was a retired paratrooper who served as a captain in Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne [...]

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DocsTeach.org – NARA is on fire!

Over the last couple of years, NARA has given us tons of fun goodies – the very cool Digital Vaults, Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, RSS feeds, a YouTube channel and wikis. Together with their excellent lesson plans and digitized documents, the National Archives site is a no-brainer for Social Studies and History teachers. But I [...]

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More free Footnote goodies

I’ve mentioned Footnote several times as a great source for primary documents. If you haven’t heard of Footnote, it’s basically a social network for primary sources with millions of documents from a variety of sources. What makes Footnote unique is the way in which it allows you to organize, display and share those documents. And [...]

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KansasMemory.org sweetness

I’m at the MACE tech conference on the K-State campus listening to a session on the Kansas Memory site. I poked around the site a year or so ago and am really impressed with the changes they’ve made. Modeled after the American Memory site and maintained by the Kansas State Historical Society, Kansas Memory does [...]

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