A Seven Minute Overview of WWII In Europe

Last month I shared History Animated which is one of my favorite resources for helping students understand the course of military actions d...

Resources for Learning About Pearl Harbor

Today is the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor which brought the U.S. into WWII. If you're a social studies teach...

140 WWII Aircraft Discovered In Burmese Jungle

This isn't a technology story, but I think it will be of interest to history teachers and history geeks like me. This morning The Advent...

IWitness - Video Testimonies of Holocaust Survivors

IWitness is a project of USC's Shoah Foundation Institute built to help students learn about The Holocaust . IWitness gives students a...

Sound Maps from The British Library

The British Library's sound maps provides a good way to explore more than 50,000 audio recordings organized into nine categories. To he...

360 View of Hiroshima After the Atomic Bomb

360 Cities , a provider of high quality panoramic images, recently published 360 degree imagery of Hiroshima, Japan as it looked right after...

A Concise History of the Korean War - Video

Earlier today while looking back at some of my resources on WWII I watched a couple of videos that feature animated, narrated maps of the w...

Snag Learning Film - Going Hollywood: The War Years

This week's Snag Learning film of the week is Going Hollywood: The War Years . Using clips of films made in Hollywood studios during Wor...

More Historical Imagery Available in Google Earth

Back in February Google released historical imagery in Google Earth of 35 European cities as they looked during WWII. Today, Google announc...

Nagasaki Archive - Preserving History of Atomic Bomb Survivors

The Nagasaki Archive is a project designed to preserve the history and stories of survivors of the August 9, 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasak...

Measure the Impact of Asteroids & Atomic Bombs

Carlos Labs , a data architecture and data integration firm in Australia, has developed two Google Maps-based widgets that demonstrate the r...

Atlas of World War II

Despite the fact that we still have almost a month of school left, my students had to turn in their school-issued netbooks today. This left ...

10 Resources for Teaching & Learning About WWII

Next week my US History students will be beginning their studies of World War II. I spent some time this week going through some of the reso...

Video - WWII Map, Europe & North Africa

Next week my school is on spring break, but when my student return we'll be diving into our study of World War II. As I was planning and...

View WWII Imagery in Google Earth

Since the release of Google Earth 5.0 , Google has steadily added more and more historical imagery. Today, Google announced the addition of...

Videos and Lessons About Pearl Harbor

Today, December 7, is the 68th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor . CNN Student News has a short segment in today's ep...

The Only Existing Film Images of Anne Frank

Thanks to a no-show by Time Warner Cable on Saturday morning I was without Internet access at home all weekend so I may be the last blogger ...