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College Vine: The Importance of Face to Face Communication in the Digital Age
Just because we may have computers and smartphones readily available to us, this does not mean that we should abandon face-to-face communication. Find out some cases in which it makes more sense.
Digital History
Digital History: Trail Gunner Joe
A charismatic demagogue, Joe McCarthy grew up on a Wisconsin farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. While still a teenager, he established a thriving business as a chicken farmer. He dropped out of school after eighth grade, but...
Digital History
Digital History: The Dealth of Stalin and the Cold War
In March 1953, Joseph Stalin, who had ruled the Soviet Union since 1928, died at the age of 73. His feared minister of internal affairs, Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, was subsequently shot for treason. Nikita Khrushchev then became first...
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Libraries: Penn in the Age of Franklin, 1740 90
In celebration of the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, the Penn Library and University Archives offers a look at the university as it was during Franklin's lifetime. Content includes original documents and manuscripts, a...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 7 Tools for Literacy in the Digital Age
Summaries and links to 7 online tools to help in the language arts classroom including Kami, Unplag, Writinghouse, LightSail, No Red Ink, Write About, and Kahoot.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Digital Resilience for Ages 11 14
This is a lesson plan to help young people aged 11-14 manage their lives online and to help others. This lesson aims to look at the positive and negative experiences young people have online, consider the impact they may have and devise...
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of a dozen of George Eliot's works.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Golden Age of Broadway
This primary source set uses illustrations, documents, recordings, and photographs to tell the story of the "golden age" of Broadway.
University of Pennsylvania
U Penn Digital Library: Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of 18 of Thackeray's works.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library: Works of Samuel Butler
The Digital Library provides links to the texts of eight of Samuel Butler's works.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: The Online Books Page
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of 25 of Arthur Conan Doyle's works in many formats.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: Online Books Page, John Ruskin
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of many of John Ruskin's works including "The King of the Golden River," "Sesame and Lilies," and "Unto This Last."
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Growing Up Online
Information and analysis on the practices and habits of children and teens who live their lives online. Focus is on teen culture in the digital age and on how online media have intensified fears of the dangerous dimensions of adolescence.
Other
Interviewing and Information in a Digital Age
This site discusses how technology has affected the informational interviewing process. Read this to discover how the internet has changed how we can get the information that we need.
Digital History
Digital History: The Roaring Twenties [Pdf]
Read this comprehensive look at the Roaring Twenties, or Jazz Age. Read about Prohibition and its ramifications, women's gains, entertainment, and literature. Also find out about the resurgence of racial unrest and violence. A very good...
Digital History
Digital History: Business Organizations [Pdf]
After a brief description of various ways that businesses are organized, find out about the monopolies formed in the age of big business in the late 19th century, focusing primarily on Standard Oil. [pdf]
Digital History
Digital History: The Road to Revolution
A review of the Age of Revolution, particularly as it was perceived in the American colonies. See how the various actions taken by the British government to control the colonists resulted in uniting the colonists and set the stage for...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Information Age
This exhibition surveys the history of information technology and its relation to society from the origin of the telegraph to the present. Its emphasis is as much on social as technical change. This support page contains background...
Digital History
Digital History: History of Private Life an Overview
Digital History provides a look at various cultures and traditions of mankind through the ages. Discusses the purpose and values of the private life.
Digital History
Digital History: The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie was a believer in the gospel of wealth. Read about his philosophy concerning the millions made by business tycoons in the Gilded Age, and see how he carried out this gospel.
Digital History
Digital History: The Life Cycle of a Slave [Pdf]
Read excerpts from these slave and ex-slave narratives to find out what the life of a slave was like through all stages of life--childhood, marriage, and old age. See the heartbreak of mothers being separated from their children, and...
Digital History
Digital History: The Sherman Anti Trust Act and Standard Oil [Pdf]
As the influence of large corporations spread in the age of big business, push-back was inevitable. Read about the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the government's attempts to rein in the laissez-faire attitudes of corporations and the lack...
Northern Illinois University
Illinois in the Gilded Age: 1896: The Cross of Gold
This is a very informative look at the politics involved in the campaign of 1896 where one of the main issues was the conflict between the gold standard and free silver. Read about the results of the election and the defeat of Populist...
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library: Alfred Lord Tennyson Works
This site provides links to 4 pieces of work of Alfred Lord Tennyson's: "Enoch Arden.." poetry collection, "Idylls of the King," "The Lady of Shalott" with Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and "The Princess: A Medley" with an excellent...