University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: A Shropshire Lad
The text to Housman's "A Shropshire Lad," is presented here from the University of Virginia Library, along with images of the 1908 text, printed by the Ballantyne Press and illustrated by William Hyde.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: This Business Called Learning: Advertising
After analyzing the techniques of propaganda in commercial advertising, students work in cooperative "business" groups to create an advertising campaign for a new product called Giggle Gum. Campaigns include a press release, slideshow...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Secret Message Maker
The ABCya Secret Message Maker is a fun way to create, share and solve secret messages! Simply type your message into the maker and press the button to encrypt it! Next you can choose to solve it on the computer, save it or print it out.
Curated OER
Virtual Typewriter Museum: Why Typewriters?
This site provides an early history of the typewriter, from Gutenberg's invention of the printing press through the standard Sholes & Glidden typewriter. Photos and drawings accompany the historical information. Also discusses the...
Curated OER
Virtual Typewriter Museum: Why Typewriters?
This site provides an early history of the typewriter, from Gutenberg's invention of the printing press through the standard Sholes & Glidden typewriter. Photos and drawings accompany the historical information. Also discusses the...
Curated OER
Virtual Typewriter Museum: Why Typewriters?
This site provides an early history of the typewriter, from Gutenberg's invention of the printing press through the standard Sholes & Glidden typewriter. Photos and drawings accompany the historical information. Also discusses the...
Curated OER
Virtual Typewriter Museum: Why Typewriters?
This site provides an early history of the typewriter, from Gutenberg's invention of the printing press through the standard Sholes & Glidden typewriter. Photos and drawings accompany the historical information. Also discusses the...
Curated OER
Etc: Clip Art Etc: Caxton in the Almonry, Westminster
William Caxton (c. 1415~1422 - c. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England. He was also the...
Other
Creating Brochures That Sell
Quick review of purposes of company brochures, includes styles, copyediting, and other considerations in their production.
Other
History Buff: Colonial America Newspapers and Transcripts
This site contains a brief history of newspapers in colonial America. Also provides links to the texts of the papers themselves, looking back at the actual words used in American Colonial newspapers.
Other
The Dendarii Nexus: Patricia C. Wrede
Written in collaboration with Patricia Wrede, these pages are the efforts of a night school student in the UK. Topics include autobiography, bibliography, likts to related sites, books currently in print, and new book news.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Immigration: Racial Encounters in Colonial America
Copper plate engravings offer one example of the racialization of colonized peoples. At the turn of the 17th century, most Europeans' visual conceptions of the Americas came from the engravings of the workshop of Flemish print-maker...
A&E Television
History.com: How the Black Death Spread Along the Silk Road
The Silk Road was a vital trading route connecting East and West -- but it also became a conduit for one of history's deadliest pandemics. The Silk Road, a network of land and sea trade routes that connected China and the Far East with...
A&E Television
History.com: How Paul Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre Rallied the Patriot Cause
A silversmith by trade, Revere also produced copperplate engravings for book and magazine illustrations, portraits and political drawings that supported the nascent Patriot movement. Reveres most effective piece of anti-British...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aldus Manutius
(1449-1515) An engraving print of Aldus Manutius, one of the first printers and founder of the Aldine Press.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Marshall Plan
A learning module that begins with news article by Mike Kubic called "The Marshall Plan" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Spanish Civil War
A learning module that begins with news article by Mike Kubic called "The Spanish Civil War" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Rape of Nanking and a Forgotten Genocide
A learning module that begins with Mike Kubic's news article "The Rape of Nanking and a Forgotten Genocide" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Israeli Palestinian Conflict
A learning module that begins with Mike Kubic's news article "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Constitution Lives
As part of the study of the Constitution, students will do research on and create a Constitutional scrapbook and multimedia presentation on the Bill of Rights. Students will use various media print resources as well as the Internet to...