Resources listed on this page are freely available for public viewing and use, but remain either protected by copyright, restricting the ways in which they can be used, or available under questionable or mixed open and restricted licenses. Please note that for the most part, then, these resources are not considered OERs because of this copyright status. If you wish to recommend these sources to students or include them in a D2L course, best practice would be to provide an external link out to these sources.
The Myths That Made America
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Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience Through World War II
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This series of 48 educational videos, covering the history of America, from colonization through Obama's presidency, was developed by the Crash Course team and is available on Youtube. As copyrighted resources, these cannot be embedded into D2L. Best practice is to link out to these videos
This series of 47 educational videos, covering the history of Europe, from Medieval Times through the Fall of Communism, was developed by the Crash Course team and is available on Youtube. As copyrighted resources, these cannot be embedded into D2L. Best practice is to link out to these videos
This series of 42 educational videos, covering World History, from the Agricultural Revolution through the Decolonization, Nationalism, and Globalization, was developed by the Crash Course team and is available on Youtube. As copyrighted resources, these cannot be embedded into D2L. Best practice is to link out to these videos
This series of 42 educational videos, covering the fundamentals of U.S. Government and Politics, explains the differences between the three branches of government and describes how political ideology, parties, and media influence elections and public policy. It was developed by the Crash Course team and is available on Youtube. As copyrighted resources, these cannot be embedded into D2L. Best practice is to link out to these videos
The AIFG presently contains over 450 non-fiction films that document Native lifeways from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a large concentration on peoples of the Southwest. The films range from a 1922 silent newsreel to recent footage of pow-wows and political meetings in 2011. Please note that these resources remain protected under copyright law.
The Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's. As a reminder, best practice is to link out to copyrighted resources. Image Credit: "Crow Absorkee Apsaalooka, St. Xavier, Montana" by Unknown Artist, published in 1920.
A digitization project featuring content curated and managed by Native Americans from the high plateau region of the Northwest United States. Produced in collaboration with Washington State University. This portal is an educational site. Rights to reproduce material are listed in the "Rights" field for each piece of content.
Primary sources are documents, images or artifacts that provide firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning an historical topic under research investigation. Primary sources are original documents created or experienced contemporaneously with the event being researched.
A secondary source is a work that interprets or analyzes an historical event or period after the event has occurred and, generally speaking, makes reference to or analysis of primary sources.
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