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John Laufer sent me this resource today that is built by Center for History and New Media and American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning.  They have set up a digital archive of electronic media about the 9-11 tragedy.  The website presents several different points of view and 1st person experiences around the 9-11 attacks.  They also allow visitors to contribute any type of digital media that documents the history of September 11 and its aftermath.  The email states the archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, a tally that includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images.  As this years seniors were only in th 5th grade in 2001, this appears to be a collection worth looking at with our students as we remember this day in American History.

Thanks to a link from Doug Belshaw, a friend of mine on twitter, I found that Google is archiving news articles from major newsprint sources online.  Want to find out what journalists of the time wrote about the Titanic sinking, or articles covering Babe Ruth’s move from Boston to New York.  What did the New York Times report verses the Los Angeles Times?  What did the critics think when Oliver! premiered on Broadway on January 6, 1963?  This is exactly the type of thinking that we want our students to be doing in our classrooms, and now they can.  While not all of these articles are available yet they will be soon.  Check out the post from the Official Google Blog to find out about this project.