Digital History site from RefDesk
From today’s Ref Desk site of the day email, the Digital History site. Awesome history resource.
Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Provides a U.S. history textbook, essays, documents, maps, photos, audio files, and more for teachers and students of American history in schools and colleges.
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Squidoo’s list of timeline generators
Squidoo (”everyone’s an expert on something”) site has a great list of links to timeline generators on the internet.
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline
Looks like “Our Timelines” site is going to be the best for generating fictional characters’ bios, but I haven’t tried them all yet.
Movies “Based on the Book”
Based on the Book presented by the Mid-Continent Public Library.
A site I found a couple of years ago — you can search for movies based on books, and you can search by author, book title, movie title, or movie release year. It’s a pretty good list; I’ve seen another one I can’t find right now. Please post a comment about sites if you know another one!
Research Channel
Today’s Wired Campus newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher Education sent a link to Research1, a new hub-based website that allows researchers to share their work in a topic-related environment. But that link, largely still beta and favoring quantitative studies, led me to their base website, The Research Channel, which looks like a great place to find and discuss breaking results.
F’r’instance, if you click the Arts and Humanities link, you’ll find a 28-minute video called, “Are Journalists Ethically Challenged? Plagiarism and Fabrication” featuring Thomas Kunkel, a dean of Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at U Maryland, and Rem Reider, an editor of American Journalism Review, that looks fab.
