TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY: THE STATE OF PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE MODERN WORLD
Brittany Gendron ’12
May 2011, Spring Student Symposium
BRINGING PRIMARY SOURCES TO THE 21ST CENTURY Library of Congress
1990: American Memory CD-ROM Experiment to educators 1994: National Digital Library Program: Official Launch of
American Memory 2000: Over 5 million records connected to American Memory and
available online 2010: Over 16 million records connected to American Memory,
however over 100 million yet to be scanned. National Archives
1997: National Archives Strategic Plan Met Goal in 2000 of over 200,000 key documents
Google 2004: Google Books
Harvard Center for the Internet and Society Berkman Center, Digital Public Library of America
“Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative.” Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University. 13 December 2010. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital_public_library
Carlin, John W. “Ready Access to Essential Evidence: The Strategic Plan of the National Archives and Records Administration 1997- 2007.” National Archives and Records Administration. Rev. 2000. http://www.archives.gov/about/plans-reports/strategic-plan/2000/ “Mission and History.” American Memory. The Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/about/index.html Singer, Natasha. “Playing Catch Up In a Digital Library Race.” New York Times. 8 January 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/business/09stream.htm?_r=1
TEACHING HISTORY WITH TECHNOLOGY 1993: Who Built America CD-ROM Project
Brown, Joshua. “History and the Web, From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the Nineteenth and Twenty- First Centuries.” Center For History and New Media, George Mason University. June 2004. http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history- new-media/essays/?essayid=29
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? THE POSSIBILITIES ARE
ENDLESS FOR YOU!
Special thanks to Professor Amy Morsman, my inspiring advisor, the Education Team at the National Archives, specifically Megan Jones, Dave Rosenbaum and Stephanie Greenhut, and Middlebury Career Services and the affiliated Tormendson Fund.