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A new initiative from the Journal of American History, this site provides resources and strategies for teaching with articles published in the journal. The most recent entry consists of materials for teaching about the debate over long hair in American high schools that was eventually considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. Exercises that go along with the article ask students to analysis the role of schools in defining rights, explore the issues at stake in dress code controversies, and to explore how this debate can shed light on transitions in American culture in the 1960's. As of October 2004, seven more installments have been added to correspond with other Journal of American History articles. Each section provides the JAH article, ideas for teaching with the article, supplemental materials, and exercises for students. This site would be interesting for teachers of history and anyone looking for new tools to challenge high school students to think more critically about history by using a wide range of information online.

Adflip is an archive of more than 6,000 print advertisements published from 1940 to the present. The site is privately financed and was created by two individuals who felt that ¨print advertising captures the essence of society at any given time. Products advertised include everything from dog food to DeSotos. The site may be searched by year, product type, and brand name. Many ads may be sent as electronic post-cards for free. For each ad, the site tells when and in what publication it appeared. A 170-word introduction describes the site. There are 17 search categories, from automotive to travel, and eight themed categories such as comic books and obsolete products. A top ten collection changes daily and features ads that the site creators find funny. Visitors may also search a collection of ads indexed by publication. This collection includes 65 magazines and comic books, from Archie to Wired. The site does not give information about advertising agencies. This site will be useful as primary source material for research on advertising, consumer culture, and material culture, but note that the pages of this site download very slowly.

The National Academy of Engineering hosts this tribute to engineering advances in the twentieth century. Articles describe advances made in Electrification, Automobiles, Airplanes, Water Supply and Distribution, Electronics, Radio and Television, Agricultural Mechanization, Computers, Telephones, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, Highways, Spacecraft, Internet, Imaging, Household Appliances, Health Technologies, Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies, Laser and Fiber Optics, Nuclear Technologies, and High-performance Materials. Each article is accompanied by a chronology of twentieth century advances. All pages include links to text pages in a printer-friendly format. The site is largely introductory but a good place for researchers to begin their work.

This extensive site hosts information about the history of aeronautics on more then 300 pages. Historians of science and technology will find useful the pages devoted to timelines, chronologies, biographies, aircraft, power plants and some of the articles found in the features page. The Aeronautica Archives and Collections page may prove useful to researchers who are attempting to locate major collections in the United States. With so much information, the site is not easily navigated, however patient researchers may find more than a few things of interest here.

This website is dedicated to the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes by a team of Canadian scientists in the early twentieth century. The site doubles as both a description of the historical events and a publicity piece for diabetes awareness. The site contains biographies of the four scientists that collaborated on the project, transcripts of their Nobel speeches, and a description of the experiments that led to the discovery. The site offers a few links and images as well.

This site contains abstracts for the Center's extensive archives related to the history of nursing. It also contains a gallery of photos, research guidelines and instructions, and links to many offsite resources. Many of the links are broken, as this is an older site. However, most of the content is available and is especially useful for those interested in potentially visiting the Center.

This centennial exhibit focuses on the primary reason for all of ANA's concern and activities, the fulfillment of nursing's social responsibility to provide health care to people. The site is a selection of nurses' quotes and summarized narratives that depict ANA's involvement with professional nurses and their patients throughout a century of care-giving. The site includes a chronology of events in nursing history from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. The timeline is largely drawn from an institutional perspective. Quotes from nurses are interspersed within the chronological narrative.

This is site consist of many links to women in science sites. It is organized into six categories; herstory of science, science education, monster resource websites for the sciences, women scientists sites, women science organizations, funky sites and freebies.

This site provides summaries, full transcripts and audio files of National Public Radio programs hosted by John Hockenberry that focused on the issue of genetic science and its impact on society. Though the programs largely describe the present and future of genetic research, some of the content is historical in nature. The site also includes background information about the individuals who were interviewed for the program as well as the program itself. Significant funding for the project came from the Sloan Foundation.