| Mapping the African American Past | |
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Teachers College, Creative Curriculum Initiatives, Hofstra University Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a public website created to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past. The website is a geographic learning environment, enabling students, teachers, and... |
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Open to all Revised: February 2010 Released: February 2008 | |
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| Black Radical Archive | |
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Professor Brent Edwards-
Department of English and Comparative Literature The Black Radical Archive represents a unique platform for engaging students in the curation of rare archival materials. Its online repository, created by CCNMTL for English Professor Brent Edwards' course Black Radicalism and the Archive, houses images of archival materials that Professor Edwards and his students selected from the Columbia... |
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Private Released: January 2010 | |
| Harlem Health History | |
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Samuel K. Roberts-
Department of History The Harlem Health History project was created to enhance students' historical research on health-focused social movements in an African American community. The project offers students in Professor Samuel Roberts' course, "History of African American Health and Health Movements," a repository of digitized primary source materials about health and public policy... |
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Private Released: September 2009 | |
| Amistad Digital Resource | |
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Manning Marable-
Institute for Research in African American Studies The Amistad Digital Resource is a multimedia website that shares hundreds of rare and iconic photographs, audio and video clips, oral history interviews, maps, and descriptive text explaining significant themes and key events in African American history, from slavery to the 21st century. Funded by a grant from the Ford... |
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Open to all Released: June 2009 | |
| Project Vietnam | |
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Partner: WGBH- Project Vietnam provides Columbia University students unique access to heretofore inaccessible material from the landmark 1983 documentary Vietnam: A Television History, co-produced by Boston's public television station, WGBH. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Project Vietnam is a partnership between CCNMTL, WGBH, and the... |
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Private Released: March 2009 | |
| New York Neighborhoods Wiki | |
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Ken Jackson-
Department of History The New York Neighborhoods Project wiki is an online collection of student-produced research about New York City neighborhoods. The wiki was produced for Professor Kenneth Jackson's class entitled, The History of the City of New York. This project, which was developed by CCNMTL and Professor Jackson, allows students to create... |
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Private Released: December 2007 | |
| Historical Studies for Sociomedical Sciences | |
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Amy Fairchild-
School of Public Health CCNMTL worked with Professor Amy Fairchild to develop and implement an educational tool that incorporates imagery in the pursuit of historical theory building. The tool, which repurposed the Center's internal Slideshow Maker tool, allowed students to upload images to a communal database. Students could then choose a subset of these... |
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Released: April 2002 Archived, no longer available. | |
| Electronic Encyclopedia of the Ancient World Prototype | |
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Roger Bagnall, William Harris-
Arts and Sciences A prototype for a comprehensive online reference for the study of the ancient Mediterranean world.... |
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Private Released: April 2002 | |
| W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Experience | |
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Manning Marable-
Arts and Sciences This e-seminar examines the life and work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the leading African-American writer and political activist of the twentieth century and author of The Souls of Black Folk. The e-seminar is divided into three modules and contains a number of interactive elements to engage the student in the... |
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Columbia only Released: January 2001 | |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke | |
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Marc Meyer-
School of General Studies A primary reading in the Core Curriculum, this text is enhanced by the MSE with the inclusion of glossaries of concepts and people, author's notes and links to reference materials such as the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Grove Dictionary of Art.... |
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Released: December 1999 Archived, no longer available. | |
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