World History Matters: A Student Guide to World History Online - Softcover

Lehner, Kristin; Schrum, Kelly; Kelly, T. Mills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312485824 ISBN 13: 9780312485825

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

Synopsis

World History Matters is a unique resource that combines reviews of 150 of the most useful and reliable world history Web sites with tips to help you locate, evaluate, and correctly cite online sources.

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About the Author

Kristin Lehner is a graduate student in African history at Johns Hopkins University, where her research focuses on health and development in twentieth-century West Africa. Prior to attending Johns Hopkins, she worked for three years at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as World History Projects Manager developing the Web sites World History Matters and Women in World History.

Kelly Schrum is Director of Educational Projects at the Center for History and New Media and Associate Research Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Schrum is co-director of the Web sites World History Sources, Women in World History, Making the History of 1989, and Children and Youth in World History, and is the author of Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920-1950. Other publications include History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online.

T. Mills Kelly is Associate Director of the Center for History and New Media and Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. He is a specialist in late-Habsburg history with a focus on radical Czech nationalism and is the author of Without Remorse: Czech National Socialism in Late-Habsburg Austria. His most recent article is titled "Tomorrow's Yesterdays: Teaching History in the Digital Age."

Edition details

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312485824
• ISBN 13: 9780312485825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160