TOOL: Provide Context for Significant Historical Events

[Ryan Goble]

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Provide Context for Significant Historical Events

Last spring ContextU launched as a site to provide students with greater context for significant events in United States history. In September the site expanded to include more content on the American Revolution. In November it expanded again to provide content on the period between George Washington’s and Andrew Jackson’s presidencies. Just like the other sections of ContextU, the “New Nation” section features a contents listing from which students can select an event, person or theme to see in the context of other events and themes. Through timelines, Google maps, diagrams, flow charts and text, ContextU provides context for each chosen event, piece of legislation or theme. Students can navigate from event to event or from theme to theme by following the hyperlinks within each diagram.

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