Links

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Here you can find links to help enrich your understanding of history!

**Have Fun with History** **URL**: [] **Description:** “Have Fun with History” provides links to lots of student-friendly articles, activities, and videos over U.S. history. These links are interesting and provide unique insight that will hopefully help engage students in learning about history.

**BBC – History** **URL:** [] **Description:** Similar to “Having Fun with History”, the BBC has a website dedicated to providing student-friendly articles and games relating to world history. It has autobiographies for important historical figures as well as areas that list important historical events relating to specific days of the year.

**The Purdue University Online Writing Lab** **URL:** [] **Description:** The Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an excellent source for teaching students about the formatting they should use to write papers. OWL provides many different examples that illustrate correct formatting practices for all of the common writing styles such as MLA, APA, and Chicago. It is important that students understand how to properly format their papers and OWL is a central location for examples of how to correctly use the common style manuals.

**JSTOR** **URL:** [] **Description:** JSTOR is a database that serves as a collection of peer-reviewed journals and articles for many different types of subject matter. This would also prove to be a valuable source for students if they need to have peer-reviewed articles for research papers.

**The History Channel** **URL:** [] **Description:** The History Channel offers many different types of history related games that range from fun quizzes to puzzles to actions games. These games also cover many different time periods, which are usually covered in history classes. They are educational and help to create a fun environment in which students can learn about history.