Manifest Destiny or Bust
National Center For History Standard Grades 5-12
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/era4-5-12.html
A basic narrative teaching guide what teachers should be looking for in order to teach Manifest destiny to the grades that they are teaching and what is expected. It contains no hypertextual links but could be used for bibliographic research ideas.
University of Texas
History 1311 Section 1--- Summer 1 2002
Another course outline that provided no links to any other information other than that of reference to the course guide. Although information in these links was in the form of documents and therefore could provide the historian with documentsry sources, and idea of what is important to the topic.
ThenTrial of Standing Bear
Of all the Teaching guides this particular guide was the most impressive. It provided teachers notes, and a context, but also valuable links to archival resources that were placed within the contexts of the topic they related to, enabled quick-linking to these archives. However the site did not provide an extensive bibliography that could have further enabled this archival information to be expanded upon which was unfortunate as the narrative was extremely brief.
Course Outlines
Hist1006: Foundations of The Modern World: The West In
The Nineteenth Century
http://hkuhist2.hku.hk/firtsyear/westtop.htm
As a course guide it does provide valuable information
in the sections Document Studies for The International Role of the United
States, and the Bibliographic section. However the site does not provide
anything more than hypertextual links to the lecturers sources and does
not give any access to external sites. So apart from being a bibliographic
source is if only using the internet virtually useless.
History 276: American Indian History Since 1700
Spring 1998
http://users.Hartwick.edu/~haanr/h276s98.htm
Another course guide that unfortunately embodies the majority
of the study guides. Also the hyperlinks provided were inaccesible, as
with many of the outlines and therefore make them useless apart from illustrating
a course and providing some bibliographic information.
Conclusions
The Teachers guides and the course outlines above embody
basically what was available on the Internet. Most provided bibliographic
information within the constructs of the narrative. Few provided links
and of those that did, chose links to either the larger Archives such as
The Avalon Project or the Library of Congress where when using the
internet as a research median would probably have been accessed prior to
reaching these, or to documents imputed into the course guide by lectures.
Apart from this bibliographic information and the occaisional research
material, that can be found in much larger contexts in relevant archives,
they provide very little use for the Historian apart from illustrating
what other courses are doing and what their sources are