A Biography of America
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- social studies (African Americans, American Indians, civics and government, geography, United States history)
- Provider
- Annanberg Media
- Special requirements
- Image as History, Interactive Map, and Interactive Timeline all require the Flash plug-in to work in their interactive formats. However their content is also available in non-interactive versions that do not require a plug-in.
Legal
This catalog record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license applies to the content of this page only and does not apply to the referenced website.
A Biography of America website is a companion to the telecourse and video series that presents American history as a living narrative from Annenberg Media. This series website lets you delve further into the topics of the 26 video programs that cover various eras in American history such as westward expansion, the rise of capitalism, the twenties, and contemporary history.
For each program you'll find an interactive feature related to the subject or the time period of the program. In addition, you'll find a listing of key events of the period, a map relevant to the period, the transcript of the video program, and a set of annotated web links.
The interactive web features fall into four categories:
- Image as History: a way to "read" the visual content of an historical painting, drawing, photograph, or map
- You Decide: an opportunity for you to experience the multiple arguments of an historical debate and to register your ultimate opinion
- Interactive Map: a way to look at the geographical aspects of historical change
- Interactive Timeline: a way to look thematically at chronologies
