This document discusses how digital archives and tools can enhance history teaching by bringing archival sources directly into the classroom in a dynamic way. It notes how digital archives allow history to be taught as something that is continually evolving and being reinterpreted based on new sources, rather than as static and settled. However, it also cautions that digital archives and tools can pose pitfalls if not used carefully in the classroom.

1. Dr. Andrew Haley
Teaching with Archives
Associate Professor of History
andrew.haley@usm.edu

2. Teaching without the Digital Humanities

5. Local History Goes Digital

9. The Archive is Dynamic

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14. History in the Present

18. History that Looks Like Life

22. Pitfalls

25. Digital Humanities and the
Classroom