November 20, 2008

European DBQ Source Goes Digital

Europeana Interested in source material for your European history DBQ's? Paintings, music, films and books from Europe's galleries, libraries, archives and museums. 
The new European Commission's Europeana digital library project has been launched with 2 million digital documents including paintings, audio files, maps, videos and other artifacts at http://www.europeana.eu
Nov 20, 2008 7:25:19 PM | History / DBQ's, Strategies, Teaching

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