Cholesterol Wasn't the Issue ...

Google Books is great for public domain access.... Here's another good educational use for the Google Monster archive. Their collection is filled with primary source recipes from Colonial America, The Renaissance, etc. The above was some wedding celebration cake that Martha Washington was famous for. But--who has time to seperate and whip up 20 eggs?!
http://books.google.com/books

Check out their virtual collection.

T-Rex would be proud!

http://www.kidrex.org/
Everyone in the world believes that T-Rex was really a herbavore...so leave it to a sharp media group to portray T-Rex as a kid friendly icon not ready to chew them up with the slime on the Internet. Check out the "Custom Search" now with its own URL, that provides children with a safer portal for searching...

Even better yet, create your own custom search for curriculum topics and embed them on your webpage!

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Google Timeline -- A must for time travelers...and researchers!

If you haven't heard about Google's Timeline (beta) product, then you'll want to warp speed ahead to: http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/
This is one of the best free products developed for the digital kingdom yet! As you can well imagine, the product is more successful for 20th and 21st century news, than it is for the 1800's. Not withstanding, it provides us with public domain sources in a great web 2.0 fashion.

Most of my hits for 1940's & 50's came from TIME magazine or Wikipedia, as that is the search default (and we all know that TIME is a bit more reliable than Wikipedia). However, don't miss the "queries" button on the toolbar which allows you to search some US Newspapers, blogs, & Popular Science.

Students could use this for a "snapshot" in time, primary source reportings on their event, Biography fodder, or to create postcards from history. The possiblilites are endless! '' Best yet, it's free -- a little stimulus for your research program! Pack this into your educational toolbag.