A Web-based discussion and listserve for high school and college history teachers, History Matters was developed last fall by the Center for History and New Media and the American Social History Project at City University of New York. It inaugurated its monthly forums last September with a women's history discussion, followed by the American Revolution in October, a discussion on teaching cultural history in November and Vietnam in December.
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The goal is to give college and high school teachers nationwide the opportunity to discuss teaching topics in U.S. history with a distinguished scholar, said Pennee Bender, multimedia producer for History Matters. The site also includes a large number of first-person historical documents for use in the classroom and a range of teaching resources, such as sample syllabi and assignments. It's such a good idea. Richard White of Stanford University will lead April's discussion on the American West. All of the messages are archived on the History Matters site.