An article in the Education section of the Christian Science Monitor outlined how history faculty members and grad students are using eBay to locate artifacts for their research. By accident, I had just made a similar discovery myself. eBay happens to be one of button bar options in the new Safari browser and I clicked it out of curiosity. While stumbling around, I ran into WW II memorabilia and was interested because Cindy is working on a history grant focused on primary sources. The prices were prohibitive for our purposes, but the items available were reminiscent of a multimedia project I once did called “Grandparents’ Attic. Someone was selling a World War II scrap book. This material is out there everywhere. I would rather see grandchildren ask their grandparents about such things and use what they learn in classroom projects.
