History Scholars Search eBay

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.

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