Mobile Apps from the National Archives
Congress Creates the Bill of Rights
Experience an interactive learning tool for tablets that situates the user in the proposals, debates, and revisions that shaped the Bill of Rights. Its menu-based organization presents a historic overview, a detailed study of the evolving language of each proposed amendment as it was shaped in the House and Senate, a close-up look at essential documents, and opportunities for participation and reflection designed for individual or collaborative exploration.
DocsTeach
Engage in activities that will help you make sense of stories, events, and ideas of the past using documents from the holdings of the US National Archives. Choose an historical topic and challenge yourself with an activity. Or, find activities in a classroom set up just for you, using the code provided to you from the DocsTeach.org web site. DocsTeach.org is an online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. On the web site, you will discover thousands of primary sources and learning activities. When registered for a free account, teachers can borrow from and modify an ever-expanding collection of activities, plus create unique ones using the online tools. Log in and create classrooms full of activities, then share the classroom's auto generated code with your students to access on their iPads.
Presidential Documents
The Federal Register, in conjunction with GPO, launched a free mobile Web app on the President's daily public activities. The Presidential Documents app includes the President's Executive orders, speeches, statements, communications to Congress and Federal Agencies, approved acts, nominations submitted to the Senate, White House announcements, and White House press releases. The app's user-friendly search engine can search by date, category, subject, or location.
To The Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
As the lead sponsor of the exhibit, AT&T has worked with the National Archives and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and their foundations to create a free mobile app based on the "To The Brink" exhibit currently on display at the National Archives. The "To The Brink" app brings the National Archives and JFK Library and Museum exhibit to iPads and contains many of the same photographs, documents, and recordings found in the exhibit – allowing people unable to visit the exhibit a chance to experience one of the most extraordinary moments in American history. Zoom in on President Kenned's notes, read the actual classified memos, and listen to President Kennedy's words as he alerts the nation to the crisis in Cuba. Download the free app at iTunes or at www.JFKCMC.org
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