Born in Massachusetts, Margaret Hall joined the American Red Cross during World War I and served in the town of Chalons, France. While in France, Hall documented her experiences on the Western Front through dozens of photographs and letters. The Massachusetts Historical Society offers this digital exhibit containing 245 of Hall's photographs, alongside 29 other images. Visitors can browse this collection chronologically or conduct a text search. Suggested searches include place names (such as Chalons, Paris, Verdun) and other frequent keywords (including Red Cross, trench, soldier). This powerful collection of images includes photographs of Red Cross workers offering soldiers coffee and cigarettes, images of Red Cross workers beside the graves of soldiers who died in battle, and a particularly poignant photograph of a civilian walking alone through a street that has been badly destroyed by the war. This online collection accompanies a book of the same title - visitors may explore short excerpts of this book in the publication section of the website. [MMB]

In honor of Women's History Month, the Smithsonian Institution compiled this collection of 37 "lessons, activities, exhibitions, videos and tools that can be used to teach students about women's history in America." These resources were designed by staff at a number of Smithsonian museums and institutions, including the National Air and Space Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Museum of American History, and the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access. Visitors can browse this collection by title, provider, and grade level. The collection includes a short video from the National Portrait Gallery about artist Amy Sherald (who recently painted Michelle Obama's portrait); a collection of profiles of women scientists, courtesy of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; and an extensive resource list of books about Native American women, compiled by the National Museum of the American Indian. [MMB]

From the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science comes this lesson plan that is designed to help students identify misinformation and pseudoscience regarding vaccinations. This lesson plan was authored by Kim R. Finer, a biologist at Kent State University, and is designed specifically for college undergraduates who are not science majors. This lesson may also be adapted for high school-level students. In this lesson, students are introduced to the scientific method while also learning about common characteristics of pseudoscience. Students also learn about the science behind vaccinations and the importance of herd immunity. Interested educators can download this lesson plan and accompanying notes in PDF format. Due to its focus on social media literacy, this lesson may also appeal to librarians and social studies instructors in addition to science instructors. [MMB]

The de Young Museum in San Francisco offers this collection of resources for art educators. While some of these items are designed to accompany a visit to the de Young Museum, many of these resources may be adapted and used in art and social studies classrooms across the globe. These resources are divided into three categories. In Get Smart with Art, teachers will find a collection of slideshows that connect items in the de Young Museum with a variety of social studies topics. For instance, the slideshow, "Site in Sight: How Location Shapes Perspectives," highlights a number of artworks that demonstrate "the individual voice of each artist examining his or her unique perspective of a concept, place, time, or idea." Meanwhile, the Art & Science section features a number of interdisciplinary materials, including lesson plans, developed by the de Young Museum in partnership with the California Academy of Sciences. Finally, the Teacher's Guide section contains additional information about items in the de Young Museum. [MMB]

The Georgia Tech Research Institute in collaboration with eHistory.org at the University of Georgia, have created the U.S. News Map: a tool that allows students and researchers to explore historic American newspapers with ease. In addition, the News Map allows users to identify geographic and chronological patterns in the history of journalism. The News Map features newspapers that are part of the Library of Congress's Chronicling America Historic Newspapers collection that were published between 1789 and 1922. To use the News Map, visitors can search for any keyword and select start and end dates. From here, visitors can see and explore the frequency of the selected search term over time (via a timeline) and across geography (via pins on a map). When users select one of the map pins, they can see the year and publication where the term appeared. From here, users have the option of exploring the newspaper in PDF format. [MMB]

For researchers of all stripes, the Academic Family Tree is "a nonprofit, user-content-driven web database that aims to accurately document and publicly share the academic genealogy of current and historical researchers across all fields of academia." The project emerged from Neurotree.org: a project that sought to map out neuroscience research around the globe. Since Neurotree.org launched in 2005, scholars in other disciplines began to develop their own "academic genealogies." Today, the Academic Family Tree contains nearly 700,000 researchers from dozens of disciplines, including education, linguistics, sociology, biology, law, history, and much more. Visitors may search the Academic Family Tree by research institution and individual. From here, visitors can view how individual researchers are connected to one another (e.g. advisors and graduate students). In addition, users can search for connections between researchers. [MMB]

"Look Out Honey, 'Cause I'm Using Technology," is a line in a 1973 song by Iggy Pop and the Stooges. It's also the title of a delightful blog by Jenny Arch, a public librarian who has worked in both adult services and youth services. Arch's blog will appeal to two audiences. First, fellow librarians will enjoy her thoughtful reflections about her work, which includes a recent post about providing services for patrons with low vision or hearing loss and another recent post about what customer service means in a library setting. Second, book lovers (along with parents and teachers of young book lovers) will also enjoy this blog, which is full of thematic book recommendations and short reviews. For instance, Arch recently posted about her favorite books read in 2017, dividing her list into children's/teen books, adult fiction, and adult nonfiction. Arch also recently posted a series of quotes from books that she read in 2017, offering readers a unique way to learn about new books. Other topics addressed in this blog include early childhood literacy and the art of creating a good library display. [MMB]

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is a "non-profit environmental science organization and ocean research foundation established to help preserve, protect and restore the world's oceans and aquatic resources through research, education, and outreach." The foundation is based out of Annapolis, Maryland and focuses on coral reef preservation. For science educators, the foundation offers a number of curricular resources designed for high school students. These resources, which align with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) include interactive quizzes, short educational videos, and eleven curricular units that address topics such as reef formation, reef organism behavior, and threats to coral reefs. To access these materials, educators will need to create a free account. [MMB]

In the early twentieth century, Washington, D.C.'s U Street neighborhood was home to a rich intellectual and artistic community. During the years, the historically Black neighborhood was home to numerous pivotal figures including anthropologist and writer Zora Neale Hurston, jazz musician Duke Ellington, and singer/actress Pearl Bailey (to name just a few) and hosted a number of Black-owned theaters and nightclubs. Launched in 2014 by Shellee M. Haynesworth, Black Broadway on the U is a "multi-platform story and public history initiative created to amplify, chronicle, preserve and enhance, the under-told story, cultural legacy, local memories and voices of Washington, D.C.'s marginalized Black community along the historic greater U Street community when it was known as 'Black Broadway,' a city within a city." This website is one component of that project. Here, visitors can explore a series of short documentary films that incorporate oral history interviews (in the stories section) and explore an interactive map that highlights over 60 important historic spots in the U-Street neighborhood (in the discover section). Fans of Black Broadway on the U may also want to follow this ongoing project on Twitter. [MMB]