AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive

The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. Student comprehension and recall skills will improve with visually stimulating imagery meant for use in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations. From simple keyword searching to more complex searches such as concept, color, and category, users will enhance their research by accessing over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920's, and news stories dating from 1997. Teachers will benefit from the correlation of the Archive to State Learning Standards as well as the National Standards for Learning.