History.com is the official website of The History Channel. This site provides media on history and interactive flash along with their scheduled shows for the day, among other things.What I like about history.com is the vast amount of media to look at, ranging from actual sound bytes/video clip of an actual historical event (for example President FDR asking Congress to declare war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor) to video clips on shows they've previously aired on tv.
Even though there may be some flash involved within their media section, a fairly good portion of the flash components that we have worked on in class is actually in the games on the website. The type of games on this website is directed towards a pretty young audience (I'm guessing junior high). However, what I personally like about these games is that the majority of it is not your prototypical type of flash games online where you play just for the fun of it, but rather (in one sense) some of these games challenges the audience to put their knowledge to the test.
In addition, some of the content that is already in their games could be expanded and further developed (perhaps something like having an interactive flash timeline/map of the Battle of Gettysburg which could attract younger audiences into learning about the Battle of Gettysburg in a fun and interactive way).
-EHY
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