It is this enthusiasm for presenting history in exciting ways that inspired one teacher writing on a librarian's blog to wistfully write, "This site is one of the reasons I can never discourage a student from using the Web. Old articles are hard to find in library databases... The articles on this website are of a more popular genre and provide those kinds of primary documents that are so interesting to read because they contain clues to the culture of the time they were written."

With the appearance of documentary film clips on the site, OldMagazineArticles.com can now offer it's visitors the chance to read the Vanity Fair review covering Jascha Heifetz' first Carnegie Hall performance as well as watch historic 1950s footage of the maestro performing on early television.

Ours is a unique era for history enthusiasts: never before have Civil War buffs been able to sit comfortably at home having instant access to a 1913 magazine article reporting on the fiftieth reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg and during that same sitting, enjoy a film clip depicting the veterans as they attended the 75th reunion. The site offers a multitude of similar experiences for history surfers; art historians can read the earliest magazine articles reviewing the exhibitions by the founders of Dada - in addition to a short film clip explaining the movement and it's place in modernism.

Teachers must go the distance to make history interesting to their students. When an historic narrative is able to get a student's attention by standing up, walking off the printed page and making it clear that historic events and movements were generated and experienced not simply by mustachioed men and corseted women but by living, breathing human beings who were not terribly different from themselves, that's a good thing. The next generation of historians are being weened in the audio-visual classroom tradition set in motion years ago and OldMagazineArticles.com offers them a free and reliable site on the internet for primary source magazine content as well a complement of historic videos to help them along their way. Godspeed to them.