If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology.

From Todd Bryda, Proffesor of History at Northwestern Connecticut Community College “In the constant battle to keep students interested in the past, History Animated gives teachers a precious resource to fight for the attention of the video game generation.  The maps are visually appealing and represent solid scholarship.  What separates the operators of this site from others isn’t just that they provide a quality product, but they are also open to suggestions, i.e. a compact disk without text for classroom use.  Well done James!”

From a recent issue of WWII Magazine "the site provides a bird's eye view of Japanese and American military units as they hopscotch around the great chessboard of the Pacific"

From the Free Technology for Teachers Blog: "History Animated is a fantastic resource for teachers of US History. The animations will make great supplements to classroom instruction. The animations are a significant improvement over drawing or pointing to places on a map.l"

From the Teaching the Civil War with Technology Blog: "These animations can be used in many ways from providing students with something different than just reading about a battle to using them as discussion starters on why a battle happened the way it did.  I also like how the authors provided bibliographic information with each of the battles where you can obtain additional information."

We cover WWII Pacific Battles at PacificWarAnimated

We cover The US Civil War at CivilWarAnimated

We cover The US Revolution at RevolutionaryWarAnimated

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