Beyond the normal ten-course history major and the teacher certification courses of Mercer’s Tift College of Education, independent study options exist to insure that Mercer graduates enter their first classroom as well organized and fully confident teachers. Web-based history resources now abound, making school districts’ sometimes humdrum textbooks smaller obstacles to lively high school instruction. But like most tools, such web resources are effective only if wisely used, and only if paired with the intellectual depth and breadth that Mercer’s history major is designed to instill.