In B366, a junior-level cultural history of Paris and Berlin in the 1920s, the class web-site is used to support the active learning strategies of the course. Weekly exercises on the web introduce students sequentially to the basic intellectual operations required in the course. A wide array of visual and written material from the 1920s provides them with opportunities to actively search for relevant evidence to support their argument on exams, and background material on the web frees up more time for in-class collaborative activities.