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Historical Methodologies (Including How to Use Primary Sources)
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Missouri History
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World History
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General Sites (Including arts, world religions, and other topics)
Prehistoric Times
Ancient Times
Middle Ages
Exploration and Renaissance
Enlightenment
Nineteenth Century
Industrial Revolution
World War I
World War II and the Holocaust
Cold War
Twentieth Century World History
History of Nations and Cultures of the World
U.S. History
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U.S. History (General Sites)
Minorities
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American Indians
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The websites in this document have been compiled by Warren Solomon, Adjunct Assistant
Professor, College of Education of the University of Missouri-Columbia, formerly Social Studies
Curriculum Consultant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Thanks to many people who helped me in this effort including Fred Czarra, Council of Chief State
School Officers, Jerry Aschermann, Missouri Western State College, Randy Rook, Missouri
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Michelle Kratofil, Social Studies
Instructional Coach, Raytown School District. Although the list may seem long, it is just the tip of
the iceberg. A caution: It is possible that some of the web sites no longer exist or that their
addresses have changed.
Teachers should not only use documents like this one as a resource, they should not forget to use the services
of librarian-media specialists in their schools.
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African Americans
Asian-Americans
Jewish-American History
Hispanic-American History
State Histories
Women’s History
U.S. History (Presidents)
U.S. History (Chronological)
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Ancient America
Exploration
Colonial America
American Revolution and Founding of Nation
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Jacksonian Era
Westward Expansion
U.S.-Mexican War
Pre-Civil War Issues and Reform
Civil War and Reconstruction Times
American West
Industrial Revolution and Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Immigration and Migrations
Twentieth Century (Variety of Topics)
Great Depression and New Deal
World War II
Post-War America and Truman
1960s
Civil Rights
Vietnam War
Cuba under Castro
Combined U.S. and World History
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The Events of September 11, 2001 and their Aftermath
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Organization of this section. This section is organized using the following categories:
1. Organizations
2. Historical Methodologies
3. Missouri History
4. World History
5. U.S. History
6. Combined U.S. and World History
The sections begin with general websites within the categories, followed by websites focused on
specific topics within the categories organized by chronological order.
Organizations
American Historical Association: http://www.historians.org/teaching/
Annenburg/CTB: This website provides access to a number of excellent video in-service programs
for social studies teachers on how to teach specific topics in civics and U.S. history. To obtain
access to the video programs teachers need to register with the website. Programs available are
provided within the following history-related series: A Biography of America, The Western Tradition,
Democracy in America, and Primary Sources: Workshops in American History:
http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?discipline=7&grade=0&imageField2.x=8&imageField
2.y=11 (see especially http://www.learner.org/resources/series123.html, .
http://www.learner.org/resources/series197.html, http://www.learner.org/resources/series173.html,
http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html, and
http://www.learner.org/resources/series135.html).
Facing History and Ourselves: This website focuses in on the Holocaust, other instances of
people’s inhumanity toward one another, and of what we can learn about human behavior from the
study of such topics: http://www.facinghistory.org/
History Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/.
National Archives of the United Kingdom: This website, entitled “The Learning Curve,” provides
resources for the teaching and study of history: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/howto/default.htm.
National Center for History in the Schools: The website of the National Center for History in the
Schools of UCLA, the organization that developed the national standards for history and that has
developed for sale units based on primary sources: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
National Council for History Education: This organization promotes the teaching of history in the
nation’s elementary and secondary schools to increase dialogue among professors and elementary
and secondary teachers: http://www.history.org/nche/. In addition, the NCHE has in its website a
set of links to history sites that is extensive and very useful for social studies teachers:
http://63.70.163.70/nche/links.html.
National Endowment for the Humanities: EDSITEment is an outstanding website on history and
humanities from the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://edsitement.neh.gov/
National History Day: Websites from National History Day: http://nhd.org/ and
http://www.historynet.com/.
NewsHour Extra: This website from PBS provides resources and lesson plans for teachers of
history and civics: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/history/
Organization of American Historians: http://www.oah.org/
Smithsonian Institution: http://smithsonianeducation.org/
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Historical Methodologies
Archaeology: These websites focused on archaeology: http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/
(Archaeological Adventure), http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/collections/ (National Park Service), and
http://www.learner.org/resources/series45.html (Annenberg Media).
Biography: The Biography Maker, a website to help students write biographies:
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm
Biography: This website from Annenberg Media focuses on biographies of Americans:
http://www.learner.org/resources/series123.html#
Copyright: This interactivity from the Library of Congress provides information about copyright for
students: http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
Counterfactual History: This genre presents stories of what would likely happen had some events of
history turned out differently. Uchronia presents a listing of such alternative history books:
http://www.uchronia.net/
Detective Work: This website from the Library of Congress engages students in historical detective
work: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/detect/detectiv.html
General: The “Learning Page” from the Library of Congress with ideas for activities for teachers and
for children: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
General: See the website of the National Centre for History Education from Australia to find its
recommendations for how to improve the teaching of history: http://www.hyperhistory.org/.
Historic Places: A website from the National Park Service focused on “Teaching with Historic
Places”: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/. This website may be used both to find generic strategies
pertaining to teaching using historic places as a resource and to find all sorts of specific lesson
plans for teaching about specific historic places pertaining to different eras of history.
Historical Methodologies: Smithsonian has a website for elementary students called “You Be the
Historian.” This site may be useful for older students as well:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/springer/.
Historical Methodologies: A website from History Alive, a company which produces history text
materials. This website may be of special interest to all teachers of history, elementary through
university, because it includes suggestions for creative ways of teaching history.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/.
Historical Methodologies: This website, created by Peter Pappas, Assistant Superintendent for
Instruction in East Irondequoit Central School District, Rochester, NY, was designed to help
teachers and students make sense of the vast amount of source material available over the Internet
and to bring these resources to their work as historians. http://www.edteck.com/dbq/index.htm
Lesson Plans: This website comes from “The Best of History Web Sites” series of websites:
http://besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtml
Historical Thinking: This website from the Library of Congress, using a set of photos from the
Northern Great Plains, gives ideas on how to use those photographs to promote these types of
thinking: chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretation,
historical issue analysis and decision making, and historical research:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ngp/thinking.html.
Library of Congress’s Learning Page: Learn about the resources of the Library of Congress for
teachers and students: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/index.html. (The Learning
Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and
culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities,
discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum.)
Oral Histories: These websites provide ideas for teachers and students regarding how to conduct
oral histories: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/ and
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http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html, and
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html.
Primary Sources (Great place to start!): The Missouri State Archives provides links to many
Missouri and national websites focused on primary sources:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/education/
Primary Sources: Smithsonian Source is a history website from Smithsonian that offers primarysource materials and tools for using them in social studies classrooms:
http://www.smithsoniansource.org/.
Primary Sources: The Authentic History Center has a special section on cartoon analysis related to
cartoons focused on Roosevelt’s “packing of the Supreme Court” plans. (The Authentic History
Center is independently owned and operated by Michael S. Barnes, a teacher at Byron Center High
School. Students play an active role in identifying items for the site and for using the site.)
http://www.authentichistory.com/.
Primary Sources: This website from the Library of Congress is designed to teach students how to
analyze primary sources they see, hear or read using holiday-themed resources from The Library of
Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/doc_analysis/index.html
Primary Sources: This website, a collaborative effort of the National Archives and Records
Administration, National History Day, and the History Channel, presents 100 documents from U.S.
history with leads for how to use those documents and others in the classroom:
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
Primary Sources: A website from the Library of Congress for teachers pertaining to the life of Jackie
Robinson, which also has information about the nature of primary and secondary sources:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/source.html
Primary Sources: These websites from the Library of Congress has lessons to help students learn
how to use primary sources: http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/fw.html;
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/pshome.html,
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html.
Primary Sources: The Library of Congress History Firsthand Web site has been designed to provide
elementary children with experiences that enable them to begin understanding primary sources.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/firsthand/main.html
Primary Sources: The National Archives and Records Service has an excellent website of primary
sources and of lessons for teachers and students on how to interpret primary sources:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/.
Primary Sources: The National Archives of the United Kingdom has a website called the Learning
Curve: Bringing History Alive, which offers lesson plans and strategies for teaching students how to
think historically using topics related to British and European history:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/
Primary Sources: This website entitled "Using the Internet as a Resource for Historical Research
and Writing" was developed by Professor Roger A. Griffin of Austin Community College. It has
good information about how to find primary sources:
http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/history/inres04prm.html.
Primary Sources: This website from Fordham University provides a rationale for teaching students
how to use primary sources: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.html.
Primary Sources: Following websites, found in a page devoted to primary sources from the Social
Studies School Service
(http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@vlC9UHE1R9.Mo/Pages/primaryweb.html?af@ssss), provides a
number of websites useful in the study of history:
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For European History: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/.
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Don Mabry’s Historical Text Archive, which deals with many facets of history:
http://historicaltextarchive.com/.
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U.S. history: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/,
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World War I: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/.
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The American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/.
Missouri History
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education created a very useful website on
Missouri history and heritage. See http://dese.mo.gov/moheritage/.
The Missouri State Archives has a website focused on Missouri history, which includes a timeline of
Missouri history and many other features with lots of documents online:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/.
The Pebble Publishing Company produces many books related to Missouri studies. The company
also has a subsidiary called Missouri Gold, which lists Missouri history textbooks and other
resources available for sale and use in classrooms: http://www.pebblepublishing.com.
The State Historical Society of Missouri holds many documents important to students of Missouri
History. The State Historical Society also coordinates History Day in Missouri. Its website may be
found at http://www.umsystem.edu/shs/.
The Missouri Historical Society, located at the Jefferson Memorial in Forest Park in St. Louis, has a
website telling of its exhibits and activities, some of which are relevant to teachers.
http://www.mohistory.org/.
A website from National History Day in Missouri with suggestions for research topics in Missouri
history: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/education/nhd/nhd.asp
This website developed by Tony Ambrose from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has excellent
information for teachers of Missouri history:
http://www.umsl.edu/~sahambr/ShowMeMoSite/ShowMeMoIndex.htm.
See also websites below in the U.S. history section pertaining to the Lewis and Clark Expedition
and to the Truman Library.
World History
General Sites
General (From the United Kingdom): The United Kingdom has several useful websites for history
teachers, many produced by history teachers. Here are some of them:
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
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http://www.johndclare.net/
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http://www.historygcse.org/
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http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/
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http://www.historymad.com/
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
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http://www.weatherheadhistory.ik.org/
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http://www.thehistorysite.co.uk/contents.html
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General (History Page): A website called “The History Page,” offers a fantastic array of links to sites
that span the periods of antiquity; the medieval and Renaissance eras; early modern times; and
modern day. The links are creatively chosen to cover a variety of perspectives. For instance, in
addition to special links on a wide range of historians and philosophers, the site also points out the
importance of women in the various historical epochs. http://www.scholiast.org/history/
General (Internet History Sourcebooks): The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, an excellent
resource for teachers and students, is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical
texts for educational use: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
General (UK National Archives): This website, “The Learning Curve,” comes from the National
Archives of the United Kingdom and addresses Britain’s National History Curriculum. It is well
worth examining for anyone teaching not only about British history, but also about such topics as
World War I, the Cold War, Crime and Punishment from Medieval times to the present, and heroes
or villains of the twentieth century. The website is http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/exhibitions.htm.
General (“History Learning Site” of the “Association of Teachers’ Websites”): This website from the
United Kingdom has a very useful website for all history teachers, not just those from Great Britain.
It may be found at http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/index.htm.
General (History Central): “History Central.com” provides timelines, links to other sites, and links to
documents related to both United States and World History. The website address is
http://www.multied.com/.
General (The History Guide): “The History Guide” is a wonderful resource with all sorts of links that
are useful for Western Civilization, U.S. History, and World History: http://www.historyguide.org.
General (Teacher Oz): This is a wonderful resource for teachers of history. First, here is what
“Teacher Oz” says about herself: “I am the mother of two super children and have been married to
my High School sweetheart for 24 years. I am a violinist with the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra
and teach 9th grade Pre-AP World Geography and 10th grade World History for a large suburban
school district outside of Dallas, Texas.” This amazing website is one all teachers of history should
examine: http://www.teacheroz.com/toc.htm
General (World History Compass): The “World History Compass” is a site with lots of links to all
sorts of sites of interest to teachers of world history. Whatever one’s world history interest, one can
find resources here. One could spend days exploring this wonderful site:
http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/
General (Best of History Web Sites): The “The Best of History Web Sites” deserves a careful
examination: http://besthistorysites.net/
General (HyperHistory Online): “HyperHistory Online” has Over 2000 files cover over 3000 years of
world history: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
General (Lessons from the New York Times): The New York Times produces lessons daily related
to articles it publishes: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/globalhistory.html
African History: This website, called Internet African History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham
University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
Archaeology: This website has many useful links pertaining to archaeology in history from ancient
times to more recent times: http://www.archaeologica.org/.
Arts: This gigantic website entitled “Art History on the Web” carries out what its name suggests:
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Arts: A resource from the Metropolitan Museum of the Arts, which has links to artwork from many
eras and places: http://www.metmuseum.org/collections
Arts: Museum stuff: http://www.museumstuff.com/
Arts: Education at the Getty offers a set of lesson plans on the arts, many of which could be used in
history courses: http://www.getty.edu/education/
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Arts: This website is one of the websites in “The Best of History Web Sites” series of websites:
http://besthistorysites.net/ArtHistory.shtml
Asian History: This website from the Asia Society has links to Asian history sites:
http://www.asiasource.org/links/al_mp_03.cfm?TID=79,149
East Asian History: This website, called the Internet East Asian History Sourcebook, comes from
Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
European History: This website from the History.net has many useful links focused on a variety of
European history topics: http://europeanhistory.about.com/.
Genocide History: This website from “The Genocide Education Project” focuses especially on
teaching about the Armenian genocide, but also on other genocides and on other major violations of
human rights: http://www.teachgenocide.org/.
Global History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Global History
Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html
Indian History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Indian History Sourcebook,
comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
Islamic History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Islamic History Sourcebook,
comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html
Jewish History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Jewish History Sourcebook,
comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
Mathematics, History of: A website focused on the history of mathematics, showing how
mathematics ties to culture: http://library.thinkquest.org/22584/
Military History: This website from Teacher Oz provides numerous links to U.S. and world military
history: http://www.teacheroz.com/Military_History.htm.
Modern History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Modern History
Sourcebook, is an outstanding, well organized source for teachers of Modern History:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Non-Western Cultures: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites
pertaining to non-Western Cultures: http://www.teacheroz.com/Non_Western.htm.
Russian History: Two websites on Catherine: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18catherine.html
and http://www.alexanderpalace.org/tsarskoe/historyfive.html.
Science: This website, called the Internet History of Science Sourcebook, comes from Fordham
University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
Wars: This website focuses on the experiences of veterans during times of war:
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/memorial/vetex.html
Western Civilization: The following two websites focus on western civilization from medieval times
to through World War II and provide numerous links for most facets European history during that
period of time: http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.html and
http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv.html. Anyone teaching Western Civilization or world history
should explore this website!
Western Civilization: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites
pertaining to Western Civilization: http://www.teacheroz.com/WesternCiv.htm.
Women’s History: This website, called the Women’s History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham
University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
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World Religions1: For websites pertaining to world religions, see the Virtual Religion website
(http://virtualreligion.net/vri/) and the following page from the Social Studies School Service:
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@eYfDtYeubM1qg/Pages/religionsites.html?af@ssss.
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For advice on teaching about religions, here are two useful sources, one of which will require
that Adobe Acrobat Reader be downloaded on his or her computer:
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=6276 and
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/PDF/PewConferenceReport.PDF.
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For sites with much information about many of the world’s religion, see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_religions/index.shtml (BBC World
Service) and http://www.religioustolerance.org/ (Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance).
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Hinduism sites: http://www.asia.si.edu/pujaonline/puja/start.htm (“Expressions of Hindu
Devotion” from Smithsonian) and http://www.btinternet.com/~vivekananda/schools1.htm
(“Hinduism for Schools,” relevant for elementary and secondary levels).
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Sites pertaining to Judaism: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/ (Jewish Virtual Library) and
http://www.jewfaq.org/ (“Judaism 101”).
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Sites pertaining to Buddhism: http://www.buddhanet.net/, and
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/dharma/.
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Sites pertaining to Shinto: http://www.jinja.or.jp/english/index.html and http://www.japanguide.com/e/e2056.html.
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Sites pertaining to the Jain religion: http://jainworld.com/JWNew/jainworld/index.asp and
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/jainh.html.
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Sites pertaining to Christianity: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/ and
http://www.gty.org/~phil/hall.htm.
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Sites pertaining to Islam: http://islam.org/Mosque/uiatm/un_islam.htm,
http://islam.org/Mosque/wfd-islam/sld001.htm, http://islam.org/Culture/Mosques/default.htm,
and http://www.islaam.com/Section.asp?id=1.
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Sites pertaining to the Sikh religion: http://www.sikhs.org/ and
http://www.sikhs.org/summary.htm.
World Religions: The First Amendment Freedom Center has produced many publications that offer
advice on teaching about religions in ways consistent with the First Amendment. To see its list of
publications, which may be downloaded, see the following webpage:
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13092.
World Religions: Raytown School District has identified the following websites for teaching about
world religions:2
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World Religions in ancient and medieval times from History for Kids:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/religion/
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Judaism websites: http://www.jewfaq.org/, http://judaism.about.com/,
http://www.religioustolerance.org/judaism.htm, http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html,
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Religions are very complex. It is likely that the websites provided show only the tip of the iceberg so far as
religious beliefs are concerned. Hence, readers should look at these sites critically and should seek out other
sources as well.
Special thanks are due to Michelle Kratofil, Social Studies Instructional Coach from Raytown
School District, who shared with me these world religions websites. Teachers are advised to
preview these and all other websites in this document in order to determine their appropriateness
for their students.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/index.shtml, and
http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317837/us317922/us903629/us525263/us10089
392/ (kids site)
Buddhism websites: http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm,
http://buddhism.about.com/, http://www.dharmaforkids.com/,
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5215/Dharma.html, and
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/buddhaintro.html
Hinduism websites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/,
http://www.hindukids.org/, http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm,
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/, and
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9410/hindu1.html
Christianity websites: http://geneva.rutgers.edu/src/christianity/,
http://www.religioustolerance.org/christ.htm, and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/
Islam websites: http://www.islam101.com/theology/index.htm,
http://www.religioustolerance.org/islam.htm, http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/,
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/, and http://www.islamicgarden.com/page1002.html
World Cultures: This website from Washington State University includes much information about
world cultures: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/.
Prehistoric Times:
Caves of Lascaux: A website focused on prehistoric humankind centered on the cave at Lascaux:
http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
The Best of History Web Sites: http://besthistorysites.net/PreHistory.shtml
Ancient Times:
General: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It
has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to ancient times:
http://www.teacheroz.com/generalancient.htm.
General: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook,
comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
General: The Awesome Library has many links to Ancient History sites:
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Ancient_Civilizations/Ancient_Civilizatio
ns.html.
General: This website, developed at the University of Evansville (Ind.), called “Exploring World
Cultures,” presents much information, including primary sources, pertaining to many cultures of
ancient times and medieval times: http://eawc.evansville.edu/.
General: A website focused on daily life in various ancient cultures, which is accompanied by many
links to those cultures: http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html#Others
General: This website, called History for Kids, focuses on ancient and medieval history:
http://www.historyforkids.org/
General: The Best of History Web Sites: http://besthistorysites.net/AncientBiblical.shtml
Egypt: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It
has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to ancient Egypt:
http://www.teacheroz.com/egypt.htm.
Egypt: This website includes a rich body of information about Egypt and a virtual tour of Ancient
Egypt:
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http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=actio
n.display.home&language_id=1
Egypt: A resource for ancient Egypt from the British Museum:
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
Egypt: The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation created this website entitled “Mysteries of
Ancient Egypt”: http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypt_e.html.
Egypt: A website from the PBS Nova series focused on Egyptian pyramids:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
Egypt: This website is entitled “Hatshepsut, the Queen Who Would Be King”:
http://www.bediz.com/hatshep/index.html.
China: This website is entitled “Xiang Qi: The Art of Chinese Chess Plus the Art, Literature, and
History of Its Mother Country, is a ThinkQuest developed by students at the Thomas Jefferson High
School for Science and Technology in Virginia:
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=12255&url=12255/.
Greece: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It
has an incredible number of links to numerous websites pertaining to ancient Greece, its daily life,
history, geography, mythology, art and architecture, wars, the people, and the Olympics:
http://www.teacheroz.com/greeks.html.
Greece: This website, also compiled by “Teacher Oz,” deals with classics of Ancient Greece and
Rome: http://www.teacheroz.com/classics.htm.
Greece: A website on ancient Greece for Middle School Students from Portland State University:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/index.htm.
Greece: This website from Washington State University has many links to all facets of Greek
history: http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM
Greece: Websites on the Olympics from Ancient Greek times to present from the following sources:
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BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
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Tufts University: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
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University of Pennsylvania: http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html.
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Foundation of the Hellenic World: http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/olympics//
Greece: A website on a “time capsule” activity:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/5537/index_html.html
Mexico: A Web site for the study of art and culture in pre-Columbian Meso-America:
http://www.ancientmexico.com/.
Rome: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It
has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to ancient Rome:
http://www.teacheroz.com/romans.htm.
Rome: This website, called “Forum Romanum,” developed by David Camden, a former teacher
from Heritage High School in Virginia and current Ph.D. candidate in classics at Harvard, provides
much information about ancient Rome: http://www.forumromanum.org/index2.html. For more
information on the Roman Forum and more images, see these websites:
http://www.vroma.org/~forum/, and http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/4_Forum_Romanum.html
Scotland: A website focused on sites and maps of ancient Scotland:
http://www.stonepages.com/ancient_scotland/navigati.htm
Americas: The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation created this website entitled “Mystery
of the Maya”: http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mminteng.html.
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Middle Ages and Early Modern European:
These websites, which were compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, are a good place to start. They
an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to the Middle Ages:
http://www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm and http://www.teacheroz.com/castles.htm.
This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, comes from
Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
This listing of websites is part of The Best of History Web Sites series :
http://besthistorysites.net/Medieval.shtml
A website on the Vikings entitled “Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga:
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vikings/
Education World’s Millennium Website focused on “The Middle Ages”: http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/millenium_01.shtml
This History Channel website, focused on the Crusades, is entitled “The Crusades: The Crescent
and the Cross: http://www.historychannel.com/crusades/
The following website has all sorts of links for Western Civilization. It is called “An Internet Book on
the Medieval/Renaissance/Reformation World”: http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.html
An Annenberg CPB Exhibit focused on the Middle Ages:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html
This website from Georgetown University provides focuses on resources for medieval history:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
This website, focused on Joan of Arc, is a scholarly website developed by the International Joan of
Arc Society: http://www.smu.edu/ijas/.
This website is one of the Best of History Websites. Its focus is on early modern European history:
http://besthistorysites.net/EarlyModernEurope.shtml
Exploration and Renaissance:
Smithsonian had an exhibit dealing with the Columbian Exchange called “Seeds of Change,” which
dealt with how Columbus’s explorations and subsequent European explorations of the Americas
contributed to major changes in foods and cultures throughout the world. Here is a website related
to that exhibit: http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/
This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It has an
incredible number of links to websites pertaining to the Renaissance:
http://www.teacheroz.com/renaissance.htm.
Education World’s Millennium Website focused on the Age of Exploration:
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_02.shtml
An Annenberg CPB Exhibit focused on the Renaissance:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
An Annenberg CPB Exhibit focused on the collapse of Mayan civilization:
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/
PBS website accompanying the series “Conquistadors”: http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/
Enlightenment
This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, has an incredible number of links
to websites pertaining to the Enlightenment: http://www.teacheroz.com/Enlightenment.htm.
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Nineteenth Century:
This PBS website was designed to accompany a television program on Napoleon:
http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/
Industrial Revolution:
A website focused on the Industrial Revolution: http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html.
This website addresses the history of railroads:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm.
World War I:
This website, filled with solid content and activities, comes from “The Learning Curve,” a website
created by the National Archives of the United Kingdom for British high school teachers:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/default.htm.
This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, has an incredible number of links
to websites pertaining to World War I: http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm.
World War I music websites from Jerry Aschermann, professor at Missouri Western State College:
http://www.worldwar1.com/media.htm,
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=222,
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~worldwarone/WWI/Music/,
http://www.ishk.org/files/war_songs_9812.html
This website, designed for Western Civilization courses, has many links pertaining to World War I,
which teachers will find useful: http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv.html#WWI.
This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the World
War I for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module16/index.html
This website from the Library of Congress focuses on life on the homefront during World Wars I and
II: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/homefront/index.html
This website from the History Channel provides copies of letters written home by six different
people during World War I: http://www.historychannel.com/letters/main.html
World War II & Holocaust:
Spanish Civil War:: This is a website containing 1938 artwork made by Spanish who had lived
through the Spanish Civil War: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/frame.html.
World War II: This website is one of the “Best of History Web Site” series of websites:
http://besthistorysites.net/WWII.shtml
World War II: This website, prepared by London’s National Archives, features a newsreel mocking
Hitler, posters of brave British soldiers, other morale-boosting artwork created for Britain's Ministry
of Information during World War II, and much more: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/
World War II: This website, filled with solid content and activities, comes from “The Learning Curve,”
a website created by the National Archives of the United Kingdom for British high school teachers:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/snapshots.htm#1939.
World War II: This website is one of communication of boys and girls of today with people who
experienced WWII first hand—British, German, Dutch, Australian, Polish, Austrian, etc.:
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/memories.html.
World War II: This “Learning Curve” website from the British Archives focuses on World War II:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/default1939.htm.
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World War II: This website with documents and lesson plan ideas from the Truman library focuses
on poster art of World War II: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/posters/index.html
World War II: This website from Calvin College (MI) presents lots of information, including primary
sources, focused on Nazi propaganda: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htm
World War II: This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module
on the World War II for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module19/index.html
World War II: This BBC website focuses on the war from the soldier’s perspective:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/
World War II: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television
series “Bataan Rescue”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/
World War II: These websites focus on D-Day from the perspective of veterans:
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http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/stories/ (Library of Congress Veteran’s History Project)
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/ (PBS American Experience Program on D-Day)
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http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature1/index.html (National Geographic
Society’s Untold Stories of D-Day website)
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http://search.eb.com/normandy/ (Encyclopedia Britannica Normandy Invasion website)
World War II: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television
series “The Battle of the Bulge”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/
World War II: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television
series about women who were pilots during World War II entitled “Fly Girls”:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/
World War II: This Teachers’ Guide focused on Joseph Goebbels, but with lots of information about
the war and Nazism was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television program:
The Man behind Hitler: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goebbels/tguide/index.html
World War II: This website has numerous useful links for World War II:
http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv2.html#WWII
World War II: This website was designed to accompany the HBO television series Band of Brothers:
http://www.time.com/time/classroom/brothers/.
World War II: This website from the Library of Congress focuses on life on the homefront during
World Wars I and II: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/homefront/index.html
World War II: This website from the Truman Library focuses on Truman’s Decision to drop the
atomic bomb: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/abomb.htm
World War II: This U.S. National Archives website presents photos from World War II
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails/index.html
Holocaust: The website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/
Holocaust: The Facing History and Ourselves website focuses on the Holocaust and on other
instances of genocides and of human inhumanity: http://facinghistory.org
Holocaust: This website, in question-and-answer format is especially good for those who plan to
visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington: http://www.cyberlearningworld.com/nhhs/html/holoques.htm
Holocaust: This website from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. explains recent German
holocaust education policy: http://www.germanyinfo.org/relaunch/info/archives/background/holocaust.html.
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Holocaust: This informative website comes from “About.com” on the Internet:
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/
Holocaust: This website of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center presents
information about the Holocaust and information about the services of the museum and learning
center: http://www.hmlc.org.
Holocaust: This website has links to many other Holocaust websites:
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm?once=true&
Holocaust: This website, by David Dickerson, entitled “Holocaust/Shoah,” also has many links to
other sites pertaining to the Holocaust: http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.html
Holocaust: Remember.org is a website library of Holocaust materials, with plenty of links:
http://www.remember.org/
Holocaust: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has a website, which includes much information useful for
those teaching about and studying the Holocaust: http://www.yadvashem.org/
Holocaust: Gerda Weitzman was a survivor of the Holocaust who married Kurt Klein, a U.S. GI, who
had earlier been sent from his homeland of Germany by his parents to escape anti-Semitic
persecution. (Kurt Klein died in 2002.) The Kleins set up a foundation called the Gerda and Kurt
Klein Foundation, which is committed to helping people learn lessons from the Holocaust and also
to commit themselves to making the world a better place, especially by fighting hunger. The
website includes links to many, many other websites on the topics of the Holocaust and world
hunger. http://www.kleinfoundation.org/.
Holocaust: Timeline of the Holocaust: See this timeline of the Holocaust from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/timeprint.html.
Holocaust: Timeline of the Holocaust from a website set up at the University of Southern Florida
with links to primary sources: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
Holocaust: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television
series “America and the Holocaust”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/
Holocaust: In this website much information is presented on the Holocaust. See, among other links,
the link entitled “Hitler’s Death Camps,” which has many more links well worth exploring:
http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv2.html#Hitler's%20Death%20Camps
Holocaust: This website from the Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremburg Trial Project consists of
documents and other information pertaining to the Nuremburg trials:
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview
Holocaust: This website from PBS is about a TV program that was shown January and February
2005 entitled Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State: http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/
Holocaust: This website from the Truman Library focuses on the Nuremburg trials with timeline,
documents, and photos:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/#1941
Holocaust: This January 2005 website from the Guardian of the United Kingdom focuses on the
Holocaust as a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and of other
concentration and death camps. It contains many links focused on the Holocaust and other historyrelated topics: http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1397261,00.html. Following
are the links noted at this website:
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This website from the Holocaust Education Trust has practical ideas for helping students
explore the assumptions lying behind the Nazi holocaust and the ethical dimensions of the
holocaust: http://www.thinkequal.com/
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This website provides an interactive conflict map focused on each decade of the Twentieth
Century: http://nobelprize.org/peace/educational/conflictmap/
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These websites are from Holocaust memorials: http://www.holocaustcenter.org/,
http://www.nehm.org/, and http://www.holocaustmmb.org/.
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This website presents testimonies of people who lived through and witnessed the
Holocaust: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/
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This website of the Jewish Foundation of the Righteous focuses on the relatively few
people who risked their lives to save the lives of others in the Holocaust: http://www.jfr.org/
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This website from the United Kingdom focuses on the Remembrance of the Liberation of
Auschwitz sixty years after that event occurred: http://www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/
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This website entitled “The Learning Curve” from the United Kingdom provides excellent
resources not only on the Holocaust, but also on the discipline of history:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/.
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This website provides many primary sources on perpetrators, victims, and bystanders from
the time and place of the Holocaust: http://www.remember.org/witness/
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This website from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum provides lots of information of
about Jewish life before the Holocaust and about the Holocaust, its events, developments,
consequences, and aftermath: http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/before.htm
Cold War:
This website provides an annotated listing of Cold War-related websites with ratings of each site:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/20thCentury_ColdWar.shtml
This website focuses on the history of the Cold War, 1945-1991, with links to online documents and
other Internet sources, and lists of Cold War web links, books, and films:
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html
This website was designed to accompany the CNN series on the Cold War:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
This website from ‘”Teacher Oz,” provides numerous links to the Cold War and to other international
conflicts following World War II: http://www.teacheroz.com/coldwar.htm.
This website, with lots of links, is from the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/
This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience program entitled “The
Race for the Super Bomb”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/
This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience program entitled “Nixon’s
China Game”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/
Twentieth Century World History:
A website focused on inventions and engineering feats of the 20th century:
http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/
A WebQuest focused on resolving the conflict between India and Pakistan:
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/peacequest/
This website focuses on Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman who is now struggling to bring democracy to
Burma: http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html.
History of Nations and Cultures of the World:
British History: This website, called “The Learning Curve,” focuses on British History:
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/.
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British History: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to
British history: http://teacheroz.com/Great_Britain.htm.
Canadian History: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining
to British history: http://teacheroz.com/canada.htm.
French History: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to
French history: http://teacheroz.com/france.htm.
Islam. This website focuses on the history and religion of Islam: http://www.theislamproject.org/
Japan. This website focuses on Japanese Samurai: http://www.samurai-archives.com/
Russian History: A website on Russian history from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/timeline-index.html
U.S. History
U.S. History (General Sites):
On-Line Journal for U.S. History Teachers: Launched in 2004, History Now is a quarterly on-line
journal for American history teachers and students developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History. This website permits people to access all issues of History Now :
http://www.historynow.org/past.html
Teacher Oz Links: This is a wonderful resource for teachers of history. First, here is what “Teacher
Oz” says about herself: “I am the mother of two super children and have been married to my High
School sweetheart for 24 years. I am a violinist with the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra and teach
9th grade Pre-AP World Geography and 10th grade World History for a large suburban school
district outside of Dallas, Texas.” This amazing website is one all teachers of history should
examine: http://www.teacheroz.com/generalUS.htm
>From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: This site, assembled by
history students in the Netherlands, provides outline histories of the United States, the U.S.
Economy, the U.S. Government, and American Literature as well as many, many primary sources:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/.
About.com: This website is a good one for beginning studies of U.S. history:
http://americanhistory.about.com/
Academy of Achievement, a Museum of Living History: This website focuses on people who have
achieved much with their lives in fields of the arts, public service, and the sciences:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/index.html
American Experience for Kids: This website from PBS deals with many topics including secrets
about the Presidents, discrimination, transportation, and changing demographics of families:
http://pbskids.org/wayback/
American Studies: A website on American Studies sponsored by the American Studies Association:
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/
The Best of History Web Sites: http://besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtml
Capitol: This site, developed by C-SPAN, deals with the history of the U.S. capitol, having many
illustrations and links related to the capitol and other topics: http://www.c-span.org/capitolhistory/.
Digital History: This website from the University of Houston has links to all sorts of facets of U.S.
history, making it a must for social studies teachers to examine. It has such sections as “Primary
Sources,” “Ethnic Voices,” “For Teachers,” “Active Learning,” “Multi-Media,” “Interactive Timeline,”
“Visual History,” “Virtual Expeditions,” “Special Topics” (“Current Controversies,” “Ethnic America,”
“Film and History,” “Historiography,” “Personal Lives,” and “Science and Technology”), and “History
Reference Room.” This is a magnificent resource: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/.
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Documents: This TeacherFirst.doc website has links to U.S. history documents and to collections of
documents, U.S. history themes, and lessons: http://www.teachersfirst.com/ushistory/
Documents: The Texas Education Agency has developed a website with U.S. history documents
that are often emphasized in social studies programs:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ssc/primary_resources/primary_sources.html
Documents: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has identified newly discovered
documents: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive.html
Elections: The Truman Library has an exhibition dealing with elections during the past 80 years
entitled “Every Four Years”: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/4years/index.htm
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers many resources to
help improvement of teaching in American history, including primary sources, lesson plans, and
virtual exhibitions. The institute also sponsors institutes for teachers. Its website is
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.html. The website also has produced special modules on
events and developments of U.S. history and about documents of U.S. history:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html and
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive.html
Heritage Studies: A website focused on heritage studies: http://histpres.mtsu.edu/then/
“History Central.com” provides timelines, links to other sites, and links to documents related to both
United States and World History. The website address is http://www.multied.com/.
The History Guide: This guide provides links to many excellent primary sources and other sites of
relevance to students and teachers of history: http://www.historyguide.org/resources.html.
History Matters: A website called “History Matters” from George Mason University with funding from
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey
courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, firstperson primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Holidays: This website developed for teachers and students by the Library of Congress provides
information on the history of holidays using primary sources:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/doc_analysis/index.html
Inventions: The Library of Congress has created this interactive, informative website related to the
topic of inventions: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/science/flash.html
Legal History: Yale Law School’s Avalon Project has the following website pertaining to documents
of American legal history from 1492 to the present:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm#20
Legal History: This Library of Congress website, entitled “A Century of Lawmaking for the New
Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates,” focuses on the years 1774-1875:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Legal History: This Bill of Rights Institute website has links to landmark Supreme Court lessons and
to people who have made major contributions to U.S. history:
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/instructional/resources/Lessons/Lessons_List.asp.
Lesson Plans Daily from the New York Times: The New York Times produces lessons daily related
to articles it publishes: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/americanhistory.html
Library of Congress websites:
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General: Check out “American Memory in the website.” http://www.loc.gov/index.html For
information about current bills in Congress, check out “Thomas.”
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A Library of Congress website for kids: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
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A Library of Congress website rich with ideas for teachers and students on the study of
history using the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html. (See especially within that site “Collection
Finder” and “Learning Page.”
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A Library of Congress website that includes excellent lesson plans and professional
development ideas http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
Military History: A website of the National Park Service on military history with sketches of NPS
military history sites and discussion of those sites: http://www2.cr.nps.gov/pad/defenders/index.htm
Military History: Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars is an on-line exhibition of letters and
audio created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project. It features correspondence
from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq.
Documents are from famous generals, lesser-known troops, parents, sweethearts, and children.
See http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html
Mr. Donn’s U.S. History Website: This website has lessons on many U.S. history topics:
http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html#UNIT
“My History is America’s History”: A website from the National Endowment for the Humanities called
“My History is America’s History,” which has lots of good ideas for children, families, and
classrooms on how to personalize the study of U.S. history: http://www.myhistory.org/
National Archives: The website of the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/. (Be sure to click
on “Educators and Students.”)
National Assessment of Educational Progress: The website from the National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP) which one may use to access its items on U.S. history:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ushistory/
National Security Archives: This website focuses on national security issues and provides
declassified items related to U.S. history and current events: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/.
Naval History: See the website of the U.S. Navy for the history of the U.S. navy from the early days
of this nation to the present: http://www.history.navy.mil/
Our Documents: This website, a collaborative effort of the National Archives and Records
Administration, National History Day, and the History Channel, presents 100 milestone documents
from U.S. history with leads for how to use those documents and others in the classroom:
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
Popular Culture: The Authentic History Center has many primary sources focused on popular
culture for different eras of U.S. history from Antebellum U.S. to 9/11. For each era, where possible,
the website presents primary sources for the categories “Audio,” “Images,” “Letters and Diaries,”
and “From the Diversity Section.” The address is http://www.authentichistory.com/.
Preservation: This website from the History Channel, called “Save Our History,” is part of a national
initiative promoting history education and preservation, which also aims to encourage students to
get involved locally and nationally with the preservation of historically significant sites and/or
artifacts: http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/save/soh.html.
Presidency: This PBS website for younger students, “American Experience for Kids,” deals with
many topics giving special emphasis to the Presidency: http://pbskids.org/wayback/
Presidency: This website from the Truman Library was developed as part of Smithsonian’s outreach
program for schools. It is based on the American Presidency exhibit at Smithsonian:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/burden/index.html.
Presidency: The Smithsonian has an exhibit called the American Presidency: A Glorious Burden,
which should be of great interest to teachers: http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html
Presidential Libraries: This website may be used to access all Presidential Library websites:
http://www.archives.gov/presidential_libraries/index.html.
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Regional History (Piedmont): A website from the National Park Service focused on the Piedmont
region of the United States, about the artifacts and people who lived there:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/journey/
Religion in U.S. History: Divining America: Religion and the National Culture from the National
Humanities Council is a rich resource for the study of religion in U.S. history:
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/divam.htm
Smithsonian National Museum of American History: This website from Smithsonian has lots of links
and activities of value for teachers of U.S. history: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/.
“Teaching with Historic Places”: A website on teaching history using historic places using properties
in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
“Technology at Home”: A website called “Technology at Home,” which has information about
technologies that have changed the consumer household in the U.S.:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/
Transportation: This website from the History Channel focuses on changes in American life and
culture that result from changes in transportation:
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/aotm/aotm.htm
Veterans’ History website: This is the website of the Veteran’s History Project of the American
Folklife Center of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
U.S. History (Minorities):
General:
Authentic History Center: This website focuses on teaching about stereotypes for many ethic
groups using popular culture images from the past. (The Authentic History Center is independently
owned and operated by Michael S. Barnes, a teacher at Byron Center High School.)
http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/
Facing History and Ourselves: This website focuses on racism in world and U.S. history:
http://facinghistory.org
American Indians:
Website on American Indians: http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html.
Learn about the history and mission of Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, KS:
http://www.haskell.edu/archive/haskell_archive.htm
Links to many American Indian websites from Haskell Indian Nations University:
http://www.haskell.edu/archive/links.htm.
Learn about the history of Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which operated in Carlisle, PA from
1879 to 1918 and which had as its mission to transform American Indian children “to resemble their
so-called civilized American brothers and sisters”: http://home.epix.net/~landis/.
Magnificent photo images of American Indians from the Rinehart Collection at Haskell Indian
Nations Museum: http://www.haskell.edu/archive/Rinehart.htm.
This website compiled by Charles J. Kappler at Oklahoma State University has the texts of laws and
treaties pertaining to American Indians: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/.
See on-line exhibitions pertaining to American Indians from Smithsonian’s National Museum of the
American Indian: http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=exhibitions&second=online
African Americans:
General: A website called the “African American History Challenge” with quizzes on students’
knowledge of African American history: http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/
General: A website on Black American history: http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Tourmenu.htm
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Desegregation (Little Rock): A website with ideas on how to teach about the issue of racial
desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/little_rock/
Harlem Renaissance: Several websites were identified pertaining to the Harlem Renaissance by the
Social Studies School Service: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html,
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html, and http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/.
History of Jim Crow Laws: This incredibly useful new website, developed to support a four-part PBS
television series to be shown in the fall of 2002, has been designed to help teachers in their efforts
to teach students about the era of Jim Crow laws. It will be updated frequently:
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/.
Lest We Forget: The Triumph over Slavery: This website from the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library has a focus that is consistent with its
title: http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/flash.html
Migration History: This website focuses on the African-American migration experience throughout
U.S. history: http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm.
Missouri History: This website from the Missouri State Archives focuses on Missouri’s AfricanAmerican history: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/intro.asp
Person (Frederick Douglass): A website from the Library of Congress on Frederick Douglass, a
black slave who became free and became an eloquent antislavery spokesman:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/
Person (Frederick Douglass): The following upper elementary/middle school lesson, developed by
the Social Studies School Service, pertains to the life of Frederick Douglass:
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@qEt8B7I.KES_k/Pages/douglass.html?af@ssss.
Person (William Grant Still): This website focuses on the life and times of the composer William
Grant Still: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sgo/start.html.
Person (Marcus Garvey): This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience
website entitled “Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind”:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/
Person (Jackie Robinson): A website from the Library of Congress for teachers pertaining to the life
of Jackie Robinson, which also has information about the nature of primary and secondary sources:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/robinson/intro.html
Person (Rosa Parks): A website from the Academy of Achievement on Rosa Parks, her life and role
in the Montgomery Bus Boycott: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1
For more recent history, go to this set of websites, which deals with civil rights.
Asian-American History
PBS: This website presents excellent links:
http://www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/aahistorysites.html
Jewish-American History:
Links to Jewish History Museums: The National Museum of Jewish History has links to many
Jewish History Museums in the United States: http://www.nmajh.org/links/links_1.html
Yiddish Radio Project: National Public Radio had a series in 2002 focused on Yiddish Radio in the
1930s and ‘40s. Check out this audio website for examples of the programs found in the archives of
that series: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/yiddish/index.html
Hispanic-American History:
This About.com website has many links: http://americanhistory.about.com/od/hispanicamerican/
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A website, which might not be working now, from the National Register of Historic Places focused
on Hispanic-American history historical sites for Hispanic-American History Month:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/hispanic/
State Histories:
This website, “Explore Pennsylvania History,” focuses on the history of Pennsylvania, which will, of
course, have relevance for general U.S. history courses: http://www.explorepahistory.com/
Women’s History:
General: The website of the National Women’s History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/
General: A website on women’s history from Smithsonian:
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/women_resources.html
General: The website of the National Women’s Hall of Fame: http://www.greatwomen.org/
General: The website of the National Women’s History Museum: http://www.nwhm.org/
Independent Lens: “The Sisters of ‘77”: This website from PBS tells the story of an historic weekend
in November 1977 in Houston, where 20,000 people gathered for the first federally funded National
Women’s Conference, aiming to end discrimination against women and promote women’s rights:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/sistersof77/
Eleanor Roosevelt: This website was designed to support a PBS program on Eleanor Roosevelt,
one of the most influential women in US. history: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/.
Working Women (1870-1930): Harvard University has set up an open collection of countless
primary source books and manuscripts dealing directly and indirectly with working women of all
sorts. The collection is a bit challenging to use, but after experimenting with it, one may discover
how to get into the texts of a rich body of primary sources on that topic. See
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/.
U.S. History (Presidents):
Inaugurations: "I Do Solemnly Swear . . .” Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately
400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to
George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001.: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/.
The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden: This website is based on a Smithsonian Exhibition at
the Museum of American History: http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/2_frame.html.
First Ladies: These websites enable teachers and students to find out about the lives and
experiences of all of our nation’s First Ladies and in the process to gain new insights into gender
and social history of the United States:
http://www.alplm.org/museum/temp_exhibits/firstladies_gallery.html and
http://www.firstladies.org/index.htm
Specific Presidents: Following are websites on various Presidents from PBS American Experience
programs, museums, and other websites3:
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John (and Abigail) Adams: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/tguide/index.html
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Thomas Jefferson: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html and
http://www.monticello.org/.
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The websites shown here accompany PBS American Experience programs. Using PBS American
Experience websites starting with George Washington, one may link to most presidents and find information
on them. The George Washington website is:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/01_washington/index.html.
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Abraham Lincoln: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/, http://www.alplm.org/home.html
(see especially http://www.alplm.org/education/home.html),
http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=16, and
http://www.historynow.org/12_2005/interactive.html.
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Ulysses S. Grant: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/
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Theodore Roosevelt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/26_t_roosevelt/index.html
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Woodrow Wilson: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/
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Herbert Hoover: http://hoover.archives.gov/
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/index.html and
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/
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Harry S Truman: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/;
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/index.php;
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/index.html
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Eisenhower: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/34_eisenhower/index.html and
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/
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Kennedy: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/ and http://www.jfklibrary.org/
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LBJ: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/36_l_johnson/index.html and
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
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Nixon: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/37_nixon/index.html and
http://www.nixonfoundation.org/
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Ford: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/
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Kennedy, LBJ, & Nixon:
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/index.html
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Carter: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/ and http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/
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Reagan: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/ and http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/
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George Herbert Walker Bush: http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
U.S. History (Chronological)
Ancient America:
Cahokia Mounds State Park in Illinois: Websites dealing with Cahokia Mounds near St. Louis:
http://www.cahokiamounds.com/cahokia.html and http://www.siue.edu/CAHOKIAMOUNDS/.
Effigy Mounds National Monument: A website from the Effigy Mounds National Monument (Iowa)
with teaching ideas pertaining to archaeology and prehistory:
http://www.nps.gov/efmo/parks/table_of_contents.htm
Exploration:
Conquistadors: Retrace the adventures of Spanish Conquistadors five hundred years after they
traveled to the Americas in search of fame and fortune, initiating a centuries-long era of imperialism
and launching a debate about human rights that continues to this day. Meet the Conquistadors as
well as the indigenous peoples they encountered: http://www.PBS.org/conquistadors
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Colonial America:
General: Colonial America from Education World’ Millennium Series: http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/millenium_03.shtml
General: At Archiving Early America, you will discover a wealth of resources in the form of primary
source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps
and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than
two centuries ago: http://earlyamerica.com/
Deerfield Raid: Learn about the complexities of historical interpretation by visiting this website
focused on the raid on Deerfield in present-day Massachusetts. This award-winning website,
developed by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association(PVMA)/Memorial Hall Museum, a
membership-based organization in Deerfield, Massachusetts, sets the stage for the raid, helps its
visitors understand the five cultures that came into conflict during the raid (Wendat, Kanienkehaka,
Wobanaki, English, and French), and helps them learn about how that raid of 1704 remains a
source of controversy to this day. The website address is
http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/home_page.jsp
French and Indian War: PBS Television has produced a very good television series on the French
and Indian War entitled “The War that Made America.” The website related to the series is
http://www.thewarthatmadeamerica.org/default.aspx?id=30
Jamestown: This website from EDSITEMENT of the National Endowment for the Humanities offers
a lesson pertaining to the history of the Jamestown settlement. The lesson involves students in
using census data and primary sources. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=269.
Salem Witchcraft Trials: This website, developed by Doug Linder, professor from the School of Law
at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, focuses on the Salem Witchcraft trials:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM.
Salem Witchcraft Trials: Other Salem Witchcraft Trial websites include the “Salem Witchcraft
Hysteria,” from National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/) and
“Salem Witch Museum” (http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/).
Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving: A website from Ben and Jerry’s on Thanksgiving, with references to
Native Americans and dealing with inaccuracies often connected with the holiday story:
http://www.benjerry.com/fun_stuff/holidays/thanksgiving/
Thanksgiving: A second website concerned with Thanksgiving: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/
American Revolution and Founding of Nation:
General: This website, entitled “Archiving Early America,” which focuses on 18th Century America, is
an excellent resource for finding primary sources: http://www.earlyamerica.com/.
American Memory Website on the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention: This
website from the Library of Congress focuses on documents and timelines related to the
Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html.
Bill of Rights Institute: The Bill of Rights Institute has a website focused on the Bill of Rights, taking
both an historical and a contemporary perspective: http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/.
American Revolution: This website was created to accompany a PBS Documentary Series entitled
“LIBERTY! The American Revolution”: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/.
American Revolution: See “Spy Letters of the American Revolution” on this website from the
University of Michigan. It includes activities, curricular themes, study questions, and suggestions
on how to interpret primary sources: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/lounge.html.
American Revolution (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on the American Revolution for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module1/index.html
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Boston Freedom Trail: This website on the Boston Freedom Trail is in podcast format:
http://www.boston.com/travel/boston/freedomtrail/podcast/
Constitution (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History presents a module on the Constitution for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module2/index.html
Constitution (National Archives): This content-rich website from the National Archives focuses on
the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution.html
George Washington: This website from Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery focuses on George
Washington: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/
Hamilton: This New York Historical Society/Gilder Lehrman website provides much informative
information on Alexander Hamilton: http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/
Hamilton-Burr Duel: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience
Website entitled “The Duel”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/
New Nation (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History presents a module on the first decade of the nation following the ratification of the U.S.
Constitution for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module3/index.html
Jeffersonian Era (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on the Jeffersonian era for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module4/index.html
Washington: George Washington University created this online exhibit dedicated to the First
Federal Congress. Each issue begins with a citation from the Constitution and provides numerous
letters, newspaper articles, cartoons, and portraits in each section, as well as an online teacher's
guide. http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/
Washington: This website of EDSITEMENT of the National Endowment for the Humanities presents
a lesson on “First Families” with an emphasis on students using portraits and other primary sources
to have students form their own insights into Washington and other presidents using such sources:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=335.
Lewis and Clark Expedition:
http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/ (a website developed by the Missouri Historical Society,
which was posted in 2004, with excellent resources for teachers and others)
http://dese.mo.gov/moheritage/Lewis&Clark.htm (a user-friendly website with links developed
by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education)
http://lewisclark.geog.missouri.edu/index.shtml (a website initiated by the Geography
Department of the University of Missouri-Columbia in September 2002 with virtual landmarks in
Missouri and many useful links)
http://www.umsl.edu/~econed/louisiana/ (a website developed by the Center for
Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis)
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ (PBS website tied to the Ken Burns Series. Don’t skip this
one.)
http://www.lewisandclark200.org/index_nf.php?cID= (National Council of the Lewis and Clark
Bicentennial)
http://www.lewisandclark.org/ (Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation)
http://www.lewis-clark.org/ (Discovering Lewis and Clark)
http://www.nps.gov/focl/ (Fort Clatsop National Memorial Home Site)
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~maa8/ronda.htm (Lewis and Clark among the Indians)
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http://www.nps.gov/hafe/lewis/ (Lewis and Clark at Harpers Ferry)
http://idptv.state.id.us/lc/index.html (Lewis and Clark in Idaho)
http://www.mt.net/~rojomo/landc.htm?12,44 (Letter from Thomas Jefferson)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/journals.html (The Journals of Lewis and Clark)
http://www.nps.gov/knri/ (Knife River Indian Villages, Stanton, North Dakota)
http://www.esu3.org/nebraska/nhm/clark.html (Lewis and Clark Campsites in Nebraska)
http://lewisandclark.state.mt.us/ (Lewis and Clark in Montana)
http://www.acnatsci.org/lewis&clark/index.html (Deals with plants observed by Lewis & Clark)
http://www.ndlewisandclark.com/ (Lewis and Clark in North Dakota)
http://www.nps.gov/lecl/ (Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail)
http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/ (Lewis and Clark Trail, Relive the Adventure)
http://www.lewisclark.net/ (Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail)
http://greatfallscvb.visitmt.com/ (Relive the Journey of Lewis and Clark in Great Falls)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html (Lewis and Clark from
Monticello website from the University of Virginia)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr001.html (American Treasures from the Library of
Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/lewisandclark/index.html (This website comes
from the Library of Congress
Missouri artist Gary Lucy has a website about his studio and about his special interest in Lewis
and Clark. Each week he is posting a new question about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
There is other information pertinent to Lewis and Clark teachers and students may find to be of
interest.
Jacksonian Era
Jacksonian Era (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on the Jacksonian era for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module5/index.html
Westward Expansion:
Oregon Trail and Morman Trail: These websites are from the American West website:
http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/oretrail.htm and
http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/mormtrl.htm.
Alamo: This website, a companion to the PBS American Experience television program “Remember
the Alamo,” explores the real story behind the Alamo: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/
Westward Expansion (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on Westward Expansion for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module8/index.html
US-Mexican War
U.S Mexican War: This website comes from PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html.
Pre-Civil War Issues and Reform
Pre-Civil War Reform (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on the reforms of the pre-Civil War era for teachers and
students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module6/index.html
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Slavery (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These websites from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History present very useful information on slavery for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module7/index.html,
http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/historian.html, and
http://www.historynow.org/09_2005/interactive.html.
Slavery and the Making of America: This website from PBS was designed to support the program
“Slavery and the Making of America”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html. Be sure to click on
“Teacher’s Guide Contents,” which provides a gold mine of resources for teachers.
Slavery Website Resources: This website from the B. David Schwartz Memorial Library of the C.W.
Post Campus of Long Island University provides many links to websites that deal with slavery:
http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslvwww.htm
Civil War and Reconstruction Times:
General: Civil War and Reconstruction from Education World’s Millennium website series:
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_06.shtml
WebQuest on the U.S. Civil War from Australia:
http://www.htav.asn.au/webquests/us_civil_war/index.html
Civil War Center (Louisiana State University): http://www.cwc.lsu.edu.
Civil War (Smithsonian): Smithsonian has a website dedicated to the Civil War:
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/home.html
Coming of the Civil War and the Civil War (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These websites from the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History present modules on the coming of the Civil War and
on the Civil War for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module9/index.html and
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module10/index.html
John Brown: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television
program entitled “John Brown’s Holy War”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/
Lincoln: A website focused on U.S. partisan politics during the time of Abraham Lincoln:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/tl_tree.html
Lincoln: This website, entitled “The Papers of Abraham Lincoln,” a website of the Lincoln Historic
Preservation Agency and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, has many useful
links to Abraham Lincoln, including a link to “The Lincoln Log: A Daily Chronology of the Life of
Abraham Lincoln”: http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/.
Lincoln: This website, which includes many primary sources related to the “Lincolns, the Civil War,
and slavery,” was developed to accompany the PBS television series “Abraham and Mary Lincoln:
A House Divided: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
Lincoln: This website is sponsored by the Lincoln Library and Museum, which operates as part of
the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: http://www.alplm.org/education/home.html
Gettysburg: A website from the National Park Service pertaining to Gettysburg with ideas for
teachers: http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/teachguide.htm
Grant: A PBS website to accompany its two-part American Experience program on U.S. Grant,
which is interactive, includes a teacher’s guide, and has information that includes and goes beyond
what is on the television series: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/
Reconstruction: This website was designed to accompany the PBS television series related to
“Reconstruction: America’s Second Civil War:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.html
Reconstruction (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These websites from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History present very useful ideas for teachers and students on Reconstruction:
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http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module11/index.html and
http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/historian.html.
American West:
General: The American West: http://www.americanwest.com/index2.htm
General: A website with lots of primary source, public-domain documents pertaining to the U.S.
West and the relationship between American settlers and American Indians: http://www.1st-handhistory.org
General: Westward Expansion from Education World’s Millennium website series:
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_05.shtml
General: This website was designed by WETA and PBS to accompany the program New
Perspectives on the West: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/. Be sure to click on “Resources” and
then on “Archives of the West” for links to primary sources. Teachers may also want to click on
“Lesson Plans.”
General: This website from Yahooligans, Yahoo’s website for younger viewers, provides links
related to the West:
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History/Westward_Move
ment/
Gold Rush: This website comes from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/
Gold Rush: This website comes from the Oakland Museum of California:
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/
Homestead Act: This website, which includes resources for teachers, comes from the National Park
Service: http://www.nps.gov/home/homestead_act.html
Prairie Settlement: This website focuses on Nebraska settlements using family letters of one
homesteader family in the prairies of the US: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/.
Industrial Revolution and Gilded Age
Industrial Revolution: This website, rich with links to primary sources and to other websites, comes
from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
Child Labor: This website, entitled “Who Really Built America,” has lessons for middle school
grades focused on child labor from 1880 to 1920:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/built/.
Gilded Age (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History presents a module on the Gilded Age for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module12/index.html
Rockefellers: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television
program entitled “The Rockefellers”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/
Progressive Era
Progressivism (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on progressivism for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html
Immigration and Migrations:
Migrations During Great Depression: A website with lessons pertaining to migration during the
Great Depression and today from the American Memory Program of the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/migrate/intro.html
Immigration (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents very useful information on immigration to the U.S. for teachers and
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students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module15/index.html and
http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/interactive.html.
Immigration (Library of Congress): This website has been created for teachers and students by the
Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.html
Immigration at the Point of Entry (Library of Congress): This website has been created for teachers
and students by the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/port/start.html. It provides an activity for teachers
to use with students related to the experiences of immigrants at their points of entry.
Immigration (The Great American Potluck from the Library of Congress): Here are recipes brought
to the United States by immigrants:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/ckbk/index.html.
Immigration: This website developed by KETC-TV (St. Louis) for PBS focuses on recent immigrants
to the United States: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/
Immigration (Interviews of Recent Immigrants from the Library of Congress): This website has been
created for teachers and students by the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/interv/index.html. It provides an activity for
teachers to use with students related to the experiences of immigrants at their points of entry.
Twentieth Century U.S. History (Variety of Topics)
Eleanor Roosevelt: This website was designed to support a PBS program on Eleanor Roosevelt,
one of the most influential women in US. history: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/.
Progressivism (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on progressivism for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html
1920s (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History presents a module on the 1920s for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module17/index.html
Newsreels from the National Archives: This website from Google provides National Archives
newsreels, which may be downloaded or viewed: http://video.google.com/nara.html
Scopes Trial: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website
entitled “Monkey Trial”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/
Scopes Trial: This website was developed as part of a series of Famous Trials by the UMKC law
school: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
History of Flight: A website of the Centennial of Flight Commission with a special emphasis on the
Wright Brothers: http://www.centennialofflight.gov/. See also this website from NASA:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/
History of Flight: A website of from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which
provides a timeline history of aviation in the U.S. and other nations with images:
http://www.flight100.org/history_intro.html
History of Flight: This website provides resources on the history of flight from the Library of
Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/flight/index.html
Inventions, History of & Teaching About: This website from EDSITEMENT of the National
Endowment for the Humanities presents a lesson on inventions of Thomas Edison and how they
changed the lives of people in the early 1900s:.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=408
U.S. Becomes a World Power (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History presents a module on the United States becoming a world power for
teachers and students http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module13/index.html
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U.S. at the End of the Twentieth Century (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the United States at the end of the 20 th
Century for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module23/index.html
Twentieth Century “Best of History Web Sites”: http://besthistorysites.net/20thCentury.shtml. See
also this “Best of History Web Site” for sites related to World War II:
http://besthistorysites.net/WWII.shtml
Great Depression and New Deal:
Migrations During Great Depression: A website with lessons pertaining to migration during the
Great Depression and today from the American Memory Program of the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/migrate/intro.html
New Deal: This website, sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute
for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University, has links to an enormous
number of documents and images pertaining to the New Deal and lesson plans, among other
things: http://newdeal.feri.org.
Photos: This website from the United States Department of Agriculture show scenes of the United
States mainly from 1930s and early 1940s: http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htm
Court Packing: This website focuses on political cartoons related to Roosevelt’s “court-packing”
plans. The website not only includes excellent cartoons from 1937, but offers ideas on how to
analyze political cartoons. The site is as follows: http://newdeal.feri.org/court/toons.htm
Great Depression (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on the Great Depression for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module18/index.html
Post War America and Truman:
The Truman Library website, which totals over 27,000 web pages, now includes material that was in
Project Whistlestop. The site, which includes all sorts of information about Truman and his role in
U.S. history with lesson plans, is as follows: http://www.trumanlibrary.org
Presidential Years: The Truman Library has a virtual museum tour of the Truman Administration at
this website: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hst/index.html.
United Nations: The Truman library presents documents, photos, and lesson plans on Truman and
the U.N.: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/un/large/.
Election of 1948: The Truman Library has a special section on the election of 1948:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/1948campaign/large/docs/1948campaig
n_base.htm
Life and Times of Truman: This website focuses on the life and times of Truman:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/index.html
Korean War: This website from the Truman Library focuses on the Korean War:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/index.htm
Post-War America (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on post-World War II America for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module20/index.html
Civil Rights:
This website from the National Park Service provides much good information and lesson plans
related to the tumultuous history of the integration of Little Rock Central High School:
http://www.nps.gov/chsc. (Be sure to click on “Education Programs.”)
This website from the Library of Congress includes all of the known photographic prints of
discrimination signs found in the files of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information.
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The photographs were taken by government photographers in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The
website address is http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.html
This website from the Library of Congress provides many resources for students and teachers on
the history of Civil Rights from the times of slavery to the present:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/civilrights/flash.html.
This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled,
“Scottsboro: An American Tragedy: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/
This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled, “The
Murder of Emmet Till”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled, “George
Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/
This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents songs of the Civil
Rights Movement: http://www.historynow.org/06_2006/interactive.html.
To see African-American History, click here.
I960s
1960s (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History presents a module on the tumultuous 1960s for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module21/index.html
Vietnam War:
Vietnam War (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History presents a module on the Vietnam War for teachers and students:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module22/index.html
The Vassar College website focused on the Vietnam War: http://vassun.vassar.edu/~vietnam/
Pat Bowles, an elementary teacher from Sharonville Elementary School near Cincinnati, Ohio,
includes many resources for teaching about the Vietnam War:
http://home.cinci.rr.com/patkers/VIETNAM.html
1998-99 NC Social Studies Teacher of the Year Lindy Poling shows how to make the most of
community resources in teaching the Vietnam era:
http://www.wcpss.net/community_in_the_classroom/.
This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled “Vietnam
On Line”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
This website was designed to accompany the moving PBS American Experience website “Daughter
from Danang,” which was about a young woman who as a girl was evacuated from Vietnam to
come to the United States and who returned to Vietnam to find her mother:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/daughter/ and http://www.daughterfromdanang.com/
This website from PBS American Experience deals with the fall of Saigon:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
Cuba Under Castro
This website was designed to support the PBS American Experience Program Fidel Castro:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/
Combined U.S. and World History
General: This website, called “The Best of History Web sites,” is an award-winning portal created for
history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts: http://www.besthistorysites.net/
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General: The United Kingdom has several useful websites for history teachers, many produced by
history teachers. Here are some of them:
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
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http://www.johndclare.net/
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http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/
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http://www.historymad.com/
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http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/
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http://www.weatherheadhistory.ik.org/
http://www.thehistorysite.co.uk/contents.html
General: This website, called “HyperHistory Online,” has Over 2000 files cover over 3000 years of
world history: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Archaeology: This website has many useful links pertaining to archaeology in history from ancient
times to more recent times: http://www.archaeologica.org/.
Biographies: A website called “Academy of Achievement” focused on people who have
accomplished much during their lives and have helped to shape our lives:
http://www.achievement.org/
Conquistadors: Retrace the adventures of Spanish Conquistadors five hundred years after they
traveled to the Americas in search of fame and fortune, initiating a centuries-long era of imperialism
and launching a debate about human rights that continues to this day. Meet the Conquistadors as
well as the indigenous peoples they encountered: http://www.PBS.org/conquistadors
Explorers: A website on exploration throughout history focused not only on explorers of Western
nations: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/
Eyewitness Accounts: An outstanding website that presents eyewitness accounts of historical
events in print, in spoken word, and in photographs: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Famous Trials from U.S. and world history:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
General: Education World’s list of history links:
http://www.education-world.com/a_special/archives/history.shtml
General: See this PBS website for lots of topics: http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/.
“History Central”: A website with all sorts of items related to the teaching of world and U.S. history
called "HistoryCentral.com": http://www.historycentral.com
History Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/.
“History Mystery”: A website from Scholastic for students entitled “History Mystery”:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.asp
The History Net (“About History”): This website appears to be very user-friendly with many links
focused on the following topics: 20th Century History, African History, African-American History,
American History, Ancient History, British History, Medieval History, Military History, and Women’s
History: http://history.about.com/?once=true&.
“The History Place”: A website called “The History Place” with many features of interest, such as
“This Month in History,” “Photo of the Week,” “Speech of the Week,” and “Main Exhibits”:
http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
Human Rights: This website from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for teachers (with lesson
plans) and students focuses on human rights in the U.S. and international communities:
http://www.unl.edu/HumanR/teach/
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Legal History Documents: Yale Law School’s Avalon Project has the following website pertaining to
documents of legal history from ancient times to the present:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm
Modern History: This website, the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, developed by Paul Halsall
of Fordham University, is an outstanding, well organized source for teachers of Modern History:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
National Center for History Education: The website of the National Center for History in the Schools
of UCLA, the organization that developed the national standards for history and that has developed
for sale units based on primary sources: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/
National Endowment for the Humanities: An outstanding website on history and humanities from the
National Endowment for the Humanities: http://edsitement.neh.gov/
The History Net: This website has many useful links:
http://www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay/
Speeches: A website from the History Channel on great speeches from U.S. and world history:
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/
Religion: Public Radio International has a radio program entitled “Speaking of Faith,” which is
hosted by Krista Tripplett. The program, which explores religious issues of past and present, has
the following: website: http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/.
The Events of September 11, 2001, and their Aftermath
National Council for the Social Studies: The website of the National Council for the Social Studies
has website pages entitled “Teachable Moments” with many resources, lessons, ideas of social
studies teachers, and links pertaining to the events of September 11, 2001, their aftermath
(including the war in Iraq), and historical parallels:
http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/moments/.
National Education Association: The National Education Association has compiled a major website
with lesson plans, historical documents, NEA policy statements, and all sorts of links to a variety of
organizations, all with direct or indirect relationships to the events of September 11, 2001, and their
aftermath: http://www.nea.org/nr/nr020827.html.
The Fordham Foundation: The Fordham Foundation, a conservative foundation, has developed a
website entitled, “What Our Children Need to Know, “pertaining to the September 11, 2001:
http://www.edexcellence.net/Sept11/September11.html.
National Association of School Psychologists: The National Association of School Psychologists
has developed a website pertaining to the events of September 11, 2001 and subsequent terrorist
events and how to handle them. The website has ideas for parents, teachers, media, and
adolescents: http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/911memorial.html.
Guilder Lehrman Institute: This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
presents a module on the significance of the events of September 11, 2001 for teachers and
students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module24/index.html
Social Studies Research Council: The Social Science Research Council has launched a website
featuring teacher guides and essays on aspects of the September 11 disaster and its aftermath
written by social scientists: http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_intro.htm.
War in Iraq: This website, entitled Unembedded, shows photographs of violent developments in Iraq
following the U.S. invasion of that country. The photographs were taken young photographers, who
were not embedded with U.S. troops: http://www.unembedded.net.
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