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Helpful Links

Alabama History

Hispanic-American History

Native American History

 

Southern History

Women's History

Geography

  • The World Fact Book This website contains the CIA world fact book. It is a good place to look for information on individual countries.

Government/Economics

Presidential Elections

  • The Office of the Federal Register coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, the Congress, and the American People. They have assembled a variety of information and statistics on presidential elections, past and present
  • C-SPAN in the Classroom: Campaigns & Elections The site provides teachers with lesson guides and activities using the vast resources of balanced C-SPAN programming.
  • Election 2004 WebQuest allows students to research candidates and issues to answer the question, which candidate would you vote for?
  • FEC.gov The duties of the Federal Election Commission, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions, and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections.

Miscellaneous Links


General History

  • Library of Congress
  • Cable in the Classroom It takes you to different educational videotapes available for sale and tells when they will be on regular television (A&E, history channel, etc.). Some of the programs have teacher links that include vocabulary, questions, etc. It could be useful if you wanted to include a good video. Plus, you can always get the time it will be on television and tape it yourself without having to pay shipping and handling and for the tape itself.
  • http://oralhistory.minds.tv/ - This project brings history to life as students become historians of war, culture and heritage experiences. This intergenerational streaming media project, in partnership with the Library of Congress, is intended to preserve and honor the oral histories of Americans, bringing communities and schools together in an unparalleled civic pursuit - a project-based learning experience that is immeasurable in its scope.
  • School House Rock It provides the lyrics to the songs on the School House Rock videos.
  • Salem in History Contains links to major history sites such as American Memory, etc.
  • Kids.gov
  • American History
  • HistoryTeacher.net
  • Best of History Web Sites This is a site of best history sites. It is very useful in learning about different facts in history. A great site for teachers.
  • American History Lesson Plans from Mountain City Elementary (TN)
  • They Made America Samuel Insull, Thomas Edison, Clarence Birdseye and numerous other innovators and inventors contributed mightily to the American spirit of invention during the past several centuries. This rather engrossing website, which was designed to complement the four-part television series on PBS, offers a glimpse into the lives of many of these innovators. Based on a book by editor and journalist Harold Evans, the series and the website utilize primary documents and first-hand reports to look at the lives of these men and women. Visitors who wish to jump right in should begin by looking through the "Who Made America?" Flash-enabled feature. Here they can learn about a number of these innovators, and view each profile by category, chronologically, or geographically. The site also contains a lively discussion area where visitors can chime in with their thoughts about which innovators were left out of the series and which future inventions may be next to transform the world.
  • Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers As long as there are those who seek to extend the field of athletic endeavor through invention (such as James L. Plimpton, creator of the modern roller skate), or those who break racial barriers (such as the great Jackie Robinson), there will be those who seek to commemorate and examine their legacy. Designed to complement a current exhibition at the National Museum of American History, this fine online exhibit explores some of those individuals whose contributions to American sport have intersected with other broader historical developments, including racial equality, the spirit of invention, and other trends. On the site, visitors are treated to short essays that talk about the accomplishments of such individuals as Jesse Owens and Sandy Koufax. Of course, these pieces are completed by images of such items as Terry Bradshaw's uniform from Super Bowl XIV and Abraham Lincoln's personal handball. Additionally, for each person profiled, visitors can read a list of career highlights, suggested reading materials, and in some cases, a filmography.
  • http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html - Smithsonian Folkways recordings – Mostly American music – not free but a great way to introduce period specific music into a lesson.
  • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/teachers/guides.html - PBS episode guide for “Freedom: A History of Us”
  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/
  • http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html - Pictures, artwork and war posters from different time periods
  • http://www.historyplace.com/

Pictures

Maps

  • Free Blank Outline Maps of the Countries and Continents of the World An entire page of free maps just waiting to be downloaded, including all of the countries and continents. Just clink on the map for the printable version. A warning: You might have to play around a bit with printing format, but it is an excellent source.
  • Theodora.com This is another source of world maps. This one isn't quite as user friendly as the first, but it has some good stuff. Just clink on the banner under each map and it will give you instructions on how to download.
  • The Teacher's Corner A good source for maps. Just toggle down to the Map Resource section and look around. While some links are better than others, it is a good source for blank maps and lesson plans.
  • Teacheroz.com Similar to above. Let me warn you in advance.....some of their links are dead ends.
  • Encarta Has some good maps with fairly simple graphics. Just search for "maps of colonial exploration."

Online Encyclopedias

Professional Development

Chronological Links


Exploration and Settlement

Protestant Reformation

Politics

Humanism Economics  

Social Life

Cultural Developments
Religion
Role of Individuals
Science and Technology

Colonial Era and Revolutionary War

Constitution/Constitution Day

European Explorers

Early Republic

War of 1812

Slavery & Civil War

  • http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm - Central Oregon Community College: African Timelines Part III: African Slave Trade and European Imperialism - Provides a timeline of the African slave trade and European imperialism. Each section of the timeline contains links to sites that provide primary and secondary source material for the era/date in question.
  • http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery/ - DiscoverySchool.com: Understanding Slavery - Provides images and interactive maps and activities to teach students about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the experiences of slaves around the world; also includes suggestions for how teachers can incorporate the web site into their lesson plans.
  • http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html - Fordham University: Internet African History Sourcebook - "The Impact of Slavery" section provides links to a number of historical documents and secondary sources pertaining to the slave trade.
  • http://mrdowling.com/download.html - Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Provides clear, detailed PDF-format lesson plans on "Ancient Africa" (emphasizing the beginning of the slave trade) and "The Caribbean" (emphasizing the experience of the slaves who worked on the sugar plantations there).
  • http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/ - University of Virginia: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - Provides a database of maps and artwork images portraying significant people, places, and events in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and slave life in the Americas.
  • http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html - Duke University: African-American Women: Online Archival Collections - Provides short biographies of three slave women and online versions of documents they produced; also includes a few links to related sites.
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html - PBS.Org: Africans in America - Correlates with the PBS series of the same title; divides the saga of African slavery in America into four chronological parts (between 1450 and 1865) and provides detailed timelines, outlines, narrative photographs, and maps; also includes links to primary documents and scholarly works pertaining to each section as well as ideas for lesson plans.
  • http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/slavery.html - Slavery: A New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plan Unit - Provides five detailed lessons for a unit on slavery.
  • http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/index.html - University of North Carolina: Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community - Provides images and texts pertaining to the role of the church in the southern African-American community and demonstrates how the church became a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival among southern blacks.
  • http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/ - University of Virginia: The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - Provides newspapers, slave owner contracts, census records, and Freedmen's Bureau records for Augusta County, Virginia, from the antebellum through postwar periods.
  • http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html - Library of Congress: African-American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907 - Provides images of and transcriptions for historical pamphlets about various aspects of the African-American experience, from slavery to civil rights; also includes a timeline of African-American history and suggestions for how to incorporate the pamphlets into lesson plans.
  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html - Library of Congress: African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 - Provides images of sheet music and photographs associated with the African-American experience from slavery through early civil rights actions; also includes links to related web sites and suggestions for how to incorporate the materials into lesson plans.
  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnashome.html - Library of Congress: First-Person Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920 - Provides online versions of first-person accounts by and about abolitionists and ex-slaves who lived in the South between 1860-1920; also includes links to related web sites and suggestions for how to incorporate the materials into lesson plans.
  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapchome.html - Library of Congress: From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909 - Provides images of and transcriptions for historical pamphlets about slavery, African colonization, emancipation, Reconstruction, and other topics; also includes links to related web sites and suggestions for how to incorporate the pamphlets into lesson plans.
  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html - Library of Congress: The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 - Provides images of and transcriptions for historical pamphlets, newspaper articles, and other documents as well as photographs pertaining to enslaved and free African-Americans in Ohio between 1850-1920; also includes suggestions on how to incorporate the materials into lesson plans and links to related web sites.
  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html - Library of Congress: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 - Provides transcribed interviews the WPA conducted with former slaves during the 1930s and photographs of the interviewees; also includes links to related web sites and suggestions for how to incorporate the materials into lesson plans.
  • http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/ - New Deal Network: "Been Here So Long": Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives - Provides excerpts from some of the WPA slave narratives as well as lesson plans that incorporate the narratives; also includes a good list of links to related web sites.
  • http://www.uncg.edu/~jpbrewer/remember/ - University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories - Provides sound clips of African-American ex-slaves who participated in the WPA slave interviews project and links to web sites on related subjects.
  • http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html - University of Virginia: American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology - Provides transcriptions of thirteen interviews conducted with ex-slaves by WPA workers; also includes a large bibliography of related secondary works.

Impeachment (Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton)


Gilded Age

Turn of the Century

  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html - This collection contains forty-five films of New York dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. Of these, twenty-five were made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, while the remaining twenty are Edison Company productions.
  • http://elections.harpweek.com/ - Harper’s Weekly political cartoons from presidential elections, 1860–1912

Spanish-American War

Progressive Era

Immigration

Urbanization and the Industrial Revolution

  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/ - Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston.
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/ - PBS website designed to accompany “The Iron Road,” a show devoted to the growth of railroads
  • http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=429 - After completing the lessons in this unit, students will be able to: State definitions of the terms "robber baron" and "captain of industry." List some of the actions, both positive and negative, of one or more captains of industry/robber barons. Take a stand as to whether a particular financier/industrialist is or is not a robber baron and support that stand with evidence.

The American West

  • http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html - Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy.
  • http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/ - PBS website with lesson plans focusing on the American West
  • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/westward/index.cfm - Digital History website on American expansion in the 1840s and 1850s, including discussion of sectional tensions
  • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/buffalo/index.html - PBS “Nature” website on the American Buffalo and its connection to Native American culture and life in the West
  • http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/ODFW/trail/index.html - This website contains links to a scanned booklet describing the natural repercussions of the Oregon Trail, as well as the experience of traveling west.

World War I  

Interwar Period (1920s, 1930s)

Great Depression and New Deal

Great Depression

Great Depression and New Deal

Great Depression

Lesson plans on Great Depression

New Deal

Communism and the Red Scare

World War II

Holocaust 

Japanese Internment Camp

1950s

Cold War 

Black History Month

1970’s

 Time line

President

Iran Hostage Crisis

1980s

9/11
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