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All Subcategories: Websites
| 1st Federal Congress Project
Chartered by the University Research Center affiliated with the Department of History at the George Washington University, this site has a dual mission: collecting, researching, editing and publishing the universally acclaimed Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, l789-l791, and serving as a research center on the most important and productive Congress in U.S. history. |
| African American History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society. |
| African Studies WWW
Cultural, educational, and statistical resources covering the African continent. |
| African Voices
Explore African art, history, and political and social themes through essays, timelines, images, and games. |
| African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
Historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women in the nineteenth-century. |
| Africans in America
A companion site to the PBS series tracing the struggle against slavery. |
| Alexis De Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America (NEW)
(NEW) This site—hosted by C-SPAN—is based on a tour of De Tocqueville's route sponsored by C-SPAN. |
| American Centuries: View form New England
This website is unique in many design features that facilitate successful use by educators and students. It includes a large library of primary resources, curricula, and interactive student activities; most of them presented in age-appropriate, user-friendly formats. |
| American Collection: An Educator's Site
Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides. |
| American Experience
As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, PBS's American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its twentieth season, the series has produced over 200 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. |
| American Journeys (NEW)
(NEW) Digitized texts and images charting eyewitness experience and accounts of exploration in North America, from the Vikings to the pioneers. |
| American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
Archival resources for exploring many aspects of American history and culture. |
| American Presidency Project (NEW)
(NEW) Archive containing over 77,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency. “Today in History” feature highlights a Presidential address or event. |
| American President
A wealth of information about the history of the American Presidency, including an archive of essays on the year 2000 general election. |
| American Revolution Digital Learning Project (NEW)
(NEW) A rich archive of digitized newspapers, broadsides, letters, maps, and more from the American Revolution. Also includes object gallery and games. |
| American Studies at the University of Virginia
The site is a repository of scholarly concentrations on such humanities topics as the 1930s, cultural maps, American literature, avant-garde and postmodern art exhibitions, and the U.S. Capitol building as an American icon. The site houses hypertexts of several American authors, including: Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam was the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary during World War Two. Excellent Holocaust and World War Two resource. |
| Anthropology Collection AMNHS (NEW)
(NEW) Over 160,000 objects from North American, Mexican & Central American, South American, African, Asian, and Pacific Ethnographic Collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online. (American Museum of Natural History) |
| ArchNet
A virtual library of images and field data for archaelogical study. |
| Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution
Resources on the geography, history, and peoples of the Arctic. |
| Art and Life in Africa Online
African works of art in the context of the lives of African peoples. |
| Asia For Educators
An initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. |
| Asia Source
Information about all aspects of Asian culture, from Asian current affairs to pronunciation guides for Asian languages. This site also contains constructive activities for elementary grade students. |
| AskAsia
A gateway to educational resources on the history and cultures of Asia. |
| At Home in the Heartland Online
In-depth materials on family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present. |
| Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
An online library of documents in law and diplomacy from the 16th to the 20th Century. |
| BackStory with the American History Guys (NEW)
(NEW) BackStory is a brand-new public radio program that brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today. |
| Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library (NEW)
(NEW) Dedicated to educating the public about Franklin’s enduring legacy and inspiring renewed appreciation of the values he embodied. |
| Bethlehem Digital History Project
Provides online access to digitized primary source materials, transcriptions, translations and contextual information relating to the early history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741 – 1844. It is the aim of this project to encourage broad or specialized exploration of local, regional and national history. |
| Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events (NEW)
(NEW) A comprehensive timeline on American history from the mid-17th century through 1920, as well as a robust listing of American literary movements. |
| The British Academy Portal
The British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research. |
| Bucknell Russian Studies Department
Multi-layered reference on the history, culture, and language of Russian people. |
| Building Big
The site brings bridges, skyscrapers, tunnels, and dams to the Internet for those who want to learn more about man-made giants that fill our communities. It features introductions to the engineering of structures, interactive engineering labs, building designs challenges, a databank of large structures, and interviews with engineers. |
| Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History NEW
(NEW) Collection of short essays and scholarship on early Americans’ transport and subsequent use of Old World technologies in building up America. |
| C-SPAN Classroom (NEW)
(NEW) Video clips on the three branches of government and the constitution, accompanied by discussion questions for the classroom. |
| CampSilos: The Grout Museum Excursion (NEW)
(NEW) Activities designed to help students understand, interpret and appreciate the story of immigration to the Midwest. |
| Cave of Lascaux
Sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, the site contains captivating images and information about the cave of Lascaux. Links included are to other archaeological sites, the history of the discovery of the cave, and interactive exercises for teachers and students. |
| U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
This website, established to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ flight, has a “comprehensive collection of outstanding educational essays, multimedia and links regarding the history of flight.” |
| Center for History and New Media
The center uses digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. |
| Center for the Liberal Arts
Maintained by the University of Virginia, this site provides educators with a wealth of humanities resources for their classrooms and help in using technology effectively. |
| Children in Urban America
An online archive funded by Marquette University and the National Endowment for the Humanities that shows the many ways children experienced city life during the last century and a half. |
| China Historical GIS (Harvard) (NEW)
(NEW) A database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE. CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps. |
| City/La Ciudad
Highlighting the plight of four recent Latin American immigrants in the United States, the site tells stories of loss, love, frustration, hope, and the struggle to build their lives, communities, and their dreams. |
| Civics Online
Civics Online is a collaborative, online project providing a rich array of primary sources, professional development tools, and interactive activities to facilitate the teaching of civics. |
| The Cold War Files (George Washington University) (NEW)
(NEW) Disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other side" -- the former Communist world. |
| Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Multiple perspectives on the voyage to the New World. |
| CongressLink
Rich resource of information about the legislative processes of the United States Congress. |
| Connecticut History Online
Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society. |
| Conquistadors
Focussing on the Spanish Conquistadors' entry into the New World and their impact on indigenous populations, the site is geared towards middle and high school classrooms. |
| Constitution Day
Celebrating the day the United States Constitution was ratified, on September 17, 1787. |
| The Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle (NEW)
(NEW) Devoted to research and scholarly exchanges on the Constitution. Through the sites activities and those of others, students will come to a greater awareness and comprehension of the American Constitution. |
| Conversations with History
Interviews with a broad range of historical figures from the latter half of the twentieth century. |
| Crisis at Fort Sumter
Documentary resources for the study of the events leading up to the Civil War. |
| Digital Classroom (National Archives and Records Administration)
Historical documents, activities, and training for educators and students. |
| Digital History
“Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning,” Digital History includes a variety of primary and secondary documents, maps, images, audio archives of speeches and lectures by historians, a database of more than 1,500 annotated links, and a rich interactive timeline. |
| Digital Roman Forum (NEW)
(NEW) A virtual model of the Roman Forum as it would have appeared in 400 A.D. |
| Digital Scriptorium (Columbia U.) (NEW)
(NEW) An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. |
| Discovering Lewis and Clark
A detailed synopsis of the expedition by historian Harry Fritz is enhanced by photographs, interactive maps, audio files, and illustrations from the expedition journals. |
| Do History
The site centers upon the historical work surrounding the diary of Martha Ballard, an 18th Century midwife. The core of the site is Martha's actual diary, which can be browsed or searched online, but the site also includes a large archive of primary sources about Martha and colonial America. |
| Doc Heritage
Includes images of historical documents, narratives placing them in a regional, state or national context, and, where appropriate, transcriptions of each record as well as helpful links for further research. |
| Documenting the American South
Growing collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. |
| Documents of Civil War Women
Resources by and about women during the Civil War. |
| E Pluribus Unum
The E Pluribus Unum Project, is designed for the use of students, teachers, and other researchers who wish to examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life: the 1770s, the 1850s, and the 1920s. |
| Earth Works (University of Cincinnati) (NEW)
(NEW) Making these hidden or vanished Ohio Native American sites visible again through virtual computer reconstructions, as never before since they were conceived in the imaginations of their builders. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (George Washington University) (NEW
(NEW) A project dedicated to bringing Eleanor Roosevelt's writings (and radio and television appearances) on democracy and human rights before an audience as diverse as the ones she addressed. |
| The U.S. Electoral College
(NEW) This website, maintained by the Office of the Federal Register, contains information and statistics about past and present presidential elections. |
| Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (NEW)
(NEW) Collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the US. |
| The End of Europe's Middle Ages
The End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history. |
| Explore DC
A one-stop guide to the history, heritage, and culture of Washington, DC, this site features 450 pages of text, nearly 300 images, 50 audio and video files, and 24 different intermediate to senior high school lesson plans. |
| Explore PA History
Demonstrates the rich historical importance of Pennsylvania via maps, timelines, essays, primary documents, and lesson plans. |
| Exploring Amistad
Primary documents and archival material surrounding the shipboard rebellion and ensuing legal, political, and popular debate. |
| Exploring Ancient World Cultures
A collection of essays, images, and primary and secondary sources focusing on a range of ancient cultures. |
| Exploring Constitutional Law
This site explores some of the great issues and controversies that surround our Nation's founding document. |
| Exploring the West from Monticello
Multimedia resources for the study of the time from Columbus up to the expedition of Lewis and Clark. |
| F.Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
The site offers a comprehensive view of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life, works, and influence on American literature. Links to audio clips, film clips, and quotations from Fitzgerald and other notable figures deepen visitors' understanding of the author. |
| First World War.com
This website provides an overview of the First World War, and is intended at a general rather than academic readership. |
| Frederick Douglass Papers Project (NEW)
(NEW) Makes the papers of this prolific African American figure in his historical context available to a broad audience. (Indiana University) |
| Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Historical papers chronicling emancipation during the Civil War. |
| French Ministry of Culture
A gateway to the cultural resources of France. |
| Galileo Project
The history of modern science reflected in the life of its seminal practitioner. |
| The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History offers a variety of resources to promote the study of American history, including online collections, archives, teaching modules, and links to valuable educational resources. |
| Goethe Institute
An international collection of resources for study of the German language and German culture. |
| Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
Created by the Oakland Museum of California, this site gives a comprehensive look into the California Gold Rush of the nineteenth-century. |
| The Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available, primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and nine volumes of Gompers' papers. |
| Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Online exhibition of one of the most famous events in American history. |
| Great War Primary Documents Archive
Documents, memoirs, and images for study of World War I. |
| Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
Created by the School of Information at the University of Michigan with exhibits from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site gives students an exhaustive overview of the culture, community, and organizations of the Harlem Renaissance. |
| Harpweek
Created by Harper's Weekly as an online archive of 18th and 19th century issues of the magazine, the site contains ten free features utilizing rich primary sources and scholastic commentary on topics that range from Immigrant and Ethnic America to The World of Thomas Nast. |
| Hawthorne in Salem
This site draws on the collections of The Peabody Essex Museum, the House of Seven Gables Historic Site, and the Salem Maritime National Historic site. It features critical approaches to Hawthorne’s work and includes a timeline, an image gallery, and links to several electronic editions. |
| Historic Landscapes (NEW)
(NEW) Case studies of historic landscapes, from the cultured (plantations) to the uncultured (river corridors). “Landscape of Slavery” feature. |
| Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
This resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library is designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom. |
| History Matters
Designed for teachers of U.S. History Survey courses at high schools and colleges around the world, History Matters provides an excellent starting point for exploring American history on the Web. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. It emphasizes materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and involves students in analyzing and interpreting evidence. |
| History Now
A quarterly on events in American History from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The site also contains lesson plans, interactivities, and other educational resources. |
| The History of Jim Crow
The history of Jim Crow encompassed every part of American life, from politics to education to sports. |
| Humanities Interactive (NEW)
(NEW) The Texas Council for the Humanities places its resources in the hands of teachers and librarians in an interactive format. |
| In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Until recently, people of African descent have not been counted as part of America's migratory tradition. The transatlantic slave trade has created an enduring image of black men and women as transported commodities, and is considered the defining element in the construction of the African Diaspora, but it is centuries of additional movements that have given shape to the nation we know today. This is the story that has not been told. |
| India & China in a Comparative Global Perspective (NEW)
(NEW) Site introduces the content, approach, texts and topics used in a three-year professional development program on India and China for school teachers (California Polytechnic U., Pomona). |
| Indivisible: Stories of American Community
Indivisible, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, documents, through photographs and interviews, the struggles and achievements of 12 communities that have made differences on their residents. The American communities, from Chicago's Southwest side to the North Pacific Coast of Alaska, each face different challenges, but their stories all feature individuals of exceptional vision and commitment. |
| International Children's Digital Library
The mission of the ICDL is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old. |
| Internet Medieval Sourcebook
A library of texts and translations recording all aspects of medieval life. |
| Internet Public Library
Produced by the University of Michigan School of Information, this site contains a vast collection of online texts, including novels, newspapers, magazines, and tutorials for students of all ages. |
| Jazz: A Ken Burns Film
This highly interactive site offers many ways to introduce jazz as a musical genre and cultural tradition. An interactive map features hot places for jazz in America; a lounge defines jazz with recordings of key elements and genres; and audio files feauture nine different songs of nine artists. Artists featured on the site include: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. |
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello (NEW)
(NEW) Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson and the only home in America on the elite World Heritage List of the United Nations, is owned and operated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (formerly the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation). |
| The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (NEW)
(NEW) Annotated journals of Lewis and Clark during their expedition. Images, maps, and audio readings of scholarship on Lewis and Clark. |
| Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
The site features 13 works by Chopin, including The Awakening, a transcript of the documentary, interviews with a Chopin descendent and Chopin scholar, and a basic chronology of Chopin's life. |
| Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Texts, images, and commentary for the study of the Middle Ages. |
| Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Resources for the study of South American, Central American, and Caribbean culture. |
| Latin Literature
Sponsored by Kentucky Educational Television, this site supports an online course in the study of Latin and offers additional resources on Roman culture. |
| Learning from London Town
This site presents opportunities for study of the 18th century lost town of London, Maryland, fron the integrated perspective of archaelogical find, archival records, and material culture. |
| Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Informational and archival resources used in the production of the PBS series. |
| Liberty!
The web site of the PBS series about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation. Newspaper accounts, interactive games, dramatizations, and a chronology of the Revolution. |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution. |
| The Lincoln Institute: Studies of Abraham Lincoln (NEW)
(NEW) Explores the confluence of Abraham Lincoln and his time, including his associations with the White House, the Founders, and his own friends. |
| Lincoln/Net (NEW)
(NEW) Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois. |
| Lire les Femmes Écrivains et les Littératures Africaines
Bilingual collection of material on Francophone African literature written by women since the 1970s. |
| The Living Room Candidate
The Internet is no longer a novelty, but is rather a necessary campaign tool. Campaigns have learned how to operate in an increasingly complex online ecology, getting their messages across through a variety of means. |
| Livius.org
Livius, Articles of Ancient History. A website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering. |
| Lost and Found Sound (NPR-All Things Considered) (NEW)
(NEW)An online treasure of recordings that were thought lost or obscure which covers almost the whole spectrum of the American experience since the beginning of recorded sound. |
| The Lost Museum
This museum is a fascinating, interactive 3-D look at what was once the United States’ most visited museum – until it mysteriously burned to the ground in 1865. Visitors can explore the virtual reconstruction and embedded resources, which can be used with classroom lessons, along with clues to the mystery of who set the fire. |
| Louisiana Digital Library (NEW)
(NEW) Online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people. |
| Making of America (NEW)
(NEW) Searchable repository of monographs, journals, and imprints from 1840-1900. |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
A center for study of the civil rights leader and his era. |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art
The site displays over 3,500 objects from its collection; in addition, it offers online overviews of its recent exhibitions, a detailed timeline of art history illustrated by images from the museum's collections, and an educational section called Explore and Learn, which is a separate EDSITEment site. |
| Mexico For Kids (NEW)
(NEW) Kid-friendly information on the history, government, and biodiversity of Mexico, as well as games. |
| Museum of the History of Science
Produced by the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, this site uses online exhibitions, essays, and images to chart important events in the history of scientific development. |
| Napoleon
The site includes an episode guide, a handful of interactive features such as an interactive simulation of the Battle of Waterloo, a closed bulletin board, video clips, and a timeline of Napoleon's life. Four online classroom guides are designed for middle and high school classrooms. |
| The National Constitution Center (NEW)
(NEW) The National Constitution Center is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of, and appreciation for, the Constitution, its history, and its contemporary relevance. |
| National First Ladies Library
Background on the women of the White House. |
| National Gallery of Art
The site spans a wide variety of topics with many in-depth studies and online tours of particular artists, media, and movements from exhibits housed in the National Gallery of Art. |
| National Museum of African Art
Working from the collection, the museum has many kinds of resources that it makes available. These include teacher workshops, videos for loan as well as online curriculum you can use in your classroom. |
| National Museum of the American Indian(NEW)
(NEW) Interactive exhibits on the history, arts, and culture of the Native Americans. |
| National Park Service: Links to the Past
Affiliated with the National Park Service, the site provides visitors with educational resources that deal with America's past. The site offers links to people, for example--Civil War Soldiers and Sailors--places--National Register of Travel Itineraries--objects--Symbols of Battle--and events--The Underground Railroad--of the past. |
| National Portrait Gallery
Portraits in all media, and archives dedicated to the portraits of men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States. |
| Native American History (NEW)
(NEW) Major research databases and other resources for finding primary and secondary sources in history. |
| Native Web
Links to resources concerning indigenous peoples from around the world. |
| Naval Historical Center
An extensive view of the naval history of the United States of America, including a virtual tour of the Navy’s exhibit on the USS Constitution. |
| New Americans
A PBS-produced site that addresses both historical and contemporary immigration issues in the United States. |
| New Deal Network
Documentary resources for the study of FDR and his Depression-era programs. |
| New Perspectives on the West
Guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives. |
| NGAKids
Affiliated with the National Gallery of Art, the site hopes to make art and its concepts more accessible to young, self-directed Internet users. |
| NOVA: Pyramids
Jointly designed by NOVA and PBS, this site gives elementary and middle school students an overview of Egyptology and the continuing archaeological excavation of the Pyramids at Giza. |
| NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Sponsored by the New York Public Library, this site contains an extensive primary source archive of photographs, woodcuts, and other images of 19th century African-Americans from the Schomburg Collection. |
| Odyssey Online
Resources for elementary and middle school students to study ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Sub-Saharan cultures. |
| Ohio Memory
The Ohio Memory Project brings together primary sources from all parts of the state in order to provide access to the rich, historical treasures of Ohio. |
| The Online Library of Liberty
Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty makes available at no charge to the public hundreds of full-length classic texts which have contributed to our understanding of the nature of individual liberty, limited and constitutional government, and the free market. |
| Oregon Trail
A companion site to the PBS series on the first wave of westward expansion. |
| Oriental Institute
The Oriental Institute, dedicated to studies of the ancient Near East, maintains a vast collection of artifacts from the region as well as a valuable Teacher Resource Center. |
| Outreach World (NEW)
(NEW) A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom. |
| Oyez Project: A Supreme Court Multimedia Database
Court opinions and multimedia resources on major consititutional issues. |
| Papers of George Washington
Digital library from the George Washington Archives, including historical materials on Washington's life and times, as well as a selection of Washington?s papers. |
| Perseus Project
Maps, texts, translations, and commentary for students of the ancient world. |
| Picturing America (NEW)
(NEW)An exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities which brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art. |
| Picturing Modern America (NEW)
(NEW) Site contains interactive exercises designed to: Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920; Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources; Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources. |
| Plymouth Colony: Archive Project
The site presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, and architectural and material culture studies. |
| Pompeii Forum Project
Archeological resources for the study of Roman civilization. |
| The Portal to Texas History (NEW)
(NEW) Searchable collection of objects and texts related to the history of Texas. Offers a “Young Scholars’ Page” for easy student access. |
| POTUS—Presidents of the United States
In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included. |
| Presidential Speeches
Documentary resources dedicated to all 43 American presidents, including presidential speeches, biographies, and other materials related to the presidential office. |
| The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century (NEW)
(NEW) Provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Includes documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives (U. of Texas, Presidential Libraries). |
| Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
On February 29, 1704, a force of French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. This interactive site recounts the events, individuals, and historical background to this incident. A superb overview of early colonial America. |
| Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles(NEW)
(NEW) Explores the story of the first black rebels to beat American slavery and leaders of the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history. |
| Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is the largest museum in the Netherlands, and is internationally renowned for its exhibitions and publications and not only are these high quality products, but are also areas in which the museum extends the boundaries of scholarship and encourages new insights. |
| River of Song
A companion site to the PBS series tracing American musical traditions along the Mississippi River. |
| SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
Links to information about India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries. |
| The United States Senate
The official website of the United States Senate. |
| Smithsonian Education (NEW)
(NEW) Provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities. |
| Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Features comprehensive virtual tours of the institution’s current exhibits. A timeline maps the history of the United States through artifacts that are in the museum’s collection. The “Our Story In History” link leads to information on the museum’s educational programming that includes several interactive activities. Both teachers and students may browse the site’s recommended reading list, either by century, or ethnic history. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, was designed from its inception (September 1995) as a dynamic reference work. In a dynamic reference work, each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. |
| Teaching (and Learning) about Japan
A storehouse of information on Japanese culture. |
| Teaching American History
A comprehensive and in-depth online resource on American History from the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs. |
| Texas Beyond History
A public education project of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin that interprets and shares the results of archeological and historical research on the cultural heritage of Texas. |
| Texas Tides (NEW)
(NEW) The Texas Tides Digital Learning Consortium provides east Texas related primary resources with emphasis on history, science, and multicultural resources. |
| Thomas A. Edison Papers
Encyclopedic database on Edison?s life and work as an inventor and businessman. |
| The Thomas Gray Archive
This “interactive hypermedia repository” describes itself as a “dynamic online environment that serves as a reading aid for the interested general reader and as a research tool for professional readers of Gray’s work.” |
| Traditions of the Sun (NEW)
(NEW) In our fast-paced modern world, we have become disconnected from the natural world, hence it is easy to take the Sun for granted. In ancient times, however, people understood and honored the Sun’s life-giving power and majesty. |
| Trail Tribes (NEW)
(NEW) Historical maps and pages on the traditional culture of Native Americans along the Lewis and Clark trail. |
| The Truman Presidential Library
Created by the Harry S. Truman Library, this site teaches K-6 children about the life and times of President Truman. |
| U.S. Women's History Workshop
Resources for middle and high school study of gender issues in American history. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
This website from the University of Virginia presents a vast multimedia archive of primary material, 1830 to 1930, organized around Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal work. Educators should preview the material, particularly the various representations of race and slavery in the archive, to determine what is appropriate for use in their own classroom discussion. |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Straightforward access to the Museum?s archives, including photographs, transcripts of lectures, and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust. |
| University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection
This site features photographs, primary source documents, and audio/video resources focused on the humanities, natural sciences, and regional cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. |
| Valley of the Shadow
Multimedia resources bring to life two communities divided by Civil War. |
| Victorian Web
Resources on literature, politics, science, and art during the Victorian age in Great Britain. |
| Virtual Jamestown
Primary documents on the first permanent English settlement in the New World. |
| A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
The goal of this "visual sourcebook" is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese history. |
| Visualizing Cultures
On July 8, 1853, residents of feudal Japan beheld an astonishing sight – U.S. warships entering their harbor under a cloud of black smoke. These wonderful visual materials have never before been brought together in a comprehensive manner. This exhibit weaves Japanese and American graphics together with an analytical text to show how each side depicted the other at this moment in history. |
| VRoma
Take a tour through a virtual reconstruction of Rome! A community of scholars, both teachers and students, created these on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture. |
| The Booker T. Washington Papers
This is a completely free and searchable web site designed to provide researchers worldwide with full access to the thousands of pages comprising this 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press. |
| We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
The National Park Service produced this virtual tour of the historic events and sites of the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Web de Anza
Documentary resources on the expedition that led to the founding of San Francisco. |
| Wessels Living History Farm
This site is a story about the spirit of American agriculture. The physical site includes a house that David Wessels and his brother lived in for a period of time when they moved to town. |
| Western History: The Photography Collection
Created through the joint efforts of the Western History/Geneology Department of the Denver Public Library and the Colorado Historical Society, this site is an archive of more than one million images documenting the history of Colorado and the American West. |
| WhiteHouseTapes.org
Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves. |
| Whole Cloth
Learning units explore American technological history through developments in textile manufacturing. |
| Witchcraft in a Salem Village
The site provides accurate information about the history of the Salem witch trials using primary documents almost exclusively. These texts include complete court documents, profiles of those involved, rare books and treatises about witchcraft and the Salem trials, and original maps. |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940
Research projects on the role women have played in the struggle for social justice. |
| Women in World History (NEW)
(NEW) Reflects three approaches central to current scholarship in world history and the history of women: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilizations in isolation; a focus on contacts among different societies; and an attentiveness to “global” forces, such as technology diffusion, migration, or trade routes, that transcend individual societies (Center for History & New Media, George Mason U.). |
| Women of Our Time (NEW)
(NEW) A photographic exhibition of notable American women of the 20th century; from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. |
| Women of the West Museum
Online exhibits about the experiences of women in the American west. |
| Women Working, 1800-1930 (NEW)
(NEW) Digitized texts and objects related to women working between 1800 and 1930, with a teacher resource page that provides five themed exhibits for incorporation in a lesson. |
| The World Fact Book (NEW)
(NEW) Country profiles, detailed maps, and flags of the world from the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| World History Matters (NEW)
(NEW) A resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization (Center for History & New Media, George Mason U.). |
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