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American Revolution Center has a fantastic interactive timeline about the American Revolution. The timeline features an easily navigated combination of text and images. Click on any event in the timeline to view a short paragraph about that event. Click on an image of an artifact in the timeline and a you will see an enlarged image of that artifact. The page hosting the enlarged artifact image also hosts a description of the artifact and, in some cases, a video podcast about the artifact.

America from the Great Depression - contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations’s photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of War Administration’s photographs look at the mobilization effor
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest - features more than 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest: the Northwest Coast and Plateau. These resources illustrate many aspects of life and work, including housing, clo
An American Time Capsule - The Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library of Congress is a rich repository of Americana. In total, the Collection comprises 28,000 primary source items dating from the seventeenth century to the present and encompasses key events and eras

NEWAmerica on the Move is a great online exhibit produced and hosted by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History....showcases the evolution of transportation in the United States.It is divided into three main sections; Exhibition, Collection, and Themes...The exhibition section is essentially a timeline tour through American history. The exhibition section begins with the construction of the first National Road and chronicles each phase of transportation development through the 21st Century.

NEW A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn in digital format: free! Presented by History Is A Weapon...This great book should really be read by everyone. It is difficult to describe why it so great because it both teaches and inspires.

The Avalon Project is a good resource for students that need to find digital copies of original documents. For example, all of The Federalist Papers are available on the Avalon Project website.

Constitutional Sources Project, commonly known as ConSource. created and maintains the only complete, reliable, easy-to-use and fully searchable online database of original source materials for the United States Constitution.

"Donner Online"...The plight of the Donner Party remains one of the most poignant episodes in the history of westward expansion during the 19th Century. "Donner Online" is a type of Web-based activity in which you learn about a topic by collecting information, images, and insights from the Internet, and then you "paste" them into a multimedia Scrapbook (a HyperStudio stack or a Web page) to share your learning with others.
Edison National Historic Site - Edison National Historic Site provides a unique opportunity to interpret and experience important aspects of America’s industrial, social and economic past, and to learn from the legacy of the world’s best known inventor.

First World War.com - Dedicated to the history of the First World War. Includes the Western Front today, timeline, battles, chemical warfare, photographs, diaries, and biographies.

Freedom: A History of US is designed as a sixteen part series of webisodes. You can use all of the webisodes in sequence or use just one episode as it fits your curriculum. The series and the games that accompany it could be good review resources or individualized learning experiences. Scavenger Hunt Through History is a game designed to be played by students in junction with Freedom: A History of US

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a valuable resource for high school US history teachers... the units of study they have constructed are of a very high quality and include the use of primary source documents.

Gold Rush! - On January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, touching off the California gold rush. On the 150th anniversary of Marshall’s discovery, the Oakland Museum of California unveiled a series of exhibitions titled Gold Rush!

Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms... resource for K-12 teachers and students... high quality images of historic map documents that illustrate the geographical dimensions of American history. Each map is accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula.

History of Jim Crow - Detailed history provides access to historical background, source material, and lesson plans.
History Matters - Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
Hog Heaven: 100 Years of the Harley-Davidson - An American Icon:In 1903, the same year Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company and the Wright brothers first flew, William Harley and his friends Arthur and Walter Davidson launched the Harley-Davidson Motor Company.

iCUE...free, collaborative learning community for students ages 13 and up that incorporates gaming, discussion, and video resources in a safe, online environment created by NBC Learn...US History section has launched!

Infoshare.org - Community Information Service is a sophisticated tool that lets planners, community activists, teachers, students, researchers, and ordinary citizens view and analyze a vast array of community and regional data.

NEW Learner.org offers a collection of map-based lessons and an interactive map about the United States. After completing the map-based lessons and trying the interactive map, students can test their knowledge with a short quiz. The map-based lessons include content about Native Americans, the 50 states, colonists, and westward expansion.

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery...Another of those wonderful PBS sites with lots of great information beautifully presented; a companion site to the Ken Burns series. 2003 marks the 200th anniversary of this daring and ambitious journey into the unknown. Site also includes classroom resources, and ever-changing content.
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection - American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. The collection has a large number of hist

The Lost Museum...constructed by CUNY’s Graduate Center students, 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.
Meet Amazing Americans - Discover the inventors, politicians, performers, activists and other everyday people who made this country what it is today.
National Archives Learning Curve: Cold War - Includes documents to be examined, case studies for students to complete, teacher's guides for online lessons, and more.

National Archives and Records Administration - America’s Exhibit Hall: All you need is a Web-connected computer to gain access to some of the great treasures of America’s history. Great for document based questions!!!

Old Pictures...a collection of thousands of the most important photographs of the last 150 years; pictures of our struggles, trials, and triumphs. We can only fully understand our history by gazing into the eyes of the people that made that history.

The Oregon Trail ...created by the two educators responsible for the PBS award-winning documentary of the same name. It is designed specifically for both home-schoolers and teachers. Besides the trove of materials about the Oregon Trail it also offers a very comprehensive teaching guide, which even includes a Glossary—a truly worthwhile site.

Presidential Timeline 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. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives.

Remix America is a great way for students to create digital presentations about topics in US History. If your students found enough video clips and images, they could produce a video history of the United States from 1776 through today.

Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America - Looks at the impact of the Lewis and Clark expedition on America. A Library of Congress Exhibition.

Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War is an enterprise to record the personal experiences of the men and women who served on the home front and overseas.

NEW Scavenger Hunt Through History is a game designed to be played by students in junction with Freedom: A History of US produced by PBS. Freedom: A History of US contains is an overview of US history containing videos, documents, and pictures. In addition to the resources previously mentioned, their are quizzes for students to test their knowledge. True to form, PBS offers in-depth teaching guides for each episode in the Freedom series.

NEW Shmoop, a great provider of online Literature and History study guides has just announced the addition of twenty more great study guides. The new study guides cover topics in US History and Literature. The additions to the literature section includes guides for works by Melville, Hemingway, Wilde, Salinger, Eliot, and Shakespeare. The new additions to the history section include study guides for the Gilded Age and the development of labor unions.

Stories of a Nation: Jamestown - See if you could have survived the trip across the ocean in 1607. Play the game!
The 1692 Salem Witch Trials: - Complete Court documents Accusers | Defenders | Accused | "Afflicted" Girls Jurors | Puritan Ministers | Judges
The American Presidency Field Trip - Possibly no political office in history is more known or visible than the President of the United States. Often in the study of US History, we find ourselves reflecting on the American story in terms of presidential administrations (Franklin D. Roosevelt&
Today in History - Recounts important events which took place on today’s date, biographies of famous people and archives for the entire year of dates as well as links to further resources.

Vintage Ad Browser is a search engine for old print advertisements. You can browse advertisements by tag or enter your own search terms to located advertisements. In the larger advertising categories such as Cigarettes and Tobacco you can narrow your search by selecting a range of dates.