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An extensive, yet simplistic site on different periods of history.  

If you tweet (or even if you don't) consider checking in on this hashtag for history teaching resources

Cool history site by a creative teacher.

AMAZING!!!!!

Interactive games created by Rice University.  Most of them are Science related but some of them are History.

Great resource I used on both Argo and Lincoln

A great site on Dunkirk, 1940

"assessing 21st century skills with library of congress documents"

Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world. We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards, which were produced by the Geography Education National Implementation Project. Our list is a grab-bag of ideas - from designing maps to analyzing border conflicts - and teachers can use the activities in any order, or as a road map for tracking ongoing coverage of geography-related issues.

a guide to historical films by region

Bougor - this reminded me of that box you guys always do at the start of the year... 

Check out all the cool resources here! Wahoo

This is a resource with solid assessments and terrific rubrics.

Google's Ngram Viewer lets you search keywords in millions of books over the span of half a millennium, a useful tool for finding trends over time. For power users, the Ngram Viewer also has advanced options, such as searching for particular keywords as specific parts of speech or combining keywords.

The National Geographic maps can be found in their own section of Google Maps Gallery, which launched officially on February 27. This includes reference maps, wall maps, National Geographic magazine supplement maps, and other creations from over the years, all laid on top of the relevant Google basemaps.