This is a great site on the French Revolution that would be useful for anyone who wants to have students look at documents comparing the American Revolution to the French Revolution. There are things there like Olympia De Gouges' Declaration of the Rights of Women that are great for that kind of activity

A good daily summary of what issues were discussed every day of the Constitutional Convention. Can be used in conjunction with Madison's notes which can be found on the Avalon Project

Written by historian Paul Finkelman, a very opinionated takedown of Jefferson that could be used as part of a critical study of slavery and the founders. I tried to preface our look at the article with a discussion of the dangers of judging historical figures by contemporary standards, but most kids remained firmly in the "monster" camp anyway

I was just doing the election of 1800 with my class and used this entertaining video to introduce a mini-project on the 1800 campaign. It used actual words that the mouthpieces of Adams and Jefferson used to produce a modern-day attack ad

A great source for research on presidential administrations, including essays on each president breaking down foreign and domestic accomplishments, issues in each presidential campaign

This was from the link in the high school lesson plan, which now works. The item labeled "The Split over Suffrage" has what looks to be a very interesting lesson for the Reconstruction period

This link has the famous "remember the ladies" exchange between John Adams and Abigail and also has a letter that Adams wrote justifying the limitation of voting rights to property-holding men, which was brought to mind by this week's topic

Crash Course in US History is probably familiar to many people, but I just found it this year. The style is not for everyone, the narrator is sometimes too clever, but he is the author of a book many kids like called The Fault in Our Stars so they are predisposed to pay attention. The segments can be useful as a review of a topic, I just watched the one called Who Won the American Revolution and it was useful