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The history of relationships between Native Americans, Europeans and other immigrants - includes sections on Assimilation, Relocation and Genocide, Indian Boarding Schools, Oral History of the Cherokee and an Interactive Map.

The history of relationships between Native Americans, Europeans and other immigrants - includes sections on Assimilation, Relocation and Genocide, Indian Boarding Schools, Oral History of the Cherokee and an Interactive Map.

Pictorial Study Guides for American History

Here is a description of Contextu via Richard Byrne's Free Technology For Teachers posting: Ken Halla, the blogger behind the US History Teachers Blog, has been working on an excellent new site for students of US History. The new site is called ContextU and its purpose is to help students see the greater context for significant events in history. The first iteration of ContextU is focused on the American Civil War. On ContextU students select from a table of contents an event, piece of legislation, or theme to see it in the context of other events, pieces of legislation, and themes leading to the start of the Civil War. Through timelines, Google Maps, diagrams, flow charts, timelines, and text ContextU provides context for each chosen event, piece of legislation, or theme. Students can jump from event to event or from theme to theme by following the hyperlinks within each diagram.

Read, search, and print this work at American Journeys, a digital library of early American exploration and settlement. Brought to you by the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day

A project of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, OurStory is designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.

Great collection of American History, World History, and geography resources.

George Mason University's project for the teaching of American History. Some wonderful resources and live conversations with historians, I think.

"Hailed as "the Oxford English Dictionary of American constitutional history," the print edition of The Founders' Constitution has proved since its publication in 1986 to be an invaluable aid to all those seeking a deeper understanding of one of our nation's most important legal documents.

The Web Site for All Things Colonial -- All aspects of Colonial American history and early American antiques. Original articles on wide variety of aspects of early American life. Community includes nationwide event calendar, antique dealers and show promoters, downloads, online resources (links to other colonial-themed websites), early American recipes, marketplace, forums with book & film reviews & much more!

Student projects that evaluate movies depiction of history.

What do our textbooks omit? A sort of homage to James Loewen's "Lies My Teacher Told Me."

Essay of Manifest Destiny and its impact in American History

Interactive Portal commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War.

This interactive site provides you resources covering people and events in American History from 1600-1900.

Clipart illustrations of famous places during or made famous by the American Revolutionary War.

I recently did a class called "I Hear America Singing" which looked at historical events through songs. The students (adult seniors) loved it. I didn't know about this site when I did it -- I collected my own. I hear another class coming... Thanks for finding this!

Options for online textbooks focusing on American and World History

The National Museum of American History is engaged in a long-term project to create the first publicly accessible, annotated online edition of William Steinway's remarkable diary. This first installment of the Web site includes Edwin M. Good's complete transcription of all 2,500 pages of the Diary alongside high-resolution scans of each handwritten page.