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Searchable list of history websites from teachinghistory.org, many with primary sources.

Diigo in a Social Studies Classroom

"DESCRIPTION Find top notch history web resources, as well as advice on using technology for teaching. WEBSITE Best of History Websites PRODUCER Thomas Daccord"

The NHEC has some excellent resources for history teachers. 

Does anyone else use Twitter with their classes? I use #historystudent with my senior history students. Please feel free to bring your students onto the feed. DM me on MisterHistory@twitter.com if you'd like to organise collaboration. 

"African American history stretches far beyond the confines of one month and the narrative litany of a handful of cultural heroes. Maybe you want to go beyond Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass, and Jackie Robinson. What stories can you uncover beyond the headlining stories textbooks provide?"

An interesting talk regarding Teachers as Historians - interaction between practitioners and academic historians with historical resources and digital access.

Textbearbeitung mit Wordle, text analysis with wordle

Lots of helpful essays here on how to teach various things big and small: from writing thesis statements and analyzing political cartoons to forming concepts and using primary sources

Please check out my guide on how to internationalize US history.

includes units, texts, videos

This source isn't a primary source site itself, but has links (22 at time of posting) to sites that help students analyse primary documents. Might be useful.

This site looks like an excellent collection of sources, lectures, images and heaps of other stuff on all aspects of American history. You can even ask a historian a question about US history. How cool!