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A thorough examination of slave life, first-person accounts by slaves, the abolitionist groups and abolitionists, legislation, etc from the British POV, plus a section on USA campaigners against slavery.

This is a very interesting and unusual idea. Historians at Stanford have collected very specific and detailed information about historical events within short time frames and then produced graphic representations of these events that you can play over maps. It's very precise and perhaps too detailed for many high school level students to make sense of, however some of them helped show how historical phenomena occurred. Particularly chilling was the graphic showing slave purchases in the Rio slave market in the mid-C19th; you can see individual children being bought at specific times by specific people.

A great find! Well-organised collection of official and primary source documents related to the USA, Canada, Europe and the United Nations.

An excellent 'hub' (that's a buzzword for you) for primary sources from all eras and regions.

Another one of the precious collections provided by that most excellent of libraries, Harvard University Library. It's so great that they don't just lock it up and be snobs. Good on them.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and image

A list of links to sites focussed mainly on Canadian history. Has French bits too. I wish I could speak French.

This is the blog which accompanies the podcast Stuff You Missed in History Class. Like just about all History podcasts, it's easily found through iTunes. My students have found the format on SYMIHC as user-friendly and valuable for their research. Worth a listen.

Teacher Network | The Guardian

How cool! The New York Times is putting historical issues of their paper online. They are still in the process of digitising them, but they already have the Civil War and some early C20th stuff on there.

Documents on American history from 1815 to the outbreak of the Civil War.

One-Page handout for For Use in History Classes

I keep updating the Modern Western Civilization Economic History site. Suggestions welcome. Does anyone use it for student projects?

Part 1 Building a Constitution Part 2.Governing Our Capitalistic Democratic Federal National Republic Part 3 Managing the United States Constitution Part 4.Recommended Readings

Could be useful for classroom or homework activities.

Materials that might be useful for geography and foreign language instruction as much as historical research.