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Welcome to the Web site for A Student's Online Guide to History Reference Sources. Adapted from the appendixes in A Student's Guide to History, Eleventh Edition, this site guides you to some of the best tools available for the most common research areas.

This site accompanies a book I bought recently and would highly recommend as a useful guide for high school history students. It contains research and writing style guides and heaps of online resources (which I'm going to add to the group anyway). It's written for introductory undergraduate students yet would be useful for senior high school history students and is written and organised clearly and effectively.

Site looks well-maintained and the games seem to be of a good quality. I think it's free, too. That's always a bonus.

Heaps of links to source sites and other historical materials to do with the Holocaust.

Has headlines and links to sites on newsworthy historical topics. It doesn't look searchable though, which means the content might be a bit hit-and-miss.

Looks like it might be useful in a computer room, having the students work through the site for all or part of a lesson. It takes them through the research process as they try to reconstruct the historical circumstances of Martha Ballard through primary documents. Quite cool.

Has a rather extensive collection of historical stamps available online.

Mainly focussed on legal issues surrounding civil rights however it seems to have some information on historic civil rights decisions.

Has plenty of links to sites with historical images; very useful when creating resources for classes. I'm into Wikimedia stuff tonight. Sorry if you hate it.

Has links to a number of historical source collections on various topics. How thoughtful of those lovely people in Wisconsin.

Lowell National Park like the Mass Historical Society see "Coming of the American Revolution" below offers a NEH Landmarks Program. They do a nice job. http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/NEH/

This is the latest episode from the Hardcore History program, a podcast updated every month or two focussing on historical topics in often novel ways. Dan Carlin has a Bachelor degree in military history and his focus is on military and social history, which I and my students find interesting. I think sometimes his versions of history can be spurious (the latest one in particular) yet the value of podcasts for student learning are enormous. I make my students download iTunes and get them through that. Happy listening!

Long list of links to collections of historical images on Flickr.

I'm loving animated historical maps at the moment, and there are an increasing number available around the place. This one focuses on American involvement in the Pacific during World War and the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Lots of fun!

Might be a great resource for a lesson using historical artefacts or during an archaeology unit.

History Maker is a digital instrument for students to create their history stories. They can - on their own or in small groups -create items of historical events, persons or developments, which they think are most important for an era.

A searchable database of Australian newspapers from 1802 - 1954.

Also includes links to pictures and photos, diaries and letters, maps and audio.

Trove: Find and get Australian resources. Books, images, historic newspapers, maps, archives and more.

Various maps organized by themes.

create fake twitter-like status updates for historical figures.