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1871 speech by an Indian politician in Britain addressing pros and cons of the British Raj as he sees them

An online exhibition from the Museum of the American Indian about the Great Inka Road, using it to examine the history of the Inka empire

I've been doing some research on the Shoshone Indians of North America. Here are a few of the most interesting sites I have found.

This very useful site has been around for a while yet recently has updated its format and design. Excellent site for sources on American history.

Thanks for the link, David. Actually, the site now also has tons of world history content. See our Features on Chinese history, Indian history, Women's history, Islamic history, and more.

When teachers more broadly realise how many brilliant resources there are like this out there the days of the boring textbook lesson will be numbered!

An excellent list of sites related to Ancient History, focussing mainly on the Classical West and the Near East. I wonder why the Chinese and Indians and others still don't count as 'Ancient History' to most people? A great collection, though.

A diverse collection of resources on the history of South Asia (mainly the Indian subcontinent).

My students like Dan. He has a dramatic and engaging way of going over historical topics and I've found him generally quite accurate. The podcasts cover a variety of topics; I subscribe to them through iTunes for free (^).(^) and then post them on moodle for the kids to download for their research. Does anyone know any other good podcasts?

I'd already saved this but Dan has just released the fourth show in his excellent 'Ghosts of the Ostfront' series so I thought I'd bookmark it again. If you're teaching World War II or the Indian Wars I strongly recommend you take a listen to Dan's podcasts. I put them up on our Moodle site so the students can use them for research; I usually download podcasts through iTunes. Some students enjoy them so much they listen to them on their own afterwards.

An extensive collection of primary sources related to American history since 1865.

An extensive collection of images on US, French & Indian history along with Classical music.

"Census records are among one of the best and most often utilized tools for genealogy research. Many censuses are recorded or transcribed online. Locating free census records online can present a challenge. With a bit of patience, you will find thousands of census links to free census transcriptions, census indexes and census images in our categorized directory. "

Has links to free census information from the US, Canada and the UK.

Has links to around twenty digial collections of primary sources maintained by the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Map show the course of the great smallpox epidemic of 1775-1782.

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

From the New Mexico Office of the State Historian, an article on trade between indigenous peoples in what is today Mexico and the southwestern US

An enormous number of links to sources related to American history up to 1865.