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This site is brilliant for any aspect of post-WWII Europe! An awesome research tool. Lots of neat pictures and graphics (Gen-Y-friendly) and high-quality primary sources and images, organised into significant topics and easy to navigate.

Animated maps, perfect for illustrating historical events

This looks awesome! I emailed our district head of this kind of stuff so they could check it out! let us know how your students like it!

Like it. Wish they were free though, but not much is now-a-days.

Major battles in American military explained with the use of animation.

"History Animated is a fantastic resource for teachers of US History. The animations will make great supplements to classroom instruction. The animations are a significant improvement over drawing or pointing to places on a map. The site currently features animations on the Pacific War, the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and the Battle of Britain.

Excellent collection of history sites well-organised under a diverse range of topics. Yet another brilliant open-source history resource provided by the good people at George Mason University. They rock!

The Kennan Institute and National Public Radio in the USA has established an online audio archive of Soviet and Russian history. "The archive consists of recordings dating back to the earliest years of the Soviet state. Included are the voices and speeches of key political figures, including Lenin, Kerensky, Kirov, Beria, Stalin, Gorbachev, and others. Among the recorded interviews are Anna Larina (Bukharin's widow); Valentin Berezhkov, Stalin's wartime interpreter; Yelena Bonner, Sakharov's widow; and Lev Pevsner, a survivor of the Leningrad Blockade. There is also on-the-scene recorded sound of many events in Soviet history, including: the Russian and American armies meeting at the Elbe; Stalin's funeral; the August 1991 coup against Gorbachev. [...] The material comes from Soviet and Russian sources, the NPR archives, the archives of the BBC, and individual donors. Some of the material is in Russian, some in English. "

The bulk of the audio files are in Russian, however if you scroll down closely there are speeches by significant Western figures too. Yet another excellent set of resources from the Woodrow Wilson Center.

A collection of images and documents from the (now re-closed!) Soviet archives and maintained by the Library of Congress.

An innovative and useful site. It presents historical events as news stories with a depth of information that is impressive. Written in a lively manner, this would be suitable for high school class activities or even student research. They provide their references.

A guide to teaching some of the seminal images of American history. 

Also check out Picturing Early America, especially the unit plans from 2009 (ones from 2010, including one from yours truly coming soon): http://picturingamerica.salemstate.edu/

An excellent collection of sources on all things World War II. Focusses on: life at the fronts; the holocaust; Japanese war crimes ("War crimes, what war crimes?"); photos & posters; and the nuclear bombing. With primary sources and well-organised.