Created Equal: America's Civil Rights Struggle, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), was launched today to provide free access to documentary films highlighting some of the most dramatic events in recent American history.

As America marks the anniversaries of the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in 2013, NEH is introducing a website making four outstanding NEH-supported documentaries about the civil rights movement available for use in communities and schools across the nation.

http://createdequal.neh.gov/

Different perspectives on the War of 1812 including British, Canadian, Native American, Black soliders and sailors and American.
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/home/

Funded by NEH these are mulitimedia rich, accurate andaccessible starting points for further reserach. In other words, beyond Wikipedia. Especially useful for Civi War and Civil Rights era research
http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference-shelf/teacher-quick-reference/us-state-and-territory-online-encyclopedias

Jeremy
Looks like a great site. I was glad to see some of EDSITEment's resources on it but we have so much more . And there are some obvious places where I would have expected to see EDSITEment listed. Please take a look at our resources for APUS History Teachers http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference-shelf/teacher-quick-reference/introduction-advanced-placement-us-history-lessons as well as all our history & social studies resources

http://edsitement.neh.gov/subject/history-social-studies

Jeremy

Please do put Bob Maloy in touch with me. He can call or write jphelan@neh.gov or 202-60-6374. As far as the World History resources go, we are a working on it but will not be ready for this fall.
Did you find useful the 18 lessons on the Teaching the Middle East websitehttp://teachmiddleeast.lib.uchicago.edu/

Take a look at our APUS history feature for ideas, primary sources, activities, interactives, and vetted websites
http://edsitement.neh.gov/reference-shelf/teacher-quick-reference/introduction-advanced-placement-us-history-lessons

Guide your students through the greatest speech about slavery.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/launchpad-frederick-douglass-what-slave-fourth-july#node-21760

http://constitutioncenter.org/lincoln/

Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads is an educational game based on the traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution & the Civil War, which debuted at the National Constitution Center in June 2005.
The online game is intended for advanced middle- and high-school students. It invites them to learn about Lincoln's leadership by exploring the political choices he made. An animated Lincoln introduces a situation, asks for advice and prompts players to decide the issue for themselves, before learning the actual outcome. At the end of the game, players discover how frequently they predicted Lincoln's actions. A Resources Page keyed to each chapter provides links to relevant Websites on Lincoln and the Civil War, permitting students to explore issues in more depth

For middle schoolers and beyond. They have another game on the Underground Railroad for this September, and two more on the drawing board for next year.

New from EDSITEment this month, a four lesson curriculum unit on the debates over imperialism in the late 19th century America.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/birth-american-empire

New resource on slavery and muslims in America from NEH
http://www.princeamongslaves.org/

March 5 is the anniversary of Winston Churchill's famous speech in Fulton Missouri about the beginning of the Cold War. "An Iron Curtain is descending on Europe" EDSITEment has a lesson which puts the speech in its historical and political context
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/sources-discord-1945-1946#sect-extending
Its part of a curriculum unit on the historical origins and political context of the cold war http://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/origins-cold-war-1945-1949