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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

Such a tragedy

This academically rigorous article may be beyond even the highest functioning AP US History students. But all teachers will find this article aiming a question directly at their curriculum - Do you teach a myth as a cultural affirmation? The essay argues that "traveling home to turkey and all the trimmings was "invented", not in 17th century Massachusetts, but in 19th century Philadelphia in the pages of the nation's most widely circulated magazines and in respond to the changing American scene. Two hundred years after the Pilgrims' quit commemorations, Thanksgiving developed a uniform national profile, impelled by its promoters ideas about republican identity, ideas diffused by a publishing industry with increasingly national reach"

History game...perhaps good for including in unit on early colonization in North America.

An interesting resource for the study of African slavery in the northern states of the US. I think they're trying to make a point. It gives secondary source information and also some quotes from primary sources on the topic.

If only those smart-stupid Wall Street Bankers had had access to resources like these... and the humility to study them.

A collection of over 8000 photos from East Africa from 1860-1960. Probably useful for classroom resources (you know, stick 'em on a worksheet, that type of thing), assessment pieces or in student research. I found with my year 12s that they needed some guidance on how to extract historical information from images ('thinking historically') but after that they used images like these well in their research for their assignments.

An excellent collection of documents relating to American history from the 1750s to the 1870s.

Nearly 7000 images from early America which you can view in a cool viewer that opens up in a new tab/window. Very groovy.

Has a massive and easily searchable bank of primary documents on British history. Quite amazing some of the stuff in there, especially primary documents on that Empire (capital 'E') that the sun was never going to set on... Forgive my impertinent colonial humour. I've got Irish blood.

Curso de la profesora Mariselle Meléndez que incluye fuentes y cartografía

"Memorial Hall Museum Online American Centuries ...view from New England Explore American History with hands-on activities, exhibits, lessons, historic documents and artifacts."

Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier offers a geographical perspective on the development of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It covers in detail not only the American eastern seaboard, but also eastern Canada and the West Indies, as well as the trans-Atlantic links to Western Europe and West Africa.

Possible article for student reading . Rest of site looks interesting as well.

O texto abaixo foi escrito pelo líder vietcong Ho Chi Minh que liderou o exército comunista contra os Estados Unidos na guerra do Vietnã. A preocupação e o ativismo de Lênin na luta contra o imperialismo fez com que Ho Chi Minh aceitasse a teoria leninista como política de governo. The following was written by the Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh Communist who led the army against the United States in the Vietnam War. The concern and activism of Lenin in the struggle against imperialism has made Ho Chi Minh to accept the Leninist theory as government policy.

Lesson plan with primary source images and text