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"The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to World War I, including photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to World War I resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on World War I and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers."

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to World War I, including photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to World War I resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on World War I and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers

Another one of the precious collections provided by that most excellent of libraries, Harvard University Library. It's so great that they don't just lock it up and be snobs. Good on them.

Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and image

A list of links to sites focussed mainly on Canadian history. Has French bits too. I wish I could speak French.

This is the blog which accompanies the podcast Stuff You Missed in History Class. Like just about all History podcasts, it's easily found through iTunes. My students have found the format on SYMIHC as user-friendly and valuable for their research. Worth a listen.

Teacher Network | The Guardian

"Happy Patriots' Day - 7 Revolutionary War Resources"

How cool! The New York Times is putting historical issues of their paper online. They are still in the process of digitising them, but they already have the Civil War and some early C20th stuff on there.

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.

African American History/slavery

African American History

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!

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

A good article with lots of information and graphics. Great for introducing students to the concept of gerrymandering!

One-Page handout for For Use in History Classes

I keep updating the Modern Western Civilization Economic History site. Suggestions welcome. Does anyone use it for student projects?

Part 1 Building a Constitution Part 2.Governing Our Capitalistic Democratic Federal National Republic Part 3 Managing the United States Constitution Part 4.Recommended Readings

Could be useful for classroom or homework activities.