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The National Museum of American History is engaged in a long-term project to create the first publicly accessible, annotated online edition of William Steinway's remarkable diary. This first installment of the Web site includes Edwin M. Good's complete transcription of all 2,500 pages of the Diary alongside high-resolution scans of each handwritten page.

This Teacher Resource Guide is designed for incorporation into history and social studies curricula. It will introduce your students to some of the events and issues that shaped George Washington's life. The activities should enhance your students' knowledge of Washington and expand their horizons about this complex and interesting man.

Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.

Lots of links to resources, including primary sources and lesson ideas on a wide variety of topics: US history, civics, geography, and others.

An archive of primary sources on the Constitution

This is the Gandhiserve channel on Youtube.  It has a fairly extensive collection of original filmfootage--newsreels, etc.

Well-organised and searchable database of American newspapers. The time frame and states available are somewhat limited.

Searchable archive of papers from across the United States, 1860 - 1922

A month by month look at the progression of unemployment rates in the United States over the past 2 years.