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"...a new archive of 14,000 images from the French Revolution, created by Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The new archive contains visual materials that will intrigue scholars as much as history buffs."

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of America's libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. The DPLA aims to expand this crucial realm of openly available materials, and make those riches more easily discovered and more widely usable and used. "

"This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually cataloged political cartoons and caricatures."

REsources for teaching World History

"This site is an extenstive compendium of documentaries, in the form of interactive Google Maps on Historic Events. In a sense it is a library of maps that allow you to do much more than just watch and read. You get to digitally experience the event by finding and zooming in on the locations you read about in the related eBooks."

Words set to images from the March

"a great resource that students can use to evaluate the many arguments in hot-button global topics. By providing webbed diagrams of arguments students can see and explore the many facets of debate

link to google news archives.

Good resource if you are trying to find primary sources. Many foreign and local newspapers are cataloged.

great list of free online newspaper links. Searchable by country.

post links to Library of Congress political cartoon collection and also to cartoons for the classroom a service of the Assoc. of American Editorial Cartoonists. The latter site provides lesson plan ideas.

"iCivics prepares young Americans to become knowledgeable, engaged 21st century citizens by creating free and innovative educational materials. In 2009, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor founded iCivics to reverse Americans' declining civic knowledge and participation. Securing our democracy, she realized, requires teaching the next generation to understand and respect our system of governance. Today iCivics comprises not just our board and staff, but also a national leadership team of state supreme court justices, secretaries of state, and educational leaders and a network of committed volunteers. Together, we are committed to passing along our legacy of democracy to the next generation."

"We have developed computational methods to measure historical significance through analysis of Wikipedia and other data sources. We rank historical figures just as Google ranks webpages, by integrating a diverse set of measurements about their reputation (including PageRank, article length, and readership) into estimates of their fame, explained by a combination of achievement (gravitas) and celebrity. We correct for the passage of time in a principled way, so we can fairly compare the significance of historical figures of different eras."

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create this site and make freely available online the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. "Through this website, you will be able to read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and see firsthand the growth of democracy and the birth of the Republic."

This is a great report about the situation in Honduras. As many of our students are from Honduras and have family member there, it provides us with a glimpse of how difficult life there is at the moment.

Website from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation to showcase some primary source materials about Abraham Lincoln online. The materials on Under His Hat are arranged into eight sections about Lincoln's life. You can click on materials to make them larger. Lesson plan suggestions are included and some of the documents are also accompanied by audio and video recordings.

recently published set of declassified historical documents. There are 73 collections of documents containing memos and transcripts of communications between diplomats and country leaders. There are collections of documents organized by themes and topics including those  related to the construction of the Berlin Wall, the origins of the Cold War, and Sino-Soviet relations.