This is a site worth exploring for nonfiction reading in diverse subject areas. Teachers can choose simplified text or more complex text for the same article(s). Common core standards are embedded.
Uses new technologies to enhance teaching and research for major historical eras: includes primary sources, historical voices, photography, music, political cartoons, maps, museum archives, explorations, etc.
An interview with James McPherson, Civil War historian, and the author of the Pulitizer Prize winning book, "Battle Cry of Freedom," discusses the origins of the Civil War, the connection of the Mexican War with the Civil War, and the legacy of the Civil War.
Vivid photos of Syrian refugees and camps as a result of the Civil War in Syria. Lynsey Addario is a photojournalist with the New York Times. She engages in an interview with Charlie Rose.
A brief introduction to primary sources, what they look like, how they differ from secondary sources, and why they are important sources of information.
Topics include: Slavery and African Americans in Antebellum America, Causes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Literature of the Civil War, Reconstruction and After in Art and Culture