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Here is an interesting and informative video about the Boston Massacre presented by the American Institute For History Education.

This site discusses ways to incorporate diversity into your lessons. It focuses on African American history.

This website was put together by the Library of Congress. It is full of incredibly useful primary sources, including pictures, documents, and sound recordings.

This website contains a lot of good information regarding many topics in American history.

Here is the website for the American Institute for History Education. It has many helpful and interesting things for History educators such as workshops, technology resources and much more! You can even sign up for a news Gazette.

I thought this site was especially fitting for our CI 335 class because it helps teachers incorporate technology into their curriculum and classrooms. It has links to an online textbook, primary source documents, videos, and much more.

The site includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology among many things.

This site is devoted to primary sources and ideas for teachers on how to teach a specific era of history. This site includes links to movies, powerpoint slides, primary source documents, lesson plans, and handouts for teachers.

This is a very interesting blog that posts information on presidents as well as those who worked with them such as JFK's speech writer. The blog contains information that is usually not included in history textbooks and could used to provide different perspectives on presidents. It also would be a great way to make presidents come alive to students, since the blog contains personal information on the presidents.

This is an informative and well organized web-page on the History of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League

Select a migration to begin learning about The African-American Migration Experience. Between the 1500s and the 1860s, at least 12 million Africans were sent to the Americas. About half a million arrived in the United States. This brutal forced migration changed forever the face and character of the modern world.

The author of a book I'm currently enjoying. His website is also giving updates on his latest research on towns that are completely white. I feel these are books worth reading.

This site gives different music that will help teach American History and Government.

Resource for supreme court cases that have 3 different reading levels for the various levels of education. It gives a description of the case and questions to consider after reading and strategies for teaching case studies

Gives a history timeline, plus more for teachers

585 Primary Sources (U.S. History) collected by the Unv. of Columbia

This site contains lots of documents relating to large events in American history and can be a good resources page for primary sources.

This is a Smithsonian website that uses video and text to examine armed conflicts involving the U.S. from the Revolutionary War to the war in Iraq. This is a great tool to use when examining any war the U.S. has been involved in. This site also provides many activities.

This website is just helpful to find resources if you are going to be teaching a psychology class.

Website full of immigration records in 19th and early 20th century. Could be a useful tool to understand patterns of American immigration.

Americans don't know enough about their own histories. Some interesting ideas on what they should know.