Welcome to the tour of World War I and World War II Propaganda posters. The posters displayed here were commissioned during World War II by branches of the U.S. Government such as the armed forces, recruiting bureaus, the Office of War Information, and the United States Treasury, to name a few.
A online model curriculum in World History for middle school and high schools. It is an continuing project consisting of material and resources from K-12 teachers, collegiate instructors, and educational technology specialists. Has teaching units, lesson plans, and other resources.
This is a website that focuses on the history of women from all parts of the world. Has teaching materials with primary sources, lesson plans, document-based questions, and other supporting resources. Ideally for a high school curriculum.
This site provides information on the different government and military leaders, significant events, and types of equipment used during the war. It also provides information on the participating countries before and during the war.
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.
This is the web version of the New York Times, which gives up to date information on stories and events in the education field happeneing in the world today.
This is one of the most comprehensive search engines and websites in the world on the Vietnam War. It has over 3.2 million pages scanned materials from government and military documents, newspaper articles, photographs, maps, artifacts, sound/audio recordings, etc. Great for finding material, resources, and primary sources.
These is a website that provides quality educational resources. This website directs you to primary source documents that can be used for various activities or lessons. You can also buy various materials for teaching which are categorized by subjects.
Craetive Education is an educational non-profit organization that specializes in creating uniqiue filed emersion curriculum programs in which students and teachers paricipate in filed trips to exotoic locations. There are resources on this page on how to incorporate one of these trips into your classroom education or as a teacher you can volunteer as well
I thought this site looked great because it has great video resources for teachers. In addition to interesting videos related to history, this site also has teacher uploaded videos of lesson plans they have taught.
This is the website for the Metropolitan Museum, the largest art museum in the U.S., if not the world. It is located in New York, but online you can find whatever art pieces available.
This is a website which contains many clips and photos from the History Channel special: World War II in HD. It may be useful if one needs a few short clips to initiate discussion in a lesson on WWII.
This is a 60 Minutes special which follows the trail of toxic e-waste from our cell phones, computers, etc. in the United States all the way to toxic dumping sites in rural China. This would be an excellent resource in a World History class showing some negative effects of globalization.
This is a website which contains a variety of lesson plan ideas for teachers in all subject areas. It is helpful for a social studies teacher because it contains some good lesson plan ideas for Ancient, US, and World History.
This blog's editor is a current AP U.S. history teacher and posts topics on both history and teaching. There is also a link to his other website that is about soldier's stories in the Civil War. The blog provides useful information that can be used as references to lesson plan as well as help critically analyze the world around us.
An amazing source for declassified United States' documents that could easily be used for primary sources in a modern U.S. or world history classes. These could be used for a in-class debate as the National Security Archive houses many documents on very controversial issues in history. I would also highly recommend looking through them to provide yourself with different prospectives as a future teacher.
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