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 is dedicated to showing educational brief clips about some of America's most influential individuals of the early 18th century. It provides background information and interesting facts about people such as Benjamin Franklin, Molly Pitcher, and George Washington, which is a good way to engage the students' attention.
This website has a few fun videos that teach brief lessons about different topics in history including the XYZ Affair, the Greeks, and the Grimke sisters.
Adding fiction into our social studies classrooms may be a valuable tool. Here is a website that has thousands of free online books available. Internet e-readers will be booming soon...free online books will be useful
Here is a website many of you may be familiar with. For those of you who are not, this contains many different videos, documents and blogs about education. This is very helpful and engaging.