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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.

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.

Government website that contains pictures and other primary sources on the Civil War. Useful in making PowerPoint and other presentations.

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.

A variety or war propaganda posters, excellent for WWI or WWII lessons.

This site analyzes Boston at before and at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. It includes, commentaries on significant events and people, maps, pictures, and primary sources

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.

Primary docs from the Era of Lincoln and Civil War. Can find docs that can be used in classrooms for middle school and up

This website has great primary resources about Abraham Lincoln and are categorized for different periods in his life.

This is a huge resource site that has content from Ancient Greece to the Cold War

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 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.

This website is an immense interactive map of the Eastern front during WWII. It is filled with chronological events, primary documents, pictures, interview, and many other resources.

This is a site that focuses on kids in WWII and provides pictures and easy explanations for them. Could be useful for middle school students to get a different perspective