This website was put together by the Library of Congress. It is full of incredibly useful primary sources, including pictures, documents, and sound recordings.
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.
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.
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
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 linked with the Smithsonian Institute, and it is a good search engine for teachers looking to build lessons around artifacts found in the Smithsonian as well as other parts of American history.