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American Social History Project | Center for Media and Learning - The American Social History Project | Center for Media and Learning is dedicated to renewing interest in history by challenging traditional ways that people learn about the past.

A great online text resource written by renowned historians. A great supplement to a traditional U.S. History textbook. Includes important documents as well.

short video clips by experts on westward expansion- focuses on Native American perspectives

Scholars on Line from the Choices Program-- Slavery from the colonial New England point of view

Assignment on American attitudes towards slavery via scholars on line- Quaker, RI, Revolution times, abolitionists Am col society., Focus on New England

Great Debates in US History

Provides pro and con arguments on basic issues in us history via sources (civil disobedience, Salem witch trials, environment etc)

selecting topics from student interest -- from present to past.

Use with US History

Organized into units by theme with links to information about authors and their times as well as seminal titles. Good for student projects

Although most Americans were shocked by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the outbreak of war between the two countries came as no surprise to most observers of international affairs. Indeed, the war could be seen as the culmination of tensions between the two countries that can be traced back to 1915, when Japan issued its so-called "Twenty-One Demands" on China.

good images, songs and lyrics to use as classroom starters.