- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage — Exhibit
- 1900 America: Historical Voices, Poetic Visions — Lesson, Learning Page
- A Life Apart: Hasidism in America
- The Aaron Copland Collection: Ca. 1900-1990 — American Memory
- Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress — American Memory
- Activities and Readings in the Geography of the United States: (ARGUS)
- Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act: A Colorado Success Story
- Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
- African Voices
- The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 — American Memory
- The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship — American Memory
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
- American Memory: Learn how the Inaugural Oath for President turns an ordinary citizen into the President of the United States. (Library of Congress)
- bbc.co.uk: History
- Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids provides activities and content for K-12
- Best of History Web sites: Best of History Web Sites is a portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History.
- Center for Teaching History with Technology
- Colonial Currency: view all of our examples of currency emitted in the states; Colonies/ States are listed in alphabetical order followed by Continental Currency. Following the currency are Lottery Tickets and then Fiscal Documents, both are listed chronologically by colony.
- Congress for Kids, by the Dirksen Congressional Center, provides Internet-based, interactive activities that "teach" about Congress, the federal government, and civic duty using full-color illustrations, sound, and engaging activities. Grades 4-12
- Constitution Resources
- Dandelife: free, on-line timeline tool
- Digital History: Explore US history with this easy-to-use uncluttered resources. Slide a bar along a timeline beginning in 1580 and watch history unfold to the present day on an interactive map. As time progresses, historical points of interest appear on the map as icons, which can be clicked for details.
- EconEdLink: a program of the National Council on Economic Education, centered on curriculum standardsa nd the essential princples of economics, provides classroom-tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers.
- EDSITEment: educational resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities; lesson plans, activities, links for these subject areas: art & culture, literature and language arts, foreign language, history and social studies.
- Education Place Outline Maps from Houghton Mifflin, provides maps that you may print and copy for educational use.
- First Gov for Kids has links to sites for kids about government including state governments.
- Frontier Forts in the American Revolution: This on-line field trip takes student to a typical fort using photographs and text to depict the forts, soldiers, daily life, and toys and games. The text and photos for this unit were developed in cooperation with colonial reenactors during a meeting at Fort Roberdeau, near Altoona, Pennsylvania. This unit has been designed for use by upper elementary and middle school students, especially in their study of Colonial America.
- Geography Network: an online resource for finding and sharing geographic content, including maps and data, from many of the world's leading providers. Example maps you can view on-line include: WorldSat Satellite Imagery, USGS Elevation Data, GDT U.S. Street Map, and Census Pop. Density
- GeoNet Game
- History Channel: This day in history, what happened on your birthday, speeches, discussions, exhibits, classroom resources
- History Matters is designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
- History Place: Some features include timelines, biographies, quotes, photographs, and more. Some of the main exhibits are American Revolution, Civil War, WWII, and Presidents of the US.
- HyperHistory Online has 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
- Living Voices: is an audio series by the Smithsonian featuring profiles of Natives Americans and Native Hawaiians today. People of many ages, traditions and perspectives tell their own stories.
- On-line Simulations and Interactive Web Sites for Social Studies
- Orphan Train Collection: Fascinating and emotional collection of Crossroads newsletter, magazines, books, newspapers, photos, and interviews about a chapter in American History that has largely been ignored - the Orphan Trains of 1853 through 1930, where orphaned children were sent out West to be adopted.
- Outline Maps: These maps from Education Place can be downloaded and printed
- PBS Teachers: Social Studies
- Places Teach : Teaching with Historic Places is a program of the National Register of Historic Places connecting teachers and students with the reflections of our history and culture that appear in communities throughout the United States.
- Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.
- ProTeacher: a collection of links, lessons, worksheets, and activities organized under the topics geography, states, current events, culture, family and community, citizenship, economics, religion and ethics, and teaching practices.
- SCORE: History and Social Science
- State Web Games contains web games about our fifty states. Students learn state capitals, abbreviations, and
locations. The games provide clues that include over 500 important and engaging facts. K-8
- IELab | The History Lab
- Today in Photos: the news of the day depicted in photographs with captions; some categories include: national news, world news, sports, politics;
- World War I - Trenches on the Web offers documents, map room, photo archive, timelines, biographies, artwork, music, and more
- Veterans History Project Motivated by the urgent need to collect the stories and experiences of war veterans while they are still among us, the U.S. Congress created the Veterans History Project in October 2000. The legislation calls upon the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress to collect and preserve audio-and videotaped oral histories, along with documents such as letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and home movies, of America's war veterans and those who served in support of them during World War I, World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars."
- Voice of America Pronunciation Guide Help with pronunciations of world leader names and places around the
globe, including audio file renderings.
- Welcome to the White House: Features include: Today at the WH, Oval Office, Kids Only, News and Policies, History and Tours, First Lady, Speeches
- World Atlas has maps and geography statistics.
- xpeditions: b/w maps for printing, links, interactive learning museum, lesson plans, and activities
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