Basque Oral History Project - UNR: This
collection of interviews of Basque in the American West
is now available online
Nevada Chautauqua: The Chautauqua
Program funded by Nevada Humanities presents
performances of historic characters.
Nevada History: A Walk in the Past - This site
provides a comprehensive history of Nevada!
National History Day
In Nevada: Authorized by the National
History Day Organization. The National History Day In
Nevada is an exciting way for
students to study history and learn about issues, ideas,
people, and events.
Online Nevada
Encyclopedia I: The Online Nevada
Encyclopedia is a multimedia resource produced by Nevada
Humanities that incorporates articles, images, and
interactive media to explore the landscape, people, and
events that have shaped the Silver State's politics,
economy, and culture.
The Young Chautauqua Program: This
program encourages students ages 8 - 18 to research a
person in history and then present that person through a
performance.
Nevada Cultural Affairs: has updated their
website with user friendly primary sources!
Adventures in the Past: This site, created by
the Bureau of Land Management, provides lessons,
activities, and articles for teaching about such topics
as the railroads, the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail, early
explorers, and more!
American Beginnings: A website full of
historical documents, literary texts, and works of art
pertaining to the European presence in North America
from 1492-1690.
American Journeys: is a new digital library and
on-line learning center that makes available over 17,000
original letters, diaries, rare documents, images and
more allowing direct student and teacher access to key
primary resources from 1000 to about 1830.
The
Civil War Preservation Trust: You can sign up to
receive a monthly newsletter via email which is full of
teaching ideas and information on the Civil War.
EASE History: This site provides
hundreds of videos and photographs of campaign ads and
issues through history.
Harper’s Weekly Online: A retired publisher has
spent the last 10 years archiving and indexing all of
Harper's Weekly magazines, in an effort to make it
available online as an invaluable resources for students
and teachers. Much if the information is available for
free, the rest is available for a small fee.
Historical Treasure Chests Students
learn about primary and secondary sources through both
online and printable activities.
History Matters This site offers an extensive
annotated guide to useful social studies websites. The
listing is also searchable by topic and type of
resource!
History & Politics Outloud: This is an awesome
site that has audio recordings of hundreds of hitorical
and political speeches. For example, you can listen to
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, or Martin
Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech.
HotChalk: HotChalk is a learning environment for
K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes a
premium digital content like NBC News video and a rich
library of teacher-contributed lesson plans. Any NBC
news story since they started broadcasting is available
for free on this site!
The
Interactive Museum of News: This interactive
news "museum" allows the reader to view thousands of
news stories, both historical and current.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum was
created to honor those who were killed, those who
survived and those changed forever by the 1995 bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City. The Memorial and Museum are dedicated to educating
visitors about the impact of violence, informing about
events surrounding the bombing, and inspiring hope and
healing through lessons learned by those affected.
Library of Congress: The Library of Congress
provides one of the most comprehensive list of resources
on American history!
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection
- This collection includes historic maps, photos,
original documents, and audio and video clips. The
collection is sorted by topic.
Library of Congress: American Memory Collection – The
Learning Page - The Learning Page is the
teacher's guide to using the American Memory Collection
in the classroom.
National Archives and Records Administration -
The NARA site includes the "National Archives
Experience"; an online database of historical documents,
online exhibits, links to the Presidential Libraries,
and a new exhibit of eyewitness accounts to events in
American history.
National Museum of American History: A Smithsonian
Museum - The educator's page from the
Smithsonian provides a wealth of information about using
the Museum of American History's resources in the
classroom.
National WWI Museum: At the National World War I
Museum, World War I history comes alive. The online
exhibits contain objects and documents ranging from
weaponry and uniforms used during the war, to letters
and postcards from the field. Each piece contributes to
a story.
PBS Teacher's Resource: Social Studies Lesson
plans and activities can be searched at both grade level
and subject area.
SCORE:
History/Social Science This in depth site allows
teacher to search for websites by topic and grade level.
Though the site is aligned to California Social Studies
Standards, it is easy to navigate and is an invaluable
resource!
The Smithsonian Institute: History & Culture -
The Smithsonian offers an extensive database of
information on topics in American history. Music,
documents, photographs, and audio clips are just a
portion of what's available on this site!
Smithsonian Education: Mr. President - This
"Idea Lab" from the Smithsonian Institute profiles all
of the Presidents of the United States. You can even
take a virtual tour of the Hall of Presidents at the
Smithsonian!
Smithsonian for Teachers: This searchable
database allows teachers to find lesson plans for most
any topic in history & culture and for every grade
level!
Teaching Tolerance: The Southern Poverty Law Center
- Teaching Tolerance provides free teaching materials
and a quarterly magazine in an effort to promote
tolerance. Topics such as The Civil Rights Movement,
Rosa Parks, and Dealing with Bullies, are just a few of
the issues available in outstanding curriculum
materials.
Teaching with Historic Places: This site, part
of the National Register of Historic Places, provides
lesson ideas for teaching about American history through
the study of historic places.
The
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The
museum offers free teaching materials for teaching about
the Holocaust in the classroom.
U.S.
States & Capitals: Everything you always wanted
to know about the 50 U.S. states and capitals can be
found on this stie. They even have outline maps of the
individual states and the United States!
United States Postal Service: Classroom Resources.
The USPS provides free resources/lessons to teachers
several times a year when they release stamps of
historical significance. These lessons are geared
primarily towards elementary age students, but could be
adapted to use at any grade level.
The Wessels Living History Farm web site -- has,
at present, almost 400 stories about the history of
agricultural innovations during the 20th century. These
are stories that have implications far beyond the farm
because the production of food affects all of us.
Agriculture is now high technology that affects -- and
is affected by -- the environment, politics, economics,
social changes, mechanization and world
events.
Best of History Websites: This site provides an
extensive listing of outstanding history websites found
on the Internet.
Collapse: Why do Civilizations Fall?: An Online
Media Exhibit from the Annenberg Foundation.
Discover Babylon: This site uses an
ingenious video game to teach students about Mesopotamia
during the Uruk Period (3300-3000 BC) when writing was
first developing; the Ur III period (2100-2000 BC), a
time of great cities and central organization; and the
Neo-Assyrian period (1000-600 BC), a time of empires.
The game can be downloaded for free!
Eyewitness to History : Primary Sources
documents, photos, and audio clips for thousands of
historical events!
The
History Channel: This site provides numerous
maps, audio clips, a world timeline of events, a
women’s history exhibit, and much more!
The Middle Ages: An Online Media Exhibit from
the Annenberg Foundation.
Renaissance: An Online Media Exhibit from the
Annenberg Foundation.
U.S. State
Department Resources & Projects for Parents and
Educators.
The World Factbook: developed and maintained by
the CIA.
