Websites for Teachers and Learners

• Teaching the Middle East

  

  Scholars from the University of Chicago developed, and master teachers tested, this resource to provide an overview of Middle Eastern cultures and their contributions to the world.

• More Teaching and Learning Resources

  

  An index of NEH supported online projects.

• U.S. State and Territory Online Encyclopedias

  

  This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of some of the states and the territories.

• Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives

  

  Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives aims to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature and how it continues to influence and invigorate American cultural life.

  Featured Websites

  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Odyssey Online
  • Perseus Project
  • Troy

  Featured Lesson Plans

  • 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae: Herodotus' Real History
  • A Story of Epic Proportions: What makes a Poem an Epic?
  • It Came From Greek Mythology
  • Lesson 2: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!
  • Live from Ancient Olympia!
  • Socrates and the Law: Argument in an Athenian Jail
  • Sophocles' Antigone: Ancient Greek Theatre, Live From Antiquity!
  • The Olympic Medal: It's All Greek to Us!
  • The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport

• Crafting Freedom Materials

  

  Crafting Freedom Materials is a comprehensive NEH-funded resource on the African-American experience during the antebellum period. For teachers of social studies, language arts, and other humanities subjects.

  Featured Websites

  • Africans in America

  Featured Lesson Plans

  • African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War
  • Families in Bondage
  • Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Removing the Mask
  • Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources

• Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible

  

  The words of the King James Bible ring out today in books, poems, popular songs, speeches, and sermons. Visit Manifold Greatness for the story of one of the most widely read books in the English language.

  Featured Lesson Plans

  • Dr. King's Dream
  • Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
  • Lesson 1: Fragment on the Constitution and Union (1861)—The Purpose of the American Union
  • Lesson 1: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nonviolent Resistance
  • Lesson 1: The First Great Awakening
  • Lesson 2: Religion and the Argument for American Independence
  • Lesson 3: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Crossing the River
  • Lesson 3: Religion and the Fight for American Independence
  • Lesson 3: The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union
  • Lesson 4: The Second Inaugural Address (1865)—Restoring the American Union
  • Let Freedom Ring: The Life & Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence
  • Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words
  • Recognizing Similes: Fast as a Whip

• Virtual_Oaxaca

  

  Virtual_Oaxaca is a virtual representation of Oaxaca, the city, surrounding archeological sites, and arts communities. Created by teachers in an NEH-funded Summer Institute. Plan a lesson, watch a video, and peek at Oaxaca on Second Life. More to come!

• Great Chicago Stories

  

  Read historical fiction stories that illuminate Chicago's past. Use the Interactive History Map to look closer at artifacts from the collection of the Chicago History Museum and to explore locations throughout the city from each story. Build further on your experience with classroom activities.

  Featured Websites

  • Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory

  Featured Lesson Plans

  • Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": Bringing a Great City Alive

• Picturing U.S. History

  

  Picturing United States History, an NEH-funded project is based on the belief that visual materials are vital to understanding the American past. The website provides online "Lessons in Looking," a guide to Web resources, forums, essays, reviews, and classroom activities to help teachers incorporate visual evidence into the classroom. The site also serves as a clearing house for incorporating visual documents into their U.S. history, American studies, literature, and other humanities courses.

  Featured Websites

  • Picturing America

• Natural Law, Natural Rights, and The Constitution

  

  NEH funded online archive of educational resources on the history of natural law, natural rights and American Constitutionalism designed and written by scholars associated with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.

• Remembering 9/11: NEH Archive

  

  The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy of September 11th with a series of events and opportunities for remembrance and reflection across the country.

• Making the Wright Connection

  

  Making The Wright Connection is an online community of, and clearinghouse for, scholars and teachers of the works of Richard Wright (1908-1960), the author of such major works as Uncle Tom’s Children, Native Son, and Black Boy. Website includes podcasts of lectures by some of the world’s foremost scholars of Wright.

• Indians of the Midwest

  

  This site highlights recent research of scholars who have provided new insights about the cultures and histories of Indian peoples in the Midwest.

  Featured Websites

  • Discovering Lewis and Clark
  • EarthWorks (University of Cincinnati)
  • History: Native American
  • Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
  • NativeWeb

  Featured Lesson Plans

  • Anishinabe -- Ojibwe -- Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation
  • Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
  • Not "Indians," Many Tribes: Native American Diversity
  • The Native Americans' Role in the American Revolution: Choosing Sides
  • Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee
  • What Should a House Do?
  • What Was Columbus Thinking?

• Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Regions

  

  The products of this NEH-funded Summer Institute for School Teachers offers a wealth of curricular plans and interactive ideas for the classroom. Topics cover a variety of disciplines: history, geography, literature, religion, art, and environmental studies for every grade level.

• Stalin Project

  

  The Stalin Project is a multi-media, interactive resource about Stalin and the Soviet people. This site includes text written by the top scholars in the field, a database of over 500 images, primary source documents, videos, lesson plans, and other interactive material.

  Featured Websites

  • Cold War Files: Interpreting History through Documents

  Featured Lesson Plans

  • Lesson 1: How "Grand" and "Allied" was the Grand Alliance?
  • Lesson 1: Sources of Discord, 1945-1946
  • Lesson 2: The Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
  • Lesson 3: The Formation of the Western Alliance, 1948-1949