Websites
The following websites have been approved for use in the classroom by EDSITEment. Browse websites by subject area.
History & Social Studies
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Ken Burns "The War" on PBS
"Only the soldier really lives the war." The journalist does not. This PBS series by Ken Burns follows the journeys of different veterans of World War II in their own words. There is a section available for educators.
History & Social Studies
Center for the Study of the American Constitution
Housed within the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, CSAC does research and publishes materials relating to the creation and ratification of the American Constitution.
Art & Culture
National Gallery: Colorful Realm of Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings
Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800). Celebrating the centennial of Japan's gift of cherry trees to the nation's capital, this exhibition features one of Japan's most renowned cultural treasures
History & Social Studies
Visualizing Emancipation
Visualizing Emancipation is a comprehensive map and timeline illustrating the slow decline of slavery in the United States. It provides quick access to thousands of primary source documents in connection with this timeline.
History & Social Studies
Coming of Age in the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now
A free, interactive curriculum for middle and high-school students and their educators that features individual testimonies of thirteen people who were adolescents during the Holocaust.
Literature & Language Arts
Celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday
Celebrate the Bard of Avon’s birthday with Folger Shakespeare’s Library “Online Resources for Teachers.” You’ll find “Shakespeare for Kids,” games and puzzles to engage younger students, and free audio-video resources designed to help you teach Shakespeare to older ones.
History & Social Studies
A Sailor's Life for Me!
Experience life aboard “Old Ironsides” USS Constitution in this interactive game, A Sailor’s Life for Me! Sail to Victory. Learn about naval battleships in the NEH-funded PBS documentary The War of 1812.
History & Social Studies
Women, War, and Peace
Women, War & Peace is a five-part PBS television series challenging the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain. The vast majority of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies, but rather by informal entities: gangs and warlords using small arms and improvised weapons. The series reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties.
History & Social Studies
Marchand Archive
The Marchand Archive is an NEH-funded, ever-expanding collection of document-based lesson plans developed by outstanding teachers associated with The History Project, and more than 8,600 images. Lesson plans encourage students to apply analytical skills to primary sources; the images supplement lessons and include maps, Aztec codices, early Americana, advertising posters and more.
History & Social Studies
New Bedford Whaling Museum
In this whaling adventure interactive, explore life in a 19th-century whaling port, board a whaling vessel, and take a “Nantucket sleigh-ride”!
History & Social Studies
National Women's History Museum
In Clandestine Spies in American History, meet the dedicated “shadow warriors” who went undercover to preserve our national security.
History & Social Studies
Legacy of Genghis Khan
This exhibition examines the important artistic and cultural achievements that occurred in the Iranian world in the aftermath of the Mongol invasions.
Art & Culture
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
PAFA's museum is known for its collections of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Its archives house important materials for the study of American art history, museums, and art training.
History & Social Studies
Slavery by Another Name
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute, NEH-funded documentary challenging one of America's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film is viewable online and the website enriched with an interactive map and timeline with text, videos, photos, a searchable selection of themes, enriched with clips, commentary, and more.
History & Social Studies
Mission US 2: Flight to Freedom
Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom,” is a game for students to learn about the difficulties encountered by slaves as they tried to escape the South.
Art & Culture
The Loving Story
The Loving Story, a documentary film, tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving to examine the drama, the history, and the current state of interracial marriage and tolerance in the United States.
Literature & Language Arts
American Transcendentalism Web
A collection of critical essays on the principles of the American transcendentalist movement, including its roots & influences and authors & texts.
History & Social Studies
Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn
Trace the Age of Revolution (1763-1815) in a global narrative, including the American struggle against British rule, the British struggle toward the abolition of slavery, the French attack on aristocracy, and the Haitian slave revolt-turned revolution. The classroom materials include a teachers’ guide with background information, lesson plans and extension activities; primary sources; Life Stories; and a multi-layered timeline. The guide is available as a PDF.
Art & Culture
Teenie Harris Archive
Charles "Teenie" Harris (1908-1998) photographed Pittsburgh's African American community from c. 1935 to c. 1975. His archive of nearly 80,000 images is considered one of the most important documentations of 20th-century African American life. Search the archives of this NEH-funded project, follow image threads, watch a video about the artist, and enjoy using this rich resource in your classroom.
Art & Culture
Neoclassicism and America 1750-1900
Neoclassicism is an intellectual and artistic movement that shaped the thought, minds, and civic ideals of Americans for 150 years. These lessons and resources for college-level courses provide a fresh survey of American neoclassicism for students and a general audience.
History & Social Studies
Voices Across Time
Voices Across Time was created to help teachers harness the power of song as primary source to supplement any secondary school American Social Studies, Language Arts, and Music curricula. The project's components are: a Teacher’s Guide, the Summer Institute for Teachers, and Lesson Plans and other Teaching Resources.
Art & Culture
What So Proudly We Hail: The Meaning of America Curriculum
Through the use of stories, speeches, and songs, this site seeks to educate hearts and minds about American ideals, American identity and national character, and the virtues and aspirations of our civic life. A ten lesson curriculum is included which covers the following topics: National Identity and Why It Matters, Freedom and Individuality, Equality, Enterprise and Commerce, Freedom and Religion, Law Abidingness, Self Command, Courage and Self-Sacrifice, and Compassion.
Art & Culture
Tate Liverpool: Alice in Wonderland
Tate Liverpool exhibition of Lewis Carroll’s timeless classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, explores how the stories have influenced the visual arts, inspiring generations of artists for 150 years since its publication. Explore the interactive.
History & Social Studies
The War That Made America
The War That Made America tells the story of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), which began in the wilderness of the Pennsylvania frontier and spread throughout the colonies, into Canada, and ultimately around the world. it is narrated and hosted by Graham Greene, the Academy-Award nominated actor for Dances With Wolves and an Oneida Indian whose ancestors fought in this war.
History & Social Studies
Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World
Contested Visions, funded in part by NEH and co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, examines the significance of indigenous peoples within the artistic landscape of colonial Latin America. The exhibition offers a comparative view of the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America—Mexico and Peru—from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Art & Culture
American Routes
A weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.
History & Social Studies
History and Politics Out Loud
History and Politics Out Loud is a searchable archive of politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers, and students. It is a component of "Historical Voices," funded by the NEH in partnership with Michigan State University.
Literature & Language Arts
Robert Louis Stevenson at the University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina marked the centenary of Robert Louis Stevenson's death in 1894 with a special exhibition illustrating his life and writing career. The original exhibit included most of Stevenson's first editions, the early magazine publication of Treasure Island and other adventure stories, and a full range of his travel writings, sensation fiction, and later Scottish novels. This online version includes additional materials not included in the original exhibit as well as links to other sites of interest.
Art & Culture
Digital Sculpture Project
The NEH-funded Digital Sculpture Project, an activity of the World Heritage Laboratory, is a website devoted to studying ways in which 3D digital technologies can be applied to the capture, representation, and interpretation of sculpture from all periods and cultures.
Art & Culture
Bridging World History
Part of the Annenberg Foundation's Learner.Org site, this rich website supports the study of World History with classroom materials and professional development tools. Materials include videos, an audio glossary, a thematically-organized interactive, and more.
History & Social Studies
Churchill and America
A collection of teacher resources on Winston Churchill, including lesson plans for grades 5-12.
Literature & Language Arts
The University of Arizona Poetry Center's Audio Video Library
The Poetry Center's Audio Video Library features recordings from the Center's long-running Reading Series and other readings presented under the auspices of the Center.
History & Social Studies
We Shall Remain
From the award-winning PBS series American Experience comes We Shall Remain, a provocative multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.
Art & Culture
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.
History & Social Studies
Children and Youth in History
Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present. Features teaching modules and primary source lessons.
History & Social Studies
I Came to Testify
One of a five-part PBS film series funded by NEH, this is the moving story of how a group of sixteen women who had been imprisoned by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke history’s great silence – and stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law. Teacher resources and comments by viewers are included on the website.
Art & Culture
Frick Collection Digital Archive
This site is an NEH-funded project that brings one of the richest art photograph libraries to the Web and enables visitors to browse and download jpegs of large format digital files and of lesser-known and previously unpublished works of art.
History & Social Studies
World History for Us All
World History for Us All is an innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools. It offers teaching units, lesson plans, and resources, presents the human past as a single story rather than unconnected stories of many civilizations, helps teachers meet state and national standards, helps students understand the past by connecting specific subject matter to larger historical patterns, draws on up-to-date historical research, and may be readily adapted to a variety of world history programs.
History & Social Studies
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
Eyes on the Prize is an award-winning 14-hour television series produced by Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985. Series topics range from the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954 to the Voting Rights Act in 1965; from community power in schools to "Black Power" in the streets; from early acts of individual courage through to the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions.
History & Social Studies
Reporting America at War
The NEH-funded film by Stephen Ives, Reporting America at War, explores the role of American journalists from San Juan Hill to the beaches of Normandy, from the jungles of Vietnam to the Persian Gulf in a the three-hour documentary.
History & Social Studies
Making the History of 1989
Making the History of 1989 tells the story of Eastern European nations overcoming their communist regimes. The site has three key features: a collection of primary sources; a set of multimedia interviews that make visible the processes by which historians transform events and sources into historical narratives; and lesson plans and document based questions provide historical context, tools, and strategies for teaching the history of 1989 with primary sources.
History & Social Studies
Alaska History and Cultural Studies
Alaska's History & Cultural Studies provides students, teachers and others interested in the state access to a rich source of facts and viewpoints about Alaska and its history. There are six units, each encompassing an important theme or historical period. Linked to the units you'll find extensive information that includes an historical account of that era, stories of the people who lived then, photographs, maps, oral history, letters and other primary resources.
History & Social Studies
Archimedes Palimpsest Project
The subject of this website is a manuscript of great importance to the history of science, the Archimedes Palimpsest. This thirteenth century prayer book contains erased texts that were written several centuries earlier still. These erased texts include two treatises by Archimedes that can be found nowhere else, The Method and Stomachion.
Art & Culture
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge celebrates Northern Renaissance artists' contributions to the scientific investigations of the 16th century through prints, books, maps, as well as sundials, globes, and more. The site is enhanced by an interactive web tool and iPhone/iPad applications.
History & Social Studies
September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath. The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, a tally that includes more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images.
History & Social Studies
Time Warp Trio
Time Warp Trio is an NEH-funded television program on PBS. The animated series follows three children who travel through space and time to explore world history and cultures. The website features games and lesson plans.
Art & Culture
PBS: The Buddha
This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha’s life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Art & Culture
Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is for its collection of art, which was amassed by William and Henry Walters and eventually bequeathed to the City of Baltimore. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts in its collection Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.
Art & Culture
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Throughout the Museum, visitors will find a wide selection of European and American fine and decorative arts, 15th- through 19th-century prints and drawings, contemporary art by established and emerging contemporary artists, and objects from Africa, Asia, the Ancient Americas, and Pacific Islands.
Art & Culture
Al-Mizan
"Al-Mizan" is the Arabic word for balance. This exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University explores the connections between the sciences and arts in Muslim societies.
Art & Culture
Public Art in the Bronx
Public Art in the Bronx, a project of Lehman College Art Gallery/City University of New York, examines the rich collection of public art found in the borough. This site provides an overview of works in public places from the earliest created in the 19th century, those produced under the WPA, and those being produced today.
Art & Culture
Great Books, Great Art
This website brings great works of art into the context of a broader liberal arts curriculum for teachers at all levels.
History & Social Studies
Democracy Web
Democracy Web is composed of an interactive world map and an online study guide for use by teachers, professors, and their upper secondary- and lower college-level students.
History & Social Studies
The War of 1812
Website for the PBS film War of 1812. Includes short scholarly essays on the American, British, Canadian & Native American perspectives on the war, the role of black sailors and soldiers, diplomatic maneuvers, James Madison’s leadership, and the military campaigns. Multiple lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school levels.
History & Social Studies
Ken Burns: Prohibition
Ken Burns documentary that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Website includes video clips, essays, lesson plans and interactive timeline & map.
Literature & Language Arts
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 the rich array of resources for yourself and your classroom and experience the history of one of the most widely read book in the English language.
Art & Culture
Picturing America on Screen
Picturing America on Screen is an NEH-funded documentary film project produced by Channel 13, WNET, New York. A group of 25 films created by 9 talented directors presents a sampling of Picturing American art ranging from the mystery and beauty of Anasazi pottery to the sculptural poetry of contemporary artist Martin Puryear.
History & Social Studies
U.S. History Resources
The U.S. History Resources assists students and teachers in high school U.S. history courses. For some, the understanding of the "big picture" gets lost in the sheer volume of facts, dates, people, and movements. When this happens, history can become more of a memorization exercise than a thoughtful analysis of how and why things occurred. This site attempts to simplify American history without making it simplistic.
History & Social Studies
Alexander Hamilton Exhibition
This NEH-funded exhibit offers a look at founding father Alexander Hamilton. The site features historical artifacts, virtual tours of Hamilton's life in New York and New Jersey, a document database, and a comprehensive timeline.
History & Social Studies
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.
Art & Culture
Modernist Journals Project
The MJP is a multi-faceted project that studies modernism and its rise in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature as its central concern. The project has a chronological range of 1890 to 1922 and a geographical range that includes wherever English language periodicals were published. The MJP also offers a range of genres that extends to the digital publication of books directly connected to modernist periodicals and other supporting materials for periodical study.
Art & Culture
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s.
History & Social Studies
Shays' Rebellion and the Making of the Nation
This site tells the story of Shays' Rebellion, an uprising against the Massachusetts government in 1786. It features essays on the topic, an encyclopedia of related figures, artwork, and maps. It also offers lesson plans. A timeline (1774-1820) presents key events over the years leading up to Shays' Rebellion, during the rebellion itself, and in its aftermath.
History & Social Studies
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.
History & Social Studies
Prince Among Slaves: The Cultural Legacy of Enslaved Africans
Website for the award-winning NEH-supported documentary film, Prince Among Slaves: The Cultural Legacy of Enslaved Africans. With the goal of deepening public understanding about the impact and legacy of American cultural and religious history in the antebellum era, and its influences on our pluralistic society today, the website features rich content expanding on three theme areas: identity, Muslims in early America, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Lessons included.
History & Social Studies
The National September 11 Memorial
The National September 11 Memorial is a tribute of remembrance and honor to the nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center site, near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993.
Art & Culture
Encyclopædia Iranica
The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. The academic reference work will eventually cover all aspects of Iranian history and culture as well as all Iranian languages and literatures, facilitating the whole range of Iranian studies research from archeology to political sciences.
Art & Culture
Afropop Worldwide -- NPR
This NPR series explores the vast variety of music that has African roots or influences, including Francophone nations as well as many Caribbean and Latin American countries. The series includes webcasts.
Art & Culture
Historic St. Augustine
Part of the University of Florida Digital collections, The Historic St. Augustine Collection, an NEH-funded endeavor, contains primary source material including historic interpretation notes, architectural sketches, drawings, archaeological field reports, maps and photographs related to properties in the historic district.
Art & Culture
1968 Exhibit
The Minnesota Historical Society, in partnership with the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum and the Oakland Museum of California, curated a major exhibit documenting this pivotal year. The year saw the peak of the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, riots at the Democratic National Convention, assertions of Black Power at the Olympic Games and feminist demonstrations at the Miss America pageant.
History & Social Studies
Revolution '67
Revolution '67 is an account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history — the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, NJ, outbreak in mid-July, Revolution '67 reveals how the disturbances began as spontaneous revolts against poverty and police brutality and ended as fateful milestones in America's struggles over race and economic justice. Voices from across the spectrum recall lessons as hard-earned then as they have been easy to neglect since.
Art & Culture
Automobile in American Life and Society
The automobile’s impact on American life is everywhere. Each of the site’s five sections contains two essays, plus a select annotated bibliography or bibliographic essay to guide further reading.
Art & Culture
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.
History & Social Studies
Digital History Reader
The Digital History Reader (DHR) is comprised of two main content areas, each broken out into modules. The U.S. History section provides materials covering important themes and issues from the colonial era to the present. The European History section, entitled "Modern Europe in a Global Context," explores links between European and world history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
History & Social Studies
West Virginia Encyclopedia
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of West Virginia is updated regularly to ensure that its contents are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Encyclopedia Virginia
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Virginia is updated regularly to ensure that its contents are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Handbook of Texas Online
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Texas is updated regularly to ensure that its contents are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Tennessee is updated regularly to ensure that its contents are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
South Carolina Encyclopedia
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of South Carolina is updated regularly to ensure that the contents are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Puerto Rico Encyclopedia
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of Puerto Rico is updated regularly to ensure that they are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
The Oregon Encyclopedia
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Oregon is updated regularly to ensure that they are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Online Nevada Encyclopedia
This collection of free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Nevada; updated regularly to ensure that they are accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Founders' Constitution
In this unique anthology, Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner draw on the writings of a wide array of people engaged in the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day.
History & Social Studies
Journey Through Hallowed Ground
July 21st marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia. Take this NEH-supported Journey with Stonewall Middle School students’ original podcasts of historic battles.
History & Social Studies
Maryland Online Encyclopedia
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Maryland; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
KnowLA: Encyclopedia of Louisiana
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Louisiana; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Guampedia
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of Guam; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
New Georgia Encyclopedia
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Georgia; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Connecticut; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Arkansas; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
History & Social Studies
Encyclopedia of Alabama
A free, authoritative source information about the history, politics, geography, and culture of the state of Alabama; updated regularly to ensure that the content is accurate and accessible. The editors are continually adding new entries, photographs, and maps, so check back frequently to see what's new.
Art & Culture
Troy
This educational website about ancient Troy consists of archaeological information, animations, geography, history, time lines, legends, myths and teaching and learning resources. The project is the result of a collaboration between the University of Cincinnati's CERHAS (Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites) and the Troia Projekt of the University of Tübingen, Germany. Major funding for this project has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Foreign Language
Secretaría de Educación Pública (México): Viaje por la historia de México
A journey through the history of Mexico with a rich comprehensive survey of Mexican history from Pre-Columbian times to the end of the twentieth century created by the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México). Advanced students. AP recommended.
Foreign Language
Museo Nacional de Historia: “¿Te lo dejaron de tarea?”
A homework help site which includes an overview of historical facts and biographical information on historical figures of Mexican history. The site is sponsored by the National Museum of History of Mexico, housed at the Chapultepec Castle. Advanced and native-speaking students. AP recommended.
Foreign Language
Literatura.org: Literatura argentina contemporánea
Argentine contemporary literature: texts and national authors' biographies, pictures, and audio files in addition to special publications and issues, and interactive stories. Intermediate through advanced. AP recommended.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA — Formación Cívica y Ética
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on civics, good citizenship, values, freedom, peace, and the challenges of modern society, along with illustrations and questionnaires, factsheets, exercises, and self-evaluations. Intermediate through advanced students. Pre-AP recommended.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA — Historia
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on history, covering the history of the beginnings of the civilizations that populated the Americas, including visuals, maps and activities, factsheets, exercises. Intermediate through advanced students. Pre-AP and AP recommended.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA — Español
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on Spanish, with high-quality visuals, activities; information on analyzing literature, the performing arts, and resources to teach vocabulary and writing. Intermediate through advanced students. Pre-AP recommended.
Art & Culture
Cine con Clase
From the Center for the Liberal Arts (CLA de la Universidad de Virginia/The University of Virginia), an NEH-funded site using films clips to teach Spanish language and culture. Advanced, AP, college level, and older students.
Foreign Language
BBC Mundo: BBCMundo.com
The site contains news of the world in Spanish. Advanced students. AP recommended.
History & Social Studies
Young American Heroes: True Stories of Young People in U.S. History
Young American Heroes tells stories of ordinary young people who have done extraordinary things in American history. Visitors can add to the stories already told here. Educators (teachers, parents, home-school learning coaches) can allow their students to use all of the video, graphic novel, and other tools available on the site for creating new story materials. The stories of these young American heroes are told on this website as well as through television programs shown on some PBS stations. This site includes graphic novel versions of the stories, selected videos, graphic novels, and other story materials that other users have created.
History & Social Studies
Abraham Lincoln at the Crossroads
Abraham Lincoln’s Crossroads is an educational game for advanced middle- and high-school students. Learn about Lincoln’s leadership by exploring the political choices he made. Resources Page keyed to each chapter provides links to relevant Websites on Lincoln and the Civil War, permitting students to explore issues in more depth.
Art & Culture
American Icons: A Radio Series from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
The NPR radio series focuses on fundamental works in American cultural history featuring one-hour podcasts that span our history: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the song "Dixie," Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Edith Wharton's novel The House of Mirth, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, I Love Lucy, Elvis, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Art & Culture
When Worlds Collide
This PBS website looks at how the Old and New Worlds mixed after Columbus landed on Hispaniola in 1492. The 90-minute documentary and website trace milestone events during the 16th century and illustrates how both the New World and the Old were radically transformed by contact. The extensive resources for teachers and students include a timeline, scholarly essays and lesson plans
History & Social Studies
On Being (formerly Speaking of Faith)
With NEH funding, the long running NPR program On Being (formerly called Speaking of Faith) has produced a series of biographical programs of influential 20th-century historic figures: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson, Takanka Iyotaka (Sitting Bull), Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Reinhold Niebuhr. These portraits focus on their lives and thought, their spiritual development, the effect of their work on others, and their impact in contemporary society — bringing special attention to their religious context and milieu.
History & Social Studies
Great Chicago Stories
This website from the Chicago History Museum and the NEH is a suite of twelve powerful historical fiction narratives and supporting educational materials inspired by artifacts in the collection of the museum. This award-winning resource for elementary and high school students can support and enhance classroom instruction as well as make valuable connections for students both pre- and post-field trip to the museum. Great Chicago Stories explores key themes of place, identity, and contested space while making local, regional, and national connections.
History & Social Studies
Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
Dēmos is a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. The aim is to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves. The earliest work on Dēmos was supported by grants from Furman University and the NEH.
History & Social Studies
Remembering Jim Crow
In this American Radio Works radio documentary podcast and website, funded by NEH, Americans—black and white—remember life in Jim Crow times.
History & Social Studies
Thurgood Marshall Before the Court
In this American Radio Works podcast and website, partially funded by NEH, Stephen Smith presents the story of Thurgood Marshall's remarkable career. In 1967, Marshall became the first African American named to the United States Supreme Court; but his most significant legal victory came when Marshall was on the other side of the bench, arguing the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Before he joined the Supreme Court, he was the nation's leading civil rights lawyer.
Art & Culture
Picturing U.S. History
Picturing United States History: An Interactive Resource for Teaching with Visual Evidence is an NEH funded digital project based on the belief that visual materials are vital to understanding the American past. This website provides online "Lessons in Looking," a guide to Web resources, forums, essays, reviews, and classroom activities to help teachers incorporate visual evidence into their classrooms. The Picturing U.S. History site will also serve as a clearing house for teachers interested in incorporating visual documents into their U.S. history, American studies, American literature, or other humanities courses.
History & Social Studies
Murder on Beacon Hill: The Parkman Murder
A gaming app based on an infamous murder in 19th-century Boston. A week before Thanksgiving, 1849, Dr. George Parkman, one of the richest men in Boston, went missing. Professor John Webster was arrested and put on trial for the murder. A superb history game.
Art & Culture
La Red de Radioifusoras y Televisoras Educativas y Culturales de México A.C.
Site contains authentic video and audio material that is educational or culturally informative and includes cuisine, dance, the arts, and news. Intermediate through advanced students.
Art & Culture
Radio Educación, México
From CONACULTA (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes), this site showcases authentic audio materials on cultural and educational news from Mexico (México). Advanced intermediate through advanced students.
Art & Culture
PhillyHistory.org
This NEH-supported site draws from the Philadelphia City Archive, one of the country's largest municipal archives. Discover 2 million photographs, dating from the late 1800s, with gorgeous images of Philadelphia and its arts, history, culture, and people. Apps for iPhone and Droid.
Art & Culture
Posadas and Other Traditions of Mexico
From Dirección General de Culturas Populares, a section of a larger site focusing on holidays celebrated in Mexico and their wider significance. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Nuestro Chile
Writings, heroes, history from Educarchile (portal educativo chileno). The site surveys the history, literature, and cultures of Chile. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Niños y Niñas, Tiempo Libre: MUNDO ANIMAL DE LA SELVA
From Portal Sepiensa, Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), one of six interactive microsites on animals living in various environments. The site has informative pages with activities on animals from the jungle and their characteristics. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Niños y Niñas, Tiempo Libre: MUNDO ANIMAL DEL MAR
From Portal Sepiensa Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), one of six interactive microsites on animals living in various environments. The site has informative pages with activities on animals from the sea and their characteristics. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Niños y Niñas, Tiempo Libre: MUNDO ANIMAL DE LA GRANJA
From Portal Sepiensa Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), one of six interactive microsites on animals living in various environments. The site has informative pages with activities on animals from the farm and their characteristics. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Niños y Niñas, Tiempo Libre: MUNDO ANIMAL DEL DESIERTO
From Portal Sepiensa, Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), one of six interactive microsites on animals living in various environments. The site has informative pages with activities on animals from the desert and their characteristics. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Niños y Niñas, Tiempo Libre: MUNDO ANIMAL DE LA CASA
From Portal Sepiensa Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), one of six interactive microsites on animals living in various environments. The site has informative pages with activities on a variety of animals and their characteristics. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Niños y Niñas, Tiempo Libre: MUNDO ANIMAL DEL BOSQUE
From Portal Sepiensa Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), one of six interactive microsites on animals living in various environments. The site has informative pages with activities on animals of the forest and their characteristics. Intermediate through advanced students.
Art & Culture
Museo Nacional del Prado Audio Guides
Introduction and access to children’s audio tours as a fun way to learn about the masterpieces of the museum’s rich collections. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA — Geografía
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on geography, including cultural geography such as human migration and world economy, as well as research assignments. Intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA — Español
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook mostly on writing various kinds of texts, Including texts, on world history, with exercises, or questionnaires, including paragraph summary and rewriting. Intermediate through advanced students. Pre-AP recommended.
Art & Culture
Libro de Texto de SEXTO DE PRIMARIA — Educación Artística
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on art education, including visuals, photographs, vocabulary words, analyses of works of art and art appreciation. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA — Historia
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on history (mostly Mexican history), including timelines, text, visuals, questionnaires, self-evaluation. Intermediate through advanced students and native-speaking students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA — Geografía
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on world geography, including the oceans, the continents, world capitals, mountain ranges, water bodies, among many others. The textbook is rich in visual resources. Intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA — Formación Cívica y Ética
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on civics, including chapters on democracy, human rights, freedom and opposition to discrimination, with exercises, illustrated texts and evaluations. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA — Español
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on Spanish, including analysis of texts, writing about history, reading and summarizing texts, rewriting texts on history, reading and writing poetry, reading comprehension, questionnaires and self-evaluations. Intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA — Formación Cívica y Ética
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook covering values, freedom, patriotism (Mexico), and peace, with illustrations and questionnaires, factsheets and self evaluations. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
El Viaje a Grecia
From the Ministerio de Educación de España, Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas, a journey to Greece with maps, virtual visits, videos, interactive texts, and interactives on Greek philosophers, with a complete collection of resources related to Greek philosophy and citizenship. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA — Español
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online literature and language textbook including extensive vocabulary, tongue teasers, questionnaires, self-evaluations, and factsheets for activities. Intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de SEGUNDO DE PRIMARIA — Formación Cívica y Ética
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on civics and ethics, with high quality visuals and authentic fables to teach values, history, and good citizenship. Intermediate students.
Art & Culture
Libro de Texto de TERCERO DE PRIMARIA – Educación Artística
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook with high quality visuals, vocabulary, and text on appreciating and analyzing the arts, both visual and performing, with activities that invite participation by students. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Historias del cielo. La astronomía a través de los mitos
From the Ministerio de Educación de España, Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas, a site on astronomy and the mythology of the heavens, with music and readings on figures of Greek mythology, the stars, and constellations. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
La diversidad cultural de México
From the Dirección General de Culturas Populares, this site contains a wealth of factual information about the multitude of indigenous cultures of Mexico and their wider significance. Intermediate through advanced students.
Foreign Language
Educabolivia: Ámerica precolombina: Mujeres
PowerPoint on Pre-Columbian women, with a teacher’s guide; Site covers the role of women in Pre-Columbian society through female images in art and sculptures. Intermediate through advanced older students.
Foreign Language
¡Azúcar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, showcases the life and art of Cuban-born Pop singer, Celia Cruz, with documents, photographs, and video and audio clips of her performances. Intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Proyecto Música Educa
From Juventudes Musicales of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, a site to learn basic letters and sounds in Spanish. Content is mostly auditory and is also recommended as a supplement to immersion and bilingual instruction. Early intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Niños 2010: Centenario Revolución, Bicentenario Independencia
Created in honor of the Bicentennial of Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution in 2010, this site is a resource for teaching about the Mexican Revolution and Mexican Independence. Early intermediate and younger native-speaking students.
Foreign Language
El caracol Serafín
From the Ministerio de Educación de España, Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas, a site for young children with a Flash-based story of the snail Serafín with sound and written captions. Beginning through early intermediate younger students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de SEGUNDO DE PRIMARIA — Español
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook for first grade elementary native Spanish speakers on the subject of Spanish with factsheets, activities, lessons, questionnaires, reading materials with visuals. Beginning through early intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA — Español
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook for first grade elementary native Spanish speakers with factsheets, activities, lessons, questionnaires, reading materials with visuals. Beginning through intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de SEGUNDO DE PRIMARIA — Educación Cívica y Ética
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on the subject of civics and ethics with high quality visuals and some history and anthropology on the origins of Pre-Columbian cultures. Early intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de PRIMERO DE PRIMARIA — Educación Artística
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on art education rich with images, to teach vocabulary and the appreciation of the arts, with spaces with activities for the students to analyze aspects of art education. Advanced beginning through intermediate students.
Foreign Language
Juego y Aprendo con mi material PREESCOLAR TERCER grado
A downloadable online interactive textbook from the third grade of preschool in Mexico, with visual resources for teachers to use for student activities. Beginning younger students.
Foreign Language
Juego y Aprendo con mi material PREESCOLAR SEGUNDO grado
A downloadable online interactive textbook from the second grade of preschool in Mexico, with visual resources for teachers to use for students activities. Beginning younger students.
Foreign Language
Educabolivia: Yo conozco las letras
PowerPoint presentation sponsored by the Educational Site for Bolivia, with an engaging, basic approach to teaching vocabulary using animals’ names and their corresponding letters of the alphabet. Beginning younger students.
Foreign Language
Cuentos y Leyendas Ilustrados por Niños
From the Ministerio de Educación de España, Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas, a highly interactive site using children’s stories and illustrations to teach vocabulary, grammar, and arithmetic. Beginning through intermediate younger students.
Foreign Language
Aprende y Diviértete con Don Quijote
Ministerio de Educación de España, Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas. This site introduces Cervantes and his novel Don Quixote to Spanish language students through engaging interactive activities. Beginning through early intermediate younger students.
Foreign Language
Museo Nacional del Prado
This is the official site of the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain, one of the most important museums in the world. The museum website offers games, audioguides for children as well as other age groups which explore the museum's vast collection.
Foreign Language
Mis Cositas Resources: Thematic Units
Teacher-created site with pdf files of thematic units on different topics, ranging from culture to tolerance in several foreign languages, including and featuring Spanish language thematic units and classroom resources.
Foreign Language
Mis Cositas Resources: Cuentos
Teacher-created resource with picture books and audio books in Spanish.
Foreign Language
Libro de Texto de CUARTO DE PRIMARIA — Educación Artística
From the Secretaría de Educación Pública (México), a searchable and downloadable online textbook on art education designed to teach students about art appreciation and personal creativity, with factsheets and exercises on the visual arts and the performing arts.
Foreign Language
Argentina Mundo Niños
From the Secretaría de Educación de Mendoza, a site with games, recipes, short stories, proverbs, interactive riddles, and classic fairytales.
Foreign Language
Audiolibros Niños 2010
A collection of audiobooks, including music and text. Early intermediate students and younger native-speaking students. Content pertains to the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Independence, which celebrated their Bicentennial and Centennial in the year 2010.
History & Social Studies
The Storm That Swept Mexico
A webpage for the PBS documentary, The Storm That Swept Mexico, with educational activities, interactives, resources and visuals for students and educators on the Mexican Revolution (1910).
History & Social Studies
Freedom Riders
Join the courageous band of students and civil rights activists called Freedom Riders in 1961 as they challenged segregation in the American South. An NEH-funded website from American Experience with video clips of the participants, interactive time lines, and interactive maps. A series of lesson plans are included.
Art & Culture
Homeland Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been home to diverse cultures, empires, and traditions — and is a place where an equally interconnected future will unfold. This website, funded in part by NEH, explores the geopolitical and cultural heritage of Afghanistan and compels new thinking about the region today. Teaching materials are included.
Literature & Language Arts
American Writers
A permanent archive for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the C‑SPAN series.
History & Social Studies
Crafting Freedom
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.
History & Social Studies
Teaching the Middle East
Discover the great currents of continuity and change throughout Middle Eastern history. Scholars from the University of Chicago include scholarly essays and lesson plans for your classroom.
Art & Culture
Rembrandt and Collections of His Art in America
This website is a product of a National Endowment for the Humanities Curriculum Development grant. It offers an online resource for teaching about the art of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn focusing on those works held in collections across the United States.
History & Social Studies
Mission US
Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history.
History & Social Studies
U.S.-Mexican War
This PBS site tells the dramatic story of a war in which Mexico lost almost half of its national territory to the United States. This national Emmy Award-winning documentary series explores the events surrounding the conflict between two neighboring nations struggling for land, power and identity. NOTE: there is also a Spanish version.
Art & Culture
Contested Homelands
The 400th anniversary celebration of Santa Fe is a timely opportunity for teachers from around the country to study the complex history and culture of the area by investigating the historic sites of Santa Fe and surrounding Pueblos.
Art & Culture
World of Dante
A multimedia research tool intended to facilitate the study of the Divine Comedy through a wide range of offerings. These include an encoded Italian text which allows for structured searches and analyses, an English translation, interactive maps, diagrams, music, a database, timeline and gallery of illustrations. Many of these features allow users to engage the poem dynamically through the integrated components of this site.
History & Social Studies
World History Matters
A resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and to further their understanding of the complex nature of world history, especially the issues of cultural contact and globalization. From the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University.
History & Social Studies
World Fact Book
Country profiles, detailed maps, and flags of the world from the Central Intelligence Agency.
History & Social Studies
Women Working, 1800-1930
Digitized texts and objects related to women working between 1800 and 1930, with a teacher resource page that provides five themed exhibits for incorporation in a lesson.
Art & Culture
Women of the West Museum
Online exhibits about the experiences of women in the American west.
History & Social Studies
Women of Our Time
A photographic exhibition of notable American women of the 20th century; from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
History & Social Studies
Women in World History
Reflects emphasis on comparative issues, a focus on contacts among different societies, and an attentiveness to global forces. (Center for History & New Media, George Mason University)
History & Social Studies
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Research projects on the role women have played in the struggle for social justice.
Art & Culture
Witchcraft in a Salem Village
The site provides accurate information about the history of the Salem witch trials using primary documents almost exclusively. These texts include complete court documents, profiles of those involved, rare books and treatises about witchcraft and the Salem trials, and original maps.
Literature & Language Arts
Wired for Books
For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Literature & Language Arts
William Blake Archive
An online library of the visionary British poet's illuminated publications.
Art & Culture
Whole Cloth
Learning units explore American technological history through developments in textile manufacturing.
History & Social Studies
WhiteHouseTapes.org
Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of conversations. This site is designed as a service to the research community by making freely available all of the presidential recordings, along with relevant research materials, so that scholars, teachers, students, and the public can hear and use these remarkable tapes for themselves.
Art & Culture
Western History: The Photography Collection
Created through the joint efforts of the Western History/Geneology Department of the Denver Public Library and the Colorado Historical Society, this site is an archive of more than one million images documenting the history of Colorado and the American West.
History & Social Studies
Wessels Living History Farm
This site is a story about the spirit of American agriculture. The physical site includes a house that David Wessels and his brother lived in for a period of time when they moved to town.
History & Social Studies
Web de Anza
Documentary resources on the expedition that led to the founding of San Francisco.
Art & Culture
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
The National Park Service produced this virtual tour of the historic events and sites of the Civil Rights Movement.
History & Social Studies
Booker T. Washington Papers
This is a completely free and searchable web site designed to provide researchers worldwide with full access to the thousands of pages comprising this 14-volume printed work, originally published by the University of Illinois Press.
Literature & Language Arts
Walt Whitman Archive
An electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and University of Iowa).
Art & Culture
VRoma
Take a tour through a virtual reconstruction of Rome! A community of scholars, both teachers and students, created these on-line resources for teaching Latin and ancient Roman culture.
Art & Culture
Voyages—The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world.
History & Social Studies
Voices of Democracy
The Voices of Democracy project is designed to promote the study of great speeches and public debates. The emphasis of the project is on the actual words of those who, throughout American history, have defined the country's guiding principles.
Art & Culture
Visualizing Cultures
On July 8, 1853, residents of feudal Japan beheld an astonishing sight – U.S. warships entering their harbor under a cloud of black smoke. These wonderful visual materials have never before been brought together in a comprehensive manner. This exhibit weaves Japanese and American graphics together with an analytical text to show how each side depicted the other at this moment in history.
History & Social Studies
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
The goal of this "visual sourcebook" is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society.
History & Social Studies
Virtual Jamestown
Primary documents on the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
Literature & Language Arts
Victorian Women Writers Project
Texts and contexts for students of 19th-century British literature.
Art & Culture
Victorian Web
Resources on literature, politics, science, and art during the Victorian age in Great Britain.
History & Social Studies
Valley of the Shadow
Multimedia resources bring to life two communities divided by Civil War.
Art & Culture
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection
This site features photographs, primary source documents, and audio/video resources focused on the humanities, natural sciences, and regional cultures of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Art & Culture
Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online
Games, resources, and exhibitions dedicated to uncovering da Vinci’s life and thoughts.
History & Social Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Straightforward access to the Museum's archives, including photographs, transcripts of lectures, and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust.
Art & Culture
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
This website from the University of Virginia presents a vast multimedia archive of primary material, 1830 to 1930, organized around Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal work. Educators should preview the material, particularly the various representations of race and slavery in the archive, to determine what is appropriate for use in their own classroom discussion.
History & Social Studies
U.S. Women's History Workshop
Resources for middle and high school study of gender issues in American history.
Art & Culture
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Education
Created by the Harry S. Truman Library, this webpage offers links to a panoply of programs and multimedia classroom resources for K-12 teachers and their students.
Art & Culture
Treasures@Sea
This site provides clear, multi-layered humanities and scientific content that seeks to educate elementary school students about the ocean and the life it contains.
Art & Culture
Trail Tribes
Historical maps and pages on the traditional culture of Native Americans along the Lewis and Clark trail.
Art & Culture
Traditions of the Sun
In our fast-paced modern world, we have become disconnected from the natural world, hence it is easy to take the Sun for granted. In ancient times, however, people understood and honored the Sun’s life-giving power and majesty.
Literature & Language Arts
Thoreau Reader
Annotated works of Henry David Thoreau and an extensive resource list on his life and works. Teaching Thoreau feature with further resources.
History & Social Studies
Thomas Gray Archive
This “interactive hypermedia repository” describes itself as a “dynamic online environment that serves as a reading aid for the interested general reader and as a research tool for professional readers of Gray’s work.”
History & Social Studies
Thomas A. Edison Papers
Encyclopedic database on Edison's life and work as an inventor and businessman.
History & Social Studies
Texas Tides
The Texas Tides Digital Learning Consortium provides east Texas related primary resources with emphasis on history, science, and multicultural resources.
Art & Culture
Texas Beyond History
A public education project of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin that interprets and shares the results of archeological and historical research on the cultural heritage of Texas.
Literature & Language Arts
Folger Shakespeare Library: Online Resources for Teachers
An educator's guide to teaching Shakespeare for students in grades K-12.
History & Social Studies
Teaching American History
A comprehensive and in-depth online resource on American History from the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs.
Art & Culture
TEACHERSERVE from the National Humanities Center
Teacher guides that provide balanced perspectives on a range of humanities topics.
Art & Culture
Tate Online
Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art. All works can be found on this site, each with its own information page.
Art & Culture
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, was designed from its inception (September 1995) as a dynamic reference work. In a dynamic reference work, each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public.
History & Social Studies
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Features comprehensive virtual tours of the institution’s current exhibits. A timeline maps the history of the United States through artifacts that are in the museum’s collection. The “Our Story In History” link leads to information on the museum’s educational programming that includes several interactive activities. Both teachers and students may browse the site’s recommended reading list, either by century, or ethnic history.
Art & Culture
Smithsonian Education
Provides leadership in education at the Smithsonian and produces a variety of programs, services, and resources for the education and museum communities.
Art & Culture
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum website is a colorful, comprehensive collection of over 3,000 of the museum's digitized works that includes an online calendar showcasing different artwork for each day of the month.
Art & Culture
Simon Schama's Power of Art
With lesson plans, classroom interactives, and an essay contest, this site specially features a venture into the lives and works of eight famous artists.
Literature & Language Arts
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
Interactive encyclopedia of literary forms and figures of speech.
Literature & Language Arts
Shakespeare for Kids
The Folger Shakespeare Library site for kids, with activities for children and families.
Literature & Language Arts
Scribbling Women
Online resources for teaching American women's literature using dramatizations produced by The Public Media Foundation
Art & Culture
SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
Links to information about India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries.
Literature & Language Arts
Romantic Circles
Texts and contexts for the study of Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and their contemporaries.
Art & Culture
River of Song
A companion site to the PBS series tracing American musical traditions along the Mississippi River.
Art & Culture
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is the largest museum in the Netherlands, and is internationally renowned for its exhibitions and publications and not only are these high quality products, but are also areas in which the museum extends the boundaries of scholarship and encourages new insights.
Literature & Language Arts
Representative Poetry Online
Site includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today.
History & Social Studies
Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles
Explores the story of the first black rebels to beat American slavery and leaders of the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history.
Art & Culture
Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704
On February 29, 1704, a force of French and Native allies launched a daring raid on the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts. This interactive site recounts the events, individuals, and historical background to this incident. A superb overview of early colonial America.
History & Social Studies
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Includes documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives (U. of Texas, Presidential Libraries).
History & Social Studies
Presidential Speeches
Documentary resources dedicated to all 43 American presidents, including presidential speeches, biographies, and other materials related to the presidential office.
History & Social Studies
Internet Public Library: Presidents of the United States
In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included.
History & Social Studies
Portal to Texas History
Searchable collection of objects and texts related to the history of Texas. Offers a “Young Scholars’ Page” for easy student access.
Literature & Language Arts
Poetry Foundation
Children’s section offers imaginative ways to incorporate poetry in children’s lives, interviews with poets, and more. Includes an interactive poetry tool for searching through poems.
Art & Culture
Plymouth Colony: Archive Project
The site presents a collection of searchable texts, including court records, Colony laws, 17th century texts, research and analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of colonists, probate inventories, wills, maps, town and fort plans, and architectural and material culture studies.
History & Social Studies
Picturing Modern America
Site contains interactive exercises designed to: Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920; Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources; Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources.
Art & Culture
Picturing America
An exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities which brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art.
Art & Culture
Perseus Project
Maps, texts, translations, and commentary for students of the ancient world.
History & Social Studies
Papers of George Washington
Digital library from the George Washington Archives, including historical materials on Washington's life and times, as well as a selection of Washington's papers.
History & Social Studies
Oyez Project: A Supreme Court Multimedia Database
Court opinions and multimedia resources on major constitutional issues.
Art & Culture
Outreach World
A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.
Art & Culture
Oriental Institute
The Oriental Institute, dedicated to studies of the ancient Near East, maintains a vast collection of artifacts from the region as well as a valuable Teacher Resource Center.
History & Social Studies
Oregon Trail
A companion site to the PBS series on the first wave of westward expansion.
Art & Culture
Online Library of Liberty
Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty makes available at no charge to the public hundreds of full-length classic texts which have contributed to our understanding of the nature of individual liberty, limited and constitutional government, and the free market.
Literature & Language Arts
Online Books Page
Exhaustive list of text-encoded books available for free online through various sources. Also includes banned book feature.
History & Social Studies
Ohio Memory
The Ohio Memory Project brings together primary sources from all parts of the state in order to provide access to the rich, historical treasures of Ohio.
Art & Culture
Odyssey Online
Resources for elementary and middle school students to study ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Sub-Saharan cultures.
Art & Culture
NYPL Digital Schomburg Images of 19th Century African-Americans
Sponsored by the New York Public Library, this site contains an extensive primary source archive of photographs, woodcuts, and other images of 19th century African-Americans from the Schomburg Collection.
Art & Culture
NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of digital images from NYPL collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, rare prints and photographs, and more.
Art & Culture
NOVA: Pyramids
Jointly designed by NOVA and PBS, this site gives elementary and middle school students an overview of Egyptology and the continuing archaeological excavation of the Pyramids at Giza.
Art & Culture
NGAKids
Affiliated with the National Gallery of Art, the site hopes to make art and its concepts more accessible to young, self-directed Internet users.
History & Social Studies
Newcomers to New York
New York City has welcomed more immigrants to America than any other city. This interactive map website is an engaging and informative tool on the history of Manhattan and its diverse inhabitants.
Art & Culture
New York Philharmonic Kidzone
A comprehensive education on the workings of a major orchestra. Includes interactivities and games.
History & Social Studies
New Perspectives on the West
Guided tour through the history of the American West, following in the footsteps of filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives.
Art & Culture
New Deal Network
Documentary resources for the study of FDR and his Depression-era programs.
History & Social Studies
New Americans
A PBS-produced site that addresses both historical and contemporary immigration issues in the United States.
History & Social Studies
Naval Historical Center
An extensive view of the naval history of the United States of America, including a virtual tour of the Navy’s exhibit on the USS Constitution.
Art & Culture
History: Native American
The University of Washington Libraries major research databases and other resources for finding primary and secondary sources for Native American history.
Art & Culture
National Portrait Gallery
Portraits in all media, and archives dedicated to the portraits of men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States.
History & Social Studies
National Park Service: Discover History
The National Park Service site provides visitors with educational resources that deal with America's past. The site offers links to people, places, objects, and events of the past.
Art & Culture
National Museum of the American Indian
Interactive exhibits on the history, arts, and culture of the Native Americans.
Art & Culture
National Museum of African Art
Working from the collection, the museum has many kinds of resources that it makes available. These include teacher workshops, videos for loan as well as online curriculum you can use in your classroom.
Art & Culture
National Geographic Education
Cultural, educational, and informational resources for teaching geography and world history.
Art & Culture
National Gallery, UK
Official site of one of Britain’s most famous art galleries, with an educators section providing high-resolution zoomable pictures and more.
Art & Culture
National Gallery of Art
The site spans a wide variety of topics with many in-depth studies and online tours of particular artists, media, and movements from exhibits housed in the National Gallery of Art.
History & Social Studies
National Constitution Center
The National Constitution Center is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of, and appreciation for, the Constitution, its history, and its contemporary relevance.
Literature & Language Arts
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A richly documented portrait of the author of The Scarlet Letter.
History & Social Studies
PBS: Napoleon
The site includes an episode guide, a handful of interactive features such as an interactive simulation of the Battle of Waterloo, a closed bulletin board, video clips, and a timeline of Napoleon's life. Four online classroom guides are designed for middle and high school classrooms.
History & Social Studies
Museum of the History of Science
Produced by the Oxford Museum of the History of Science, this site uses online exhibitions, essays, and images to chart important events in the history of scientific development.
Art & Culture
Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
Annotated guide to Shakespeare resources on the Internet, including links to primary texts, information on the Globe Theatre, and aspects of Shakespearean theatrical performance.
Art & Culture
Mozart Forum
It is the intent of the Founders of the MozartForum to improve the intelligent discussion of Mozart and his world on the Internet. The Founders, coming from all backgrounds and with different perspectives on the subject of Mozart, have pooled resources and talents to create and maintain such a website.
Art & Culture
Modern American Poetry
Described as an online journal and multimedia companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry, produced by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the site includes articles analyzing specific poems and the oeuvre of 161 modern American poets.
Literature & Language Arts
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
Based on a PBS lecture series narrated by Michael Palin, this site provides younger students with an overview of the life of Ernest Hemingway.
History & Social Studies
Mexico For Kids
Kid-friendly information on the history, government, and biodiversity of Mexico, as well as games.
Art & Culture
Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast
Opera streaming on-demand and a comprehensive collection of opera study guides.
Art & Culture
Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world as illustrated by the museum's collection. Browse by work of art, timeline, thematic essay, and more.
Art & Culture
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The site displays over 3,500 objects from its collection; in addition, it offers online overviews of its recent exhibitions, a detailed timeline of art history, onsite learning programs, and more.
History & Social Studies
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
A center for study of the civil rights leader and his era.
Literature & Language Arts
Mark Twain in His Times
Broad range of materials on Mark Twain the writer and his times.
History & Social Studies
Making of America
Searchable repository of monographs, journals, and imprints from 1840-1900 from Cornell University Library.
Art & Culture
Louvre Museum
Official site with "Eye-opener" and “Personal Space” features for in-depth and custom viewing of the Louvre's great collection.
History & Social Studies
Louisiana Digital Library
Online library of over 84,000 digital materials about Louisiana's history, culture, places, and people.
Art & Culture
Lost Museum
This museum is a fascinating, interactive 3-D look at what was once the United States’ most visited museum – until it mysteriously burned to the ground in 1865. Visitors can explore the virtual reconstruction and embedded resources, which can be used with classroom lessons, along with clues to the mystery of who set the fire.
Art & Culture
Lost and Found Sound (NPR's All Things Considered)
An online treasure of recordings that were thought lost or obscure which covers almost the whole spectrum of the American experience since the beginning of recorded sound.
Art & Culture
Livius.org
Livius, Articles of Ancient History. A website on ancient history written and maintained since 1996 by the Dutch historian Jona Lendering.
Art & Culture
Living Room Candidate (Museum of the Moving Image)
The Internet is no longer a novelty, but is rather a necessary campaign tool. Campaigns have learned how to operate in an increasingly complex online ecology, getting their messages across through a variety of means.
Art & Culture
LiTgloss
The LiTgloss project is a collection of texts written in languages other than English. The texts are of literary, cultural, or historical interest to speakers of English, and likely (we think) to be better appreciated if read in the original language.
Foreign Language
Lire les Femmes Écrivains et les Littératures Africaines
Bilingual collection of material on Francophone African literature written by women since the 1970s.
History & Social Studies
Lincoln/Net
Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1830-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating antebellum Illinois.
History & Social Studies
Lincoln Institute
The Lincoln Institute concentrates on providing support and assistance to scholars and groups involved in the study of the life of American's 16th President and the impact he had on the preservation of the Union, the emancipation of black slaves, and the development of democratic principles which have found worldwide application.
Literature & Language Arts
Library of America
A nonprofit publisher dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America's best and most significant writing in durable form. Includes podcasts and excerpts
Foreign Language
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
Provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution.
History & Social Studies
Liberty!
The web site of the PBS series about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation. Newspaper accounts, interactive games, dramatizations, and a chronology of the Revolution.
History & Social Studies
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Informational and archival resources used in the production of the PBS series.
Art & Culture
Learning from London Town
This site presents opportunities for study of the 18th century lost town of London, Maryland, from the integrated perspective of archaeological find, archival records, and material culture.
Art & Culture
Learner.Org
Annenberg Learner produces educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching.
Art & Culture
Latin Literature
Sponsored by Kentucky Educational Television, this site supports an online course in the study of Latin and offers additional resources on Roman culture.
Art & Culture
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Resources for the study of South American, Central American, and Caribbean culture.
Art & Culture
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Texts, images, and commentary for the study of the Middle Ages.
Literature & Language Arts
KateChopin.org
The official website of the Kate Chopin International Society. Provides a network and forum for the study of American author Kate Chopin (1850-1904). The society encourages and supports scholarship and activities that illuminate Chopin’s contribution to the American literary tradition, and it seeks to preserve her literary significance for future generations.
History & Social Studies
Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
The site features 13 works by Chopin, including The Awakening, a transcript of the documentary, interviews with a Chopin descendent and Chopin scholar, and a basic chronology of Chopin's life.
History & Social Studies
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Annotated journals of Lewis and Clark during their expedition. Images, maps, and audio readings of scholarship on Lewis and Clark.
History & Social Studies
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson and the only home in America on the elite World Heritage List of the United Nations, is owned and operated by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (formerly the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation).
Art & Culture
Jazz: A Ken Burns Film
This highly interactive site offers many ways to introduce jazz as a musical genre and cultural tradition. An interactive map features hot places for jazz in America; a lounge defines jazz with recordings of key elements and genres; and audio files feauture nine different songs of nine artists. Artists featured on the site include: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan.
Art & Culture
Internet Public Library
Hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology and aided by a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science, this site contains a vast collection of online texts, including novels, newspapers, magazines, and tutorials for students of all ages.
Art & Culture
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
A library of texts and translations recording all aspects of medieval life.
Foreign Language
International Children's Digital Library
The mission of the ICDL is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old.
History & Social Studies
Indivisible: Stories of American Community
Indivisible, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, documents, through photographs and interviews, the struggles and achievements of 12 communities that have made differences on their residents. The American communities, from Chicago's Southwest side to the North Pacific Coast of Alaska, each face different challenges, but their stories all feature individuals of exceptional vision and commitment.
History & Social Studies
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
Until recently, people of African descent have not been counted as part of America's migratory tradition. The transatlantic slave trade has created an enduring image of black men and women as transported commodities, and is considered the defining element in the construction of the African Diaspora, but it is centuries of additional movements that have given shape to the nation we know today. This is the story that has not been told.
Art & Culture
Ȋle en ȋle
This French-language site, designed and hosted at the City University of New York and associated with a French non-profit educational association, focuses on the history, society, and literature of various French-speaking islands located throughout the world.
History & Social Studies
History of Jim Crow
The Jim Crow laws encompassed every part of American life, from politics to education to sports. This site provides a comprehensive look at the 80-year period of segregation in the U.S.
History & Social Studies
History Now
A quarterly on events in American History from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The site also contains lesson plans, interactivities, and other educational resources.
History & Social Studies
History Matters
Designed for teachers of U.S. History Survey courses at high schools and colleges around the world, History Matters provides an excellent starting point for exploring American history on the Web. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. It emphasizes materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and involves students in analyzing and interpreting evidence.
History & Social Studies
Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
This resource for K-12 teachers and students developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library is designed to bring historically significant map documents into your classroom.
History & Social Studies
Hawthorne in Salem
This site draws on the collections of The Peabody Essex Museum, the House of Seven Gables Historic Site, and the Salem Maritime National Historic site. It features critical approaches to Hawthorne’s work and includes a timeline, an image gallery, and links to several electronic editions.
Art & Culture
Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
Created by the School of Information at the University of Michigan with exhibits from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, this site gives students an exhaustive overview of the culture, community, and organizations of the Harlem Renaissance.
Art & Culture
Guggenheim Museum
The museum took as its basis the radical new forms of art being developed by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian in the 20th century.
Art & Culture
Great Websites for Kids
Created by the American Library Association, this portal website helps parents and children find age appropriate educational materials on the Internet.
History & Social Studies
Great War Primary Documents Archive
Documents, memoirs, and images for study of World War I.
History & Social Studies
Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Online exhibition of one of the most famous events in American history.
History & Social Studies
Samuel Gompers Papers
The Samuel Gompers Papers collects, annotates, and makes available, primary sources of American labor history. Founded by Stuart Kaufman in 1974, the project has published two microfilm series of union records and nine volumes of Gompers' papers.
Art & Culture
Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories
Created by the Oakland Museum of California, this site gives a comprehensive look into the California Gold Rush of the nineteenth-century.
Art & Culture
Goethe Institute
An international collection of resources for study of the German language and German culture.
History & Social Studies
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History offers a variety of resources to promote the study of American history, including online collections, archives, teaching modules, and links to valuable educational resources.
Art & Culture
Getty Museum
One of the World's greatest collections of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
History & Social Studies
Galileo Project
The history of modern science reflected in the life of its seminal practitioner.
Foreign Language
French as a Second Language Activities for Kids
Site for learning French with crossword puzzles, drawing, and quizzes. Also includes an extended discussion of pedagogical strategies for teaching French.
Art & Culture
Freer Gallery of Art and Sackler Gallery
The gallery houses a world-renowned collection of art from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East.
History & Social Studies
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
Historical papers chronicling emancipation during the Civil War.
History & Social Studies
Frederick Douglass Papers Project
Makes the papers of this prolific African American figure in his historical context available to a broad audience.
Foreign Language
Français Interactif
Explores the French language and culture by following the lives of real students from the University of Texas who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. In addition to following the exploits of these UT students, you will also watch interviews of native French speakers, as well as scenes of day-to-day interactions in France.
History & Social Studies
First World War.com
This website provides an overview of the First World War, and is intended at a general rather than academic readership.
History & Social Studies
F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary
The site offers a comprehensive view of F. Scott Fitzgerald's life, works, and influence on American literature. Links to audio clips, film clips, and quotations from Fitzgerald and other notable figures deepen visitors' understanding of the author.
History & Social Studies
Exploring the West from Monticello
Multimedia resources for the study of the time from Columbus up to the expedition of Lewis and Clark.
History & Social Studies
Exploring Constitutional Law
This site explores some of the great issues and controversies that surround our Nation's founding document.
Art & Culture
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
A collection of essays, images, and primary and secondary sources focusing on a range of ancient cultures.
History & Social Studies
Exploring Amistad
Primary documents and archival material surrounding the shipboard rebellion and ensuing legal, political, and popular debate.
Art & Culture
Explore PA History
Demonstrates the rich historical importance of Pennsylvania via maps, timelines, essays, primary documents, and lesson plans.
Art & Culture
Explore Art
This interactive feature on the Rubin Museum of Art website offers the opportunity to journey behind works of Himalayan art, revealing the stories, ideas and beliefs that inspired them, and then consider how peoples of other cultures have expressed ideas on similar issues through their own artistic traditions.
Art & Culture
End of Europe's Middle Ages
The End of Europe's Middle Ages is designed to assist those students engaged in Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern studies who lack a background in medieval European history.
History & Social Studies
Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Collection of selected historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the U.S.
History & Social Studies
U.S. Electoral College
This website, maintained by the Office of the Federal Register, contains information and statistics about past and present presidential elections.
History & Social Studies
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (George Washington University)
A project dedicated to bringing Eleanor Roosevelt's writings (and radio and television appearances) on democracy and human rights before an audience as diverse as the ones she addressed.
Art & Culture
EarthWorks (University of Cincinnati)
The traveling exhibit "EarthWorks: Virtual Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley" presents interactive virtual reconstructions of some of the most spectacular ancient architecture in the world.
History & Social Studies
E Pluribus Unum
The E Pluribus Unum Project is designed for use by students, teachers, and other researchers who wish to examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life: the 1770s, the 1850s, and the 1920s.
Art & Culture
DSOKids, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Bring a virtual music room to your class! Engage in musical games, check out Listen and Learn, access the lesson database, and more…
History & Social Studies
Civil War Women
From the Duke University Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library: Resources by and about women during the Civil War.
Art & Culture
Documenting the American South
Growing collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.
History & Social Studies
Our Documentary Heritage
From the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). Includes images of historical documents and narratives, placing them in a regional, state, or national context, and, where appropriate, includes transcriptions of each record as well as helpful links for further research.
Art & Culture
Do History
The site centers upon the historical work surrounding the diary of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife. The core of the site is Martha's actual diary, which can be browsed or searched online, but the site also includes a large archive of primary sources about Martha and colonial America.
History & Social Studies
Discovering Lewis and Clark
A detailed synopsis of the expedition by historian Harry Fritz is enhanced by photographs, interactive maps, audio files, and illustrations from the expedition journals.
Art & Culture
Digital Scriptorium (Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley)
An image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.
History & Social Studies
Digital Roman Forum
A virtual model of the Roman Forum as it would have appeared in 400 CE.
Art & Culture
Digital Karnak Project
The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural, ritual, religious, economic, social and political history. We invite you to experience Karnak – to learn about an ancient site that still resonates today because of its monumental pylons, towering columns, stunning reliefs and architectural marvels.
History & Social Studies
Digital History
“Using new technologies to enhance teaching and learning,” Digital History includes a variety of primary and secondary documents, maps, images, audio archives of speeches and lectures by historians, a database of more than 1,500 annotated links, and a rich interactive timeline.
Art & Culture
National Archives Teachers' Resources
Historical documents, activities, and training for educators and students.
Art & Culture
Detroit Institute of Arts
An electronic gallery of artwork from all periods and cultures.
Foreign Language
Dartmouth Dante Project
A searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy -- the Commedia.
Foreign Language
DanteWorlds
A richly visual site providing compelling images, both new graphics and classic artwork, to supplement a classroom reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Includes character studies.
History & Social Studies
Crisis at Fort Sumter
An interactive historical simulation and decision-making program that reconstructs the dilemmas of policy formation and decision making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861.
Art & Culture
Conversations with History
Interviews with a broad range of historical figures from the latter half of the twentieth century.
History & Social Studies
This Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle
Devoted to research and scholarly exchanges on the Constitution. Through the sites activities and those of others, students will come to a greater awareness and comprehension of the American Constitution.
History & Social Studies
Constitution Day
Celebrating the day the United States Constitution was signed, on September 17, 1787, and sent to the individual states for debate and ratification.
Art & Culture
Conquistadors
Focusing on the Spanish Conquistadors' entry into the New World and their impact on indigenous populations, the site is geared towards middle and high school classrooms.
Art & Culture
Connecticut History Online
Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a collaboration between the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Mystic Seaport, and the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
History & Social Studies
CongressLink
Rich resource of information about the legislative processes of the United States Congress.
History & Social Studies
Coming of the American Revolution
By investigating the lives and events recorded in newspapers, official documents and personal correspondence from this collection, students will immerse themselves in the past and discover the fears, friction and turmoil that shaped these tumultuous times.
History & Social Studies
Columbus and the Age of Discovery
Multiple perspectives on the voyage to the New World.
Art & Culture
Explore Thomas Cole
A project of The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, an affiliated site of the National Park Service. The National Endowment for the Humanities funded its creation. Painter, poet, and essayist Thomas Cole (1801-1848) responded to this quest by creating pristine landscape paintings unlike any yet seen in America.
History & Social Studies
Cold War Files: Interpreting History through Documents
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources from the former Communist world. The Project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to accelerate the process of integrating new sources, materials and perspectives from the former "Communist bloc" with the historiography of the Cold War which has been written over the past few decades largely by Western scholars reliant on Western archival sources.
Art & Culture
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art permanent collection includes more than 36,000 objects. In this database you will find records for all of the objects in the collection.
Foreign Language
Civilisation française
Multimedia French language and cultural activities and resources developed by Marie Ponterio at State University of New York, Cortland.
History & Social Studies
Civics Online
Civics Online is a collaborative, online project providing a rich array of primary sources, professional development tools, and interactive activities to facilitate the teaching of civics.
Art & Culture
City/La Ciudad
Highlighting the plight of four recent Latin American immigrants in the United States, the site tells stories of loss, love, frustration, hope, and the struggle to build their lives, communities, and their dreams.
History & Social Studies
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
History & Social Studies
China Historical GIS
A database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE. CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps.
History & Social Studies
Children in Urban America
An online archive funded by Marquette University and the National Endowment for the Humanities that shows the many ways children experienced city life during the last century and a half.
Art & Culture
Center for the Liberal Arts
Maintained by the University of Virginia, this site provides educators with a wealth of humanities resources for their classrooms and help in using technology effectively.
History & Social Studies
Center for History and New Media
The center uses digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
Art & Culture
U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
This website, established to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ flight, has a “comprehensive collection of outstanding educational essays, multimedia and links regarding the history of flight.”
Art & Culture
Cave of Lascaux
Sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, the site contains captivating images and information about the cave of Lascaux. Links included are to other archaeological sites, the history of the discovery of the cave, and interactive exercises for teachers and students.
Art & Culture
Casa de Joanna
The site is a portal to French and Spanish language resources on the Internet. The topics include art, French and Spanish, and teacher resources. The links are annotated and indexed as an activity, resource, teacher link, or tool.
History & Social Studies
CampSilos: The Grout Museum Excursion
Activities designed to help students understand, interpret and appreciate the story of immigration to the Midwest.
History & Social Studies
C-SPAN Classroom
Video clips on the three branches of government and the Constitution, accompanied by discussion questions for the classroom.
History & Social Studies
Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History
Collection of short essays and scholarship on early Americans’ transport and subsequent use of Old World technologies in building up America.
Art & Culture
Building Big
The site brings bridges, skyscrapers, tunnels, and dams to the Internet for those who want to learn more about man-made giants that fill our communities. It features introductions to the engineering of structures, interactive engineering labs, building designs challenges, a databank of large structures, and interviews with engineers.
Foreign Language
Bucknell Russian Studies Department
Bucknell's Russian Studies Department hosts a multi-layered reference on the history, culture, and language of the Russian people. Click on "Resources" to learn more.
Art & Culture
British Academy
The United Kingdom's National Academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is designed to inspire, recognize, and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.
Art & Culture
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events
A comprehensive timeline on American history from the mid-17th century through 1920, as well as a robust listing of American literary movements.
Art & Culture
Black Ships & Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
An MIT open courseware unit on how Japanese artists visualized the arrival and effects of Commodore Perry's fleet in 1853.
History & Social Studies
Bill of Rights Institute
The mission of the Bill of Rights Institute is to educate young people about the words and ideas of America's Founders, the liberties guaranteed in our Founding documents, and how our Founding principles continue to affect and shape a free society.
History & Social Studies
Bethlehem Digital History Project
Provides online access to digitized primary source materials, transcriptions, translations and contextual information relating to the early history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1844. It is the aim of this project to encourage broad or specialized exploration of local, regional and national history.
History & Social Studies
Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library
Dedicated to educating the public about Franklin’s enduring legacy and inspiring renewed appreciation of the values he embodied.
History & Social Studies
BackStory with the American History Guys
BackStory is a brand-new public radio program that brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today.
History & Social Studies
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
An online library of documents in law and diplomacy from the 16th to the 20th Century.
Art & Culture
At Home in the Heartland Online
In-depth materials on family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present.
Art & Culture
Asia Society: Education and Learning
A gateway to educational resources on the history and cultures of Asia.
Art & Culture
Asia Society: Policy and Politics
Information about all aspects of Asian culture, particularly Asian current affairs. Also available are links to pronunciation guides for Asian languages. This site also contains constructive activities for elementary grade students.
Art & Culture
Asia For Educators
An initiative of the East Asian Curriculum Project and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University, Asia for Educators (AFE) is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels.
Art & Culture
Art Safari
The Museum of Modern Art designed this site to instruct young children in viewing and creating art.
Art & Culture
Art Institute of Chicago
Assembles a significant amount of interactive content associated with the collections at the Art Institute of Chicago. Visitors can view art, read descriptions of particular works, play art games, and explore the galleries. The site also offers a page devoted to students and teachers.
Art & Culture
Art and Life in Africa Online
African works of art in the context of the lives of African peoples.
Art & Culture
Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution
Resources on the geography, history, and peoples of the Arctic.
Art & Culture
Antislavery Literature Project
Primary source texts on the antislavery movement as well as podcasts and videos. Accompanied by teachers’ guides.
Art & Culture
Anthropology Collection, AMNH
Over 200,000 objects from North American, Mexican & Central American, South American, African, Asian, and Pacific Ethnographic Collections with images and detailed description, linked to the original catalogue pages, field notebooks, and photographs are available online. (American Museum of Natural History)
History & Social Studies
Anne Frank House
The Anne Frank House in the center of Amsterdam was the hiding place where Anne Frank wrote her famous diary during World War Two. Excellent Holocaust and World War Two resource.
Literature & Language Arts
American Verse Project
Electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.
History & Social Studies
American Studies at the University of Virginia
The site is a repository of scholarly concentrations on such humanities topics as the 1930s, cultural maps, American literature, avant-garde and postmodern art exhibitions, and the U.S. Capitol building as an American icon. The site houses hypertexts of several American authors, including: Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
History & Social Studies
American President
A wealth of information about the history of the American Presidency, including an archive of essays on the year 2000 general election.
History & Social Studies
American Presidency Project
Archive containing over 77,000 documents related to the study of the Presidency. “Today in History” feature highlights a Presidential address or event.
Art & Culture
American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
Archival resources for exploring many aspects of American history and culture.
Art & Culture
American Masters
An ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of America’s most outstanding cultural artists.
History & Social Studies
American Journeys
Digitized texts and images charting eyewitness experience and accounts of exploration in North America, from the Vikings to the pioneers.
History & Social Studies
American Experience
As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, PBS's American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its twentieth season, the series has produced over 200 programs and garnered every major broadcast award.
Art & Culture
American Collection: An Educator's Site
Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides.
Art & Culture
American Centuries: View from New England
This website is unique in many design features that facilitate successful use by educators and students. It includes a large library of primary resources, curricula, and interactive student activities; most of them presented in age-appropriate, user-friendly formats.
Foreign Language
American Association of Teachers of French
Resources on France and global French culture.
History & Social Studies
Alexis De Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America
This site—hosted by C-SPAN—is based on a tour of De Tocqueville's route through America.
History & Social Studies
Africans in America
A companion site to the PBS series tracing the struggle against slavery.
History & Social Studies
African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
Historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women in the nineteenth-century.
Art & Culture
African Voices
Explore African art, history, and political and social themes through essays, timelines, images, and games.
Art & Culture
African Studies Center
Cultural, educational, and statistical resources covering the African continent. From the University of Pennsylvania.
History & Social Studies
African American History Month
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
Literature & Language Arts
Academy of American Poets
Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this site contains biographies of poets and the texts of hundreds of poems, many with images and sound files.
Art & Culture
A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico
An online exhibit celebrating the art and culture of a diverse society.
History & Social Studies
First Federal Congress Project
Chartered by the University Research Center affiliated with the Department of History at the George Washington University, this site has a dual mission: collecting, researching, editing and publishing the universally acclaimed Documentary History of the First Federal Congress, 1789-1791, and serving as a research center on the most important and productive Congress in U.S. history.