EDSITEment | The Best of the Humanities on the Web

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The following websites have been approved for use in the classroom by EDSITEment. Browse websites by subject area.

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Literature & Language Arts

"Shakespeare Uncovered"

WNET’s Shakeapeare Uncovered series tells the story behind the stories of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Six episodes combine history, biography, performance and analysis and personal passion of each host as they conduct interviews with actors, scholars and directors from key locations and include video of performances.

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.

Art & Culture

A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico

An online exhibit celebrating the art and culture of a diverse society.

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.

Historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women in the nineteenth-century.

History & Social Studies

Africans in America

A companion site to the PBS series tracing the struggle against slavery.

Art & Culture

Afropop Worldwide — PRI

This PRI 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.

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.

A wealth of information about the history of the American Presidency, including an archive of essays on the year 2000 general election.

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

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.

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.

Literature & Language Arts

American Verse Project

Electronic archive of American poetry prior to 1920.

Literature & Language Arts

American Writers

A permanent archive for educators, researchers and every one interested in the writers featured in the C‑SPAN series.

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

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.

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)

Art & Culture

Antislavery Literature Project

Primary source texts on the antislavery movement as well as podcasts and videos. Accompanied by teachers’ guides.

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.

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

ArchNet

A virtual library of images and field data for archaeological study.

Art & Culture

Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution

Resources on the geography, history, and peoples of the Arctic.

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

At Home in the Heartland Online

In-depth materials on family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present.

History & Social Studies

Atlas of Historic New Mexico

NEH affiliate New Mexico Humanities Council's online Atlas of Historic New Mexico maps contains twenty historic maps of New Mexico, annotated with descriptions by the map makers and others people living, working, and exploring in New Mexico at that time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Foreign Language

BBC Mundo: BBCMundo.com

The site contains news of the world in Spanish. Advanced students. AP recommended.

History & Social Studies

Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search view, clip, and save newspaper pages from 1836 through 1922, as well as find information about American newspapers published between 1690 and the present.

History & Social Studies

Churchill and America

A collection of teacher resources on Winston Churchill, including lesson plans for grades 5-12.

Multiple perspectives on the voyage to the New World.

Celebrating the day the United States Constitution was signed, on September 17, 1787, and sent to the individual states for debate and ratification.

History & Social Studies

Constitution USA

This four-hour PBS series introduces viewers to some of today’s major constitutional debates—free speech in the digital age, same-sex marriage, voting rights, separation of church and state, presidential power in the post-9/11 world, to name just a few—and the fascinating stories of the people they affect every day.

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.

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

Conversations with History

Interviews with a broad range of historical figures from the latter half of the twentieth century.

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

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.

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.

Art & Culture

Documenting the American South

Growing collection of primary materials documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Comprehensive resources related to philosophy.

Foreign Language

EspañOlé

This site, maintained by retired Spanish language teacher Susan Seraphine-Kimel, aggregates and annotates hundreds websites for the teaching and study of Spanish language.

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

Explore PA History

Demonstrates the rich historical importance of Pennsylvania via maps, timelines, essays, primary documents, and lesson plans.

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

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

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.

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.

The gallery houses a world-renowned collection of art from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East.

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

French Ministry of Culture

A gateway to the cultural resources of France.

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

Great War Primary Documents Archive

Documents, memoirs, and images for study of World War I.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

History & Social Studies

iCivics

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.

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.

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.

Literature & Language Arts

John Steinbeck: A Voice for a Region, A Voice for America

This National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers held at the Steinbeck Institute, San Jose State University, contains a rich collection of scholarly essays, lesson plans, maps, and images covering Steinbeck's work and his world.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

History & Social Studies

Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl

This PBS documentary by Ken Burns chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. Survivors share their memories of those years of suffering and perseverance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

History & Social Studies

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Informational and archival resources used in the production of the PBS series.

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.

Foreign Language

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution

Foreign Language

Libro de Texto de QUINTO DE PRIMARIA — Historia

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.

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.

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.

Foreign Language

Lire les Femmes Écrivains et les Littératures Africaines

Bilingual collection of material on Francophone African literature written by women since the 1970s.

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.

Art & Culture

Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Regions

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

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.

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

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

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Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and the African Atlantic World

This exhibition produced by The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA and available at the National Museum of African Art online archive explores the visual cultures and histories of Mami Wata, the world of water deities and their powers. It demonstrates how art both reflects and actively contributes to beliefs and religious practices revealing the potency of images to shape the lives of people, communities, and societies.

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.

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.

Literature & Language Arts

Mark Twain in His Times

Broad range of materials on Mark Twain the writer and his times.

History & Social Studies

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project

A center for study of the civil rights leader and his era.

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.

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 Opera International Radio Broadcast

Opera streaming on-demand and a comprehensive collection of opera study guides.

History & Social Studies

Mexico For Kids

Kid-friendly information on the history, government, and biodiversity of Mexico, as well as games.

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.

Foreign Language

Mis Cositas Resources: Cuentos

Teacher-created resource with picture books and audio books in Spanish.

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.

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.

History & Social Studies

Mission US: For Crown or Colony

Mission US is a multimedia project featuring free interactive adventure games set in different eras of U.S. history.

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.

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

Mozart Forum

This free educational site is dedicated to a discussion of the music, persona, and world of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, including primary sources, a discussion forum, an image bank, and more...

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.

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.

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

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.

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: 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

Art & Culture

National Geographic Education

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

New Americans

A PBS-produced site that addresses both historical and contemporary immigration issues in the United States.

History & Social Studies

New Bedford Whaling Museum

In this whaling adventure interactive, explore life in a 19^th-century whaling port, board a whaling vessel, and take a “Nantucket sleigh-ride”!

Art & Culture

New Deal Network

Documentary resources for the study of FDR and his Depression-era programs.

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

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 York Philharmonic Kidzone

A comprehensive education on the workings of a major orchestra. Includes interactivities and games.

History & Social Studies

Newcomers to New York

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.

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.

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

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.

Art & Culture

Picturing Early America: People, Places, and Events 1770–1870

A resource developed from NEH Summer Institutes held at Salem State University that explore early American art and culture. The website assists teachers of American history, literature, art, geography, social studies, American studies, and other fields who wish to incorporate American art into their classrooms. It includes podcasts, unit plans, and print and electronic bibliographies.

Art & Culture

Picturing Hawai'i

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Art & Culture

Race—Are We So Different?

Race—Are We So Different?, a project of the American Anthropological Association, is a traveling exhibit and website that looks through the eyes of history, science, and lived experience to explain differences among people and reveal the reality—and unreality—of race. The site contains a virtual tour of the exhibit, resources for middle and high school teachers, STEM resources, and a robust American history section with an interactive timeline.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

SARAI: South Asia Resource Access on the Internet

Links to information about India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries.

Literature & Language Arts

Scribbling Women

Online resources for teaching American women's literature using dramatizations produced by The Public Media Foundation

Foreign Language

<a href="/websites/secretaria-de-educacion-publica-mexico-viaje-por-la-historia-de-mexico">Secretaría de Educación Pública (México): Viaje por la historia de México</a>

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.

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

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History contains a rich archive of texts, images, maps and audio and video materials from the Soviet era (1917–1991). The materials are arranged by year and by subject, are fully searchable, and are translated into English. Students, educators, and scholars will find materials about Soviet propaganda, politics, economics, society, crime, literature, art, dissidents and hundreds of other topics.

Literature & Language Arts

Shakespeare for Kids

The Folger Shakespeare Library site for kids, with activities for children and families.

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.

Literature & Language Arts

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Interactive encyclopedia of literary forms and figures of speech.

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.

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.

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

Smithsonian Education

Art & Culture

TEACHERSERVE from the National Humanities Center

Teacher guides that provide balanced perspectives on a range of humanities topics.

Art & Culture

Teaching (and Learning) about Japan

A storehouse of information on Japanese culture.

History & Social Studies

Teaching American History

A comprehensive and in-depth online resource on American History from the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs.

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

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.

History & Social Studies

Tenement Museum

The Tenement Museum preserves and interprets the history of immigration through the personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side, America's iconic immigrant neighborhood.

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.

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.

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

The Civil War in Art

The Civil War in Art: Teaching and Learning through Chicago Collections from the Terra Foundation for American Art is designed for teachers and students to learn about the Civil War and connect to the issues, events, and people of the era through works of art. Included is an image gallery, classroom projects, a glossary, and more...

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.

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.

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

<a href="/websites/scientific-revolution-science-society-renaissance-early-enlightenment">The Scientific Revolution: Science & Society from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment</a>

The Scientific Revolution: Science & Society from the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment

Hosted by the History Teaching Institute at Ohio State University, this page has a variety of lesson plans that educate students on how the development of science in Europe related to ongoing revolutions in politics, religion, and society. These lessons are rich in primary source readings from figures like Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo, and Johannes Kepler.

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).

Art & Culture

The Story of Movies

The Film Foundation offers an interdisciplinary curriculum to expose new generations to classic cinema and to teach them about the cultural, artistic, and historical significance of film. Teaching Units include: Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).

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

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.

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

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Straightforward access to the Museum's archives, including photographs, transcripts of lectures, and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust.

History & Social Studies

United States Senate

The official website of the United States Senate.

Art & Culture

Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci Online

Games, resources, and exhibitions dedicated to uncovering da Vinci’s life and thoughts.

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.

History & Social Studies

Valley of the Shadow

Multimedia resources bring to life two communities divided by Civil War.

History & Social Studies

Veteran’s History Project

The Project is an on-going oral history project from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, dedicated to collecting and preserving the experiences of thousands of American veterans. It also includes the stories of U.S. citizen civilians actively involved in supporting the war effort.

Art & Culture

Victorian Web

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.

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.

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

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

Whole Cloth

Learning units explore American technological history through developments in textile manufacturing.

Literature & Language Arts

William Blake Archive

An online library of the visionary British poet's illuminated publications.

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.

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.

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.

Country profiles, detailed maps, and flags of the world from the Central Intelligence Agency.

History & Social Studies

World History for Us All

World History for Us All is a powerful, innovative model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools.

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.

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

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.

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.