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Helpful Web Sites

American Museum of the Moving Image  http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

downloadable lesson plans to enable teachers to present a class or unit on presidential campaign commercials in Windows Media or Real Player. Videos are also downloadable as Quicktime Movies, and possibly other formats

Annenberg Media Learner.org/   http://www.learner.org/

Materials can be bought but there are many free resources here.

Archives of American Art   http://www.aaa.si.edu/

The Archives has roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America.

Bridgewater State College Teacher TAH Grant   http://webhost.bridgew.edu/tahg/resources.htm

A Teaching American History site with many suggested readings and resouces

City College of New York   http://cuny.edu/votingcalendar

The CUNY/New York Times Knowledge Network Voting Rights and Citizenship Calendar offers a wealth of links to sites about American history.

Colonial Williamsburg – http://www.history.org

many resources and interactive activities about early American life

Constitutional Rights Foundation   http://www.crf-usa.org/election_election_central/election_central.htm

The Constitutional Rights Foundation provides teachers, students, and community members up-to-date information and skill-development about the electoral process.

Digital Librarian: History   http://www.digital-librarian.com/history.html 

hundreds of interesting and useful links to Web resources relating to American history

EyeWitnesstoHistory.com   http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com

collection of first-hand accounts (diaries, newspaper interviews, etc.) of historical events

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence   http://www.free.ed.gov/HandSS.cfm 

good source of free resources for teaching American history, indexed by topic

Furman University Department of History  http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py  

original newspaper articles about the Nebraska bill debates, Dred Scott, and John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History   http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.html 

information, documents, lesson plans

The History Channel   http://www.history.com/

study guides, games, videos

Library of Congress    http://memory.loc.gov/learn/

digitized documents, film, music, photographs

History Matters  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/   

primary documents and resources for teaching history.

History Teacher  http://historyteacher.net/

teacher generated site with hundreds of links and resources, some links have ads

H-Net   http://www.h-net.org/

very thorough listing of  American history resources

Internet Modern History Sourcebook   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

thousands of sources of documents

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth

The National Archives   http://www.archives.gov/research/index.html 

good source of primary documents

National Endowment for the Humantiites http://edsitement.neh.gov/

online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural

The New Deal Network   http://newdeal.feri.org/  

information, documents, and lesson plan ideas relating to the New Deal

New York Public Library  http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

access to over 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs

The Public Broadcasting Service   http://www.pbs.org/elections/

in-depth coverage and analysis lesson plans

Peopling the American Past, a Teaching American History Grant
http://chnm.gmu.edu/7tah/resources.php?page=activities 

45-minute activities designed for teachers but easily adaptable for students -  uses primary sources to build historical contexts.

Teaching American History http://www.tahgrant.net

a TAH federal grant especially for middle schools, many great links on the Useful Website page

Teaching American History   http://teachingamericanhistory.com/convention

interactive resource for people and events surrounding the U.S. Constitutional Convention, by Professor Lloyd

Virginia Tech   http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/

primary sources including diaries and letters from Civil War soldiers.

Wisconsin Historical Society   http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/

eyewitness accounts, pictures, and museum objects


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