Standards and Benchmarks
National History Standards
National Standards for History: History Thinking Standards
Benchmarks
for Professional Development in Teaching of History
A small group of high school teachers, college educators, and
public historians produced this document to help history teachers
redesign and develop their curriculum.
Wisconsin State History Standards
Wisconsin Teacher Professional Development Standards
Back to top.
History Organizations
American Historical Association
National Council for the Social Studies
Organization of American Historians
Back to top.
General Interest to History Teachers
About.com: American History
A wonderful guide to U.S. History with interpretative essays,
biographies, Web resources, and discussion forums.
AMDOCS: Documents for the Study of American History
This Web site has hundreds of documents from the 1400s to present.
American Memory
This is one of the best American history Web sites. It has
digitized documents, film, music, photographs, and more.
Digital
Librarian: History
This site has hundred of interesting and useful links to Web
resources relating to American history.
Documenting the American South
Hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this
site has documents, books, photographs, oral interviews, and other
resources for studying southern history. It is designed for students
and teachers at all levels.
Edsitement
This is an excellent resource for teachers. The Web site has lesson
plans and other resources.
Gilder Lehrman
Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute web site has tons of information,
documents, lesson plans, and resources for historians, history
teachers, and history students. It is one of the best web site for
American history.
Also visit the Gilder Lehrman Institute's History Now online
journal at www.historynow.org.
Historic Audio
Archives
This site contains audio files of notable Americans.
History’s Best on
PBS
This Web site contains links to all of PBS’s documentaries and
specials on American history. Nearly all sites have primary sources,
historical essay, biographies, timelines, classroom materials, and
lesson plans.
History Cooperative
This innovative Web site currently provides access to eight major
historical journals including the Journal of American History, the
American Historical Review, the History Teacher, and Common-Place.
History Matters
This Web site is designed for high school and college teachers of
U.S. History. It has a terrific collection of primary documents and
resources for teaching history.
History News Network
All the news that is fit to print and read – for historians, that
is. Or as the folks at HNN say “because the past is the present and
the future, too.” This interesting and relevant site has current
historical and historiographical debates. A truly wonderful tool.
History/Social
Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
This site is maintained by Dennis Boals. It provides many useful
links to resources for K-12 teachers of history and social studies.
National Archives and Records
Administration
The National Archives has digitized thousands of documents, images,
and other material. Be sure to check out NARA’s digital classroom.
Native
American Sites
At this site, one will find a comprehensive list of Web sites
relating to Native American culture and history.
New
York Public Library - Digital Gallery
"The New York Public Library - Digital Gallery provides access to
over 363,000 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, illustrated books, printed ephemera,
and more."
Presidents of the United States
The official White House Web site has information relating to the
Presidents and their wives.
United States
Historical Census Browser
This site has statistical information on the American people from
1790 to 1970.
Wisconsin
Historical Society’s Turning Points in History
This site contains "hundreds of eyewitness
accounts, pictures, and museum objects. Dozens of essays, lesson
plans and reference tools."
Women and Social
Movements in the United States
This site has dozens of instructions lessons and classroom
materials relating to American women.
Yahoo: U.S. History
Yahoo provides a wonderful index to Web sites on U.S. History. A
good place to begin an internet search.
Back to top.
Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
1492:
An Ongoing Voyage
The Library of Congress set up this Web site which has maps,
documents, and historical essays relating to the transformation caused
by Columbus’ travels.
From Revolution to
Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History
Maintained by scholars at the University of Gronigen in the
Netherlands, this site has thousands of documents that relate to the
Revolutionary period.
George Washington Papers
Home Page
One will find selected documents from Washington’s public career.
The Jesuit
Relations and Allied Documents
The French Jesuit accounts of New France provide historians with an
invaluable window into the world of colonial America. Although at
times a little difficult to read and understand, working with these
documents is well worth the effort.
Liberty! The American
Revolution
This is the companion Web site to PBS’s exciting miniseries on the
American Revolution. It has documents, timelines, biographies,
bibliographies, maps, and more.
The Library of
Virginia Digital Library Program
This site has over 2 million digitized records relating to the
colonial period and beyond. A stunning array of primary material is
available and easily searched.
Notes on the State of Virginia
Jefferson’s famous (or infamous) Notes constitute one view of the
late eighteenth century.
PBS: Thomas Jefferson
This is the companion Web site to PBS’s documentary on Jefferson.
Thomas Paine
National Historical Association
This Web site has useful information about Paine as well as links
to online versions of his published works.
World of Benjamin Franklin
This site is designed for teachers. It provides background
information, documents, and other resources for lesson plans.
Back to top.
Early National and Antebellum Eras
American
Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
This Web site contains samples from over 2300 interviews from
ex-slaves conducted during the 1930s by New Deal workers.
The Amistad Case
This Web site, maintained by the National Archives and Records
Administration, has all the documents relating to the Amistad case as
well as suggestions for how to teach the episode.
John
Brown
This is the companion site to the PBS’s series on the West which
contains information on John Brown.
Lewis and Clark
This is the companion Web site to PBS’s documentary on Lewis and
Clark.
The Making of America
This Web site contains thousands of books and articles from
nineteenth century America. A stunning resource.
The Mexican-American
War, 1846-1848
This is the companion Web site to the PBS documentary on the war.
Nineteenth-Century
Documents Project
This Web site has a massive collection of primary documents
relating to social, economic, and political issues.
Prairie Fire
This site has primary source material as well as interpretative
essay on American Indians and the Old Northwest.
The Valley
of the Shadow
This is one of the most celebrated and awarded Web sites relating
to United States History. Professor Edward Ayers has made available
hundreds of documents relating to two communities in the years
immediately before the Civil War.
Back to top.
Civil War Era
American Civil War
The Special Collections Department of Virginia Tech maintains this
Web site which has lots of primary sources including diaries and
letters from Civil War soldiers.
Freedmen and Southern Society Project
This site has over 50,000 documents relating to African American
slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
Getting the Message Out
Another Web site from Northern Illinois University Library. This
one has materials relating to national political campaigns from 1840
to 1860.
Lincoln Net
Maintained by the Northern Illinois University Library, this Web
resource has documents, images, sounds, and visual materials relating
to Abraham Lincoln and antebellum politics.
The United States Civil War Center
The United States Civil War Center is located on the campus of
Louisiana State University. Its Web site has over 2500 links to Civil
War Web sites. A great place to begin a search.
Back to top.
Gilded and Progressive Eras
America
1900
This is the companion Web site to PBS’s documentary of the same
title.
Gilded and
Progressive Era Resources
The Humanities Network (H-Net) has an impressive list of links
relating to the Gilded Age.
Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
This Web site has links, documents, photographs, and lots of
information that could be easily used in any history curriculum.
Haymarket Square, 1886
This awarding-winning Web site has resources for studying the
tragedy at Haymarket Square.
Jane
Addams, 1860-1935
This Web site has an essay about Addams’ life with links and a
bibliography.
Susan B. Anthony,
1820-1906
Background material and links about Anthony can be found on this
site.
William
Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925
This Web site has information about William Jennings Bryan.
Eugene Debs, 1855-1926
This Web site has information including a bibliography about Debs.
Mary Harris
(Mother) Jones, 1837-1930
This Web site has excellent biographical information about this
famous labor leader.
John
Muir, 1838-1914
The site features Muir’s life and his writings.
Mark
Twain, 1835-1910
This site has biographical information about the man who helped
coin the phrase “gilded age” as well as selected writings and lesson
plan ideas.
Walt
Whitman, 1819-1892
This Web site has information about this great American poet and
online versions of his writings.
Frances Willard, 1839-1898
Willard’s long career as a champion of women’s rights and
temperance is described.
Back to top.
Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt
American
Memory: FSA-OWI Photographs
Maintained by the Library of Congress, this Web site which has
thousands of color and black and white photographs.
Dust Bowl Refugees in
California
The Museum of the City of San Francisco maintains this site which
has background information, photographs, and primary sources relating
to the Dust Bowl migrants.
Eleanor
Roosevelt Resource Page
This excellent Web site has a wealth of information and resources
on ER.
FDR Cartoon Collection
Database
This award-winning Web site has thousands of cartoons relating to
the Age of Roosevelt.
Herbert C. Hoover
The Hoover Presidential Library has documents, education modules,
and research guides on one of the most controversial presidents.
Japanese-American Internment: Resources for Teachers
This is a well organized Web site on Japanese-Americans and
internment during World War II.
The Lion’s History: Researching World War II Images of African-Americans
The National Archives created this online collection of images
relating to African-Americans and World War II.
New Deal Network
Simply the best Web site for information, documents, and lesson
plan ideas relating to the New Deal.
Pictures of World War II
The National Archives has made available an extensive collection of
images relating to the battle and home fronts of World War II.
The
Voices from the Dust Bowl
This part of American Memory has oral histories, photographs, and
other primary resources relating to the Dust Bowl migrants.
World War II
Resources
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosts this site
which has documents relating to World War II.
Back to top.
Cold War Era: United States and Abroad
American
Experience: Race for the Superbomb
This is the companion site to the PBS documentary on the hydrogen
bomb.
An Introduction to National Archives Records Relating to the Cold War
The National Archives has made available documents relating to the
Cold War. It is a good source for basic primary materials for lesson
plans.
Civil Rights Oral
Histories from Mississippi
This site has many searchable oral histories that relate to the
civil rights movement’s activities in Mississippi.
Desegregation of the
Armed Forces: Project Whistlestop: Harry S. Truman Digital Archives
The Truman Presidential Library Web site has documents and other
classroom resources for exploring this important topic.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Papers Project
Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the editor of the
Martin Luther King, Jr., papers and this Web site provides information
about the project as well as access to some documents.
National Security Archive
This site has thousands of declassified documents relating to the
Cold War including such issues as the Cuban Missile Crisis. A
wonderful resource.
VENONA Project
In the 1940s, the United States maintained an ultra-secret
intelligence operation, codename VENONA, which sought to decode Soviet
messages. A fascinating study in the spy vs. spy aspects of the Cold
War.
Vietnam War
Internet Project
The Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas hosts this
site which contains an extensive list of resources on the Vietnam War.
Back to top.
Contemporary Times
September 11 Digital Archive
This Web site has preserved images, stories, and emails that relate
to the attacks of 9/11/01.
Back to top. |
