Web Links to Great Teacher Resources

Discovery Channel History Guide offers information about selected topics on history. The topics are featured on the Discovery Channel site and include simulations, video, images, and more.

Animated Atlas- American History Timeline is a timeline split into different categories to view the different types of events happening at the same time. Some of the categories included are society, states, presidents, women, Native American, and science.

PBS- Freedom, A History of the U.S. explores American History through the theme of Freedom. It includes interactive games, webisodes of the PBS series, and a this week in history section.

The Franklin Institute Educational Hotlist- American History and Government is a collection of topics in American History that gives the reader links to more information on their topic.

The History Place offers select topics by its creators . Not everything will be found on this site about American History, but the site includes links to related sites.

The History Channel site allows you to search by topic to find information. It includes interactive games, audio files of speeches, video clips, images, and summaries of a variety of topics.

America’s Story from America’s Library by the Library of Congress includes interactive features in biographical, state timeline, and pastime categories.

National Museum of American History by the Smithsonian Institution features special collections, seasonal exhibits, museum news, and search section to find specific topics.

  The National Civil Rights Museum is committed to providing educators with resources and materials to aid them in teaching the struggle for freedom and justice to today’s students.  Here you will find links to e-Learning activities, the NCRM Teacher’s Curriculum Guide, worksheets, primary source analysis guides, scavenger hunts, and much more.

U.S. History: Pre-Columbia to the New Millineum by the Indepence Hall Association in Philadelphia features American history by topic or event. This site gives you a summary of the event or topic including graphs and charts. It also shares related links from around the internet on the specific topic.