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Best History Websites
- A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History.
Abby's Resource Page for Social Studies Teachers - Hundreds of links to history, social studies, and education sites on the Web. Links are indexed for easy searching. Also home of the History Teachers' Education Ring.
Adventure Learning Foundation - Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning expeditions as they travel around the world. Includes resources for use in the K-12 classroom.
American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc. - Provides free K-12 curriculum lessons by and for teachers in social studies, U. S. history/government, political science, philosophy, and economics. The curriculum educates students about America's factual, philosophical heritage.
AP American History - Site for future Advanced Placement (AP) US History students. Covers course and exam topics. Created by Upper Dublin High School, Pennsylvania.
AP History Online - Provides Information of AP European and United States History, and Preparation for the AP Test. Done by a Student who got a "5" on the AP Test.
BC Social Studies Teachers' Association Top Links - Offers links to valuable lesson plans, research links and professional information to teachers interested in socials, history, geography, and comparative civilizations.
Colonial America - For Freedom and Profit - United States History project designed for grades 6-12. It is an interactive, internet-based, cooperative group activity in which students build a colony from the ground up.
Cultural / Educational Artefacts - Created by teachers for teachers. Give students the opportunity to learn about history by feeling and touching actual parts of history.
Digital Classroom - To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.
Global Nomads Group - GNG is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international dialogue by partnering educators around the world. Includes a teacher survey and project overview.
Histor eSearch.com - Directory of online history research resources for students and educators.
History and Social Studies - Small directory of educational sites for the student, genealogist and family historian.
History Matters - Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
HISTORY RESOURCES - Extensive directory of history resources. Categories include world history, American history, key documents, and study guide links.
HistoryRoom - Offers history information for high school students.
The Local Historical Archives Project (LHAP) - LHAP is a searchable database of historical images and documents, one that is largely compiled by students in grades 5-12. It is an educational project by which students create a local history resource available to anyone.
National History Day - Non-profit academic program designed to promote the study of history. Includes information on upcoming contests and participation, past winners, and recommended links to history resources.
Our Documents - Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resources.
Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Schools History - History of Britain and Europe 1066-2000; features activities, homework help, and background on major events.
Social Studies - This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost unlimited opportunities for social studies education and we hope that this page will benefit both the novice and the experienced Web user.
SSEC - Resources for Social Sciences and History Education - The Social Science Education Consortium supports social science and history education in schools, K-12. Download free lesson plans or browse our publications and projects.
Study Guide for Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project - This study guide serves as a supplement to the radio series, Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project. This resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background on oral history collection, instructions for video interviews and web page construction, and links to oral history archives.
Teaching History with Technology - A not-for-profit journal designed to help middle school and high school history and social studies teachers better integrate technology into their classrooms.
TimeLab 2000 - Presented by the History Channel, this is the official site for the TimeLab 2000 segues with the write-ups available publicly for most.
Twentieth Century in America - A group of internet activities covering the major events of the 1900s in America.
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