Teaching American History LibGuide: Websites

Teacher resources on the Civil War Trust webpage. The trust promotes educational programs and heritage tourism initiatives to inform the public of the war's history and the fundamental conflicts that sparked it.

Congress for Kids gives kids access to interactive, fun-filled experiences designed to help them learn about the foundation of our federal government and how its actions affect them. (from Congress for Kids website)

A Resource for Teachers Providing Information About the U.S. Congress

CongressLink provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. CongressLink is directed to teachers of American Government and civics. It is multi-featured, offering original content (including lesson plans and historical materials) and up-to-the-minute information about Congress. (from CongressLink website)

Provides a U.S. history textbook, essays, documents, maps, photos, audio files, and more for teachers and students of American history in schools and colleges.

Covers the activities, issues, and content related to the Teaching American History program of the US Department of Education. It is not an official communications medium for the Department's staff, policies, or announcements, but it is operated as a joint partnership by the Organization of American Historians and H-Net in cooperation with the Department of Education. The network will link project directors, teacher participants, content providers, local education agencies, and public stakeholders through discussions, a TAH project link database, documents, and announcements.

Designed for high school and college teachers and students,
History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers
other useful materials for teaching U.S. history. (from History Matters Website)

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations. (From LOC website)

Over 1200 records to explore from the National Archives.

Read to use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom. Thousands of primary sources selected from the National Archives. (from Docs Teach website)

Reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.

has links to national resources.

Features 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. The Our Documents initiative is a cooperative effort among National History Day, The National Archives and Records Administration, and USA Freedom Corps. (from OurDocuments website)

Smithsonian's collection entitled The Price of Freedom: American At War. Includes teaching resources.

Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- online and on TV -- of inspired and effective teaching practices. (from Teaching Channel website)

TAH on the US Department of Education page.