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ONLINE TEXTBOOK

• Online Textbook: HyperHistory

HISTORICAL ESSAYS

• Engines of Our Ingenuity (History of science and technology)
• Great Debates (Historical controversies)
• History of Private Life
• History Through the Headlines (Contemporary controversies in historical perspective)
• Hollywood's America (Film and history)
• The Making of Ethnic America (Immigration and ethnicity)

ANNOTATED DOCUMENTS

• Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
• African American Voices
• Mexican American Voices
• Native American Voices
• Links to Landmark Documents in American History

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

• Classroom Handouts and Lesson Plans
• Exploration Guides
  • The Revolutionary War
    A concise guide to the Revolutionary War.
  • The Civil War
    A concise guide to the Civil War.
  • World War II
    A concise guide to World War II.
  • Slavery
    A concise guide to the study of slavery.
  • Mexican American History
    A concise guide to Mexican American history

REFERENCE RESOURCES

• Gilder Lehrman Institute Endorsed Online Resources
• Links Database
• American History Day-By-Day
• Chronologies
• Glossaries
• Supreme Court Decisions
• Foreign Policy (soon)

AUDIO RESOURCES

• Speeches
• Book Talks
• E-lectures
• Music (soon)
  

VISUAL RESOURCES

• Maps
• Immigration Maps (soon)
• Historical Images
  

THE HISTORICAL PROFESSION

• Historical archives
• Historical journals
• Historical paper projects
• Historical societies
• History departments
• History institutes and centers
  

VISITING HISTORY

• History museums
• Living history museums
• Presidential libraries
• Historical sites

INTERACTIVE HISTORY

• History Happened Here
• Ask the HyperHistorian
• Quizzes
  • Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895?
  • Could You Pass the 1885 Admission Test for High School?
  • U.S. History: 2000 High School History Quiz
  • Slavery
  • U.S. Constitution
  • What is your HR IQ? - Your Historical Research Intelligence Quotient
• Games About Historical Topics
• American History Day-By-Day

MULTIMEDIA

• Flash Movies
  • Why Study History?
  • Time Machine
  • Overview of American History
• E-lectures

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS

• The Calhoun School: African American Life in Late 19th Century Alabama
• Civil War: Water Color Sketchbook by Private Henry Berckhoff
• Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
• Dear Madam: Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren

INSTITUTE RESOURCES

• About the Institute
• What's New?
• Conferences
• Exhibitions
• Lectures
• Publications
• Gilder Lehrman Collection
• Prizes
• Fellowships
• Schools
• Teacher Seminars
• Slavery Center