PRIMARY SOURCES

• Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
• Court Cases
• Historic Newspapers
• Landmark Documents in American History
• Social History

ETHNIC AMERICA

• Voices
  • Asian American Voices
  • Enslaved Voices
  • Mexican American Voices
  • Native American Voices
• Featured Guest Historian
  • Emma Lazarus and Her Vision by Bette Roth Young
• Essays:
• Chinese immigrants and the construction of the transcontinental railroad
• Irish American Solidarity
• The Irish Potato Famine
• Italian Immigration
• Chronology
• Landmarks in Immigration History
• Images
• A Photo Album of Immigration
• Guided Readings
• The Huddled Masses

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

• eXplorations
• Classroom Handouts and Fact Sheets
• Learning Modules
• Resource Guides
• Lesson Plans

ACTIVE LEARNING

• Conduct inquiries
• Create Exhibits
• Do History

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)

REFERENCE RESOURCES

• Recommended Websites
• American History Day-By-Day
• Chronologies
• Glossaries
• Supreme Court Decisions

AUDIO RESOURCES

• Speeches
• Book Talks
• E-lectures
• Historic Music

MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

• Time Machine
• Film Trailers
• Flash Movies
  • An Overview of American History
  • Why Study History?

VISUAL RESOURCES

• Maps
• Historical Images

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
• American History Day-By-Day
• Games About Historical Topics

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

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

This site was updated on 07-Nov-09.