Classroom Resources
David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection
The historical map collections has over 46,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th Century North America and South America maps and other cartographic materials.
Google Earth Browser with maps superimposed over
U.S. News Map is a great resource produced by Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. The U.S. New Map is an archive of American newspapers printed between 1836 and 1925. You can search the archive by entering a keyword or phrase. The results of your search will be displayed on an interactive map. Click on any of the markers on the map and you'll be shown a list of newspaper articles related to your search term. Click on a listed article to read it on the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website.
Map Migration from Ancestry.com
What do you do with 770,000 tubes of saliva collected from AncestryDNA customers? Ancestry scientists have an unusual answer: Create a ground-breaking map of America’s history-based diversity using the genetic data from the analysis of the samples. This unique map shows this country’s great migrations, the echoes of our pioneer ancestors in our genes today.
Timeline from Mrs. Nussbaum
Students must place important events from US History on a timeline.
The Atlantic, Life Timeline Interactive
Use a “drop-and-drag” menu to input your birthday, and it will deliver a visually engaging history of the key events that have happened during your lifetime. The timeline includes political, cultural, technological and other kinds of developments, along with an intriguing short summary.
Demographics Lab from Annenburg
Exploring Monticello, An Inside Look at Washington DC, Exploring Mount Vernon, Our Nation's Capitol, Congressional Record, Presidential & the Constitution
Interesting tool for teaching and learning history. As a teacher, you can use this tool to create animated multimedia historical scenarios of people and things moving through a historical space and time. Students can use it in their history projects to create animated events using different multimedia materials.
Online exhibits from the United States and around the World. Great source for primary resources, videos, images, and more. Click Collections for list view.
This site has videos (Crash Courses) from all subject areas. They are designed to engage the student. Please view before showing students as some may find content may not be classroom appropriate. US History videos include: American Revolution, Congressional Elections, World War II, and many more.
WW I in Photos from The Atlantic
WW II photo locations, then and now
Mission US, An Interactive Way to Learn History
Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games.
Mr. Betts Class YouTube Channel
Music videos for US and World History that are completely goofy, but with great content and students LOVE them!
TimelinesTV YouTube channel - Good, Short History Lessons
TimelinesTV was originally built as a site that featured video lessons displayed on a timeline. Today, the timelines don't function well (the site hasn't been updated in a few years), but the videos are still available through the TimelinesTV YouTube channel.
Google Arts & Culture, Life Tags
LIFE Tags organizes over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia using machine learning. Published weekly between 1936 and 1972 and monthly from 1978 to 2000, LIFE magazine was the most popular photojournalism magazine in the United States.
Constitution
Here is another site with a nice collection of Constitution based games. The Bill of Rights, the Constitutional Convention and the 1st Amendment are all topics of some of the games you can find here.
iCivics is a non-profit organization dedicated to reinvigorating civic learning through interactive and engaging learning resources. Our educational resources empower teachers and prepare the next generation of students to become knowledgeable and engaged citizens.
Constitutional Rights Origins and Travels
This website allows users to compare rights in the Constitution to corresponding rights in countries around the world.
Citizenship
US Citizenship and Immigration Services Interactive Practice Tests
Interactive Tour of Ellis Island by Scholastic
Stories, Photos, Audio, Video
Civil Rights