U.S. History

National Archives - Teach with documents using our online tool. Locate teachable primary sources. Find new and favorite lesson plans, and create your own activities for your students.

DocsTeach – The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives.

Stanford History Education Group - The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents designed for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.

Teaching History - Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.

EdTechTeacher - Our list of Best History Websites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories and has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students.

Digital History - Enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.

The Howard Zinn Project - Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

History Channel -thousands of videos and articles.

Smithsonian Education - The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA) uses all the Smithsonian offers to empower learners to explore their own interests and collaborate with others to bring ideas to life. We create models and methods that make the Smithsonian a learning laboratory for everyone.

HippoCampus.org- Free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content–videos, animations, and simulations–for US History and World History.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - A nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features more than 60,000 unique historical documents.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library – Born in Denison, Texas, Dwight Eisenhower would go on to become supreme commander, Allied Expeditionary Force and shortly after WWII became the 34^th President of the United States. The Eisenhower Presidential Library is one of 13 Presidential Libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. They preserve the documents and artifacts of our Presidents, providing insight into the times in which these Presidents lived and served the nation through archives, museums, and special programs.

LBJ Library - Educational resources can be found at the bottom of the Education page under "explore."

George W. Bush Library - Welcome from the education program of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum! It is part of the Library and Museum’s mission to encourage students of all ages to learn more about the Presidency, the First Lady, American history, and government as well as to serve as a resource for the study of the life and career of President George W. Bush. The education program is developing engaging, hands-on classroom resources; programming for professional development; field trip planning information and much more, all for teachers as well as visitors.

George H.W. Bush Library - The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, in partnership with the City of Bryan and Bryan ISD, has developed lesson plans for educators using primary source materials from the library’s archives. These purposeful, interactive lessons are tied to Texas and national curriculum standards in social studies, American history, government and science. This connection between classrooms and the Bush Library and Museum’s primary sources encourages critical thinking skills and reinforces vocabulary terms, concepts and relevant curriculum materials.

George HW Bush Gallery and the National Museum of the Pacific War (Home of the Admiral Nimitz Museum Great resources on the Pacific War, video and virtual tours on the Nimitz Education and Research Center page.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza– this site offer web resources for educators under “The Collections”

360 Cities - Can't take a field trip to historic locations, find high resolution 360° panoramic images and videos.

AirPano is a project created by a team of Russian photographers focused on taking high-resolution aerial 360° photographs and 360° video. Today AirPano is the largest resource in the world -- by geographical coverage, number of aerial photographs, and artistic and technical quality of the images — featuring 360° panoramas and 360° videos of the highest quality shot from a bird's eye view.

Scholastic Magazine Subscription: Many teachers in our district are having the parents pay for their students subscription of the grade appropriate Scholastic Magazine. Each student gets their own copy and the teacher gets the supplemental materials that go along with the magazine that arrives.

Flocabulary - is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers at 20,000 schools use Flocabulary’s standards-based videos, instructional activities and student creativity tools to supplement instruction and develop core literacy skills. 2 week free trial