SECONDARY HISTORY:
Teaching Resources
YOUTUBE STATIONS:
TASTING HISTORY:
A fun, educational series with an entertaining host, Tasting History is a show that recreates historical recipes. Cooking is interspersed with fun facts, trivia, and an overview of the food’s historical context.
The Great War
Updated monthly, this show’s “catch” is that it teaches World War I “in real time”; each episode covers something that happened exactly 100 years ago, and the show has been running since 2014 — a century after the beginning of the war.
Crash Course is an educational Youtube channel founded by Youtube vloggers John and Hank Green. Starting with World History and Biology, the channel has since grown to offer courses in over two dozen subjects, from Science Fiction to Economics.
United States History lectures brought to you by Mr. Hughes. These lectures are designed for broad based conceptual review for studying for eager middle school students, worried high school students and lost college Freshmen.
Other list by Mr. Hughes:
World History
RESOURCES:
The Library of Congress: Teachers
The new Library of Congress Teachers page provides tools and resources for using Library of Congress primary source documents in the classroom and include excellent lesson plans, document analysis tools, online and offline activities, timelines, presentations and professional development resources.
EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom.
Digital History: This impressive site from Steven Mintz at the University of Houston includes an up-to-date U.S. history textbook; annotated primary sources on United States, Mexican American, and Native American history, and slavery; and succinct essays on the history of ethnicity and immigration, film, private life, and science and technology.
Famous Trials: A professor of law at the University of Minnesota-Kansas City Law School has created a website on famous trials that include: the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692), Amistad Trials (1839-40), Andrew Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868), Susan Anthony Trial (1873), Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921), Scopes Monkey Trial (1925), Scottsboro Trials (1931-37), Nuremberg Trials (1945-49), Rosenberg Trial (1951), Mississippi Burning Trial (1967), Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial (1969-70), My Lai Court Martial (1970), O.J. Simpson Trial (1995), Clinton’s Impeachment Trial (1999), and the Zimmerman Trial (2013), among many others. Most of these include background information on the case, biographies and photographs of trial participants, trial transcript excerpts, and articles from newspapers that covered the trial.
Spartacus Educational:
Run by a small educational publishing company, this website provides free online materials for major history curriculum subjects.
The 1619 Project: Created to commemorate the origins of slavery in the United States on its 400th anniversary, This New York Times interactive website is an eye-catching presentation of Black history.
Digital Vaults:
The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults is an interactive exploration of history that examines thousands of documents, photographs, and pieces of history that have been integrated in a digital format.
Distance Learning Programs:
Virtual Tours:
