The Story of Gasoline

As I sometimes do, yesterday I went down a rabbit hole of old National Archives films on YouTube. One of those short films was The Story of ...

Videos - The TVA, the Hoover Dam, and More Stories of the Great Depression

After watching some of the Great Depression stories mentioned in my previous post I jumped into a set of videos from the US National Archive...

Five Good Feeds for U.S. History Teachers

I subscribe to roughly 300 blogs (honestly, I stopped keeping track a while ago). Usually, when I say that at conference or workshop the fol...

Create Your Own Interactive Primary Source Document Activities

I've written about many resources from the U.S. National Archives in the past. Until today my favorite of their offerings was the Nation...

Image and Maps - War of 1812

Yesterday's daily document from the U.S. National Archives was this image of the "Capture of Washington" during the War of 18...

Four Short Videos on the Origins of World War I

Yesterday's featured document from the U.S. National Archives was President Wilson's address to Congress calling for a declaration ...

US National Archives Gallery of The Way We Worked

The Way We Worked is a small collection of images from the U.S. National Archives. The collection is designed to show the way that work evo...

Create Videos and Posters on the U.S. National Archives Digital Experience

This afternoon as part of a Primary Resources 2.0 workshop that I conducted ( workshop outline here ), we explored some resources on the Nat...

The Cotton Gin Animated

It's difficult, if not impossible, to teach early U.S. History without discussing the impact of Eli Whitney's cotton gin on the prod...

Building a Gold Mine

Last week I shared a list of lesson plans for teaching about historical gold rushes in North America. Yesterday, the National Archives'...

108 Years of Flight - Document and Videos

Saturday marked the 108th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. The National Archives marked the anniversary by publishing ...

Best of 2011 So Far - The National Jukebox

Now that my school year is over I'm taking a short fly fishing vacation. The posts for the rest of the week highlight my favorite resour...

National Archives Today's Document

The US  National Archives is an all around good resource for history teachers to have bookmarked. I've written about some of their serv...

Videos and Mobile Apps from the National Archives

The US  National Archives is an all around good resource for history teachers to have bookmarked. I've written about some of their serv...

The Year We Had Two Thanksgivings

Image Credit: WishUponaCupcake Yesterday, the National Archives' featured document was George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclam...

Using Primary Sources - A Guide from the LOC

If you use primary source documents in your classroom, the Library of Congress Teacher's Page is a site you should check out. A part of...

National Archives Our Documents Source Book

I've mentioned the daily document feed from the National Archives in the past. The daily feed is a way for US History teachers to collec...

National Archives Document & Patterns in History

History teachers are known for occasionally making cliche statements like "history repeats itself" or "history is full of pat...

A Letter from Upton Sinclair to Theodore Roosevelt

Yesterday's document of the day from the National Archives was a letter sent by Upton Sinclair to President Theodore Roosevelt . In the ...

Louisiana Purchase Lesson Plans

Yesterday's document from the National Archives' daily document feed was a copy of a proclamation to the people of New Orleans fol...