An Animated Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States

The Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond recently released a new feature called the Atlas of the Historical Geography of th...

More Than 500 Political Cartoons and 100+ Political Cartoon Lesson Plans

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

Animated Maps and Timelines of the U.S. Civil War

The Civil War Trust offers many fantastic resources for teachers and students. One of those resources is a set of animated maps and timelin...

C-SPAN Classroom Releases an Improved Lesson Plan Collection

C-SPAN Classroom offers a lot of excellent resources for U.S. Government and History teachers. In the past I've featured their interacti...

Browse the Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America is a huge collection of digitized artifacts and exhibits from museums and libraries across the United...

Locate Free History Lesson Plans and Interactive Media Through Smithsonian's History Explorer

The Smithsonian's History Explorer is packed with lesson plans, interactive media, and reference pages for teachers and students. Using...

An Interactive Timeline of the U.S. Supreme Court

This evening I found myself browsing through the lesson ideas on C-SPAN Classroom when I discovered an interactive timeline of important cas...

The Lincoln Learning Hub

Seeing Steven Spielberg's new film about Abraham Lincoln is on my list of things to do during the upcoming holiday vacation. If you hav...

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...

140 WWII Aircraft Discovered In Burmese Jungle

This isn't a technology story, but I think it will be of interest to history teachers and history geeks like me. This morning The Advent...

The American Family Through Time - Interactive Infographic

The American Family Through Time is a neat infographic produced by Archives.com (not to be confused with Archives.gov). The infographic lai...

History Engine - Explore Stories of American Life

History Engine is an educational project developed by The University of Richmond for the purpose of giving students a place to explore stor...

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...

A Live Virtual Field Trip to Ellis Island

Last week I received an email from Scholastic about a great virtual field trip opportunity. On March 29, 2012 Scholastic is hosting a live v...

Virtual Jamestown

Virtual Jamestown is a nice site for teachers of U.S. History who would like their students to explore some digital recreations of Jamestown...

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...

Custer's Last Stand - Video, Timeline, and Map

As some of you know, I don't have a television at home. Instead, my screen entertainment comes through whatever I find to stream online....

Take an Interactive Journey Through U.S. History

Mission U.S. offers two interactive journeys through two important eras in U.S. History. The journeys are designed as role-playing games or...

FDR Day by Day - Lesson Plans and More

I was recently contacted by a representative of The Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. The P...

Building the Panama Canal - Lesson Plans & Video

One of my favorite television programs is American Experience . And one of my favorite US Presidents to read about is Theodore Roosevelt . T...