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...

Watch and Listen to First Person Accounts of the Great Depression

When I taught units on the Great Depression I liked to use video and audio clips of first person accounts of the effects of the Great Depres...

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...

37 Crash Course History Videos

The last time I checked out the Crash Course history videos on YouTube they were up to 15 videos. This evening I was checking out the U.S. ...

YouTube Launches "Star Search" for Teachers

Okay, so YouTube's not bringing Ed McMahon back to life to have teachers sing and dance on stage, but they have launched a star search ...

Videos - The Evolution of Republicans & Democrats

CNN Explains recently published a couple of videos explaining the origins and evolution of the modern Democratic and Republican parties. App...

Get Hip With New Hip Hughes History Videos

I've mentioned Keith Hughes' Hip Hughes History YouTube channel in the past. This morning I showed the channel to my friend Alice ...

U.S. Elections for Dummies 1960-1992

Take Khan Academy for social studies, use better graphics, put an engaging speaker who is actually a social studies teacher in front of the ...

An Interactive Timeline of Immigration to the U.S.

Scholastic recently released a fantastic new interactive timeline of immigration to the United States . The timeline is divided into five er...

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 ...

Video - America's Briefest President

This evening while browsing the CBS News video section I came across a short piece about William Henry Harrison. The four minute video , nar...

Another Great YouTube Channel for History Students and Teachers

Last week I posted 7 Useful YouTube Channels for History Teachers . Admittedly, that list was skewed toward US History. In the comments on t...

7 Useful YouTube Channels for History Teachers

One of my favorite things about Netflix streaming is that I can watch some great history documentaries on my laptop or tablet. As much as I ...

A Short Biography of Thomas Edison and Some Lesson Plans

In a case of YouTube's "related videos" suggestions actually being useful, after watching this video about the history of cal...

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....

Video - The Last 100 Years in 10 Minutes

Here's a short video overview of the last 100 years. 90% of the video is about events (mostly war-related) in Europe and North America. ...

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...

Museum of Obsolete Objects - Videos of Changes in Technology

Do remember making mix tapes in high school? If you still have one kicking around, good luck finding a cassette player to listen to it on. I...

"Classic" Educational Videos

As I mentioned on Google+ this morning, even old videos can be informative sometimes. This morning my students were working on a quick in-c...