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...

Browse for Primary Sources on the World Digital Library Map

The World Digital Library  hosts nearly 5,000 primary documents and images from collections around the world. Sponsored by the United Nation...

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...

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 ...

9 Sources for Historical Images, Documents, Videos, and Audio

Earlier this week I had the privilege to work with teachers from the Florida Virtual School at a conference sponsored by the National Counci...

Textbooks, Wikipedia, and Primary Sources Comparison

I posted this yesterday on Google+ and it seems to have been well-received so I thought I'd share it again. In February of 2010 I design...

Political Cartoons in the Classroom

This morning I am in Fort Myers, Florida for a conference with the National Council for History Education. One of the activities that one of...

The Growth and Decline of US Newspapers 1690-2011

Stanford University's Rural West Initiative is an effort to create conversations and propose solutions to the challenges that exist in ...

The Year We Had Two Thanksgivings

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

National Humanities Center Toolbox Library

The Avalon Project is a great resource for primary source documents from US History that has previously been featured on Free Technology fo...

Rag Linen - Rare & Historic Newspapers

Rag Linen is an online museum of rare and historic newspapers. The newspapers on Rag Linen are arranged into ten collections . Eight of tho...

Need Primary Documents? Try the Avalon Project

The Avalon Project is a free resource that I use on a regular basis with a couple of my US History classes. The Avalon Project, produced ...

Free Historical Thinking Poster

Teaching History is giving away a neat poster for history teachers. Teaching History's historical thinking poster features colorful il...

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...

The Avalon Project - Hundreds of Primary Documents from US History

The Avalon Project is a free resource that I use on a regular basis with a couple of my US History classes. The Avalon Project, produce...

Historical Scene Investigation

Historical Scene Investigation is a fun way for students to investigate history through primary documents and images. Historical Scene Inve...

Textbooks, Wikipedia, and Primary Source Research

A couple of weeks ago I sent out a Tweet that my students were working on a comparison of Wikipedia articles to articles in their textbook...

Professional Development at the Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for all six of their 2010 Summer Teacher Institutes . The summer institutes are desig...