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Links to Professional Resources
This site chronicles the history of African Americans, broken down chronologically from 1450 to the present. Each section contains a resource bank and a teacher's guide, and the site also contains a student activity index.
This site for the PBS television show has links to sites for most of the individual documentaries shown on the program over the last few years. Each of these sites contains a teacher's guide with a list of important themes, companion questions, and activity ideas for students corresponding to the documentary.
American Historical Association AHA K-16 Collaboratives
This site provides an archive of collaborative history projects and serves as a meeting ground for history educators to discuss objectives, potential pitfalls and solutions, and sources of funding for special projects.
This Library of Congress site is one of the best for primary sources on the web. It contains collections ranging from Thomas Jefferson's papers to Walt Whitman's notebooks, from military maps to collections of folk music. There are also lots of photographs, autobiographical narratives, and even early films.
This Yale Law School site contains an enormous collection of primary documents in American law, history, and diplomacy.
Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
This interactive electronic journal staffed by historians is designed as a place to exchange and explore ideas about life in the United States before 1850.
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
This University of Georgia site has a terrific collection of historic maps ranging from the sixteenth through the early twentieth century, with a strong emphasis on the South.
The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians have collaborated to create a site that makes the recent issues of the Journal of American History and the American Historical Review, the two predominant academic journals for American history, available online to members and to institutions that subscribe to the print versions of their journals.
The National Women's History Project
This site has documents, links to sites about American women's history, and a section called The Learning Place with resources for teachers, students, and parents.
This site provides a large number of primary documents and photographs, as well as suggestions for lesson plans and student projects on the New Deal.
Teaching History's World Wide Web Links for History Teachers
This site includes links to other American History sites, maps, resources for teaching history, and advice for writing and editing history.
This is a great starter site for students and teachers of the history of the American West, with links to a variety of topics within western history, as well as a collection of syllabi from teachers of western history.
