Meet Amazing Americans: Leaders and Statesmen, U.S. Presidents, Adventurers and Explorers, Musicians and Composers, Writers and Artists, Industrialist and Entrepreneurs, Scientists and Inventors, Athletes and Entertainers.

Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

Free resources, Lesson Plans, Daily News Headlines

Start your investigation of the U.S. Constitution with an online quiz. Use the top menu to read the constitution, meet the signers, read landmark cases and more.

• America's Historical Documents
• Charters of Freedom
• Teaching with Documents Lesson Plans

• Teaching Materials
• Constitution- articles, amendments, issues 

 Use the left menu to access many other resources

• Presidential Documents Archive
• Elections
• Media- Audio/Video Archive
• Presidential Libraries

• Online Speech Bank
• Rhetorical Figures in Sound
• Top 100 Speeches
• Movie Speeches

• Table of Contents

An interactive U. S. history textbook including well-arranged links to primary sources, an "Ask a Historian" section, classroom handouts, audiovisual archives, and much, much more.

Documents from Pre-Colonial to present.

A list of the 100 milestone documents compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776-1965. Primary documents listed with transcripts and printable pages. 

A collection to on-line history lessons, PowerPoint presentations.

A searchable archive of contemporary American politically significant audio material.

The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you will find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives.

 The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. An extensive collection of primary source documents and classroom activities.

Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
A source for primary documents.

•  Making sense of evidence - guides for analyzing primary sources with interactive activities.

A comprehensive site on slavery in America. Included:

• Origins of abolitionism
• A slave's life
• Slave narratives
• Prominent abolitionists
• Black resistance
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Thirteenth Amendment

Harper's Weekly online 1861- 1865

• Civil War Battles
• Confederate Generals
• Union Generals
• Civl War Medicine
• The American Indians
• Slavery

• Online Exhibitions
• Modules on Major Topics in Amircan History
• Archive of Primary Source Documents

Alphabetical listings of primary source material with lesson suggestions.

The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them. A large audio archive of speeches and news broadcasts are also included.

Recordings from WWI and the 1920 election.

A complete index to and partial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address.

A collection of excellent links on Labor in America.

• Meet Amazing Americans
• Jump Back in Time
• Explore the States
• Special Features

Graphics, information, and links to D-Day history.

This exhibit tells the story of Seattle's Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp Harmony." 
 

• Lesson plans
• American Factfinder
• State and County QuickFacts

 Prsidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012

• Type of Commercial
• Issue
• Online Resources
  • Lesson Plans

• 2012 Presidential Candidate Positions of 68 Issues
•  Cadidates Videos
• Candidates Speeches

Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8.

The first game in a planned series, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?” explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists and Patriots in 1770 Boston.  This website provides information and materials to support the use of Mission 1 in your classroom. Download all the teacher materials as a DOC or PDF. Classroom guides are available for the components of the simulation.

Milestone documents that chronicle United States history from 1776-1965, and teacher's guides. Documents will be added. Translations are provided when necessary.

Archive of Early America primary source material from the 18th century displayed digitally.

• Explore The World of Early America
  • American Freedom Documents
• Movies On-line
  • The Life of George Washington
  • Declaring Independence
  • Paul Revere- Messenger of the Revolution
  • The shot heard around the world
  • The treason of Benedict Arnold
  • The real face of George Washington
  • Molly Pitcher- An American Heroine
• How to read a 200 year old document - explanations of the spelling and meanings of words. Well worth taking the time to read.
• The Early American Digital Library - historical pictures and maps.
• The Early American Review - A Journal of Fact and Opinion On the People, Issues and Events Of 18th Century America.