US History Resources: General
- Maps of American history (great collection, "Mapping 'Murican History")
- Manifest Destiny (America's growth in 141 maps)
- Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
- America in Class (National Humanities Center) - primary sources
- Excellent library of primary source documents, by period (compiled as part of federal Teaching American History program)
- Bunk History (University of Richmond)
- US & state maps (print as posters)
- American Yawp (open online textbook initiated in 2013-14 by large team of distinguished college teachers)
- Migration Nation podcast
- US History (another excellent free online "textbook" survey, written by historians)
- Digital History (U.S. history; includes a full online textbook of US history - high-school+ reading level)
- Uncovering America (works of art that tell America's story of resilience and creativity)
- LIttle Red Songbook (lyrics to famous labor songs)
- American Indian Timeline
- Animated Atlas (interactive video showing territorial growth of US since 1700)
- Charters of Freedom (National Archives)
- Milestones in foreign policy (US Dept. of State)
- Distribution of US population by race in 2010
- Battle lines: Letters from America's Wars (primary sources, with audio)
- Sites about the 50 states (excellent for learning about the states)
- Chronicling America: Historic American newspapers (LOC)
- Historic Site by Theme (American Heritage; great for planning field trips)
- Our Story: Activities for the classroom
- Picture This (photos and their stories from the Library of Congress)
- The West (excellent PBS resources based on Ken Burns's series)
- Edward Curtis' North American Indian (full text with photographs of 1904 classic)
- National Portal to Historic Collections (American Heritage; guide to online historical artifacts)
- Quiz yourself: Geographical features of the U.S.
- US History interactive map (self-guided quiz)
- Story of US (History Channel movie based on Joy Hakim's series)
- Reviews of more than 1,000 Web sites on American history (outstanding resource)
- America's Story (Library of Congress)
- Chronicling America: Topics by Subject (selections from original newspapers)
- English lessons on American presidents
- Digital Docs in a Box
- Meet Amazing Americans
- American Memory Timeline (Library of Congress)
- A biography of America
- Who made America? (PBS) (bio's of inventors)
- Primary Resource Sets (Library of Congress)
- Retronaut (old photos, restored; nicely organized)
- Documents teach (National Archives)
- Herb: Social history for every classroom
- American Social History Project (Center for New Media, CUNY)
- Public domain photos (1,000+ images on Flickr, from Library of Congress)
- Old Pictures (collections of black and white photographs organized by theme; includes maps)
- American Memory (Library of Congress; primary sources organized by topic)
- Smithsonian's History Explorer
- American Social History Online
- History Matters: Many Pasts(George Mason)
- From Slavery to Civil Rights (sources on African-Americans from Library of Congress)
- African-American Migration Story(PBS)
- Making of America(digital versions of 10,000 books and 50,000 articles written in 19th century U.S.)
- Teaching History.org (US history sources)
- US History resources (this AP history site has excellent resources for any student of US history)
- United States from Revolution to Reconstruction (history of U.S.)
- Picturing America
- Internet Archive: Audio (200,000 public domain recordings)
- Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach [U.S.] History
- US History Lessons (Edsitement)
- Agricultural History Primer (very informative); Living Farm Museum
- Have Fun with U.S. History (older but fun & informative videos)
- Indigenous Geography (Museum of of the American Indian)
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History; excellent collection of primary sources
- Price of Freedom (war in American history - interactive display)
- U.S. History.org (Independence Hall Association, includes an online textbook of U.S. history)
- The HistoryMakers (oral histories of accomplished African-Americans)
- Guampedia (about the territory of Guam!)
