Test your knowledge of history as you race against the clock. Revolutionary War and Underground Railroad
Great visual for demographics of the US, world and Japan. The map changes the sizes of the states relative to the demographics of the individual states.
Digital archives and information about presidential canidates
Activities for teachers from NG
Create overlays on Google Maps, annotate and more...
Get real information locations about wars
Full color physical and political maps from countries around the world. Also, facts, statistics, etc.
Includes activities linked to national history standards
A ton of historical information
Historical tours of American history
Sponsored by the National History Education Clearinghouse and includes teaching materials and content.
Lesson plan links for a wide variety of multicultural topics.
This site has a wealth of statistics about the United States. There are statistics for education, health, finances, and much, much more. It can be used for both social studies and math classes
Activites and resources for the study of current events.
Teacher's guide for using professional political cartoons in the classroom.
Free primary source materials for social studies teachers.
A comprehensive one-stop resource for teaching international and area studies and foreign languages in the precollegiate classroom.
Free historical games with a seachable database.
Works with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates and others whose voices are rarely heard.
Goal is to put current events into historical perspective.
Short films of noteworthy events.
Bring history to life through primary documents.
Nationalatlas.gov™ contains a remarkable range of products and services to meet the diverse needs of people who are looking for maps and geographic information about America. Dynamic maps are innovative illustrations of geographic phenomena.
A game sponsored by the education arcade.
Shows statistics for a fact-based world.
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters.
This is a very good site for history teachers who like to challenge their students to defend different viewpoints throughout history.
Chronicles Americans at war.
Funny BBC videos of historical events.
Through the Univeristy of Ohio
This website offers videos and audio clips of stories as well as chapters or entire books for students to read about a large variety of subjects. Historical works include links to pictures of primary sources.
Geo-located photos! Just type in a location and see photos and map of that place!
What the world is talking about...immediately updated news stories of current events.
View historical text, documents and photos.
Immigration Sites:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm
http://search.ancestry.com/search/category.aspx?cat=40&o_xid=21837&o_lid=21837
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp
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