- Schools History - http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/
History of Britain and Europe 1066-2000; features activities, homework help, and background on major events.
- Twentieth Century in America - http://library.thinkquest.org/50062/
A group of internet activities covering the major events of the 1900s in America.
- Social Studies - http://www.indiana.edu/~socialst/
This page is designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students. The World Wide Web offers almost unlimited opportunities for social studies education and we hope that this page will benefit both the novice and the experienced Web user.
- Online Classroom - http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Campus/1580/
Social studies lessons and links.
- Repositories of Primary Sources - http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
A listing of over 4000 web-sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
- Colonial America - For Freedom and Profit - http://members.tripod.com/~Sunclaw/index.html
United States History project designed for grades 6-12. It is an interactive, internet-based, cooperative group activity in which students build a colony from the ground up.
- Adventure Learning Foundation - http://www.questconnect.org/
Creates curricula which follow online adventure learning expeditions as they travel around the world. Includes resources for use in the K-12 classroom.
- Histor eSearch.com - http://www.historesearch.com/
Directory of online history research resources for students and educators.
- WebbieWorld: History Education - http://webbieworld.com/ww/category.asp?category=Education&subcategory=History
Small annotated directory of websites of interest to students and educators.
- National History Day - http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
Non-profit academic program designed to promote the study of history. Includes information on upcoming contests and participation, past winners, and recommended links to history resources.
- AP History Online - http://ap_history_online.tripod.com/
Provides Information of AP European and United States History, and Preparation for the AP Test. Done by a Student who got a "5" on the AP Test.
- The Vietnam War: Past and Present - http://www.tappedin.org/info/teachers/vietnam1.htm
Resource site for high school teachers provides historical background and curriculum ideas.
- BC Social Studies Teachers' Association Top Links - http://www.bctf.bc.ca/psas/BCSSTA/
Offers links to valuable lesson plans, research links and professional information to teachers interested in socials, history, geography, and comparative civilizations.
- Cultural / Educational Artefacts - http://www.artefacts.demon.co.uk/
Created by teachers for teachers. Give students the opportunity to learn about history by feeling and touching actual parts of history.
- Study Guide for Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project - http://www.tcomschool.ohiou.edu/cdtm
This study guide serves as a supplement to the radio series, Countdown to Millennium: An Oral History project. This resource for teachers includes lesson plans, background on oral history collection, instructions for video interviews and web page construction, and links to oral history archives.
- History Matters - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
- Global Nomads Group - http://www.gng.org/
GNG is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international dialogue by partnering educators around the world. Includes a teacher survey and project overview.
- Best History Websites - http://www.besthistorysites.net/
A portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help studies or teachers in a wide variety of topics and periods in history.
- Digital Classroom - http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.
- Our Documents - http://www.ourdocuments.gov
Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resources.
- Teaching History with Technology - http://www.caryacademy.org/historytech/
A not-for-profit journal designed to help middle school and high school history and social studies teachers better integrate technology into their classrooms.
- The Local Historical Archives Project (LHAP) - http://www.tielab.org/lhap
LHAP is a searchable database of historical images and documents, one that is largely compiled by students in grades 5-12. It is an educational project by which students create a local history resource available to anyone.
- American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc. - http://www.americanheritage.org
Provides free K-12 curriculum lessons by and for teachers in social studies, U. S. history/government, political science, philosophy, and economics. The curriculum educates students about America's factual, philosophical heritage.
- Junto Society - http://www.juntosociety.com
In-depth information and resources on historical dates and events, American documents, breaking news, political news, and other historical data.
- MSG's American History - http://free.hostdepartment.com/m/martinchh
Created by three students for the study of their American History class, its a great resource for all students.
- civilisations - http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/interactive/civilisations/
Civilisations is an entirely new way to explore human history - a multi-dimensional picture of the world, where you're in charge of the timeline.
- Dramatic History or Historical Drama? - http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/mo133sep.htm
Article which argues that historians with dramatic skills should find ways to write plays about historical subjects rather than leaving such tasks to dramatists who mainly use historical figures to attract attention to their plays.
- History and Social Studies - http://www.academic-genealogy.com/historysocialstudies.htm
Small directory of educational sites for the student, genealogist and family historian.
- Dr. James W. Loewen: Tips for Teachers - http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/specialfeatures/teachertips.html
The author of Lies My Teacher Told Me provides tips on dealing with history textbooks, list of books and magazines, mailing lists, and organizations.
- Abby's Resource Page for Social Studies Teachers - http://home.alltel.net/abbysresources/
Hundreds of links to history, social studies, and education sites on the Web. Links are indexed for easy searching. Also home of the History Teachers' Education Ring.
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