History Related Web Sites and Resources
History Related Web Sites and
Resources
EDSITEment is a partnership between the National Endowment
for the Humanities http://www.neh.gov/ and the National
Trust for the Humanities that offers free resources for teachers, students, and
parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials. All
websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and
educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities
subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture,
civics, language, art, architecture, and archaeology, and have been judged by
humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality.
TedED provides a generous repository of short
animated videos on subjects ranging from the Vestal Virgins to the Cuban
Missile Crisis. The videos are accompanied by guided discussions and short
quizzes.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
Gilder Lehrman offers Lesson Plans, Primary Source Documents, Online Exhibitions featuring engaging
images, and other content to enrich at-home learning, organized by time period
and topic.
Center for History and New Media
https://rrchnm.org/what-we-do/
CHNM produces historical works in new media, tests
their effectiveness in the classroom, and reflects critically on the success of
new media in historical practice. CHNM provides links to their excellent online
history resources, such as Eagle Eye Citizen
http://eagleeyecitizen.org/
–an interactive site for learning about the
constitution–and History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ , a site with U.S. History articles and lesson
plans. Resources are designed to benefit professional historians, high school
teachers, and students of history.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
A great new site that includes: a U.S. history
e-textbook; over 400 annotated documents, primary sources on slavery, Mexican
American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal
history; short essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and
technology; multimedia exhibitions; reference resources that include a
searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies,
glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians,
and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site’s
Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional
historians.
TimeMaps allows students to view maps of world
cultures and civilizations, contextualize them on a timeline with their
contemporaries, and get a broad understanding of their rise and fall. Maps are
annotated and link to encyclopedic entries. See TimeMaps’ teacher section for
more details. A must-see resource!
https://spartacus-educational.com/
Run by a small educational publishing company, this
website provides free online materials for major history curriculum subjects.
Visitors can sign up for a free monthly e-mail newsletter covering web reviews
and using technology in the history classroom.
Stanford History
Education Group
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons
An excellent website for educational history
content, Stanford History Education Group offers a plethora of lesson plans
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons
, discussion modules
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-assessments
, online articles, other publications. A major
focus of the site is raising students’ ability to critically parse both
historical documents and online news articles, and this is reflected in their
content. The group also offers a “Civic Online Reading”
https://cor.stanford.edu/
curriculum to further this goal.
https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Big History Project is a free, online, multimedia
life history course designed for classroom use. From the Big Bang to the
present, it focuses on the broad themes and essential questions that address
the emergance of life on our planet, the evolution of advanced species, and the
development of human civilizations.
https://whfua.history.ucla.edu/
Presents world history curricula broken into
manageable units. Plenty of lesson plans and discussion question pdfs are
available for download.
Discovery Channel Social Studies Techbook
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/solutions/social-studies-techbook/
Discovery Education’s “Techbook” is a collection of multimedia
resources designed to supplement history lessons. It isn’t free, but you can
request a demo on their website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/on_this_day/
BBC’s
History section offers an impressive array of exhibitions, activities, games,
photo galleries and other resources. Major categories include: Ancient History,
Archaeology, Church and State, Science and Discovery, Society and Conflict, War
and Culture, and Family History. There are also sections entitled Multimedia
Room, Historic Figures, Timelines, Programmes, Reading Room, Talk History, For
Kids, and History Trails.
https://historia-europa.ep.eu/en/educators-teachers/classroom-activities
Offers five lesson plans on broad topics such as
identity, borders, and race.
PBS has a great source for information on a myriad
of historical events and personalities. PBSs assorted and diverse web exhibits supplement
specific individual television series and generally include a resume of each
episode, interviews (often with sound bites), a timeline, a glossary, photos,
and links to relevant sites. Categories include American History, World
History, History on Television, and Biographies. Go to the PBS Teacher Source
for lessons and activities.
Digital Public Library of America
The DPLA provides a searchable database of millions
of primary sources. It has also sorted the best of its collection into “Source
Sets” around a certain theme, such as Women in the Civil War, Environmentalism
in the Progressive Era, and Negro League Baseball. Each source set is
supplemented with discussion questions, lesson plans, and a study guide.
Offered by the National Historical Society, this
well-organized site covers a diverse set of topics in World and American
history. Noteworthy features include a picture gallery, archives, links to
full-text historical magazines, eyewitness historical accounts, special
features and book reviews
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
The Central Catalogue provides direct links to
network sites through its index and maintains a large number of files of
pointers for countries, periods, and subject for which there is not yet a
member site. A diverse and broad site with links to a multitude of topical
historical areas. The scope of the listed categories is impressive, but some
topics have a longer reach than others. Maintained by Lynn Nelson, Department
of History, University of Kansas
https://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/history.shtml
This worthwhile commercial site contains lesson
plans, special features, and is divided into 20 sub-categories including:
Documents, Famous People, Women, Classical/Ancient History, Preservation, and
more. They have reviewed over 700 web sites and have formulated yearly “Best
Of” lists.
http://www.educationindex.com/history/
An annotated guide to the best education-related
web sites. Reviews of historical sites are useful and comprehensive, though no
distinction is drawn between American and World history. Well organized and
reliable
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Hyper History Online covers 3000 years of history
through timelines, lifelines, maps and graphics. Much is under construction but
the site holds promise
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
School History is a bountiful online history site
that offers huge numbers of freely download-able resources, interactive and
entertaining history games and quizzes, interactive online lessons together with
comprehensive links to online resources.
The History News Network was created in June 2001
and features articles by historians on both the left and the right who provide
historical perspective on current events. HNN exists to provide historians and
other experts a national forum in which to educate Americans about important
and timely issues, and the only web site on the Internet wholly devoted to this
task. HNN is a non-profit publication run by George Mason University, is
updated daily, and averages roughly 1.5 million hits a month. Those of you who
have visited the U.S. History landing page in Best of History Web Sites may
have noticed that I link to HNN articles in the U.S. History in the Classroom
section.
The site for history fans, enthusiasts and
students, history consists of over 130,000 pages of eHistory.com – the site for
history fans, enthusiasts and students. history consists of over 130,000 pages
of historical content; 4,500 timeline events; 800 battle outlines; 300
biographies; and thousands historical content; 4,500 timeline events; 800
battle outlines; 300 biographies.
The Scout Report for Social Sciences
(Wisconsin)
Here you’ll find bi-weekly reports that cover select
Internet sites in the social sciences.
http://corporate.classroom.com/
A respected source for educational resources such
as web-linked activities. Has a popular newsletter on educational technology?
Offers lesson plans for children aged 3-5.
http://www.studentsfriend.com/
This non-profit, teacher-to-teacher site is a guide
for high school teachers of world history and geography, although much of the
content is suitable for teachers of other social studies subjects as well.
Content includes fundamental information about history teaching, resources, a
concise alternative textbook and lesson plans.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
In this UC Berkeley site distinguished men and
women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. They
reminisce about their participation in great events, and they share their
perspectives on the past and reflect on what the future may hold. Guests
include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts;
scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and
artists.
Understanding the World Today is supported by The
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication. It
features links to free resources about long-term changes in social, political
and economic systems. It also links to online history books and lectures. This
site also includes several reports about sociodemographic changes in the 20th
century, and very long-term historical world population and economic changes.
Teacher Serve
(National Humanities Center)
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/
This site is designed to deepen course content by
providing convenient access to scholarship tailored to classroom use. Teacher
Serve consists of a series of instructional guides on important topics in the
humanities on the secondary level.
http://www.historycentral.com/
History Central is offered by Multidoctor, one of
the earliest producers of multimedia software.
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
An organization dedicated to making history come
alive for students, the website offers lesson materials, presentations, and
media to support curriculum.
http://socialstudiescentral.com/
Lesson plans, presentation materials, and online
resources to support social studies curriculum.
