Digital Collections of Historical Resources for Children and Teens
Library of Congress, America's Story: http://www.americasstory.com/
American Memory, Historical Collections for the National Digital Library, Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html, and The Learning Page with lesson plans and activities: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Digital Classroom: http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/ and Docs Teach, an online took for teaching with documents: http://www.docsteach.org/
100 Milestone Documents: Documents in the National Archives and Records Administration that chronicle the history of the United States from 1776 to 1965, at http://www.ourdocuments.gov/.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, "Teaching with Historic Places": http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/education/, and particularly http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/
Maine Memory Network: http://www.mainememory.net/
Massachusetts Historical Society: http://www.masshist.org/welcome/, with pages for educators at http://www.masshist.org/education/.
Harvard University's Open Collections Program: http://digitalcollections.harvard.edu/
Memorial Hall Museum Online (Deerfield, Massachusetts). American Centuries…view from New England: http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/home.html
Connecticut History Online: http://www.cthistoryonline.org/
New York Public Library Digital Collections: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Museum of the Moving Image (Astoria, New York), The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2008: http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
New York State Archives Erie Canal Time Machine: http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/eriecanal/index.shtml
American Museum of Natural History, Resources for Learning: http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/index.php
New-York Historical Society: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/default.php?section=education&page=digital_resources
Ohio Memory: http://www.ohiomemory.org/
Indiana University, U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, 1906-1970: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/
American Journeys, Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement, a project of the Wisconsin Historical Society: http://www.americanjourneys.org/. Connecting to the Classroom, a website for teachers and students, of topics in Wisconsin's history, is at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/teachers/classroom/. Another Wisconsin history for kids site is at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/kids/
Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive: http://www.umvphotoarchive.org/
Nebraska State Historical Society and the Nebraska Department of Education: Nebraskastudies.org
University of Kansas, Territorial Kansas Online: http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=lesson_plans
Medicine and Madison Avenue (Duke University): http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site (Atlanta, Georgia): http://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm, and the International Civil Rights Hall of Fame: http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/.
Florida State Archives Online Classroom: http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/
Louisiana State University Libraries Special Collections, "The Louisiana Purchase": http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/purchase/guidelist.html
Texas Beyond History: http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/
Digital History, a web site designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
The Portal to Texas History, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries: http://texashistory.unt.edu/
West Texas Digital Archives: http://wtda.alc.org/
Oregon History Project (Oregon Historical Society): http://www.ohs.org/education/oregonhistory/
Online Archive of California: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
Sacramento History Online (Sacramento County Office of Education): http://www.sachistoryonline.org/
California Historical Society educational resources: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/programs/edu_materials.html
Institute on Primary Resources, University of California, Los Angeles: http://ipr.ues.gseis.ucla.edu/classroom/lessons.html
International Children's Digital Library: http://www.icdlbooks.org/
Websites with historical information not necessarily geared toward kids, but perhaps can be used with guidance from teachers. Also includes sites without primary sources:
History Matters, a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York, Graduate Center, and the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Making of America, a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This project is a collaborative effort of the University of Michigan and Cornell University: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
EyeWitness to History: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html
EDSITEment — the Best of the Humanities on the Web: (National Endowment for the Humanities) http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Libraries http://docsouth.unc.edu/
AdAccess, advertisements from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
Connecticut's Heritage Gateway: http://www.ctheritage.org/
Connecticut Town Greens: http://www.towngreens.com/
The Connecticut Patents Project: http://www.cslib.org/patent.asp, maintained by the Connecticut State Library.
"An Orderly and Decent Government: A History of the Connecticut Legislature," a project of the Connecticut Humanities Council: http://www.ctheritage.org/aodg/index.html
Virtual Jamestown, a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment": http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
FirstGov for Kids: http://www.kids.gov/k_history.htm
National History Day: http://nationalhistoryday.org/
Smithsonian Institution: http://www.si.edu/ and pages for educators at http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Using Primary Sources on the Web, written by the Instruction & Research Services Committee of the Reference and User Service Association History Section in the American Library Association: http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/
Connecticut State Department of Education: http://www.state.ct.us/sde/
Connecticut History on the Web, created by a history teacher at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, with lesson plans and teachers guides: http://www.connhistory.org/
New York Times Learning Network, Teacher Connections: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/index.html
This page maintained by L. Smith.