Teaching Materials
Ask a Master Teacher
Lesson Plan Gateway
Lesson Plan Reviews
State Standards
Teaching Guides
Digital Classroom
Ask a Digital Historian
Tech for Teachers
Beyond the Chalkboard
History Content
Ask a Historian
Beyond the Textbook
History Content Gateway
History in Multimedia
Museums and Historic Sites
National Resources
Quiz
Website Reviews
Issues and Research
Report on the State of History Education
Research Briefs
Roundtables
Best Practices
Examples of Historical Thinking
Teaching in Action
Teaching with Textbooks
Using Primary Sources
TAH Projects
Lessons Learned
Project Directors Conference
Project Spotlight
TAH Projects
About
Staff
Partners
Technical Working Group
Research Advisors
Teacher Representatives
Privacy
Quiz Rules
Blog
Outreach
Teaching History.org logo and contact info

History Content

Immigration is an important topic in American History. So, don't just talk about it! Allow your students to "connect" with the 19th century immigrant population by exploring structures like Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York. The website for this historic location offers a plethora of resources that will enable you to bring the past to life. FIND OUT MORE »

Read and Learn

Website Reviews

Find quality websites & primary sources

The Underground Railroad

Photograph, Henry Box Brown, National Geographic Society.

Travel the Underground Railroad with this interactive website. [...] »

Surveyors of the West: William Henry Jackson and Robert Brewster Stanton

Robert Brewster Stanton in Glen Canyon - Colorado River about 1893. NYPL

Follow the journey of two men through the western United States. [...] »

AdFlip

Canadia Pacific Ad. 1950s. Ad Flip

Nostalgic for X-ray glasses advertisements? [...] »

Browse Website Reviews

History Quiz

Test your history knowledge

A Hoax Provokes Folks: Why Lie?

Photo, Cardiff Giant, c.1910-1915, Bains News Service, Library of Congress

Peruse the news, but beware hot air? Examine famous U.S. hoaxes. [...] »

Back to School

Photo, Greenbank Consolidated School. Loading up the buses for a six-mile haul.

Binders, buses, and backpacks—consider the history of these back-to- [...] »

Drafting Music

Sheet music, Wanted - a substitute!, 1863, Frank Wilder, Library of Congress

Both the North and South instituted drafts during the Civil War. Popular music [...] »

Browse the Quizzes

Beyond the Textbook

Question textbook narratives

John Brown's Raid

Painting, John Brown, 1867, Thomas S. Noble, NYPL Digital Gallery

Did Northerners all respond the same way to Brown's infamous raid? Southerners? [...] »

Huey Long

Stereograph, U.S. Senator Huey Long, c.1933, Keystone View Company

How exactly did U.S. Senator Huey Long intend to end poverty across the U.S.? [...] »

Labor and Trade in Colonial America

Photo, Weavers at Colonial Williamsburg, May 29, 2010, animalvegetable, Flickr

Was colonial trade really triangular? What kinds of work did colonists do, and [...] »

Browse Beyond the Textbook

National Resources

Federal teaching resources

National Institute for Literacy

Photo, "Artis struisvogel leest krant van oppasser,"1951, Flickr Commons

Do you have struggling readers in your class? Try incorporating literacy [...] »

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Graph, "Sentences for those convicted in federal court," BJS

Everyday you read about local crime in the newspaper, but are the rates really [...] »

U.S. Navy

Oil on canvas, Gun Crew. . . , 1940-42, McClelland Barclay, U.S. Navy

Who defends our seas, and how do they do it? Explore primary sources and more. [...] »

Browse National Centers

PARTICIPATE

Ask A Historian

Honest Abe

Lincoln rainbow

The secret life of Lincoln? Gettysburg-era pride? [...] »

Ask a Question

Searches

Museums and Historical Sites

History in Multimedia

Search for multimedia history content.

Website Reviews

Search reviews of history websites.

History Gateway

Search the web for history content. Material is filtered, but not reviewed. See Website Reviews for selected resources.

 
Content