Gateway to History Websites & Primary Source Archives
This feature searches pre-approved history websites and primary source archives to help filter out non-history related content. Please also see our Website Reviews for detailed analysis of particular resources.
Historic Sites for Fieldtrips
Learn more about the Preserve American Initiative or look for a Preserve America community near you. Or use the National Park Service's Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series and Teaching with Historic Places website to learn from and identify local and national resources.
Research Tools
Edublogs
Classroom blogging can serve as a communication tool between teacher and parent, teacher and students, and students to students; and blogs can also create communities and extend communication beyond he classroom.
Wikis
Wetpaint offers free wiki websites, advertisement-free for educational use, and an invitation-only option for viewers and contributors.
Online History Lectures
Website Reviews
HarpWeek: Explore History
[FREE AND SUBSCRIPTION] These twenty-two exhibit present free access to a wealth of texts and images on a variety of subjects dealing with nineteenth-century American history.
Public Papers of the Presidency
Bringing together a wide range of material on the public communications of American presidents, as well as election data and statistical information on presidency, this website presents the public messages, statements, speeches, and news conference remarks of presidents from Herbert Hoover to George W.
Mexican-American War and the Media
These more than 5,500 transcribed newspaper articles related to the Mexican-American War represent five newspapers from the U.S.
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National Centers
Explore this listing of federal organizations and highlights of their resources for teaching and learning American history.
Federal Judicial Center
The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency for federal courts.
Presidents of the United States
The White House, home of American presidents, offers historic photos and biographies of past and current occupants.
U.S. Senate Historical Office
Political cartoons, photographs, oral histories, artifacts, essays, and quick facts from the Senate Historical Office provide an overview and behind-the-scenes look at events and functions of the U.S. Senate.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
Ask a Historian
Our readers submit questions about U.S. History, and an expert historian finds the answers.
Can you explain some contradictions in John Fremont's Political Chart of the United States (1856)?
The 1850s were a time of rapid industrialization and urbanization in the northeastern states.
