Throughout the Ages was created to meet the primary source needs of New York state K-6 history teachers. The site collection includes more than 500 photographs, letters, paintings, advertisements, and maps.

To navigate the site, choose an area of interest and subtopic (for example "leisure" under the heading "community"), and scroll to a source of interest. The source will offer a caption. In some cases, historical context, focus questions, and the correlating New York state standards will also be listed. Be sure to click on each of these section titles, as items such as resources and historical background only display once selected.

One feature to look into is the automatic handout maker. For each image, you can automatically generate a handout by selecting any or all of the following categories: caption, historical background, standards/key ideas, historical challenge, interdisciplinary connections, and resources. For some images, these will already be filled out. For others, you can type anything you want for all, some, or one of those categories. Don't worry about deleting existing text if you don't want it on your handout. It will be back the next time you load your page.

This website presents historical sources and teaching materials that address notions of childhood and the experiences of children and youth throughout history and around the world. Primary sources can be found in a database of 200 annotated primary sources, including objects, photographs and paintings, quantitative evidence, and texts, as well as through 50 website reviews covering all regions of the world. More than 20 reviews and more than 70 primary sources relate to North American history.

The website also includes 20 teaching case studies written by experienced educators that model strategies for using primary sources to teach the history of childhood and youth, as well as 10 teaching modules that provide historical context, strategies for teaching with sets of roughly 10 primary sources, and a lesson plan and document-based question. These teaching resources cover topics ranging from the transatlantic slave trade, to girlhood as portrayed in the novel Little Women, to children and human rights. Eight case studies relate to North American history, as do two teaching modules.

The website also includes a useful introductory essay outlining major themes in the history of childhood and youth and addressing the use of primary sources for understanding this history.

The History News Network (HNN) was "conceived as primarily a national platform for historians wishing to comment on current events." The website publishes original articles by historians and links to current news articles either referencing or about history. The site's "Roundups" present collections of current media excerpts related to history, unvetted for accuracy or scholarship—these include the "Historian's Take" roundup, with excerpts from historians writing on the news; "Media's Take," with excerpts from mainstream articles that "take a historical approach" to current events; and "Talking About History," with excerpts from mainstream articles on history. A weekly "Top 10!" roundup gathers together the week's top 10 articles, and "Pop Culture and the Arts" "links to reviews of movies, documentaries, and exhibits with a historical theme."

Educators may find the "Hot Topics," highlighted on the left-hand side of the site, particularly useful—constantly updating, these "buzzwords" indicate current hot-button issues in the media, and direct visitors to content related to the issues on HNN. "Student Shortcuts" connects students with tools and resources, both on HNN and other websites, related to "Doing Research on the Web," "9-11," "U.S. History," "World History," "Science & Technology," "Doing History," and "Applying to College and Graduate School," while the "Teacher's Lounge" collects together HNN and site-external resources for educators on "Teaching the Constitution," "Teaching History," "Teaching the Middle East," "Teaching 9-11," and "Teaching Presidential Elections." Visitors to the site may also browse HNN's "History Blogroll," a directory of blogs run by historians, or follow any of HNN's seven in-house blogs; sign up for one of four weekly newsletters, including one specifically for high school educators; view videos of Organization of American Historians presentations under "HNN Videos"; or search the site's archives by keywords, posting date, author, and department.

Though the website can be difficult to navigate, its focus on viewing current events from a historical perspective and addressing the use (and abuse) of history in the media make it ideal for U.S. history educators looking for ways to link current events to history.

Providing access to social science data for member colleges and universities, this website presents data that covers a range of sociological and political areas. Issues include census enumerations; urban and community studies; conflict, violence, and wars; economic behavior; legal systems; legislative bodies; mass political behavior and attitudes; and organizational behavior.

While much of the site emphasizes the late 20th century, data sets such as "Historical and Contemporary Electoral Processes" and "1790–1960 Censuses" will be useful for historical research. Searching is available according to a controlled vocabulary of names, subjects, and geographical terms. There are 10 special topic archives with data geared to health, education, aging, criminal justice, and substance abuse and mental health concerns. A "data use tutorial" and links to related sites may be useful.

This bilingual website (English and French) explores the history of the French presence in North America from the early 16th century to the end of the 19th century through more than 360 manuscripts, books, maps, and other documents. Each thematic presentation—"Exploration and Knowledge," "The Colonies," "Franco-Indian Alliances," "Imperial Struggles," and "The French and North America after the Treaty of Paris"—includes a title exhibit and additional exhibits that highlight particular items in the collection. Materials can also be browsed in the collections section.

A timeline (1515–1804) organizes events in French America by explorations, colonization and development, and conflicts and diplomacy, and places them in the context of events in France. Additionally, there are eight descriptive maps that show various Indian groups in contact with the French and the changes in political boundaries in North America from before 1763 to the era of the Louisiana Purchase.

This large, attractive site provides high-quality material on American history for historians and teachers. The collection contains more than 60,000 "rare and important" American historical documents, images, and objects from 1493 to 1998; about 10,000 of these are available online. Authors include George Washington, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln.

Each week an annotated, transcribed document is featured, and an archive contains 80 past featured documents. "Treasures of the Collection" offers 24 highlighted documents and images. Six online exhibits cover topics such as Alexander Hamilton, the Dred Scott decision, Abraham Lincoln, and topics such as freedom and battles. Podcasts with historians address issues such as Presidential history and the Great Depression. Additional resources include links to historical documents, published scholarship, and general history resources on the web.