Win the White House
What does it take to win a presidential campaign? Try it yourself with this online game from iCivics!
The Gaming Evolution
From text-based to modern multiplayer interaction—even video games have history.
Jeremiah McCall on Historical Problem Spaces
Students solve “problem spaces” when they play video games. Apply “problem space” thinking to studying history!
Jeremiah McCall on Evaluative Activities and Assessments for Simulation Games
Want to use digital games in your class? Jeremiah McCall shares five guidelines for evaluating games.
Jeremiah McCall on Activities and Assessments for Simulation Games
Thinking about using digital games in your classroom? In Part Four of his six-part series, teacher Jeremiah McCall shows you how to form lesson plans around critically evaluating U.S. history games.
Jeremiah McCall on Structuring Lesson Plans Using Simulation Games
What can you learn from analyzing a history-based game? How to critique models of systems and presentations of history, says teacher Jeremiah McCall.
Jeremiah McCall on Evaluating Simulation Games for Classroom Use
So you want to use digital games in your teaching. How do you decide which games suit your needs? Jeremiah McCall gives tips for evaluating games.
Jeremiah McCall on Using Simulation Games in the History Classroom
How can you teach—not just distract—with digital games?
Mission US: For Crown or Colony
Immerse your students in the 1770s with this online game.
Gettysburg National Military Park: Camp Life
What did soldiers do between battles? Sometimes, fought off boredom!
Do I Have a Right?
Drill students on the constitutional amendments with this engaging game.
Manias of the Gilded Age
Fads, crotchets, crazes, rages, and cultural fevers. Test your knowledge of these short-lived obsessions.
Playing History
Board games preserve the past in squares, paper money, and toy tokens. Answer these questions about the history of play.
Rock Paper Scissors
Gamester extraordinaire Comte de Rochambeau?
Nineteenth-Century American Children and What They Read
Examines 19th-century children in America: what they read, what was written about them, and what was written for them.
Amateur Athletic Foundation Digital Archive
Official documents and articles from periodicals record the history of the Olympics and sport.