In 1700s Maryland and Virginia, farmers lived and died by the quality of their tobacco. Teachers tour Maryland’s Piscataway Park, learning about farmers’ struggle against their environment to grow and cure the perfect crop.
TAH teachers get an introduction to Monticello as Thomas Jefferson’s ’laboratory.'
Guam is often left out of discussions of U.S. history. Remedy the situation!
There’s far more to West Virginia than stereotypes suggest. Why not take some time to explore the state?
Connect with your ELL students with this bilingual Puerto Rico Encyclopedia!
The work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in central New York State.
How the cotton gin revolutionized the use of slaves and the production of cotton in the Southern United States.
Learning about the life of a midwife in 18th-century Maine through her diary and other sources.
Link literature and history with activity sets for 18 books and a database of over 270 other books for young readers.
Can’t travel to Monticello? Take your students on a virtual tour of Jefferson’s estate with this website.
Wisconsin educators, search the online collections of the oldest American historical society for primary sources.
Wyoming educators, explore more than 10,000 primary sources on Wyoming’s 19th- and 20th-century history.
What do Sears Roebuck, farming, advertising, furs, and rural America have in common?
What were the primary concerns of English colonists in early 17th-century America?
Teacher Eva La Mar’s third graders become historians, writers, and videographers as they explore a community site.
Ever considered using mining to teach labor history?…
17th- through 19th-century newspaper articles from 23 states and DC.
Explore world and U.S. history simultaneously through universal development issues.
Listen to African American Blues from the Fort Valley Music Festivals of 1938-1943.
View 1,300 pieces of sheet music composed by and about African Americans.
Use this website to plan and organize lessons around NPS properties and locations.
Begin your background research on prairie farmhouses with this website.
Take a virtual tour of George Washington’s famous estate, Mt. Vernon.
An excellent site for new study into the “white trash” demographic.
Learn about Hispanic culture with the Juan B. Rael collection of upper Rio Grande folk music.
Learn about life in the Big Coal River Valley in West Virginia.
A comprehensive guide consisting of over 240 primary source items detailing African American history.
Learn about the 20th century resurgence of fiddle music and Appalachian folk culture.
What impressions did the average citizen or foreigner form of early America and its people?
How did the lumber, flour, sawmill, and farming industries shape Minnesota’s future?
Turn off the lights, and explore the ghost towns of the West.
What might your life have been like as an African American in Virginia c. 1900?
Explore river life—with a particular focus on food harvesting.
What questions have past censuses posed? What were the results?
Explore the history and development of a small town. The online scrapbook provides an uncanny lens into town life.
Explore Depression-era, ex-slave, and urban youth life stories.
How does the settling of the Siberian frontier compare to that of the U.S. West?
What images does a state choose to describe its way of life to the nation?
Find out what people thought of everything from ablation to vinegar in 1911.
Imagine traveling from a university to work on a farm.
What did Thomas Jefferson read?
There’s more to the West than cowboys.
What has the U.S. deaf population experienced?
Explore New England’s topography with more than 1,100 topographical maps, covering all of New England and parts of New York.
Conduct your own “virtual dig” of a Dutch farmhouse.
View Virginia’s antebellum architectural culture.
Through these writings, you can see how soldiers saw themselves as actors in Civil War battles.
See American life through Gedney’s eyes and European and Indian life through American eyes.
Imagine life on the western frontier.
Relive the 20th century through iconic imagery—more than 70 photographs represent major U.S. events.
A top notch concept: combining traveling sales with anthropological fieldwork.
Which performers, from martial artists to yodelers, traveled the Chautauqua circuit?
Explore Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin life through rare books.
View maps created for a multitude of purposes related to travel by rail.
From the queer to the quite extraordinary—explore the art of quiltmaking in the Southern U.S.
Explore Florida state, regional, and local history.
Peruse lesson plans about the West on this companion site to a Ken Burns documentary.
Follow the evolution of American music along the Mississippi.
Bring yourself up to speed on the Gold Rush, including the minorities involved.
If you were a pioneer, what would you have to say about your schooling? Students take up their pens and invoke their democratic freedom of the press.
What sort of structures did the WPA consider culturally important to Georgia?
How did the Protestant Church become central to Southern African American communities?
Discover blues, country, bluegrass, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Tejano, and Native American music.
Introduce yourself to ragtime music and the time which gave birth to it.
What on earth is “swamp pop”?
Explore a wide range of Californian geological survey maps, dating from 1895 to present.
View 400 hundred years of cartography from the Illinois area.
Try lesson plans based on the Library of Congress’ American Memory collections.
Companion to a PBS television program, this site provides insight into everyday colonial life.
Read 10 unpublished Hurston plays based on her anthropological studies of the U.S. South.
Explore French Louisiana, Canada, and the Great Lakes region.
State standards require you to teach VA history? Worry not! This site covers Virginia history from prehistoric times to the present.
Take a look at the “Constitution State,” with approximately 14,000 images depicting Connecticut’s history from the 19th through the 20th century.
Imagine life as a Moravian in Bethlehem, PA.
Visit this unique site to learn about the history of coal mining during the Gilded Age.
Learn about the history of the United States up to 1815 with this website dedicated exclusively to early American history.
Midwest teacher looking for local history primary sources? Try these nine digital collections.
Learn about family life and social history in the northern Midwest.
An informative introduction to the practice and excitement of historical research.
This gateway site provides a wealth of resources pertaining to the American West.
View fantastic photography throughout the ages in over 15 exhibits.
The 46 first-person accounts on this website effectively chronicle slavery in the United States.
Visit this website to learn the history of many of the 384 areas under the stewardship of the National Park Service.
Witness farming at the turn of the 20th century with this collection of photographs.
Learn about ranching culture and everyday life in northern Nevada’s Paradise Valley.
Learn about the American south in the late 19th century through 141 firsthand texts.
View the early history of California through this collection of over 30,000 photographs.
View images related to Alaskan statehood and Native Americans.
Explore campus protest ephemera and the youth movements of the 1960s and 70s.
See the faces of the rural South, and acquaint yourself with their folk arts.
What role did runaway slaves and free African Americans play in the Second Seminole War?
An extensive glimpse into slave life and the history of slavery in the United States.
Search Wisconsin newspapers mainly from 1860 through 1940.
What happened between 1880 and 1910 in the area where you live?
View color photographs of everyday life during the Great Depression and pre-World War II mobilization.
View streaming videos on American folk culture from fox hunting to Zydeco.
Explore the folk lore of Florida—from musical performances and art to occupational lore.
A diverse array of Antebellum, Civil War, and Gilded Age lesson plans for your convenience.
Listen to, read, and sing sources from the Gilded Age canvassing women, religion, and more.
Did you know that Micronesia was once a U.N. trusteeship administered by the United States?
Silicone Valley is known as a high-tech industry center, but has it always been?
How does your view of the American West compare to the visual reality?
Primary documents, background information, and lesson plans for Wisconsin history.
Geared toward K-12 education, this site presents antebellum life in Tennessee through letters and images.
View more than 13,200 photographs of California labor and community life between 1921 and 1965.
What can oral histories tell us about girlhood, adolescence, and more in the United States?
What did the Seattle area, mining, hunting, and portraiture look like c. 1900?
Examine 19th-century domestic life through sheet music and audio song files.
Uncover novels, readers, hymnals, almanacs, diaries, maps, treaties, and more from between 1801 and 1819.
Let the Library of Congress introduce you to African-American history from colonization to the WPA.
Sit back and enjoy folk and popular music recordings from 1930s California natives and immigrants.
Explore 19th-century life through newspaper articles from the 1870s.
Explore maps that enable you to better understand the country that you live in, and the land that surrounds you.
Women’s history should be integral to the total narrative of American history.
From White Fang to short stories and speeches, read more than 40 works by renown author Jack London.
Great Depression documentation of migrant work camps in central California.
Four collections of data and documents address Federal Indian policy in the late 19th century.
180 documents and artifacts interpret 19th-century westward exploration and the concept of Manifest Destiny.
In French and English, explore the history of the French in North America from the 1500s through the 1800s.
Primary and secondary sources examine the growing divisions in Kansas and the nation prior to the Civil War.
Explore sources from the mid-18th-to-early-19th-century European migration into the Ohio River Valley.
Follows Jefferson’s life, political participation, and accumulation of scientific geographical knowledge from 1735 to 1804.
Collects photographs, texts, and oral histories drawn from 15 Kentucky colleges, universities, libraries, and historical societies.
Searchable facsimiles of 1,850 monographs and 288 journal volumes related to agriculture in the U.S. between 1806 and 1989.
Explore the 15-volume Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from April 1636 to October 1776.
Showcases archaeological excavations at Mobile and elsewhere in Alabama through images and exhibits.
Firsthand accounts of exploration range from Viking stories to early 19th-century trappers’ journals.
Archives audio files of more than 700 folk tunes recorded in the South in 1939.
Offers oral history resources examining life in southern textile mill towns from the 1880s to the 1930s.
Nearly 3,500 images and approximately 318 letters illuminate life on the Great Plains from 1862 to 1912.
Presents the letters and diaries of Kate and Sue McBeth, late 19th-century missionaries and teachers among the Nez Perce Indians.
Read about crimes committed in the former Confederate states between 1865 to 1868.
40,000 written pages and more than 3,000 illustrations provide accounts of California history from the Gold Rush to the end of the 19th century.
Experience firsthand accounts of Jamestown and colonial history, dating from 1570 through 1720.
Get up close-and-personal with western migrants. Explore personal accounts of westward treks from the perspective of 45 men and four women.
Documents the 1704 raid on Deerfield, MA, by 300 French and their Native American allies.
Documents and analytical essays emphasize the social history of Plymouth Colony from 1620 to 1691.
Explore this database of over 150,000 photographs that capture the true nature of this crisis and its solutions.
Examine the verbatim transcripts of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials.
Presents the complete text of the Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, along with supplementary secondary sources.
Collects more than 4,000 images from books created in Europe between 1492 and 1825.