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[[File:Teacher.jpeg |thumbnail|left|600px300px]]We are currently building this page to help history teachers, instructors and professors find useful online resources. This project will probably never end because new sites are continuously created and old sites disappear. If any of the resources link to a dead page or you would like to suggest a useful site please send an email to contactdailyhistory@gmail.com.
DailyHistory.org has over 600 articles that cover a multitude of topics. Our study guides organize core groups of materials for specific eras, and you can look for other articles with our search function. In addition to articles, we also have book reviews and booklists.
* [[The History of Things Guide|The History of Things]]
* [https://dailyhistory.org/Category:Book_Review Book Reviews]
* [https://dailyhistory.org/Category: Booklists Booklists]</blockquote>
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*[http://www.americanyawp.com/index.html The American Yawp]
The Smithsonian site includes teaching lessons, interactives, videos, museum artifacts, and other teacher resources. There is a remarkable amount of material to explore. The site also has an outstanding search function. The search function allows you to look for resources based on resources type (videos, artifacts, reference materials, etc.), grade, historical era, and cross-curricular connections (look for resources that touch on multiple subjects such as economics, science, etc.)
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[https://www.archives.gov/education The United States National Archives]
The National Archives has a ton of resources on US history that focuses on primary source documents. Additionally, the Archives has created syllabi on how to teach students how to analyze primary sources. The Archives also created the [https://www.docsteach.org/ DOCSTeach online tool] for teaching archives from the National Archives.
The Archives has produced material that is primarily intended for middle and high school students. Here is an example of one of their Lesson Plans: [https://www.archives.gov/legislative/resources/education/constitution Teaching Six Big Ideas in Constitution] It creates several day ways to help to teach these documents.
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*[http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ Library of Congress]
The Zinn Education Project is inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States which emphasized the role of working people, women, people of color and the organized social movements that helped shape history. Zinn project is much less focused on politics that can take a central role in the history courses. The Zinn Education Project has a [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials Teaching Materials] portal that helps teachers find resources based on periods, themes, resource type, or grade level. It also has a keyword search function if you know what you are looking for. You can search for different types of resources including teaching activities, articles, profiles, posters, audio clips, websites, and many others. Here is an example of a Teaching Activity entitled [https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/cointelpro-teaching-fbis-war-black-freedom-movement/ COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI's war on the Black Freedom Movement].
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* [https://www.ancient.eu/ Ancient History Encyclopedia]
The Ancient History Encyclopedia is a carefully curated encyclopedia covering the ancient world history. The encyclopedia publishes articles, definitions, timelines, maps, and has a search function. If your students are studying ancient history, this is a good place to start. Unlike Wikipedia, the articles are written and edited by experts in their fields.
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* History Blogs
*[https://oyc.yale.edu/ Open Yale Courses History Courses] - The Open Yale Courses offer free complete courses taught by Yale History professors, but it only has four history courses available.
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