Colonial House
This interactive site is based on the PBS series, Colonial House. In these interactives you can view panoramic 360-degree views of a colony and its buildings, dress up as a colonist, trace a voyage from Europe to the New World, look…
US History
Updated on October 12, 2018
Theses 40+ sites have United States history lessons and interactive games for students at all grade levels. From colonization and our Declaration of Independence to the Civil War, World Wars, and the present. Some of the sites include lesson planning resources for teachers.
Child Labor in U.S. History
From site: Forms of child labor, including indentured servitude and child slavery, have existed throughout American history. As industrialization moved workers from farms and home workshops into urban areas and factory work, children were often preferred, because factory owners viewed…
Biography of America
From site: A Biography of America is a telecourse and video series that presents American history as a living narrative. This series web site lets you delve further into the topics of the 26 video programs.
American Journeys
From site: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words…
Interactive 13 Colonies
Use the interactive map to learn more about the history of the 13 original colonies of the U.S. There are several interactive games and quizzes to help you remember important ideas and dates. Additional premium features are available for a…
Mr. Nussbaum United States History
Comprehensive United States history resources for students, covering the period from 1492-1898. The online text is accompanied by videos, interactives such as map makers, reading exercises, online quizzes, printables, and clipart.Although site is targeted to grades K-8, the US History…
The American Presidency
Explore an interactive timeline of the U.S. presidents, with brief descriptions of each, and pictures of artifacts in the museum’s exhibit related to each president. There is additional information and artifacts about the presidency, voting, the role of the media, and details of life after the…
History Matters: WWW.History
From site: This feature is our annotated guide to the most useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social studies. We have carefully selected and screened each website for quality and provide a paragraph annotation that summarizes the sites content,…
LOC.gov Exhibitions
The Library of Congress site provides students and teachers access to the digitized collection of historic documents in the library. The Library of Congress Experience video on the website’s homepage is a must see. It gives you an excellent overview…
The Gilder Lerhman Institute of American History
This site offers a growing variety of resource for K-12 teachers and students. It provides videos, documents, primary sources, and exercises for the classroom. Resources of particular interest are: History by Era – covering ten eras of US history AP…
Interactives: United States History Map
From site: The United States History Map is an interactive Web site where students can learn about the geographic features of the United States, the regions and areas of the United States, and the development of the geography of the…
The Manhattan Project
From site: The United States Department of Energy Office of History and Heritage Resources, with the assistance of a graduate fellow, has been developing an interactive web site on the Manhattan Project. When completed, The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History…