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Awesome Stories [|http://www.awesomestories.com]

Authentic History Center-artifacts and sounds from American popular culture [|http://www.authentichistory.com]

George Washington, A National Treasure [|http://www.georgewashington.si.edu]

The Titanic Historical Society [|http://www.titanic1.org]

Digital History: [|www.digitalhistory.uh.edu]


 * This is a great site from the University of Houston. Much is teacher produced. There is also an online textbook.
 * Over 5000 annotated primary source documents
 * Historical newspaper articles
 * Trailers of historically significant films
 * New technology section: []

Modules on American History [|www.gilderlehrman.org]


 * Among many other things, this site has divided up American History and has lesson plans for each unit

History Teacher.Net: []
 * This is an AP site, but can certainly be used for regular classes
 * More ppts than I have EVER seen
 * Great review into-has terms and definitions already done for American and World History

Slavery and the making of America: []

The Rise and fall of Jim Crow: []

Teaching History.Org: [|http://www.teachinghistory.org]
 * Website Review Section
 * Teaching Materials with lesson plan reviews
 * Tech for Teachers-free technology tools and how to use them
 * Digital Classroom-area called Beyond the Chalkboard-videos of teachers in their classes using digital tools

Free Online collection about the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer project at: [|www.wisconsinhistory.org/freedomsummer]
Besides thousands of archival documents from COFO, CORE and SNCC and papers from dozens of individual activists, the site includes a downloadable powerpoint about Freedom Summer and a PDF Sourcebook of key documents for teachers. The archive also contains many items dating back into the 1950s and forward to the end of the 1960s, so it's useful for general civil rights movement research too.