Helpful Websites

This page is designed to help us keep track of important websites for the classroom and historical study. I've organized it like Dr. Baker did in the syllabus and will continue to add onto the list as I find new ones.

Archives and Primary Source Documents (need to know what you are looking for):
Library of Congress Archives
National Archives and Records Administration
Yale Avalon Project - Documents in History
Accessible Archives - A Collection of 18th- and 19th-century Newspapers, Magazines, Books, & Geneological histories
Making of America - A Collection of Digitized Resources from AnteBellum Through Reconstruction U.S. History
Naval History and Heritage
U.S. Army Center of Military History
American State Papers 1789-1838
Digital Archive of American Architecture

Museum Sites:
The 1896 Presidential Campaign
9/11
Exploring U.S. History Through Family Papers - Sophia Smith Collection
Alcohol, Temperance, and Prohibition
U.S. Immigration History through Ellis Island
Abraham Lincold Historical Digitization Project
American Museum of Photography
"Battle Lines" - Letter's from America's Wars
Brown v. Board of Education and other landmark cases from Civil Rights
Teaching Women's History Project
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Child Labor in America - Lewis Hines' Photographs 1908-1912

Lesson Planning:
Library of Congress - Section for Teachers
Teaching History (of course)
Teach U.S. History
Discovery Eduation and United Streaming
Edsitement! The Best of the Humanities on the Web