The following list shares important web resources helpful to secondary education majors preparing to become history/social studies teachers.
Teaching Tips
Top History Sites for Educators
These sites bring history to life for teacher and student.
- Digital History
- American Memory
- The Library of Congress
- History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
- World History Matters
- Teaching American History
- Exploring U.S. History
- PBS Online
- BBC History
Top Education Sites for History
Teaching tools are now just a click away.
New Media
- Teacher
- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
- World History Connected: The e-Journal of Learning and Teaching
- History News Network (HNN)
Doing History
Here are some excellent, engaging and activity-oriented sites for history teachers.
- Who Killed William Robinson?
- The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2004
- Virtual Vietnam Archive
- The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
- Exploring Leonardo: Scientist, Inventor, and Artist
- Do History: Martha Ballard
- Whole Cloth: Early Industrialization
- Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
- The Lost Museum: Barnum's American Museum in 1865
- Race for the Superbomb
Award-Winning Portals
Extensive lists of the best history and education sites.
- Best of History Web Sites (includes lesson plans)
- Voice of the Shuttle