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Sites of Interest to U.S. History Educators

General U. S. History Sites

• American Memory Collection
  • http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amtitle.new.html
• The History Archive (American History)
  • http://www.thehistorynet.com/THNarchives/AmericanHistory
• Today in History
  • http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/
  On This Day
  • http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/
• Biographical Dictionary
  • http://s9.com/biography/
• Academy of Achievement
  • http://www.achievement.org
• Virtual Field Trips
  • http://www.field-guides.com
• The History Place
  • http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
• How Stuff Works
  • http://www.howstuffworks.com/
• The Internet Archive of Texts and Documents
  http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html
  The Internet Archive of Texts and Documents is a creation of faculty and students in the History Department of Hanover College. The principal goal of the Archive is to make primary texts and secondary sources on the internet available to students and faculty for use in history and humanity classes.
• Hitchhiker's Guide to American History    http://ushistory.wisc.edu/hist102/guide/guide.html 
• The History Guide      http://www.historyguide.org  
• History Social Science K-12    http://execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
• School History      http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk  
• History Alive      http://www.historyalive.com 
• Social Studies Content History Links  http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/teacherlink/content/social/webresources/contentrelated.html 

Links to U.S. History Pages

Discovery and Exploration

A New Nation

Early America

French Revolution

The Civil War

The Gilded Age

The Twentieth Century

The New Millennium