Teaching + Learning
Providing free access to primary sources, building high-quality online teaching modules, and offering instruction on critical thinking skills.
National History Education Clearinghouse
Supported by the Department of Education, the Clearinghouse is a central online location for accessing high-quality resources in K-12 U.S. history education.
History Matters
Designed for teachers of U.S. History survey course, History Matters is a place to investigate American history online.
Historical Thinking Matters
Focused on key topics in U.S. history, this website is designed to teach students how to "think historically."
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
This site offers a lively introduction to the French Revolution with an extraordinary archive of documentary evidence.
World History Matters
This portal to world history on the web provides resources to help teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from primary sources.
Women in World History
An online curriculum resource center designed to help high school and college teachers and students analyze online primary sources.
Object of History
Examine featured artifacts, all related to key topics in U.S. history, from the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Making the History of 1989
Explore the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe through essays, primary sources, and case studies.
Exploring U.S. History
Find online teaching modules covering the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries in U.S. history.
Western Civilization Webography Project
The Webography Project helps students learn to review the historical content of websites.
Teaching American History
Modules for teachers to improve their content knowledge of history by working with professional historians and museum educators.
Imaging the French Revolution
In essays, seven scholars analyze forty-two images of crowds and crowd violence in the French Revolution.
Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation
Historians discuss the translation and reception of the Declaration of Independence in nine countries around the world.
DoHistory
This site invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past.
Children and Youth in History
Explore the history of children and youth through primary sources, website reviews, teaching modules, and case studies.
Episodes
CHNM's series of famous episodes in world history, including images, movie clips, and sound.
Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories
This site is a portal to probate inventories between 1740 and 1810 in several counties of Virginia and Maryland.