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Primary Sources

• The Avalon Project This project from Yale University is trying to digitize all historical documents in their original text.
• Library of Congress This page is the Library of Congress' home page.
• National Archives The National Archives has a variety of documents at your fingertips.
• National Museum of American History You'll find a variety of collections and online exhibits at this Smithsonian museum site.
• DocsTeach This online site has many exhibitions, collections, and activities for teaching with the National Archives collection.
• Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History Signing up required, but free. The Gilder-Lehrman Institute has a variety of primary sources, essays, historical interpretations, and videos for classroom use. They have a special section specifically for AP US History.
• History Matters, From George Mason University, this site has a variety of primary source excerpts, including introductions that help to establish historical context.
• Teaching History This site from the National History Education Clearinghouse, has a variety of materials and primary sources for teaching history.
• Eyewitness to History This site has a variety of eyewitness accounts to major historical events.
• The History Guide This is a resource for historians. The links page suggests a variety of primary and secondary source websites.
• Documents of World War II This site from Mount Holyoke is a chronological list of links to primary sources about World War II.
• New Deal Network This comprehensive site has tons of primary sources, including great political cartoons about FDR and the New Deal.
• Documenting the American South From the University of North Carolina, this collection contains a variety of primary and secondary sources about southern life.
• A Chronology of US Historical Documents From the University of Oklahoma College of Law, this page links you to a variety of primary sources sorted chronologically.

• US Misery Index This site compiles quantitative measurement of U.S unemployment rate and inflation rate from 1948 to 2015. 

• Exploring Vietnam Stories This  website explores Vietnam War experiences through the eyes of Marylanders. Lesson modules, oral histories, and a variety of sources are included. 

Online Textbooks

• U.S. History  Covering from Pre-Columbian to the Millennium, this online secondary source is organized with an ease of readability. It provides opportunities for students to navigate to related primary sources.

• Digital History This online textbook is organized and clear. It provides students with secondary content about U.S. History and offers a variety of primary sources, historical interpretations, and other extras for both teachers and students.

• EbscoHost This online textbook has secondary information about a variety of U.S. and World History topics. 

• CommonLit this site has a host of secondary and primary source critical reading passages, including SAT style questions students can answer directly on the site. The teacher can track student progress and provide immediate feedback. 

• How the Hiroshima Bombing is Taught Around the World This article describes the results of a crowd-sourced effort to share how and what people were taught about the dropping of the atomic bomb from countries around the world.  

Video Series

• Crash Course in US History This video series is engaging and entertaining in the way it tells the stories of U.S. History. It's fast paced, but the website offers transcripts for most of the videos.  
• History Channel The History Channel offers a variety of videos and text about historical events.
• Khan Academy This site offers a variety of videos and secondary source essays. 

Podcasts 

• Cannibalism at Jamestown On May 1, 2013, forensic evidence confirmed what survivors had reported: Colonists at Jamestown resorted to cannibalism during the winter of 1609-1610, known as the Starving Time. But the colony of Jamestown was troubled from the start.

• Frederick Douglas an orator, writer, statesman, and social reformer. His early life shaped the advocate he became and the two primary causes he campaigned for-abolition of slavery and women's suffrage. 

• Brown vs Board of Education Brown v Board of Education might be the most well-known Supreme Court decision, a major victory in the fight for civil rights. But in Topeka, the city where the case began, the ruling has left a bittersweet legacy. Listen to the Brown family tell their story. 

• The Foot Soldier of Birmingham Great podcast to teach historical perspective! The image of a police dog viciously attacking a young black protester shocks the nation. The picture, taken in the midst of one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous marches, might be the most iconic photograph of the civil rights movement. But few have ever bothered to ask the people in the famous photograph what they think happened that day. It’s more complicated than it looks.