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national archives and records administration

a free and online, collaboratively built american history textbook

the national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world - why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today.

the national humanities center presents primary and secondary resources, webinars, and lessons for teachers of american history and literature.

the library of congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of congress. it is also the largest library in the world, with more than 162 million items. the collections include books, sound recordings, motion pictures, photographs, maps, and manuscripts.

the living new deal can help you learn about the new deal, one of the most remarkable eras in american history. use this website to explore new deal

free lessons and resources for teaching people’s history in k-12 classrooms. for use with books by howard zinn and others on multicultural, women’s, and labor history.

historical society of pennsylvania, philadelphia's library of american history, is a source of books, manuscripts, and images for educators, students, researchers, and genealogists

the spartacus educational website provides a series of free history encyclopaedias. entries usually include a narrative, illustrations and primary sources. the text within each entry is linked to other relevant pages in the encyclopaedia. in this way it is possible to research individual people and events in great detail. the sources are also hyper-linked so the student is able to find out about the writer, artist, newspaper and organization that produced the material.