History

The Autry Education department offers standards-based lesson plans aimed at illuminating the histories and cultures of the American West, fostering a sense of inquiry and discovery, and inspiring an ethos of empathy and community engagement.

FHO's mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives.

The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the [Library of Congress] American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum. The section on professional development includes information about Webcasts and other training opportunities for teachers.

Lessons, posters, assignments, and assessments created by Stanford faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, and visiting scholars.

World history lessons, teaching units, and resources for middle school and high school.

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s best-selling book A People’s History of the United States, the website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by theme, time period, and reading level.

This website, a project of Teaching for Change, provides lessons, handouts, news, and resources for teaching about the role of everyday people in the Civil Rights Movement.

Teaching resources, lesson plans, readings, film reccomendations, and more.

Developed by the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, the site was designed to bring historically significant map documents into K-12 classrooms.

Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. Created by the American Social History Project at City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Links to sites specifically designed to help teachers use the Internet in designing courses in history.

It is a journal written by and for K-12 and college teachers. Recent issues are online. J-Stor has older volumes.

The National Archives gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students. Features sample lesson plans for K-12 teachers.

This free service for students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents offers background information on news stories, news quizzes, lesson plans and classroom activities, links to related resources, suggested family discussion topics, and other features to help with an understanding of current events.

Thousands of high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standard.

The Smithsonian observes the federally mandated Heritage Months by hosting performances, films, discussions, and many other events in Washington, D.C. In keeping with the spirit of Heritage Months, we offer these thematically arranged teaching resources from across the Smithsonian.

More than four million Central Americans reside in the United States today, yet the lack of resources in most schools on Central American heritage make the rich history and literature of the region invisible. Teaching for Change has launched a campaign to encourage and support teaching about Central America. [They] have collected lessons, book lists, biographies of noted historical figures, and readings for free use by classroom teachers.

Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible.

The Teaching the JAH project attempts to bridge the gap between the latest scholarly research and classroom teaching by supplying online teaching packages for selected JAH articles. These teaching packages demonstrate how the featured article might be used in teaching the U.S. history course.

Resources for K-12 teachers with an emphasis on social justice and anti-bias.

The Hidden Voices project is a collaboration between the NYCDOE Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. It was initiated to help NYC students learn about and honor the innumerable people, often “hidden” from the traditional historical record, who have shaped and continue to shape our history and identity. Including LGBTQ figures.

A selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, and educators.