TAH “A More Perfect Union” Year Two

Useful Websites for Teaching American History

 

Teaching American History “A More Perfect Union” http://www.tahamoreperfectunion.com/

 

National Endowment for the Humanities: Edsitement http://edsitement.neh.gov/

            Lesson Plans and Primary Sources

 

Library of Congress: Civil War Photograph Collection

            http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

            Votes for Women http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

 

American Antiquarian Society http://www.americanantiquarian.org/

 

Worcester Art Museum Early American Painting

            http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/

 

The Massachusetts Historical Society Images of the Antislavery Movement

            http://www.masshist.org/online/abolition.cfm

 

National Archives and Records Administration Teaching with Documents

            http://archives.gov/education/lessons/

 

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

            Recommended Resources http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/resources1.html

 

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale http://www.yale.edu/glc/index.htm

 

NY Public Library Digital Collection http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

 

National Center for History in the Schools http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/

 

Making of America Digital Library http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/

 

History News Network http://hnn.us/

 

Teach US History http://www.teachushistory.org/

Sample Revival Sermon  http://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/resources/jedediah-burchards-revival-sermon

Temperance Reform http://www.teachushistory.org/Temperance/index.htm

 

Old Sturbridge Village http://www.osv.org/

 

Lowell National Historical Park http://www.nps.gov/lowe/

 

Talking History http://talkinghistory.oah.org/

Eric Foner on “The Meaning of Freedom” http://talkinghistory.oah.org/arch1999.html#Anchor-Th-38037

 

Harper’s Weekly Historical Election Cartoons http://elections.harpweek.com/default.asp

 

Boston College Front Row Online Lecture Series

            http://frontrow.bc.edu/programs/?category=12

Professor Thomas H. O’Connor on “Athens of America” http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/oconnor/

 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture

            http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html

 

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas

            http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

 

The American Civil War Homepage http://www.sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

 

Gettysburg College Civil War Institute http://www.gettysburg.edu/civilwar/institute/

 

The Civil War Home Page http://www.civil-war.net/

 

The US Civil War Center at LSU http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/

 

"The War that Never Goes Away": A Conversation with Civil War Historian James M. McPherson http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2000-03/mcphersonconversation.html

 

Massachusetts Civil War Websites http://www.masshome.com/histcwar.html

 

The Civil War http://www.civilwar.com/

 

Smithsonian Civil War Page http://www.civilwar.si.edu/collections.html

 

Best of History Websites Civil War http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_CivilWar.shtml

 

PBS     Reconstruction http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/

            The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow          http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_reconstruct.html

 

Commonwealth Museum Black Troops Exhibit http://www.sec.state.ma.us/sec/mus/exhibits/onlineexhibits/firethunderonline/fireidx.htm

 

 

TAH “A More Perfect Union” Useful Websites for Teaching History of Slavery

 

“African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts” at the Massachusetts Historical Society: http://www.masshist.org/endofslavery/

 

“Debate Against Slavery”Edsitement:http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=485

 

“Slavery and Abolition” at the Smithsonian: http://www.civilwar.si.edu/slavery_intro.html

 

“Perspective on the Slave Narrative” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=321

 

“Amistad Case Lesson” at National Archives: http://archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad/

 

“Africans in America” Part 4 at PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/title.html 

 

“Teaching With Documents: Fugitive from Labor Cases” at National Archives: http://archives.gov/education/lessons/fugitive-cases/ 

 

“Teaching With Documents: The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War” at National Archives: http://archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/

 

“African American Odyssey” at the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/ 

 

“Born in Slavery” Federal Writers’ Project at Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

 

“Spirituals” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=318

 

“Dred Scott Case” at Washington University: http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/

 

“The Emancipation Proclamation” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=290

 

“Documenting the American South” Slave Narratives at UNC: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html

 

Gilder Lehrman Center African-American online resources: http://www.yale.edu/glc/info/links.html

 

Freedman’s Bureau Online: http://freedmensbureau.com/

 

Online resources at University of Alabama: http://bama.ua.edu/~mabruzzo/slavery.html

 

Annotated OAH List: http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/antebellumslavery/taylor.html

 

 

 

 

TAH “A More Perfect Union” Useful Websites for Teaching the Civil War

 

 

Civil War Animated: http://www.civilwaranimated.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=17

 

“Abraham Lincoln Net” at Northern Illinois University: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/

            Links page: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/lincolnsites.html

 

“Lincoln Goes to War” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=263

 

Official Records of the War of the Rebellion: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/records/default.cfm

 

Shotgun’s Home of the American Civil War: http://www.civilwarhome.com/

            Links page: http://www.civilwarhome.com/indexcivilwarinfo.htm

 

Book TV Podcasts (search for author): http://www.booktv.org/Podcasts.aspx

 

Booknotes Interviews (search for author or category): http://www.booknotes.org/home/index.asp

 

“54th Massachusetts Regiment” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=790

 

“Red Badge of Courage” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=444

 

“Terrible Swift Sword” at Edsitement: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=744

 

“Where Historians Disagree on the Civil War” at McGraw-Hill: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0073124923/student_view0/chapter14/where_historians_disagree.html

 

“Gettysburg’s 75th Anniversary” at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgLUmiRLqW8

 

“The Valley of the Shadow” at Virginia Center for Digital History: http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

 

“Antietam National Battlefield”: http://www.nps.gov/anti/ (search for other battlefields at NPS home page)

 

“Electronic Text Center” at University of Virginia: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/civilwar/

 

“Black Soldiers in the Civil War” at the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/

 

“Civil War Women” at Duke University: http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/collections/digitized/civil-war-women/

 

 

Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies

http://www.masscouncil.org/

 

Reconstruction Historiography Article by Robert Green http://www.alaskool.org/resources/teaching/socialstudies/reconstruct_historiography.htm

 

Gilder Lehrman Module on Reconstruction http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module.php?module_id=307

 

PBS Reconstruction Website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.html

 

America’s Reconstruction http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/section3/section3_intro.html

 

Impeachment of Andrew Johnson Website http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/default.htm

 

The World of Thomas Nast http://www.thomasnast.com/

 

 

 

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