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The Boston Tea Party A nice multimedia lesson about the Boston Tea Party, the actions that instigated it and the British response to it, including the passing of the Coercive Acts (known in America as the Intolerable Acts). (12/16/09)

The World at War and FDR's Key Decisions The U.S. was isolationist in the 1930s - a sentiment F.D.R. struggled to overcome. After war broke out, he helped the Allies when he could, but the U.S. officially remained on the sidelines until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. This timeline fro TIME puts that progression in perspective. (12/13/09)

Documenting the American South is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes fourteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. (12/10/09)

Words of Thunder  Online exhibition of emancipation and abolition of slavery in America, particularly Boston's role in the movement to end slavery. (12/2/09)

Create a Graph  Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world. Here you will find five different graphs and charts, bar, line, area, pie, and XY, for you to consider. (11/16/09)

The Charters of Freedom  This comprehensive overview of the U.S. Constitution places the Constitution in context with two other founding charters of American democracy and government, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Includes access to digital facsimiles. (11/16/09)

Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms is a project of the Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. It seeks to advance knowledge of the history of cartography, defined as the history of creation, use, and interpretation of maps and the relationship between mapping and other facets of human history. (10/22/09)

UMapper is a visual, universal, web-based map authoring application. UMapper makes it easier than ever to create embeddable maps for Adobe Flash™ and distribute them through a website, blog, or social network. UMapper’s visual map editor enables users of any skill level to add points, draw shapes and add interactive overlays to a map. (10/22/09)

MapsETC Collection of historic maps. Here you will find over 5,000 maps representing many different time periods. All maps are available as GIF or JPEG files for screen display as well as in PDF for printing. Use the GIF or JPEG maps for classroom presentations and student websites. Use the PDF maps for displays, bulletin boards, and printed school reports. (10/21/09)

Picturing the 1930s  Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists’ memorabilia. (10/14/09)

American Experience offers a detailed look at the role technology has played in American life. Content includes a special focus on the telephone, the television, and the New York Underground. A look at forgotten inventors and more. (10/11/09) 

Eternal Egypt brings to light over five thousand years of Egyptian civilization. Eternal Egypt is a living record of a land rich in art and history, people and places, myths and religions. (10/10/09)

Teaching American History Project  These projects were created by Virginia and Maryland school districts in collaboration with the Center for History and New Media and the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. (10/6/09)

How a Bill Becomes a Law an interactive flowchart illustrating the process by which a bill becomes a law. Click a box to view information on that step, including tips related to your online research. (9/30/09)

Hoover Dam During the Great Depression, Americans built the Hoover Dam, overcoming technical challenges to erect one of the greatest engineering works in history. Hoover Dam reflected the engineering genius and design philosophy of the time. And, in the midst of the Great Depression, it was a symbol of hope for the dispossessed. (9/28/09)

Debating Emancipation puts you in the role of one of President Lincoln's cabinet advisers. Gain insight into the complex issue of emancipation by reading documents and letters of the time. (9/22/09)

The Flow of History:  A Dynamic and Graphic Approach to Teaching History  A huge collection of flow charts on historical topics from pre-history to the present, great for classroom posters (9/22/09)

Online Interactive Maps from Owl & Mouse Free online maps of Europe, US, Asia, South America and more. Make large maps to learn geography, to learn the US states, to learn "where in the world".  Great for classroom use. (9/15/09)

Teaching Social Responsibility  Resources for high school students to learn about Current Domestic Issues; War, Peace, Terrorism & Other Global Issues; The Middle East; and Nuclear Weapons & Other Related Issues. TeachableMoment.Org provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment. (9/11/09)

ChartGo  allows users to create charts online quickly. Create bar charts, line charts or pie charts. Simply paste your data in the chart data area and hit the create chart button. View chart examples  to find an existing chart image that you might want to use and modify. (9/9/09)

Law Focused Education Online Games  a collection of games sponsored by the State Bar of Texas such as The Bill of Rights Match Game, The Constitution Relay, Pirates of the Preamble, Federalist/Anti-federalist, and twelve more. (9/1/09)

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