Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country.
SHEC's classroom-ready primary documents and teaching activities engage students with deep historical questions and are designed to support learning at every level.
American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines cutting-edge research with innovative interactive mapping techniques, designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in American history or a love of maps.
Historypin is a place for people to share photos and stories,telling the histories of their local communities.
A Closer Walk highlights and contextualizes musical sites in New Orleans, to advocate for their future, to celebrate their memory, and to honor the men and women who have shared their music with us.
At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free!
WYES and PBS have curated FREE, curriculum-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more for teachers like you.
Explore interactive features on their exhibits such as a reading a mummy mask and ancient portraits in clay.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile.device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.
Developed for use by middle school students in the classroom and beyond, Mission US is a deeply-researched, educational media project with proven impact on history learning.
We are a site for conversations. We invite youth of all ages to voice their thoughts about their passions, to explain things they understand well, to wonder about things they have just begun to understand, and to share discussion posts with other young people using as many different genres and media as they can imagine!
We receive over a million unique answers (and filter out multiple submissions) to our political issues survey per day and categorize the submissions by political affiliation, state, city, and referral website, as well as census data estimates by income, race, education, and household. Choose an issue below to start exploring.
Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books.
To assist families and educators, we are sharing resources to help children and people who care for them learn about race.
The Indigenous Solidarity Network has developed this toolkit geared for white folks to discuss settler privilege and Thanksgiving with family, friends, and broader community.
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
Most students leave high school without an adequate understanding of the role slavery played in the development of the United States—or how its legacies still influence us today. In an effort to remedy this, we developed a comprehensive guide for teaching and learning this critical topic at all grade levels.
The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history.