TeachUSHistory.org

TeachUSHistory.org is a website composed of historic primary sources, media presentations, lesson plans, and background materials to help teachers teach various aspects of American history quickly and easily. The site is designed to be literally one stop shopping where in a matter of minutes educators can find resources and strategies and implement them with their students in their own classroom.

The site is composed of facsimiles of materials from the collections of the American Antiquarian Society and Old Sturbridge Village. It was developed collaboratively over time with a series of grant-funded projects that employed various scholars, educators, and institutions.

Topics include the American Revolution, DeTocqueville Visit to the United States, Indian Removal, Nineteenth Century Immigration, Temperance Reform in the Early Nineteenth Century, Dred Scott Decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas, the Second Great Awakening and the Age of Reform, War of 1812 and the Hartford Convention, and Westward Expansion.

Each section includes an overview, approaches, lesson plans and resources. To learn how to use this site for your classroom click here.