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For teachers (general)
California Content Standards
California History Social Science Project homepage
Historyteacher.net
Humanities Out There (HOT)
National History Standards
Online writing lab
Standards-aligned course models and lessons
UCI Department of Education
UCI History Department

General History
BBC Website Includes world and U.S., modern and ancient resources. The site features articles, primary sources, and interactive games to enrich any history classroom.
Calisphere This site represents the digitized collection of all UC libraries and includes a wealth of primary sources.
Facing History This website is aimed to teachers who want to increase student engagement and awareness of human rights issues through lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, so that students make the essential connection between history and the choices they confront in their own lives.
Library of Congress Great resources for teachers. Of particular interest are the “American Memory” and “Learning Page” sites. The site provides teachers with lesson ideas, primary sources, and strategies for world and U.S. history.
New York Public Library This is an especially great site for quality reproducible images and primary sources, especially for U.S. history.
PBS U.S. and world history lessons, primary sources, and interactive strategies.
The China Beat A website created by China scholars and journalists that examines media coverage of China and provides context and criticism.
The Perry Castaneda Map Site Provides teachers access to a wealth of world and U.S. maps, both current and historical.

Professional organizations
American Historical Association
California Council for History Education
California Council for Social Studies
National Council for the Social Studies
World History Association

United States History
Calisphere Resource of the UC Libraries that offers a wealth of images and some documents related to United States, and California, history, in particular.
Center for History and New Media This incredible site out of George Mason University sponsors many fascinating projects, including a September 11 Digital Archive. Amazaing "tools" for teachers. Dedicated to digital history.
César Chavez lesson plans
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1880-1920 A searchable database of over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.
FDR Cartoon Archive Collection of political cartoons creating during and about FDRs administration—good resources for New Deal legislation; also includes a section of teacher resources
Free Speech Movement Digital Archive Documents the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement (University of California, Berkeley, September-December 1964), as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements and its legacy of political activism and educational reform
History Matters For high school and college U.S. history teachers. Includes lesson plans, syllabi, assignments, student work, and reference materials
Library of Congress American Memory Extensive resource that includes primary sources, teacher-created lesson plans for all grades that draw on LOC collections, primary source exercises and activities; lesson plans and primary source collections span a huge range of U.S. history eras and topics American Memory from the Library of Congress
New York Public Library, Online Digital Archive
Organization of American Historians The OAH is the major professional organization of American Historians. They hold annual conferences for scholars and teachers. See the Magazine of History--a wonderful quarterly journal for teachers that includes lesson plans and short, accessible essays written by scholars and teachers
Propaganda Critic Video clips of post-WWII cartoons and films that highlight Cold War hysteria.
Resource for Colonial American History
The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco A collection of well organized primary sources relating to San Francisco, California and U.S. western history. Nicely indexed by year or subject.
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War An amazing digital archive created by historian Ed Ayers that details life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown’s raid through the era of Reconstruction where you can explore thousands of original lwetters and diaries, newspapers, census documents, church records, and more.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, Teacher’s This University of Binghamton, New York link takes you direct to the teacher’s corner, which includes a rich array of lesson ideas, document-based questions, and primary source documents on U.S. women’s history. The teacher’s corner is one piece of an enormous digital archive on U.S. women’s history. Extremely well-organized and user-friendly

World History
Asia exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection of art and artifacts from various portions of Asia. This includes online lessons and games.
Casa Historia Curricular resources for modern history topics such as imperialism and decolonization.
Collection of Communist Posters Poster collection from the Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban communist regimes.
Exploring African History Resource for African history that includes maps, timelines, narratives, and sources that are organized by period and theme.
Exploring the French Revolution Resource for images, texts, and music for the French Revolution and Napoleonic period.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project Collection of textual primary sources organized by period and topic
Perry-Castañeda Map Collection at the University of Texas-Austin World’s largest online collection of maps, which includes all types of maps from historical to contemporary.
Washington State University online world civilization course Complete online course in world history with primary and secondary source readings.
World History Connected Online journal that includes discussions about teaching world history, articles on current research in world history, book reviews, and lesson plans.
World History for Us All Curriculum with lesson plans, PowerPoints, and background information for world history that is aligned to the national standards
World History Matters Resource for world history sources for teachers. Offers links to primary source resources, teaching guides and a link to Women in World History.