Meet Amazing Americans: Leaders and Statesmen, U.S. Presidents, Adventurers and Explorers, Musicians and Composers, Writers and Artists, Industrialist and Entrepreneurs, Scientists and Inventors, Athletes and Entertainers.
A list of the 100 milestone documents compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776-1965. Primary documents listed with transcripts and printable pages.
The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you will find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives.
The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them. A large audio archive of speeches and news broadcasts are also included.
A complete index to and partial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address.
Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8.
The first game in a planned series, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?” explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists and Patriots in 1770 Boston. This website provides information and materials to support the use of Mission 1 in your classroom. Download all the teacher materials as a DOC or PDF. Classroom guides are available for the components of the simulation.