Useful Search Engines
Inspire- SUPER AWESOME Website! This site contains magazines, newspapers, scholarly journals, primary sources, videos, and much more that can be used for researching purposes. Also contains the citations for each source. It is a one stop shop! I encourage you to create an account as this allows you to save articles for future use.
Google Scholar- This search engine limits the items that are found to scholarly items that have been peer reviewed and edited in most cases.
iSeek- A non-commercial search engine that delivers editor-reviewed results from universities, government sites and other non commercial providers.
Google Scholar- This search engine limits the items that are found to scholarly items that have been peer reviewed and edited in most cases.
iSeek- A non-commercial search engine that delivers editor-reviewed results from universities, government sites and other non commercial providers.
Helpful Websites
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History- Excellent Website for Primary Sources
UShistory.org- Free Online Textbook that surveys American history from beginning to present.
PBS- American Experience: Videos that document historical events. Some videos can be viewed in their entirety, while others show just a few clips
Digital History- This website offers a variety of interactive features for researching a topic. Select a historical era and get primary sources, media (audio/video if available), and textbook excerpts to learn more about a given topic.
Crash Course US History- YouTube Channel that features John Green describing historical periods and topics. The videos offer a good introduction into a topic and/or review before an assessment.
TeachingAmericanHistory.org- The document tab, which this is linked to, offers primary sources from different eras in American History.
Stanford History Education Group- A variety of specific history topics are presented with primary source documents
Top 100 American Speeches- A list of famous speeches from American history after 1900. Most speeches have a link for audio listening and a link containing a transcript.
Top 100 Documents in American History- What more needs to be said? This list contains documents from 1776-1965 so it is a good list but not a complete one. We will look at some of these throughout th
UShistory.org- Free Online Textbook that surveys American history from beginning to present.
PBS- American Experience: Videos that document historical events. Some videos can be viewed in their entirety, while others show just a few clips
Digital History- This website offers a variety of interactive features for researching a topic. Select a historical era and get primary sources, media (audio/video if available), and textbook excerpts to learn more about a given topic.
Crash Course US History- YouTube Channel that features John Green describing historical periods and topics. The videos offer a good introduction into a topic and/or review before an assessment.
TeachingAmericanHistory.org- The document tab, which this is linked to, offers primary sources from different eras in American History.
Stanford History Education Group- A variety of specific history topics are presented with primary source documents
Top 100 American Speeches- A list of famous speeches from American history after 1900. Most speeches have a link for audio listening and a link containing a transcript.
Top 100 Documents in American History- What more needs to be said? This list contains documents from 1776-1965 so it is a good list but not a complete one. We will look at some of these throughout th