Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: World History: The Years Between the Wars (1919 1939)
World History unit on the years between the two world wars, 1919-1939. Comprehensive multi-media resources, assignments, activities and assessment.
University of Oregon
Mapping History: European History
Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in European history from Greek and Phoenician colonization up to the 20th century.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History/college History: United States Enters World War I
The study resource from Khan Academy provides a video for Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. This section discusses America's entry into World War I. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History/college History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945
The study resource from Khan Academy provides a video lesson about the Zimmerman Telegram: Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
Calisphere: University of California Libraries
University of California: Calisphere: Gold Rush Era, 1848 1865: Growth of Cities
Primary source images depicting the rapid growth of small settlements into big cities as people continued to come to California from all over the world during the Gold Rush.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: African American Soldiers in World War I
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the experiences of African American Soldiers in World War I.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Epsid 2019 2020 Us History
Flexbooks 2.0 are interactive, customizable, digital textbooks. Flexbooks are standards-aligned. Flexi, a student tutor, is integrated into each book to guide you on your learning journey. Flexi can assist in learning, answer questions,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: 1920s, the Great Depression, & World War Ii
AP U.S. History learning module on 20th Century eras and events including the 1920s, Great Depression, and World War II. Comprehensive multi-media lesson materials.
Other
Ithaca College: Project Look Sharp: Soviet History Through Posters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Multi-unit curriculum kit on the history of the Soviet Union told in five episodes using Soviet posters as source material. Coverage includes the birth of the Soviet Union, Stalin, the Great Patriotic...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Within These Walls
Creatively tells the story of a house that has been a home to five American families over the period of time from the colonial era to the Second World War. You can find information about the house itself as well as the culture of the...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Growing Global Power
A comprehensive teaching unit on the emergence of the United States as a global power after World War I. Learn about America's drive for expansion, first by the military, then by businesses. Contains video and text materials, web...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Postwar Tension and Triumph
Comprehensive teaching unit on tensions of the Cold War era: conflicts between domestic prosperity and unfulfilled expectations, ideals of conformity and individualism. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student...
Curated OER
History Matters: Get the Rope! Anti German Violence in World War I Era Wisconsin
Read this harrowing account of a German-American farmer whose nativist neighbors suspected his alliegiance to the United States after the country entered the war against Germany in World War I.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Progressive Era to the New Era 1900 1929, World War I
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about World War I from the primary source documents contained here. Also contains a short overview, lesson plans, timelines, maps, and images, as well as recommended videos, books, and other...
The Economist
The Economist: History in Brief: Iraq
A summary of Iraq's history dating from the BC era to the present. Provides numerous links related to Iraq.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: War and Uneasy Neutrality
Overview of Roosevelt administration U.S. foreign policy and the challenge to remain neutral in an era of expansionist totalitarian regimes of Italy, Germany and Japan.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Every Citizen a Soldier: World War Ii Posters on the Home Front
An article from the quarterly journal, History Now, discusses the importance of posters in World War II in encouraging support in the United States for the war. See examples of posters and read about how they emphasized the role of every...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Henri Cartier Bresson: After the War, End of an Era
French photographer Cartier-Bresson, known as the father of photojournalism, documents scenes in Europe at the end of the Second World War and in India and China at the start of the postwar period in world history.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Period 7: 1890 1945
This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History Period 5: 1890-1945.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: East Asian History Sourcebook: East Asian History Sourcebook
Fordham University, known for its excellent primary historical resources in English translation, provides one for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese history.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Odyssey: Booker T. Washngton Era
A history from the Library of Congress of African Americans during the time of Booker T. Washington, "the 1870s to the start of World War I."
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Within These Walls
Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Us History: A New Century
AP U.S. History unit covers the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, including the first World War and the Progressive Era. Comprehensive lesson materials and interactive media.
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Political and Military History: Map 15: The World at War, 1944
Lesson for K-12 using historical map teaches students about the relationship between perspectives of the world and map projections.