Teachnology
Teachnology: Social Studies Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans covering a wide-range of history-related subjects. A wonderful resource for wonderful teachers!
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Preface to Sancho: An Act of Remembrance
Paterson Joseph describes how his research into Black British history led him to write his first play, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance. In this one-man show, Paterson Joseph inhabits the life of Ignatius Sancho, the 18th-century composer,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1844 1877: Reconstruction: The First Kkk
Explains how the Ku Klux Klan came into existence and how they terrorized African Americans as well as those who sympathized with them. The Klan would suppress the black vote so that Democrats had a better chance of winning an election...
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Atlas of the Historical Geography of United States
Review America's history with over 700 individual maps that address a broad range of issues with this atlas. This atlas maps a variety of historical topics: "exploration and settlement of the continent, the location of colleges and...
Cornell University
Cornell University: Law School: Constitution of the u.s.
The Constitution of the United States is provided by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University of Law.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tabella
Tabella, a billet or tablet, with which each citizen and judex voted in the comitia and courts of justice. In the comitia, if the business was the passing of a law, each citizen was provided with two tabellae, one inscribed V.R. I vote...
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The History Place: On Women's Right to Vote
At this site from The History Place, you can read online Susan B. Anthony's speech given after her arrest for an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872, she was tried and fined. Read her words and her conviction on the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Almon Wheeler
William Almon Wheeler (June 30, 1819 - June 4, 1887) was a Representative from New York and the nineteenth Vice President of the United States. When Congress voted a pay raise in 1873 and made it retroactive for five years, Wheeler not...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Washington (1789)
The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to receive 100% of electoral votes. John Adams was elected vice president. Washington took the oath of office as...
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Library of Congress: American Memory: Mrs. Belle Sherwin
Mrs. Belle Sherwin, president of the National League of Women Voters, casts her ballot, 1928.