Biographies of women significant in the history of the United States

This website created by the magazine Biography contains thousands of entries

Contains a collection of important inventors with links for further study.

Contains a large biography collection of notable persons.

Digitized archives of JFK. Students can search primary resources )or view digitized media ( i.e. video clips and audio clips).

The Library of Congress' Historical Collections for the National Digital Library

Illuminating the past through personal narratives and other first-hand sources

A listing of important U.S. events for each year of the century

From PBS: An interactive site that challenges the student to solve the same problems that Lewis & Clark encountered

A resource of information about the Oregon Trail

A database of some 1,200 documents, photographs, drawings, maps, other materials in (primary source documents)from the National Archives in Washington DC

The ever-popular and timeless sing-along animation that teaches the process of lawmaking.

A full-text database of primary source materials from 18th and 19th-century periodicals

Click on 'Teaching with Documents' on left side of page for a list of subjects and associated primary sources