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American history is best served hot and there are lots of ways to warm up to it. At HFwH, we bring free streaming video, interactive presentations, and links to many other resources to bring history alive. Go a step beyond the social studies or history classroom and use all your senses to connect with American History through audio, video, and living history.

Play the game of 'Viking Quest', which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond. Turn up your sound for the full Viking experience.

Free microsoft Power point TM presentations biology chemistry maths english history physics geography spanish powerpoints. Great for KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 and post 16 A level lessonplans, K-12 and more

Free powerpoints to download for History teachers

An inquiry-based activity about McCarthy, Truman, and American society

The HistoryMakers represents the single largest archival project of its kind in the world, outdistancing the existing video oral history collections of New York’s Schomburg Library and the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum. The HistoryMakers is unique among these other collections of African American heritage, because of its massive scope. Like other oral history collections, The HistoryMakers collection hearkens back to the earliest and most authentic efforts to capture the voice of a people, while introducing state-of-the-art technology and increased accessibility. The HistoryMakers wants to provide living proof that African American history did not begin or end with the civil rights movement, that the HistoryMakers number in the thousands and that their names are not just Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ella Fitzgerald. The initial goal of The HistoryMakers is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers within the next five years, creating an archive of unparalleled importance and exposing the archival collection to the widest audience possible. Not since the recording of former slaves during the WPA Movement of the 1930s (1936-1938), when teams of writers/researchers were sent throughout the South resulting in approximately 2,300 mostly hand-recorded interviews, has there been a methodic and wide-scale attempt to capture the testimonies of African Americans.

Interactive resource for students and teachers. May be helpful for the Academic Fair.

Brief info on Winooski prehistory

Resource for teachers

brief history of the Champlain Valley, focused on Lake Champlain and its uses. It is by no means complete, and we are constantly adding to it as we increase our knowledge of this region, through our research and archaeological projects.

Be a history detective. Go back in time and investigate the daily lives of the Daggetts, a colonial family from northeastern Connecticut. Collect clues to uncover answers to 7 questions about colonial life in the 1700s. Then prove your skills as a history detective by discovering "What's wrong with this picture?"

Understanding Slavery has focused specifically on the role the British played in this history and how slavery functioned in the Caribbean. A ninth theme - Diaspora will also be introduced, and will contain learning resources, which support teaching around the impact this history had on British and Caribbean society and culture in the 20th century. Diaspora will also include some material on the North and South American elements of the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

Tons of links on various topics.

All modules will follow a similar design that includes: a statement of the module’s “objectives” and the historical questions students will be asked to consider; the “story” or context for the question with background historical information; an “archive” of documents with questions to guide students’ use of the documents; and a student assessment section that allows for student feedback and evaluates what students have learned. The modules are designed for introductory level survey courses at colleges and universities and for advanced history courses at the secondary level.

A searchable archive of politically significant audio materials. Funded by The National Endowment for the Humanities

Historical films. Can subscribe to feed

History for Kids Hi, I'm Ben, and I'm new to the Kids Zone. I'll guide you through the interactive games and activities in this section. Learn about the tools a cooper uses to make casks in Cooper-ation. In Pardon or Pillory, play a word game and save the colonist from punishment. Thomas Jefferson wrote many letters and so can you with the Colonial Postcard Maker. Do you like horses? The American Cream Horse is part of Colonial Williamsburg's rare breeds program. Have fun in this newest section of the Kids Zone.

This site gives history students and teachers the power of GIS to investigate critical moments in American history (for example, here's our Great Migration map). Each investigation provides an interactive GIS map for studying patterns in historical census data over a period of time, a collection of historical documents chosen to help put the data into historical context, and lesson plans created by teachers and university instructors. We hope that this site makes American history more accessible to history students of all ages. Please explore!

A wonderful website to see past pictures of your hometown.The Landscape Change Program, at the University of Vermont, is a virtual collection of images that documents 200 years of Vermont’s changing face. We have thousands of views of Vermont as it was and as it is, online and free to everyone.

Lots of Resources for a Creating a Colony geared to fifth grade

Engaging presentation illustrates the growth of the US from Post American Revolution through Post Civil War.

The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Graphically navigate by chronology and geography using timelines and maps, and then delve into a history lesson on the key events for a particular time and place anywhere in the world. T

Portal site for studying ancient Egypt. Try the Mummy Maker-- a simulation of the mummification process.

Learn all about Paul Revere and his Midnight Ride!

Upload a picture, add some text, and create your authentic "Wanted" poster online!