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Remix America, launched last fall, makes it fairly easy for students to create their own US History documentary videos. Remix America provides video clips, audio clips, and images that students can arrange to create a Ken Burns-style documentary.

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The State Department has launched the Office of the Historian website, chronicling U.S. foreign policy throughout our nation’s history.

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Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

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Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

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American Heritage Magazine covers US history. The print archive has been made far more accessible with an online index. Much of the content is freely available.

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Providing free access to primary sources, building high-quality online teaching modules, and offering instruction on critical thinking skills.

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Archive of historical legal documents, including charters, treaties, and other agreements. From the site: "The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."

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The Academy of Achievement brings researchers face-to-face with the extraordinary leaders, thinkers and pioneers who have shaped our world.

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Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. Includes lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels

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American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.

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World Atlas is an educational resource for world maps, atlases, and in-depth geography information.

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Worldmapper aggregates data from many countries and displays it visually on a flattened global cartogram, which “re-sizes each territory according to the variable being mapped.” (e.g., a population cartogram shows a gigantic China).

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Interactive animations about historical events.

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The institute provides access to some of it's more than 60,000 primary documents dealing with American history through a searchable database. The institute also provides an extensive section for teachers and students.

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The University of Oklahoma College of Law provides texts of historical documents.

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Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactives. Annotated documents from a collection written by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and many others, dealing with American politics, diplomacy, and social history.

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