Welcome
Welcome to the American Voices guide to resources for teaching U.S. history at the elementary and secondary school level. You will find good sources for adding to teachers' background knowledge, locating and teaching with primary sources, finding lesson plans, and identifying good children's books to use with different historical topics. Since our project is based in Connecticut, we have included resources for Connecticut history, but most of the resources in this guide are applicable to teachers anywhere.
In order to make this guide useful to the most people, it does not include subscription-based databases, but only sites that are freely available online.
This guide is created as a partial requirement for ILS504 Reference Materials and Services. Spring 2011. Instructor Dr. Elsie A. Okobi.
General reference sources
- Social Studies for KidsA helpful quick reference source, including maps, facts about U.S. states and government, timelines, maps, and other social studies topics.
- Infoplease AlamanacA quick reference source for U.S. history and government questions. This site also offers access to encyclopedia entries, biographies, maps, and other useful content.
- The Biography ChannelThis site, affiliated with the A&E television series “Biography,” provides short articles on more than 25,000 living and dead subjects. Information is drawn primarily from A&E and Encyclopedia Brittanica. The site focuses on American figures but includes well-known figures from around the world as well. This is a good tool for quick biographical reference.
- U.S. Census InformationWith this historical census browser, you can examine census information by state and county for census years from 1790-1960, see change over time in certain topics, and generate maps with the data.
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