Open Educational Resources: History

The LOC has a variety of link to connect you to their collections of images, historic newspapers, sound recordings and much more.

This site offers links to about 100 public domain and or (CC) sites including teaching and research tools for various historical topics.

The National Archives and Records Administration offers so much in the way of primary sources. Besides documents there is also a great collection of photographs.

The Smithsonian Institute includes 19 museums and a zoo in the Washington DC and NYC area. By going to the main website you will see on the left-hand column a series of links to each individual museum and zoo as well as links to special exhibits, an educators’ link, and a link to their 9 research centers.

This site is a collection of public domain texts and links. These “Sourcebooks” are well-organized chronologically along traditional lines.

The Avalon Project documents in Law, History and Diplomacy gives you easy access to legal documents from Ancient times to the 21st Century, but they also contain links to other supporting documents.

AL is a division of the Annenberg Foundation, with a stated mission to “advance excellent teaching in American Schools through the development and distribution of multimedia resources for teaching and learning.” These documentaries were made anywhere between the late 1980s to as recently as 2012. Each individual segment is anywhere from half an hour to one hour long.