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Intermediate Senior History

Lesson Plans

New Jersey's Quakers and the American Revolution
This lesson plan discusses the development of the anti-slavery stance of the Quakers.

Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
From the Library of Congress, this lesson plan discusses the era of legal segregation in the United States.

Colonialism and Resistance
This lesson plan discusses colonialism and language. It specifically studies the Creole language of Mauritius, treating it as a colonial archive. It also includes other resources about the colonization of Africa.

The Russian Revolution
From History.com, the site includes the Russian Revolution timeline, causes of the Revolution, information about Tsar Nicholas II and World War I, Rasputin and his relationship with the Tsarina, etc. 

World History 

From PBS LearningMedia, includes over 2,000 resources for lesson plans.  

Primary Sources

Internet Modern History Sourcebook
From Fordham University, this resource contains thousands of texts from the modern era.

US History Primary Source Timeline
From the Library of Congress, a collection of primary sources from the 1600s to 1968.

Documenting the American South
Government documents, personal diaries, religious pamphlets, books, some photographs, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Europeana

Discover Europe's digital cultural heritage. 

Gallica: Digital Library of the National Library of France
80 000 images and books, manuscripts, maps, periodicals, scores, and sound recordings.

United Nations History Project
Access to the UN Online Archives, as well as other resources.

German History in Documents and Images
Germany's political, social, and cultural history from 1500 to the present. Original texts, with English translations.

Other Resources

Weimar Republic
A large collection of videos, playlists, lesson plans, and other materials on the Weimar Republic. From Facing History & Ourselves.

Video Collections