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National History Day's Digital Classroom Materials National History Day® Digital Classroom Materials Looking for Virtual Tours, Exhibits, or Field Trips? United States and North American History Ancient, European and World History Archaeological Institute of America Anne Frank Museum Virtual Tours Interactive Digs Anne Frank on Google Arts and Culture Daughters of the American Revolution's Virtual Google Arts and Culture Exhibits and Tours Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour D.C. by Foot Virtual Tours The Louvre, Paris Ellis Island Virtual Field Trip Tours of Ancient Egyptian Tombs Ford's Theatre Virtual Tour American Research Center in Egypt's Virtual Tour of The Frick Museum Menna Harvard University's Digital Gaza George Washington's Mount Vernon Virtual Tour Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan Google Arts and Culture Digital Giza Monticello, the Home of Thomas Jefferson, Virtual Yale in Egypt Tour Matterport's 3D Red Monastary Library of Congress' Virtual Tours Virtual Museum of Canada Museum of Flight Virtual Tours Virtual Tour of National Museum of Computing National Archives and Records Administration's Virtual Tour of Parisian Catacombs Virtual Exhibits National Geographic Museum's "Becoming Jane" The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall" Virtual Exhibit National Museum of American History National Museum of Women's History Virtual Exhibits National Museum of Women in the Arts Virtual Exhibits National Park Service's Virtual Park Smithsonian Virtual Tours U.S. Capitol Visitor Center's Virtual Tour Virtual Exploration of National Mall Virtual Museum of New France (Canada) Looking for more? Visit nhd.org/teacher-resources. Looking for history apps, blogs, podcasts, webcams, YouTube channels? American Routes The British History Podcast The Clio App D.C. Preservation League's DC Historic Sites App The History of Rome National Park Service's National Mall App National Park Service's DC Web Cam National WWII Museum's Podcast National Zoo Web Cam NPR's Throughline James Madison's Montpelier YouTube The Phillips Collection's YouTube Channel (Virtual Gallery Views) Slow Burn Smithsonian's Sidedoor The Spy Museum's SpyCast Teaching Tolerance Podcasts VA Humanities' BackStory The White House Historical Associations 1600 Sessions podcast The White House Historical Association Tour the White House App Wondery's American History Tellers Wondery's Tides of History World History Association's blog Yorktown American Revolution Museum App Looking for Digital Events? International Spy Museum Digital Events National Archives and Records Administration Webinars Looking for Content Materials or Digital Archives? General World History and European Databases (available in English or Translated Materials) African Online Digital Library Australian Digital Collections Binghampton University Libraries Boston University Libraries Boston University's Center for the Study of Asia (Digital Maps Collection) The British Library's Digital Collections The British Library's Museum of the World Center for Research Library's Digital Collections Cornell University's Digital Collections of the Middle East and Islamic Culture Digital Library of the Middle East Digital New Zealand Duke University's Digital Collections Europana (Digital Collections) Harvard University's Digital Collections French Revolution Digital Archive (Stanford University) Museum Crush (United Kingdom) Memorica (Archives of Mexico) National Museums Scotland The Newberry Library’s Digital Resources The Newberry Library's European History and Literature The Olympic Museum OpenGLAM (Open Collections) Paris Museum Collections University of Wisconsin-Madison Library's East Asia Digital Collections University of Iowa Libraries Virtual Museum of Canada Women in World History World History Sources York Museum (United Kingdom) Check out your state or country's local archives or historical societies. Digital archives might be available locally. Do you know a great resource? Reach out to us at [email protected]. NATIONAL HISTORY DAY Digital Classroom Materials Looking for Content Materials, Digital Archives, or Teacher Resources? General U.S. History Databases and Collections Teacher Resources for United States history Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies: Digital The American Yawp Archives & Oral History Collections Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training's Oral Archaeological Institute of America Histories Educator's Page The British Library's Museum of the World Lesson Plans Chicago Public Libraries Teacher Resources Digital Public Library of America Creative Commons Digital Collections Colonial Williamsburg Harvard University's Digital Collections Teacher Resources Heritage on the Edge, Google Arts and Culture Teacher Resource Library Henry Ford Museum's Digital Resources Henry Ford Museum's History of Food George Washington's Mount Vernon Henry Ford Museum's Online Collections Online Learning Landing Page International Spy Museum Digital Collections George Washington's Mount Vernon Ford's Theatre Google Arts and Culture Digital Programs Internet Archive Digital Resources Life Magazines's Photograph Collections Museum of the American Revolution Henry Ford Museum National Museum of African American History and Teacher Resources Culture's Collections Online Learning National Museum of American Diplomacy's Collections History of Food Interactives New York Public Library Digital Collections The Olympic Museum James Madison's Montpelier Past Perfect Digital Collections Digital Doorway Smithsonian's 3D Photo Object Collections Free Online Courses for HS Students Smithsonian's Open Access The Newberry Library’s Digital Resources iCivics Remote Learning Toolkit The Newberry Library's Digital Collections for the Classroom International Spy Museum Urban Archive Lesson Plans and Activities The White House Historical Association's Collections Spy Resources Archaeology Museum of the American Revolution Archaeological Analytic Digital Resources Archaeological Institute of America's Interactive Digs Educator Resources Colonial America National Archives and Records Administration Distance Learning Landing Page Emory University's Slave Voyages DocsTeach Historic Jamestowne Archaeological Artifacts Historic Jamestowne Archaeological Interactive Map National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment Library of Congress's Colonial America Themed Resources Remote Resources Mystic Seaport Old Sturbridge Village (Colonial America) National History Day's Women in American History Activity Book American Revolution and the Early American Republic The American Battlefield Trust's American Revolution National Park Service Collections and Resource Page The American Battlefield Trust's War of 1812 Collections National Women's History Museum and Resources Page National Museum of Women’s History Students and Building the American Republic (e-book) Educators Page Colonial Williamsburg's Interactive Timeline George Washington's Mount Vernon Digital Collections National WWII Museum's Distance Learning Page for Museum of the American Revolution's Collections Educators National Constitution Center's Interactive Constitution National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute American Slavery and the Civil War Educational Activities The American Battlefield Trust's Civil War Collections and Resources Page Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Library of Congress' Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from Crash Courses the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 Distance Learning Page Library of Congress' Slavery in America Digital Collections Ken Burn's UNUM National Museum of Civil War Medicine's Collections and Resources Page Smithsonian Institutions' Classroom Resources New York Historical Society's Digital Collection on Learning Lab American Slavery National Museum of American Diplomacy's Simulations (IR, Gov, Civics) World War I National Museum of Natural History National Museum of the American Indian National History Day's World War I Landing Page National Women's History Museum World War I Museum and Memorial Online Collections National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Database National Portrait Gallery World War II United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Education Page ABMCEducation The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum The White House Historical Association The Frank D. Roosevelt President Library and Museum P earl Harbor Aviation Museum's Pearl Harbor at Home Southern Poverty Law's Teaching Tolerance Student Texts Film Kits Post-1945 America World War I Centennial Commission's Educator Resources Mississippi Department of Archives and History (Civil Rights Movement) World War I Museum and Memorial Educator's Page Women and World War I Influenza of 1918 and 1919 Teacher Resources Ancient, European, and World history Ancient History Encyclopedia Asia for Educators Encyclopedia Britannica The Mongols in World History NCSS World History Education Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Crash Courses World History Resources Page Stanford University Education Group's World History Lesson Plans Stanford University's SPICE The New York Times' Global Issues The Ohio State University's East Asia Studies K-12 Resources United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Education Page University of California, Los Angeles' World History for All Wayne State University's High School World History Resources World Digital Library World History Matters Check out your state or country's local archives or historical societies. Digital archives might be available locally. Do you know a great resource? Reach out to us at [email protected]..
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