Digital History - American History Interactives for Homeschooling

Digital History is committed to providing high-quality historical resources for teachers and students for free and without advertising. We have been fortunate to develop partnerships with a number of archives and museums that share this vision and have granted us permission to draw upon their resources

We have created a host of new resources that allow students to do history.
These include:

Annotated documents in Asian American history

Supplementing our extensive collections of texts in African American,
Mexican American, and Native American history, Asian American Voices includes a timeline of Asian American History, biographies of key individuals, and a guide to Asian American history resources on the World Wide Web.

Historical music

Our site includes a massive collection of pre-1923 copyright-free music plus links to other historical music that is available on the World Wide Web. Among the hundreds of pieces included on our site are spirituals, Tin Pan Alley songs, parlor music, folk songs, band music, and songs of the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.

eXplorations

These are inquiry-based, interactive modules designed to give students the opportunity to do history: to conduct research, analyze primary sources, and draw their own conclusions.

There are units on such subjects as: Zheng He, Timbuctu, Cahokia, Columbus and the Columbian exchange, fugitive slave and indentured servant advertisements, Pocahontas, Squanto, music and the American Revolution, the Alamo, Indian removal, children and the westward movement, children and the Civil War, the late 19th century West, turn of the century, photography as history, lynching, Worlds Fairs and history, and children of the Great Depression, and many other topics.

User-Created Online American History Exhibitions

Students and teachers can create multimedia presentation featuring
historical images from our extensive database, which currently contains over 600 photographs, art works, and digitized letters. Users can easily incorporate their own text in their exhibitions. These presentationscan be e-mailed, downloaded, or saved on our servers.

Trailers of Historically Significant Films

Hollywood has shaped our most vivid images of the historical past. Our collection of film trailers allows users to see how the film studios promoted the films that are most deeply impressed in our collective imagination.