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National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
American Psychological Association
A Silent National Crisis: Violence Against Teachers
School violence is becoming an epidemic in America. How can schools protect their teachers—and teach them how to protect their students? Read an important brochure about how violence affects teachers personally, emotionally, financially,...
Hartford Web Publishing
World History Archives: History of the Americas
This broad resource is broken into two main sections, topical history of the Americas and regional history of the Americas, and covers politics, social history and economic history. Includes coverage of both North and South American...
Library of Congress
Loc: Online Exhibition: The Cultures and History of the Americas
Examine some of the rare books, maps, prints and other artifacts in this online exhibition. The exhibition explores several themes on the cultures and history of the Americas. The collection focuses on the period of pre-contact through...
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power
A collection of twenty-eight video lectures, this course is designed to offer you a novel and innovative alternative to conventional classes in the humanities and social sciences. The lectures focus on the identity, culture, and power of...
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas
Information about the long-term exhibition, "Living Legacies: The Arts of the Americas" from the Brooklyn Museum is available here, including selcted works from it.
Other
Slave Images: Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas
This site has thousand of photos, drawings, and prints dealing with slavery, most of them dating from the period of Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.
InterKnowledge Corp.
Maps of Countries in the Americas
Maps of the Americas are available on this site.
Georgetown University
Pdba: El Salvador: Political Database of the Americas
Information on the political parties in El Salvador and the dates they were founded. Includes names and telephone numbers of party leaders.
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Americas
After reading this section, students will be able to locate on a map the major American civilizations before the arrival of the Spanish, discuss the cultural achievements of these civilizations and also the differences and similarities...
OpenStax
Open Stax: New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce and the Columbian Exchange
By reading this section of a chapter on "The Atlantic World," students will be able to describe how Europeans solved their labor problems, explain the theory of mercantilism and the process of commodification, and analyze the effects of...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Cultures and Histories of the Americas
An online exhibit of a vast array of documents, artifacts, and maps detailing cultures in the Americas including the indigenous groups as well as Europeans after contact. From the Library of Congress.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: European Exploration in the Americas
A quick comprehension check over European Exploration in the Americas.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Exploration of the Americas
This collection uses primary sources to explain the early exploration of the Americas.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Medici Collect the Americas
Across Europe, many powerful individuals sought to acquire objects taken from the Americas, as a way to know the unknown, to exert some control over the colonial processes underway, and to possess exotic and rare things. The Medici...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
This site provides pictures and a brief introduction of ancient arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 5: The Age of Exploration in the Americas
Read and study the sources about the European Age of Exploration. As you read the four sources, think about the ways in which exploration during this time period impacted the Americas.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Endangered Animals of the Americas
Discover animals that are endangered. Students will work on the power of persuasion to address endangered species throughout the American continents.
New York Times
New York Times: The Americas
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times covers the top stories emerging out of South and Central America.
University of Texas at Austin
Univerisity of Texas: Maps of the Americas
A large collection of maps of all countries in the Americas including relief maps, political maps, and reference maps.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: The Americas to 1620
[Free Registration/Login Required] A look into the history of the Americas from the beginning of time to 1620. Learn about the American Indians, imperial rivalries, and exploration with resources from this page.
Other
Musee Du Quai Branly: Indigenous Art of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania
Examine a collection of artifacts produced by indigenous cultures Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania in three-dimensions. Includes location maps and helpful commentary.
Northern Illinois University
Niu: The Americas' Oldest Pyramids, Cities
A comprehensive site offering a detailed description of the excavation of Caral in Supe Valley, Peru. Links from this site offer downloadable pictures, maps, and diagrams of the pyramid. A short video of a researcher explaining the...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Looks at migration theories proposed in regard to the early peopling of the Americas, European colonization, early agriculture and culture. Also looks at contemporary indigenous groups, then groups within each country in the Americas.
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