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Historical Links
Professional Associations
- American Historical Association
- Organization of American Historians
- American Association for State and Local History
- The Historical Society
Archives, Museums, and Libraries
- Museums Around the World An exhaustive collection of links to thousands of museums across the United States and throughout the world.
- Library of Congress
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Smithsonian Institution
- NY Historical Society
- Illinois State Museum
- Chicago History Museum
- Public History Resource Center
Other Links to Primary Sources
- Hyper History On-line Comprehenisive site covering 3,000 years of world history using text, images, and web links to provide essential reference information for teachers and students.
- Center for History and New Media sponsors a variety of digital history projects incorporating primary sources for studying history.
- Illinois History Resource Page Explore the history of Illinois on this state web site, with lots of links to related web sites.
- Public Papers of the Presidency includes a wide range of primary source material on the public communications of American presidents, as well as election data and statistical information.
- Digital Vaults is an interactive website from the National Archives with more than 1,200 items, including official documents, personal accounts, images, and maps.
History Links for K-12 Educators
- Best of History Web Sites contains annotated links to over 1,000 history web sites, as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, and history activities, games, and quizzes.
- History Matters Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history.
- Moments in American History includes a variety of on-line historical mini-documentaries produced with a Teaching American History grant.
- National History Education Clearinghouse includes access to a wide range of teaching materials, teaching strategies, and historical web sites of interest to secondary school teachers.
- National Council for History Education is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the importance of history in schools and in society.
- National Park Service "Teaching With Historic Places" includes materials and ideas for using the nation's historic sites as foci for units and lesson plans.
Department of History
438 Morgan Hall • 1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455-1390 • History1@wiu.edu
Phone: 309/298-1053 • Fax: 309/298-2540