Additional Resources
History Resources Online
African-American History and Culture
Asian-American History and Culture
Native-American History and Culture
Multicultural American History
Washington State History
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
This digital collection from the University of Washington Libraries includes a searchable database of primary sources about Native Americans along the coast and the plains plateau of the Pacific Northwest.
Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound
Private webpage mapping Native American sites around the Sound circa 1800, with a link to stories about some of these villages.
Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection
Washington State University and the University of Washington worked together to compile this digital collection of historic Washington maps. These interactive maps include creation, rights, and holdings information.
Life Histories from Washington
American Memory from the Library of Congress provides full-text of stories about life in Washington collected during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project.
A consortium of libraries and historical institutions from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington have created this database of finding aids to collections of historical manuscripts and photographs.
HistoryLink: The Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
An online encyclopedia of Washington state and local history; features essays and this day in Washington history feature articles.
Oral History at Washington State Government
Oral history archives, resources and guidelines for documentation.
Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper and Periodical Index
The University of Washington Libraries offers this database of newspaper and periodical citations from 1850 through the present.
Virtual Atlas of the Pacific Northwest
Several year ago, this atlas was created at Evergreen to connect students, teachers, and travelers to Washington geography. Includes lesson ideas.
The Education Department of the Washington State History Museum provides online curriculum materials and activities.
Washington Place Names Database
The Northwest Room at the Tacoma Public Library manages this database of Washington Place Names, which includes a brief description of the history of the name of places in Washington, along with citations to sources and links to a digital collection of historic maps.
Washington Women's History Consortium
Led by the Washington State Historical Society, the Women's History Consortium is dedicated to making resources about Washington's women available to a broader audience. The website includes a Digital Archive, with digital images of primary sources.
University of Washington Digital Collections
Primarily pictorial collections with some accompanying essays and texts.
Oral History
Center for History and New Media
George Mason University runs this center dedicated to using digital technology to democratize history, by making additional sources available to a wider audience. The center helps run a variety of online history sites, including oral history projects (like those in the September 11 Digital Archives or the Critical Infrastructure Project Oral History Project and Digital Archive) and online history activities (such as the National Museum of History's The Object of History). Additionally, the site's "Tools" section highlights programs to create your own digital archives and document collections.
Oral History at Washington State Government
Oral history archives, resources and guidelines for documentation.
NPR provides audio interviews of everyday Americans and their stories.
Open to the general public, this site allows people to share their memories of the past.
General US History
100 Milestone Documents of American History
The National Archives and Records Administration provides links to national historical documents and commentary on their historical impact.
Democracy and Government
100 Milestone Documents of American History
The National Archives and Records Administration provides links to national historical documents and commentary on their historical impact.
Center for History and New Media
George Mason University runs this center dedicated to using digital technology to democratize history, by making additional sources available to a wider audience. The center helps run a variety of online history sites, including oral history projects (like those in the September 11 Digital Archives or the Critical Infrastructure Project Oral History Project and Digital Archive) and online history activities (such as the National Museum of History's The Object of History). Additionally, the site's "Tools" section highlights programs to create your own digital archives and document collections.
Interactive multi-media displays and links for the charters of freedom documents (The Bill of Rights, The Constitution of the United States, and The Declaration of Independence) from the National Archives and Records Administration.
PBS provides an interactive children's introduction to the functions of American democracy and government.
Extensive archive of US presidential campaign ads, including audio and video.
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
The Presidential Timeline provides a point of access to a selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives.
Women's history online resources for K-12 teachers and students. Includes "Ask Mrs. Stanton: Online Reference Desk."
Student Governmental Affairs Program
Supports responsible citizenship through participation, texts, and links.
African-American History and Culture
The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
Online collection of reference materials on African-American history, including encyclopedia entries, primary sources, and interviews. Run by Dr. Quintard Taylor, Professor of American History at the University of Washington, who specializes in African-American history in the West.
Asian-American History and Culture
Asian American Curriculum and Research Project
Western Washington University's Woodring College of Education maintains this website of curriculum resources. The site currently displays photos and documents, with lesson plans to come.
The Densho project offers a free archive of digital interviews and images of Japanese-American internment during World War II.
Native-American History and Culture
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
This digital collection from the University of Washington Libraries includes a searchable database of primary sources about Native Americans along the coast and the plains plateau of the Pacific Northwest.
Coast Salish Villages of Puget Sound
Private webpage mapping Native American sites around the Sound circa 1800, with a link to stories about some of these villages.
Multicultural American History
The online history lesson collection Exploring US History includes a lesson on the racial classification of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century.
Also from Exploring US History, this lesson compares contemporary rap music to the minstrel shows of the mid-nineteenth century.
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories supports this online archive of records from the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, the center of American eugenics research from 1910-1940.
Indian Boarding Schools: Civilizing the Native Spirit
A part of The Library of Congress's The Learning Page, this WebQuest uses in-depth research with primary sources from the American Memory project to ask students to evaluate the goals and outcomes of the Indian Boarding Schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
This WebQuest from the Library of Congress helps students research their own past and their role in their community.
Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Abolition, Resistance, and Slavery maintains this website, which explores the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans through documents, essays, bibliographies, and lessons.
Teaching with Documents: Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case
The National Archives created this online lesson guide to study the events of the Chinese Boycott in Butte, Montana in the early 1890s.
Women's History
Women's history online resources for K-12 teachers and students. Includes "Ask Mrs. Stanton: Online Reference Desk."
Washington Women's History Consortium
Led by the Washington State Historical Society, the Women's History Consortium is dedicated to making resources about Washington's women available to a broader audience. The website includes a Digital Archive, with digital images of primary sources.
