Free Resources for Education

Shmoop Website
Shmoop provides a writing guide, summaries tool, analysis tool and discussions room. Created by educators and experts from Ph.D. and Masters programs at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley (and other top universities) to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

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Digital Vaults Website
The Digital Vaults is an online interactive exhibit for the National Archives Experience. The exhibit provides visual records such as documents, photographs, and popular media, and illustrates how these materials can come together in unexpected ways to tell the story of the USA.

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Timeglider Website
Create, collaborate on, and publish zooming/panning interactive timelines. Timeglider is great for history classes, project planning, genealogy, and more. It's like Google Maps, but for time.

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My Hero Website
The My Hero Project is designed to help teachers and students take part in an interactive online multimedia journal to celebrate the best of humanity. Add your own essays, images and videos.

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Atlas of World History Website
The Atlas covers Africa, Asia, and Europe to the year 1000. Every country name on every map is a link to events and legacies for that time and place.

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Historypin Website
Historypin is a online tool that acts as a digital time machine, allowing people to view and share history in a totally new way. Using Google Maps and Street View technology, Historypin aims to become the largest user-generated archive of the world’s historical images and stories.

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CriticalPast Website
CriticalPast provides thousands of hours of video and millions of still photos drawn largely from U.S. government agency sources. Clips from 1890 to 1990 included.

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Unfortunate Cookie Website
Unfortunate Cookie lets you experience history in a novel way. Read funny and interesting stories from selected documents and photos from the web's premier history site - Footnote.com.
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