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Collections from Brooklyn Public Library

A repository of free online resources for Latin American, Caribbean, Latinx, and Iberian studies.

Features prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more from NYPL's archival and special collections.

Features prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more from the NYS Library's archival and special collections.

Repository for maps, photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, and books documenting Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau and Suffolk counties.

400,000 pieces of ephemera, microfilm, photo collections and a/v material

Offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture. A partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Trust for the Humanities.

A free repository of document-based curricula, inquiry-based lessons, and innovative assessments spanning everything from social studies to ELA to news and media literacy. Requires you to create a free account to access.

Classroom-ready primary documents and teaching activities for U.S. history.

Essays and lectures from U.S. history scholars offer K-12 teachers some ideas on how to incorporate paintings and photographs into social studies classrooms.

Texts, essays, and activities for teaching antebellum U.S. cultural history.

An adventure-style online game in which players take on the role of young people during critical moments in U.S. history. The first game, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?,” puts the player in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a 14-year-old printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. The second game, Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom” is played from the perspective of Lucy, an enslaved girl on a Kentucky plantation in 1848. The third mission, “A Cheyenne Odyssey” follows Little Fox from age twelve through young manhood as his band experiences growing numbers of white settlers, declining numbers of buffalo, The Battle of Little Bighorn, and the establishment of the reservation system on the Great Plains. Designed for middle school students

Contains 18 skill-focused, document-rich lessons on social history topics that address every era of U.S. history. These interactive inquiries engage students in reading documents closely, gathering evidence, and writing an argumentative or explanatory essay. Each lesson includes all the materials teachers need— a compelling hook, slides with essential context, a variety of historical sources, carefully designed reading materials, and discussion prompts and templates for writing well-structured essays.

Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. A focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and actively involve students in analyzing and interpreting evidence.

Personal accounts from the weeks and months after the attack in video, audio, and photographs.

This website offers a series of interactive labs where students "do history" by analyzing primary source materials and interpreting them for meaning.

Search census records from 1,333 individuals in the database to learn about the residents of New York City's legendary immigrant neighborhood.

Brookyn College students narrate two historical episodes: their experiences of working on farms during World War II, and the events surrounding the suspension of the Vanguard, the student newspaper in a postwar McCarthy era climate.

This exhibit provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.

Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History presents history from the perspective of working men and women, pairing a lively narrative with extensive visual and written documentary evidence.

A fully bilingual (English and Spanish) digital educational platform devoted to the early presence of people of Black African ancestry in the colonial society of the Americas and the society of the colony named La Española (Dominican Republic and Haiti today).

Photographs, documents, correspondence, newspaper articles, and short biographies tell the stories of Dominicans that served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.

Presents multi-media resources, grounded in historical contexts and speaking to larger issues of immigration, identity, and diversity, this online platform provides a new approach to understanding Dominican music.

Curriculum plans including primary sources for histories of immigration, voting rights, women's leadership, civil rights, infrastructure, New York City, and public health.