Browse Website Reviews

Discover quality websites on a range of topics and time periods. If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.

Jewish Life in America is a rich collection of archival materials and primary sources documenting the history of Jewish settlement and life in the US from colonial times through the mid-twentieth century.

Jewish Life in America

The archive brings to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, while tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
Wearing Gay History is a digital archive that contains t-shirts from the past 40 years gathered from archives across the United States and other places in the world. Each t-shirt tells a story in relationship to specific historical and social locations. The shirts prove that by having them at different archives and owned by different people at different times, people were exchanging ideas and shirts and advocating for rights.

Wearing Gay History

The project uses the t-shirt, to uncover and make available often unknown narratives regarding LGBTQIA history, defeating coastal biases and exhibiting the diversity of the queer community.
Teaching Central America: A Project of Teaching for Change

Teaching Central America

Teaching Central America provides educational materials for K-12 educators with the goal of centering Central American history and culture in primary and secondary classrooms.
Teaching LGBTQ History website homepage with a collage of images from the archive behind the title.

Teaching LGBTQ History

Teaching LGBTQ History is an organized and quality social-justice oriented educational resource that provides a wide diversity of adaptable lesson plans and connection to outside community-based and digital online resources.
Girl Museum Logo, Celebrating 15 years, 2009-2014

Girl Museum

The Girl Museum makes important interventions by placing girlhood more squarely into the teaching of history, literature, culture, and arts on a global scale.
Logo says "Archives Portal Europe" with magnifying glass icon

Archives Portal Europe

This website presents records from dozens of countries, in over 20 languages, and from around 7000 diverse archival institutions total including the national archives of dozens of countries and other smaller institutions.
Logo of the Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum

The excavation and marbles videos might be useful for, in addition to teaching Greek history, helpful for educators wishing to discuss imperialism and globalism through material culture.
Logo of the National WWII museum

National World War II Museum

The museum also offers a bank of student resources, primarily research tools such as the yearbook database and Research Starters, a bank of statistics and introductory ma
Image of a gold pre-hispanic container used to hold lime.

Archeological Collection of the Gold Museums

The work of the Banco de la República combines collections related to music, plastic arts, documentary, numismatic, philatelic, archeological, and ethnographic elements.
Logo of the Office of the Historian with the title of the Foreign Relations Series using a background depicting old books.

The Foreign Relations of the United States Series

The Foreign Relations of the United States series contains the transcriptions of historical documents related to significant official U.S. foreign relations events.
This chromolithograph, possibly from a multi-volumed History of Mexico, shows a processional standard with the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by Mexican flags and regimental standards. Beneath these are a captured American flag, the captured Texas standard of the Fayette County volunteers from the "Dawson massacre" of 1842, an unidentified regimental standard, as well as swords, bugles, cannons, and a pistol.

A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War

The UT Arlington Library's Special Collection is considered amongst the most comprehensive repositories on the U.S. - Mexico war, containing broadsides, sheet music, manuscripts, maps and graphic materials from both U.S. and Mexican sources.
Black and white image of the front page of El Bravo newspaper. It includes a logo that combines the US and Cuban flags. It also features a list of names.

Caribbean Sea Migration Collection

The resources found in this archive offer a close look at migration trends, practices, and life experiences related to official and unofficial responses to the humanitarian crisis product of Caribbean migration by sea into the US.
Medieval painting

Middle Ages for Educators

...the site boasts more than 40 videos and video playlists, more than 125 different resource links, and worked with more than 50 subject matter experts on this project.
German soldiers from WWI standing in front of airplanes preparing to fly and air raid over Paris

National WWI Museum and Memorial

Due to the immense amount of resources, we advise educators to enter the databases with an idea of what they want rather than attempting to browse.
The ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz, the two short heels are covered in red sequin and have small bows over the toe box.

Academy Museum

Though the Academy is an American organization, the film industry has long been international as people from across the world work on American films and American films are distributed globally. Additionally, the Academy instituted an award for Best Internation
Part of a Chinese painting of Guanshiyin, a figure from Buddhism. The figure is a person sitting cross-legged practicing meditation.

National Museum of Asian Art

Because the museum is dedicated to Asian art, its educational resources are largely meant to teach students about art.
Armenian Genocide Memorial

The Armenian Genocide Museum Institute

As the AGMI states in its mission statement, it 'teaches universal lessons to combat hatred, discrimination, prejudice and apathy.'
Cartoon of layers of many types of maps, including data, topography, land, and contours.

World Heritage Site Map

The most well-known part of their work is the naming and administration of World Heritage Sites.
Map of Africa with colored points

African Studies Center

The Center hosts or links to resources on just about every African topic an educator might want to focus on in the classroom.
A View of New Amsterdam in 1673 by Bert Twaalfhoven

New Netherland Institute

Due to New Netherland’s intersection across several themes such as globalism, Indigenous contact, enslavement history, transatlantic trade, imperialism, religion, it may be a useful case study for educators wishing to teach students about 17th-century Europea