Led by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and designed in close collaboration with educators, museums, scholars, and a dedicated steering committee, history.org curates credible content crafted by experts. That means teaching resources you can always trust.
History Resources Made for the Way You Teach
Bringing you primary sources that are easy to find, ready to use, and totally free.
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Primary Source Images, Artifacts, Documents, and More
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Engaging Short-Form Videos Made for the Classroom
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Partners, Museums, and Collaborators Curating and Vetting Content
Helping You Connect the Dots
We’ve designed history.org to address real, expressed classroom needs based on input from teachers like you. Our expert-curated collections align to the topics you actually teach while our research-informed features empower you to mix, match, and customize content to plan lessons just the way you want.
Find What You Need, Faster
Easily discover what you’re looking for by grade band, content type, keyword search, and filtering.
Curate Content However You Want
Download primary sources across the site and add them to folders to organize your planning. Or, if you're short on time, use thoughtfully curated pre-built collections.
Generate Classroom-Ready Resources with a Click
Every primary source is accompanied by teaching resources you can instantly export, like slides for the classroom, vocabulary for literacy support, handouts for students, and answer keys for you.
Do What You Do Best
Take everything you've gathered and bring it together like only you can. Our goal is to help you spend less time searching for history and more time fostering students' love for it.
Connecting Students to History that Really Connects
Bring active learning to the classroom with our tailored library of history and civics resources. Explore our content types, designed to build historical knowledge and sharpen critical thinking all while being easily searchable.
Explore these select sources, available to all while we are in closed beta. To gain access to our ever-growing library of primary sources, join our waitlist.
Curated for the Topics You Actually Teach
We analyzed social studies learning standards and curriculum frameworks from around the country and across the grade levels, so that the collections of primary sources and educational videos on history.org support your curriculum, making it easy to build experiences that engage, delight, and nurture exploration.
