[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced Placement U.S. History learning module and study guide on foreign and domestic events between 1945 and 1980. A comprehensive tool includes a number of videos, essays, historical documents and interactive timeline.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced Placement U.S. History learning module on Civil War era America and the transformation of society, 1844-1877. Comprehensive study tools include videos, essays, primary source documents, and timeline.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning module with comprehensive, multi-media resources for Advanced Placement U.S. History, 1800-1848. Topic covers changes associated with the emergence of democracy, advances in technology and distribution of goods, and the shaping foreign policy.

[Free Registration/Login Required] In depth study guide within multi-media learning module for Advanced Placement U.S. History course on contemporary America, 1980 to present. Extensive resources include videos, primary source documents, essays and interactive timeline.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning tool for advanced US History course covering the period 1491-1607. Site offers videos, essays, timelines, primary source materials and photographs for a comprehensive study.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learning module for Advanced Placement U.S. History course material for 1890-1945. Comprehensive study guide with multi-media sources including, videos, essays, historical documents and timeline.

[Free Registration/Login Required] AP U.S. History study guide on the social, cultural, economic and political changes that occured during the period of American expansion, industrializtion, and urban migration, 1865-1898. Learning module contains complete course of study with videos, essasy, primary source materials and timeline.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Comprehensive learning module for AP U.S. History on the imperial struggle over control of the American colonies, the emergence of a new republic, and the developing social, political and economic identity. Includes an array of video, essay, timeline and primary source documents.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Advanced placement U.S. History learning module on the emerging colonial and native societies between 1607-1754. Resources for students include video, essays, timeline and primary source documents.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the exploration of the Americas. Site includes primary source documents, videos, essays, and lesson plans to help students research the exploration of the new land.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A marvelous look at the life of Alexander Hamilton shown through primary documents in this interactive site.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Housed at the New York State Historical Society, this extensive collection of more than 60,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States is searchable and allows students access to digitized primary documents.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Thomas Bender presents a documentary tying together American history with the world. He discusses the development of United States nationalism, globalization, and economics during the discovery of the early Americas through to their discovery by Europeans, colonization, and the Civil War. [1:07:50]

[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of letters and documents focusing on the Civil War and the secession crisis. Learn about the historical events through personal letters, diaries, newspapers, and photographs.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An overview of all the materials that are available to students to explore the colonization and settlement of the Americas.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Hear Adam Rome discuss his book, Earth Day 1970: The Teach-In That Made the Green Generation, which addresses the reform movement of protecting the environment. The first formal Earth Day took place in 1970. [4:35]

[Free Registration/Login Required] This high school lesson plan has students look at data from the elections between 1824-1861 and the effect the two party system had on the outcomes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan seeks to discover the impact George Pullman had, not only on the railroad industry, but also on American life, by improving rail travel, and also establishing a company town for his workers. All the materials necessary for the lesson are provided by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

[Free Registration/Login Required] After a brief description of Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's contributions to the early ideology and government of the new United States in their authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, this essay discusses the dangers of factionalism that threatened the success of the new country. Jefferson's and Madison's handling of these problems when they were president was instrumental in giving the United States a good chance of enduring.