Learning at Home: History / Social Science

Discover 36,918,180 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

Primary source documents from ancient history to 21st century, spanning the entire globe.

BHO was founded by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust in 2003. Our collection currently contains over 1,270 volumes and is always growing.

To 31 July 2020 we're making all transcribed BHO content freely available for individual users. This adds 200 volumes of primary materials. As a result, BHO's full complement of 1280 volumes is now available for research. Read more about this new free content.

Welcome to The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a "western civilization" approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women's history and LGBT studies.

Early Modern Resources is a research portal for the early modern period (c.1500-1800 CE). It only lists websites that are free to access and focuses on high-quality resources that are suitable for advanced research, study and teaching.

Free, online texts from medieval, Renaissance, 17th Century, and Restoration-era England.

Our larger mission is to make the full record of humanity - linguistic sources, physical artifacts, historical spaces - as intellectually accessible as possible to every human being, regardless of linguistic or cultural background.

Topics cover alphabet letters, ABCs, math, English/language arts, History / Geography, sorted by subject or grade level.

The award-winning Lost Museum offers a three-dimensional re-creation of P. T. Barnum’s American Museum, the most visited cultural attraction in the nineteenth-century United States. Exploring the site’s virtual space, along with its extensive archive and teaching resources, reveals the era’s controversies over race, gender, reform, immigration, sectionalism, and popular culture.

Librarians are caretakers of some of the world’s greatest treasures—from historical documents and out-of-print books to archival photographs and illustrations. And thanks to the wonders of digitization, many library collections are available for everyone to explore online. Check these out during your next internet deep dive:

Some of the most beautiful architecture in the world is found in libraries—which ensure that everyone in their communities can enjoy their amazing spaces. And even if you can’t visit a particular library in person, you may be able to explore its highlights virtually online.

Includes lots of geography activities for grades K - 2

This list is an attempt to list comprehensively all historical video games that are currently available for the Windows platform. A number of these are not appropriate for all ages or necessarily for classroom use. This is mostly true of the first-person shooter category (fps): games in the category tend to be rated mature, not appropriate for those under age 17.

Note: most online games require a browser with Flash installed, no longer a certainty as web standards change

This list is an attempt to list comprehensively all historical video games that are currently available for the Windows platform. A number of these are not appropriate for all ages or necessarily for classroom use. This is mostly true of the first-person shooter category (fps): games in the category tend to be rated mature, not appropriate for those under age 17.

Note: most online games require a browser with Flash installed, no longer a certainty as web standards change

Please note: These games have many political points of view expressed and stones ranging from the scientifically serious to the polemically politically satirical. Please make sure you, the parent, play the games before using them for your kids.

At least 126 games, including the cultural phenomenon Oregon Trail!

An open-source software running since 1996. Freeciv is a free turn-based multiplayer strategy game, in which each player becomes the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: To become the greatest civilization. Players of Sid Meier's Civilization series should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have rule-sets with compatible rules.

The first edition of 0 A.D. will allow the player to control any of twelve ancient civilizations from the pre-common era. Each culture will be represented at the peak of its civilization, somewhere along the timeline of 500 B.C. to 1 B.C.

Welcome to the best of history websites' games and animations. You will find an annotated list of fun history games and animations organized around broad historical periods. Most of these games and animations are aimed at students ages 10-16.