Maryland History: Resources for Teachers

School Improvement in Maryland: Voluntary State Curriculum for Social Studies

Teaching American History in Maryland: Documents for the Classroom  [MD State Archives]

• Note: Some of the material on this Web site requires a password, which is readily available on the site, once you are in a topic, in the section that explains Password Access to Materials
  

Lesson Plans

• See Lesson Plans
• See Primary Source Worksheets

The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography [from Maryland Historical Magazine]

• A bibliography of articles, books, and dissertations on Maryland culture and history
• No full text

Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame [MD Archives]   

• Use guest login and password, which is noted on the site, for access to special features
• Biographies of “Maryland women who have made unique and lasting contributions to the economic, political, cultural, and social life of the state and to provide visible models of achievement for tomorrow's female leaders.” – from the site
• Some entries also include a bibliography and image

Ref
F181 M317

Maryland: A History of Its People. 1986

• A textbook

Maryland: The Seventh State A History      

• Brief histories on Maryland counties and their subdivisions

History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. 1879 (3 vols.)

• Classic history of Maryland

 B and O Railroad Museum

Baltimore Museum of Industry 

Baltimore Streetcar Museum 

Hampton National Historical Site 

Irish Shrine and Railroad Workers Museum  

Jewish Museum of Maryland 

Reginald  F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture

USS Constellation

National History Education Clearinghouse [George Mason U] 

• Web site for those who teach U.S. history K-12
• Click on Teaching Materials and scroll down the resulting page to search the Gateway to History Lesson Plans for lesson plans on your topic

History Matters:  The U.S. Survey Course on the Web

• “…this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence.” – from the site
• Points to primary sources- Many Pasts and Web sites with annotations- WWW.History, which can be searched by topic, time period, keyword, or type of document, including text, images, audio, and video
• In the Advanced Search feature of this site, enter your keyword(s) and select WWW.History - Syllabi & Assignments to identify sites that feature classroom activities and lesson plans
  
• Includes information to help students use primary sources effectively, evaluating Web sites and citing

American Memory Project [Library of Congress] 

• Begin in the section for Teachers, which offers ideas for using materials from the American Memory Project in the classroom
• See their list of lesson plans - Lessons - by Themes, Topics, Disciplines, or Era with appropriate grade level indicated  

Lesson Plans Library: U.S. History  [Discovery Education]

• Arranged by K-5, 6-8, 9-12
• For additional lesson plans, try searching Google with a topic and the words lesson plan or
• Identify instructional materials, including lesson plans by searching ERIC (Ebsco), available online through Research Port, search by database name (Requires either a Cook Library ID or Enoch Pratt Library card to access from off site.)
  • Once in the database, click on Advanced Search tab
  • Enter your topic in the search box
  • Use the drop down box to Select desired Educational Level (e.g. Elementary Education)
  • Use the drop down box to select Publication Type, Guides - All

History Now: American History Online [A Quarterly Journal]

• Each issue of this online journal which began in September, 2004 is available at this site and….
  • Is devoted to a theme in American history -  some featured topics have included immigration, women’s suffrage, primary sources on slavery, abolition, American cities
  • Features four to six articles on various aspects of a topic, written by historians
  • Provides a regular column, “From the Teacher’s Desk” that presents sample lesson plans on the featured topic for elementary, middle school and high school students
  • Includes an accompanying bibliography of books and links to relevant Web sites

United States History [PBS] 

• Instructional resources that accompany PBS programs on U.S. history topics, each with suggested readings and teacher’s guides suggesting classroom activities

Internet Public Library: U.S. History 

• Provides links to Web sites on U.S. history, arranged under subcategories such as African-American history, historical documents, United States historical maps, and United States history by era and by region

Dictionary of American History  (10 vols.)

• Available online through Research Port, search by database name (Requires Cook Library ID #)
• Also available in the Cook Library Reference Collection - Ref E174 D52 2003
• Brief articles written by scholars, each accompanied by a bibliography
• Volume 9 includes archival maps and primary source documents

Encyclopedia of African American History: 1619 - 1895 (3 vols.)

• Article entitled - Baltimore, Maryland, Slavery in

Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration (3 vols.)

• Article entitled - Baltimore, Maryland

Slavery in the South: A State-by-State History

• Article on Maryland includes a timeline, statistics, a description of the evolution of slavery in the state from its origins to emancipation, a bibliography of books, and Web sites

Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. 1988

•  Article entitled – Maryland, Slavery in
• Includes articles on topics such as cotton gin, slave culture, economics of slavery, slave children, master-slave relations
• Each article accompanied by a selected bibliography

African-American Atlas:Black History and Culture – An Illustrated History 

Encyclopedia of the American Civil War  (4 vols.)

• Articles entitled – Baltimore, Maryland; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Maryland

Black Women in America (3 vols.)

• Check index under Baltimore, Chesapeake Region, Maryland

America History & Life

• Use this database for in-depth information on topics related to American history
• Available online through Research Port, search by database name (Requires a Cook Library ID # to search from off site.)
• Indexes journal and magazine articles, and dissertations that cover American history from 1450 A.D. to date
• Indexes articles that have been published in the Maryland Historical Society's Maryland Historical Magazine, which is available in print on the 2nd floor of Cook Library and at many libraries throughout the state
• Once in database, click on Advanced Search tab
  • Some sample searches = Try searching the phrase baltimore or maryland as SU Subject, in addition to a topic such as slave* as a SU Subject or the phrase baltimore and railroad as SU Subject or (maryland or baltimore) and england as SU Subject or (maryland or chesapeake) and trade as SU Subject search