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History and Heritage:
Resources for Social Studies Teachers and Researchers
Whether you're looking for primary sources to include in a lesson plan or for help finding information about your antebellum home and the people who lived there, the following collection of non-subscription sites near and far will help get you started.
Overviews and Lesson Plans:
- Teaching with Historic Places from the National Park Service
- Missouri Heritage Project (from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education)
- Articles on Missouri's African American Heritage from Preservation Issues
- Invisible History: Preserving the African American Past in Missouri
- Missouri Archaeology Month
- Timeline of African American History in Missouri (from the Missouri State Archives)
- Africans in America (from PBS)
- Slavery in America: Lesson Plans, Teachiers' Resources, Narratives, Biographies, Geography and more (from slaveryinamerica.org)
- Before Dred and Harriet Scott: Freedom Suits in Missouri: Lesson Plan (from the Missouri State Archives)
- A History of Freedom Suits in Missouri (from the Missouri State Archives and Washington University)
- United States Colored Troops in Missouri: Lesson Plan (from the Missouri State Archives)
- National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program (from the National Park Service)
- Underground Railroad Activity in Hannibal (from the Hannibal Courier-Post; requires sign-up)
- Underground Railroad Activity in St. Louis (from St. Louis Magazine)
- Underground Railroad Theme Study (from the National Park Service)
- Underground Railroad Interactive Journey (from National Geographic)
- Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad (from the National Park Service)
- Missouri Women in Preservation Issues
- The Impact of the Automobile and Route 66 in Preservation Issues
- Harrisonville Courthouse Square Project: Hands-On Local History
Primarily for Research:
- Origins of Missouri Counties (from the Missouri State Archives)
- Historical Census Data (from the University of Virginia)
- 1850 Federal Census - Missouri
- St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project: Freedom Suits and suits related to Lewis and Clark (from Missouri State Archives and Washington University)
- St. Louis Probate Records, 1802-1900 (from Missouri State Archives)
- Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records in Illinois (1722-1863) (from Illinois State Archives)
- Illinois Statewide Marriage Index (1763-1900) (from Illinois State Archives)
- North American Slave Narratives (word searchable collections from the University of North Carolina)
- First-Person Narratives of the American South (word searchable collections from the University of North Carolina)
- The Church in the Southern Black Community (word searchable collections from the University of North Carolina)
- American Memory (word searchable collections from the Library of Congress)
- Making of America (word searchable books and articles from the University of Michigan)
- Making of America (word searchable books and articles from Cornell University)
For assistance using any of these sites, please refer to the contact information listed on the individual sites or contact State Historic Preservation Office staff member Kris Zapalac via e-mail or at 314-416-2960 x270 or (800) 334-6946.
Please click HERE for still more links to federal, state, and local agencies and nonprofits dealing with heritage, history, preservation and related issues.
