HGSS Educator Resources

History, Government and Social Studies (HGSS) resources for teachers and school districts. Please refer to the section headers for resources by content area.

Quality Instruction

Visit the Quality Instruction page to explore the KSDE Statewide Vision for Quality Instruction and the Quality Instruction Observation Coaching Tool. These content-agnostic resources provide a common framework for effective instructional practices and complement the content-specific guidance found throughout this site.

HGSS Quality Instruction Resources

HGSS Vision for Quality Instruction (PDF Document)

HGSS - Constructive Coaching Tool (PDF)

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Resources by Content

Civics and Government

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United States History

Below are links to resources for United States History.

Ancestors in the Americas: Exploring the history of Asians in the Americas (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Angel Island Immigration Station (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Christopher Newport University: Primary Sources: Harlem Renaissance (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Chronicling America (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Colonial Williamsburg (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Council on Foreign Relations, Education (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
C-Span Classroom (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Digital Inquiry Group (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Digital Public Library of America (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Eisenhower Library and Museum (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Ford's Theatre Education (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Founders Online (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Fred Korematsu Institute (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Historic American Sheet Music (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Interactive Indigenous Land Map (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Latinos in U.S. History Lesson Plans from UNIDOS and Gilder Lehrman (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Learning for Justice (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Library of Congress (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Mount Vernon (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
National Archives and Records Administration (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
National Center for History in the Schools (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
National Humanities Center (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
National Museum of American History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
National Museum of the American Indian (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Native Knowledge 360 (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Native Land Digital (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
New American History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
OER Project (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
PBS Learning Media: US History Collection (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Retro Report (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Slave Voyages (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Smithsonian Learning Lab (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Social Studies Central (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Teaching American Indian History with Primary Sources (PDF) Document is available upon request.
Teachinghistory.org (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Asian American Education Project (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Living New Deal (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The National WWI Museum (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The National WWII Museum (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Valley of the Shadow Archives (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Truman Library and Museum (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
USC Shoah Foundation (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Veterans Legacy Program (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Whitney Plantation (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Witness Stones Project (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.

World History

Resources for World History.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
British Museum Collection (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Corpus of Electronic Text (CELT) (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Dead Sea Scrolls (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
European University Institute Database of Primary Sources (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Fordham University, Internet African History Sourcebook (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Hanover College Historical Text Collection (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Harold B. Lee Library, Euro Docs (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Artifacts) (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
National Museum of Natural History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Perseus Digital Library (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Silk Road Seattle (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
World Digital Library (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
World History Commons (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Animated Bayeux Tapestry (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Children and Youth in History(external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Constitute (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The South Sea Bubble Research Portal (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Digital Resources for Vikings in World History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Fashion History Timeline (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Global History Podcast (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
History of Censorship and Information Control During Information Revolutions Project (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The History of Vaccines (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Indian Ocean in World History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Internet Global History Sourcebook (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Middle Ages for Educators (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Mongols in World History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Teaching Revolutions (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
On Top of the World History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Travels of Ibn Battuta (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The United Nations Archives and Records Management System: Exhibits and Outreach (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The Wilson Center Digital Archive (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Women in Antiquity (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
Women in World History (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The World History Digital Foundation (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.
The World History Encyclopedia’s Teaching Materials site (external link) Weblinks are available upon request.

Celebrate Freedom Week, Constitution Day, Patriot Day, and Election Resources

Celebrate Freedom Week and Constitution Day Resources 2025 (PDF) Document available upon request.
Election Resources 2025 (PDF) Document available upon request.
Patriot Day (9-11) Resources 2025 (PDF) Document available upon request.
Pledge of Allegiance A Teachers Guide (PDF) Document available upon request.
Resources for Patriotic Exercises KSA-72-9928 (PDF) Document available upon request.

Read-Alongs

Gilder Lehrman Institute's Hamilton Education Program: No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Potato Kingdom

Storytime Village Read-Alongs

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