Recommended Websites

Teachers/ Ages 5-18

• Introducing Michigan’s Past: An Overview for Teachers 

This 31-page booklet was produced by Michigan History magazine, designed specifically for teachers who are introducing their students to Michigan history.

• The Social Studies History Themes Project

The History Themes Project is an effort to create for Michigan teachers and students a reasonable and valid list of important events, people, and ideas for United States and Michigan History.

• Seeking Michigan  

Explore Michigan’s Past and Present and find ideas for teaching kids to Seek, Discover, and Look at Michigan’s Stories.

• Our Historic Places

A Lesson Plan for Grade 4 by the Michigan Historic Preservation Network

• Michigan Week Quiz by the Michigan Council for History Education

• Kids’ Stuff from the Michigan Historical Museum 

Find Michigan history activities that include things to make, stories and poems, primary documents and more.

• MI Kids!  

Learn practical and fun facts about Michigan from this interactive website.

• Michigan Time Traveler 

Michigan Time Traveler features Michigan history topics for kids in a bright and lively newspaper page that appeared monthly in the Lansing State Journal from 2000 – 2004; now available online in PDF.

Age 14 - Adult

• MeL Michigana

Browse images, documents, and archival holdings pertaining to a wide range of topics in Michigan history, courtesy of the Michigan eLibrary.

• Regional & Local History Subject Guide from Western Michigan University

Find information on accessing the WMU Regional History Collections and find online research resources for Michigan and U.S. History.

• Michigan History Magazine

Published bimonthly by the Historical Society of Michigan, the website for this popular historical periodical contains subscription information, links, and contents information for the current issue.

• Michigan Historical Review

Published twice yearly by Central Michigan University and the Clarke Historical Library, the Michigan Historical Review is the only scholarly publication devoted to the history of Michigan. Browse a subject index and the tables of contents from past issues on the website.

• Food, Farming, and Community  

Find resources about economic and ecological sustainability issues in contemporary agriculture from the Michigan State University Museum.

• The Southwest Michigan Store

North Berrien author Rick Rasmussen runs this online store for books, photos, maps and memorabilia related to the Paw Paw Lake area and southwest Michigan.

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