This site, sponsored by the American Studies Association and hosted by Georgetown University, is an excellent collection of resources for using technology in American Studies classrooms. ASEC is equally useful for both novice and veteran users of electronic teaching tools, as it offers beginner's guides as well as cutting edge electronic curriculum research and case studies. The site is divided...

Maintained by Professor Robert N. Barger at Notre Dame, this site offers an online history of American education from the Puritans to the present. Separate sections focus on European Influences on American Educational History, the Colonial Period of American Education, the Early National Period of American Education (ca. 1776-1840), the Common School Period of American Education (ca. 1840-1880),...

The National Humanities Center has recently added a second guide to its TeacherServe site (originally reviewed in the November 7, 1997 Scout Report). Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History contains a number of essays specifically tailored to classroom use. These are organized in three thematic sections: Native Americans and the Land, Wilderness and American Identity, and The Use...