American History in Video provides more than 400 hours of documentary and news videos on American History. In the future American History in Video will provide more than 2000 hours of video.

The content on American History in Video can be searched by historical era, event, person, and places. American History in Video features documentary-style videos and videos of old newsreels and news broadcasts.

American History in Video offers users the option to create a clip of a video. The clipping option could be particularly useful when dealing with long videos that you may not want to show in entirety to your students. All of the videos on American History in Video can be embedded into a blog or website.

Applications for Education
American History in Videos could be a very good resource for anyone that teaches US History. The option of creating video clips allows teachers to maximize classroom time by showing only a specific segment of a video rather than showing the whole video.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
Exploring US History Through Images and Documents
History Channel’s Guide to the US States
NonFiction Videos – Documentary Videos

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