"The Trail to Freedom in the 1850s." Remember the fun of the "Choose Your Own Adventure Books?" The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, through their online journal, History Now, has created one such adventure. Players imagine they are a slave trying to escape their South Carolina plantation and make it to freedom in Canada. Their choices along the way determine if they are successful or not!

"School History." This website is based in England, so some of the material might not be applicable to the level of a US history course. There are a quite a few different topics, arranged into question and answer games of similar formats: answer 15 questions correct in a row, and build a trebuchet to fling your teacher away, answer 10 correct and make your teacher walk the plank (lots of bad stuff for the teacher, I suppose!). There are some spelling errors in the questions and answers, but do seem to be something kids would enjoy using to review certain eras or issues.

"iCivics." From Mike Holden. Games such as "Executive Command" (be President for a day), "Supreme Decision" (be a member of the Supreme Court), and "LawCraft" (be a member of Congress) - as well as many others - give students an interactive and fun way to learn how government operates in America. Appropriate for 8th graders.

"Mission US." From Mike Holden. This multimedia project has gamers playing as Nat Wheeler, a printer's apprentice in Boston in the early 1770s. While Wheeler travels around the city, players must make choices to decide whose side Wheeler will be on. Part one is available, and future "Missions" are set to be released soon. Although the game is free to play online or download (it is a project of the NEH and the CPB), students must first register to be able to play. Appropriate for 8th graders.