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Table of ContentsTable of ContentsOrganizations 3Historical Methodologies (Including How to Use Primary Sources) 4Missouri History 6World History 6

General Sites (Including arts, world religions, and other topics)Prehistoric TimesAncient TimesMiddle AgesExploration and RenaissanceEnlightenmentNineteenth CenturyIndustrial RevolutionWorld War IWorld War II and the HolocaustCold WarTwentieth Century World HistoryHistory of Nations and Cultures of the World

U.S. History 17U.S. History (General Sites)Minorities

The websites in this document have been compiled by Warren Solomon, Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Education of the University of Missouri-Columbia, formerly Social Studies Curriculum Consultant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Thanks to many people who helped me in this effort including Fred Czarra, Council of Chief State School Officers, Jerry Aschermann, Missouri Western State College, Randy Rook, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Michelle Kratofil, Social Studies Instructional Coach, Raytown School District. Although the list may seem long, it is just the tip of the iceberg. A caution: It is possible that some of the web sites no longer exist or that their addresses have changed.

Teachers should not only use documents like this one as a resource, they should not forget to use the services of librarian-media specialists in their schools.

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GeneralAmerican IndiansAfrican AmericansAsian-AmericansJewish-American HistoryHispanic-American HistoryState HistoriesWomen’s History

U.S. History (Presidents)U.S. History (Chronological) 23

Ancient AmericaExplorationColonial AmericaAmerican Revolution and Founding of NationLewis and Clark ExpeditionJacksonian EraWestward ExpansionU.S.-Mexican WarPre-Civil War Issues and ReformCivil War and Reconstruction TimesAmerican WestIndustrial Revolution and Gilded AgeProgressive EraImmigration and MigrationsTwentieth Century (Variety of Topics)Great Depression and New DealWorld War IIPost-War America and Truman1960sCivil RightsVietnam WarCuba under Castro

Combined U.S. and World History 31The Events of September 11, 2001 and their Aftermath 33

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Organization of this section. This section is organized using the following categories:

1. Organizations2. Historical Methodologies3. Missouri History4. World History5. U.S. History6. Combined U.S. and World History

The sections begin with general websites within the categories, followed by websites focused on specific topics within the categories organized by chronological order.

OrganizationsOrganizationsAmerican Historical Association: http://www.historians.org/teaching/Annenburg/CTB: This website provides access to a number of excellent video in-service programs for social studies teachers on how to teach specific topics in civics and U.S. history. To obtain access to the video programs teachers need to register with the website. Programs available are provided within the following history-related series: A Biography of America, The Western Tradition, Democracy in America, and Primary Sources: Workshops in American History: http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?discipline=7&grade=0&imageField2.x=8&imageField2.y=11 (see especially http://www.learner.org/resources/series123.html, . http://www.learner.org/resources/series197.html, http://www.learner.org/resources/series173.html, http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html, and http://www.learner.org/resources/series135.html). Facing History and Ourselves: This website focuses in on the Holocaust, other instances of people’s inhumanity toward one another, and of what we can learn about human behavior from the study of such topics: http://www.facinghistory.org/History Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/.National Archives of the United Kingdom: This website, entitled “The Learning Curve,” provides resources for the teaching and study of history: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/howto/default.htm.National Center for History in the Schools: The website of the National Center for History in the Schools of UCLA, the organization that developed the national standards for history and that has developed for sale units based on primary sources: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/National Council for History Education: This organization promotes the teaching of history in the nation’s elementary and secondary schools to increase dialogue among professors and elementary and secondary teachers: http://www.history.org/nche/. In addition, the NCHE has in its website a set of links to history sites that is extensive and very useful for social studies teachers: http://63.70.163.70/nche/links.html.National Endowment for the Humanities: EDSITEment is an outstanding website on history and humanities from the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://edsitement.neh.gov/

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National History Day: Websites from National History Day: http://nhd.org/ and http://www.historynet.com/.NewsHour Extra: This website from PBS provides resources and lesson plans for teachers of history and civics: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/history/Organization of American Historians: http://www.oah.org/Smithsonian Institution: http://smithsonianeducation.org/

Historical MethodologiesHistorical MethodologiesArchaeology: These websites focused on archaeology: http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/ (Archaeological Adventure), http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/collections/ (National Park Service), and http://www.learner.org/resources/series45.html (Annenberg Media). Biography: The Biography Maker, a website to help students write biographies: http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htmBiography: This website from Annenberg Media focuses on biographies of Americans: http://www.learner.org/resources/series123.html# Copyright: This interactivity from the Library of Congress provides information about copyright for students: http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swfCounterfactual History: This genre presents stories of what would likely happen had some events of history turned out differently. Uchronia presents a listing of such alternative history books: http://www.uchronia.net/Detective Work: This website from the Library of Congress engages students in historical detective work: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/detect/detectiv.html General: The “Learning Page” from the Library of Congress with ideas for activities for teachers and for children: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.htmlGeneral: See the website of the National Centre for History Education from Australia to find its recommendations for how to improve the teaching of history: http://www.hyperhistory.org/.Historic Places: A website from the National Park Service focused on “Teaching with Historic Places”: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/. This website may be used both to find generic strategies pertaining to teaching using historic places as a resource and to find all sorts of specific lesson plans for teaching about specific historic places pertaining to different eras of history.Historical Methodologies: Smithsonian has a website for elementary students called “You Be the Historian.” This site may be useful for older students as well: http://americanhistory.si.edu/hohr/springer/.Historical Methodologies: A website from History Alive, a company which produces history text materials. This website may be of special interest to all teachers of history, elementary through university, because it includes suggestions for creative ways of teaching history. http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/. Historical Methodologies: This website, created by Peter Pappas, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction in East Irondequoit Central School District, Rochester, NY, was designed to help teachers and students make sense of the vast amount of source material available over the Internet and to bring these resources to their work as historians. http://www.edteck.com/dbq/index.htm

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Lesson Plans: This website comes from “The Best of History Web Sites” series of websites: http://besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtmlHistorical Thinking: This website from the Library of Congress, using a set of photos from the Northern Great Plains, gives ideas on how to use those photographs to promote these types of thinking: chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretation, historical issue analysis and decision making, and historical research: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/ngp/thinking.html.Library of Congress’s Learning Page: Learn about the resources of the Library of Congress for teachers and students: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/index.html. (The Learning Page is designed to help educators use the American Memory Collections to teach history and culture. It offers tips and tricks, definitions and rationale for using primary sources, activities, discussions, lesson plans and suggestions for using the collections in classroom curriculum.)Oral Histories: These websites provide ideas for teachers and students regarding how to conduct oral histories: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/ and http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/oralHistory.html, and http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html. Primary Sources (Great place to start!): The Missouri State Archives provides links to many Missouri and national websites focused on primary sources: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/education/ Primary Sources: Smithsonian Source is a history website from Smithsonian that offers primary-source materials and tools for using them in social studies classrooms: http://www.smithsoniansource.org/. Primary Sources: The Authentic History Center has a special section on cartoon analysis related to cartoons focused on Roosevelt’s “packing of the Supreme Court” plans. (The Authentic History Center is independently owned and operated by Michael S. Barnes, a teacher at Byron Center High School. Students play an active role in identifying items for the site and for using the site.) http://www.authentichistory.com/. Primary Sources: This website from the Library of Congress is designed to teach students how to analyze primary sources they see, hear or read using holiday-themed resources from The Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/doc_analysis/index.htmlPrimary Sources: This website, a collaborative effort of the National Archives and Records Administration, National History Day, and the History Channel, presents 100 documents from U.S. history with leads for how to use those documents and others in the classroom: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&Primary Sources: A website from the Library of Congress for teachers pertaining to the life of Jackie Robinson, which also has information about the nature of primary and secondary sources: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/psources/source.htmlPrimary Sources: These websites from the Library of Congress has lessons to help students learn how to use primary sources: http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/fw.html; http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/pshome.html, http://learning.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/ohhome.html.Primary Sources: The Library of Congress History Firsthand Web site has been designed to provide elementary children with experiences that enable them to begin

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understanding primary sources. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/firsthand/main.htmlPrimary Sources: The National Archives and Records Service has an excellent website of primary sources and of lessons for teachers and students on how to interpret primary sources: http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/.Primary Sources: The National Archives of the United Kingdom has a website called the Learning Curve: Bringing History Alive, which offers lesson plans and strategies for teaching students how to think historically using topics related to British and European history: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/Primary Sources: This website entitled "Using the Internet as a Resource for Historical Research and Writing" was developed by Professor Roger A. Griffin of Austin Community College. It has good information about how to find primary sources: http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/history/inres04prm.html.Primary Sources: This website from Fordham University provides a rationale for teaching students how to use primary sources: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/robinson-sources.html.Primary Sources: Following websites, found in a page devoted to primary sources from the Social Studies School Service (http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@vlC9UHE1R9.Mo/Pages/primaryweb.html?af@ssss), provides a number of websites useful in the study of history:

For European History: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/. Don Mabry’s Historical Text Archive, which deals with many facets of history:

http://historicaltextarchive.com/. U.S. history: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/, World War I: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/. The American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/.

Missouri HistoryMissouri HistoryThe Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education created a very useful website on Missouri history and heritage. See http://dese.mo.gov/moheritage/. The Missouri State Archives has a website focused on Missouri history, which includes a timeline of Missouri history and many other features with lots of documents online: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/. The Pebble Publishing Company produces many books related to Missouri studies. The company also has a subsidiary called Missouri Gold, which lists Missouri history textbooks and other resources available for sale and use in classrooms: http://www.pebblepublishing.com.The State Historical Society of Missouri holds many documents important to students of Missouri History. The State Historical Society also coordinates History Day in Missouri. Its website may be found at http://www.umsystem.edu/shs/. The Missouri Historical Society, located at the Jefferson Memorial in Forest Park in St. Louis, has a website telling of its exhibits and activities, some of which are relevant to teachers. http://www.mohistory.org/.A website from National History Day in Missouri with suggestions for research topics in Missouri history: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/education/nhd/nhd.asp

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This website developed by Tony Ambrose from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has excellent information for teachers of Missouri history: http://www.umsl.edu/~sahambr/ShowMeMoSite/ShowMeMoIndex.htm.See also websites below in the U.S. history section pertaining to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and to the Truman Library.

World HistoryWorld History

General SitesGeneral SitesGeneral (From the United Kingdom): The United Kingdom has several useful websites for history teachers, many produced by history teachers. Here are some of them:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ http://www.johndclare.net/ http://www.historygcse.org/ http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/ http://www.historymad.com/ http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ http://www.weatherheadhistory.ik.org/ http://www.thehistorysite.co.uk/contents.html

General (History Page): A website called “The History Page,” offers a fantastic array of links to sites that span the periods of antiquity; the medieval and Renaissance eras; early modern times; and modern day. The links are creatively chosen to cover a variety of perspectives. For instance, in addition to special links on a wide range of historians and philosophers, the site also points out the importance of women in the various historical epochs. http://www.scholiast.org/history/General (Internet History Sourcebooks): The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, an excellent resource for teachers and students, is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/General (UK National Archives): This website, “The Learning Curve,” comes from the National Archives of the United Kingdom and addresses Britain’s National History Curriculum. It is well worth examining for anyone teaching not only about British history, but also about such topics as World War I, the Cold War, Crime and Punishment from Medieval times to the present, and heroes or villains of the twentieth century. The website is http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/exhibitions.htm.General (“History Learning Site” of the “Association of Teachers’ Websites”): This website from the United Kingdom has a very useful website for all history teachers, not just those from Great Britain. It may be found at http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/index.htm.General (History Central): “History Central.com” provides timelines, links to other sites, and links to documents related to both United States and World History. The website address is http://www.multied.com/.General (The History Guide): “The History Guide” is a wonderful resource with all sorts of links that are useful for Western Civilization, U.S. History, and World History: http://www.historyguide.org.

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General (Teacher Oz): This is a wonderful resource for teachers of history. First, here is what “Teacher Oz” says about herself: “I am the mother of two super children and have been married to my High School sweetheart for 24 years. I am a violinist with the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra and teach 9th grade Pre-AP World Geography and 10th grade World History for a large suburban school district outside of Dallas, Texas.” This amazing website is one all teachers of history should examine: http://www.teacheroz.com/toc.htm General (World History Compass): The “World History Compass” is a site with lots of links to all sorts of sites of interest to teachers of world history. Whatever one’s world history interest, one can find resources here. One could spend days exploring this wonderful site: http://www.worldhistorycompass.com/General (Best of History Web Sites): The “The Best of History Web Sites” deserves a careful examination: http://besthistorysites.net/General (HyperHistory Online): “HyperHistory Online” has Over 2000 files cover over 3000 years of world history: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html General (Lessons from the New York Times): The New York Times produces lessons daily related to articles it publishes: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/globalhistory.htmlAfrican History: This website, called Internet African History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.htmlArchaeology: This website has many useful links pertaining to archaeology in history from ancient times to more recent times: http://www.archaeologica.org/. Arts: This gigantic website entitled “Art History on the Web” carries out what its name suggests: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.htmlArts: A resource from the Metropolitan Museum of the Arts, which has links to artwork from many eras and places: http://www.metmuseum.org/collectionsArts: Museum stuff: http://www.museumstuff.com/Arts: Education at the Getty offers a set of lesson plans on the arts, many of which could be used in history courses: http://www.getty.edu/education/Arts: This website is one of the websites in “The Best of History Web Sites” series of websites: http://besthistorysites.net/ArtHistory.shtmlAsian History: This website from the Asia Society has links to Asian history sites: http://www.asiasource.org/links/al_mp_03.cfm?TID=79,149East Asian History: This website, called the Internet East Asian History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.htmlEuropean History: This website from the History.net has many useful links focused on a variety of European history topics: http://europeanhistory.about.com/.Genocide History: This website from “The Genocide Education Project” focuses especially on teaching about the Armenian genocide, but also on other genocides and on other major violations of human rights: http://www.teachgenocide.org/.Global History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Global History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html

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Indian History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Indian History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.htmlIslamic History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Islamic History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.htmlJewish History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Jewish History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.htmlMathematics, History of: A website focused on the history of mathematics, showing how mathematics ties to culture: http://library.thinkquest.org/22584/Military History: This website from Teacher Oz provides numerous links to U.S. and world military history: http://www.teacheroz.com/Military_History.htm. Modern History: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, is an outstanding, well organized source for teachers of Modern History: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.htmlNon-Western Cultures: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to non-Western Cultures: http://www.teacheroz.com/Non_Western.htm.Russian History: Two websites on Catherine: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/18catherine.html and http://www.alexanderpalace.org/tsarskoe/historyfive.html.Science: This website, called the Internet History of Science Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.htmlWars: This website focuses on the experiences of veterans during times of war: http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/memorial/vetex.htmlWestern Civilization: The following two websites focus on western civilization from medieval times to through World War II and provide numerous links for most facets European history during that period of time: http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.html and http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv.html. Anyone teaching Western Civilization or world history should explore this website!Western Civilization: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to Western Civilization: http://www.teacheroz.com/WesternCiv.htm.Women’s History: This website, called the Women’s History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.htmlWorld Religions1: For websites pertaining to world religions, see the Virtual Religion website (http://virtualreligion.net/vri/) and the following page from the Social Studies School Service: http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@eYfDtYeubM1qg/Pages/religionsites.html?af@ssss.

For advice on teaching about religions, here are two useful sources, one of which will require that Adobe Acrobat Reader be downloaded on his or her computer: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=6276 and http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/PDF/PewConferenceReport.PDF.

1 Religions are very complex. It is likely that the websites provided show only the tip of the iceberg so far as religious beliefs are concerned. Hence, readers should look at these sites critically and should seek out other sources as well.

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For sites with much information about many of the world’s religion, see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_religions/index.shtml (BBC World Service) and http://www.religioustolerance.org/ (Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance).

Hinduism sites: http://www.asia.si.edu/pujaonline/puja/start.htm (“Expressions of Hindu Devotion” from Smithsonian) and http://www.btinternet.com/~vivekananda/schools1.htm (“Hinduism for Schools,” relevant for elementary and secondary levels).

Sites pertaining to Judaism: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/ (Jewish Virtual Library) and http://www.jewfaq.org/ (“Judaism 101”).

Sites pertaining to Buddhism: http://www.buddhanet.net/, and http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/dharma/.

Sites pertaining to Shinto: http://www.jinja.or.jp/english/index.html and http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2056.html.

Sites pertaining to the Jain religion: http://jainworld.com/JWNew/jainworld/index.asp and http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/jainh.html.

Sites pertaining to Christianity: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/ and http://www.gty.org/~phil/hall.htm.

Sites pertaining to Islam: http://islam.org/Mosque/uiatm/un_islam.htm, http://islam.org/Mosque/wfd-islam/sld001.htm, http://islam.org/Culture/Mosques/default.htm, and http://www.islaam.com/Section.asp?id=1.

Sites pertaining to the Sikh religion: http://www.sikhs.org/ and http://www.sikhs.org/summary.htm.

World Religions: The First Amendment Freedom Center has produced many publications that offer advice on teaching about religions in ways consistent with the First Amendment. To see its list of publications, which may be downloaded, see the following webpage: http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13092.World Religions: Raytown School District has identified the following websites for teaching about world religions:2

World Religions in ancient and medieval times from History for Kids: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/religion/

Judaism websites: http://www.jewfaq.org/, http://judaism.about.com/, http://www.religioustolerance.org/judaism.htm, http://www.shamash.org/trb/judaism.html, http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/index.shtml, and http://search.looksmart.com/p/browse/us1/us317837/us317922/us903629/us525263/us10089392/ (kids site)

Buddhism websites: http://www.religioustolerance.org/buddhism.htm, http://buddhism.about.com/, http://www.dharmaforkids.com/,

2 Special thanks are due to Michelle Kratofil, Social Studies Instructional Coach from Raytown School District, who shared with me these world religions websites. Teachers are advised to preview these and all other websites in this document in order to determine their appropriateness for their students.

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http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5215/Dharma.html, and http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/buddhaintro.html

Hinduism websites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/, http://www.hindukids.org/, http://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm, http://www.hinduismtoday.com/, and http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9410/hindu1.html

Christianity websites: http://geneva.rutgers.edu/src/christianity/, http://www.religioustolerance.org/christ.htm, and http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/

Islam websites: http://www.islam101.com/theology/index.htm, http://www.religioustolerance.org/islam.htm, http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/, http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/, and http://www.islamicgarden.com/page1002.html

World Cultures: This website from Washington State University includes much information about world cultures: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/.

Prehistoric TimesPrehistoric Times::Caves of Lascaux: A website focused on prehistoric humankind centered on the cave at Lascaux: http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/The Best of History Web Sites: : http://besthistorysites.net/PreHistory.shtml

Ancient TimesAncient Times :: General: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to ancient times: http://www.teacheroz.com/generalancient.htm. General: This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.htmlGeneral: The Awesome Library has many links to Ancient History sites: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Ancient_Civilizations/Ancient_Civilizations.html.General: This website, developed at the University of Evansville (Ind.), called “Exploring World Cultures,” presents much information, including primary sources, pertaining to many cultures of ancient times and medieval times: http://eawc.evansville.edu/.General: A website focused on daily life in various ancient cultures, which is accompanied by many links to those cultures: http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html#OthersGeneral: This website, called History for Kids, focuses on ancient and medieval history: http://www.historyforkids.org/General: The Best of History Web Sites: :

http://besthistorysites.net/AncientBiblical.shtmlEgypt: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to ancient Egypt: http://www.teacheroz.com/egypt.htm.

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Egypt: This website includes a rich body of information about Egypt and a virtual tour of Ancient Egypt: http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.home&language_id=1 Egypt: A resource for ancient Egypt from the British Museum: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.htmlEgypt: The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation created this website entitled “Mysteries of Ancient Egypt”: http://www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypt_e.html.Egypt: A website from the PBS Nova series focused on Egyptian pyramids: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/Egypt: This website is entitled “Hatshepsut, the Queen Who Would Be King”: http://www.bediz.com/hatshep/index.html.China: This website is entitled “Xiang Qi: The Art of Chinese Chess Plus the Art, Literature, and History of Its Mother Country, is a ThinkQuest developed by students at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia: http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=12255&url=12255/.Greece: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It has an incredible number of links to numerous websites pertaining to ancient Greece, its daily life, history, geography, mythology, art and architecture, wars, the people, and the Olympics: http://www.teacheroz.com/greeks.html. Greece: This website, also compiled by “Teacher Oz,” deals with classics of Ancient Greece and Rome: http://www.teacheroz.com/classics.htm.Greece: A website on ancient Greece for Middle School Students from Portland State University: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/index.htm. Greece: This website from Washington State University has many links to all facets of Greek history: http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTMGreece: Websites on the Olympics from Ancient Greek times to present from the following sources:

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml Tufts University: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/ University of Pennsylvania:

http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html. Foundation of the Hellenic World: http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/olympics//

Greece: A website on a “time capsule” activity: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/5537/index_html.htmlMexico: A Web site for the study of art and culture in pre-Columbian Meso-America: http://www.ancientmexico.com/.Rome: This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to ancient Rome: http://www.teacheroz.com/romans.htm. Rome: This website, called “Forum Romanum,” developed by David Camden, a former teacher from Heritage High School in Virginia and current Ph.D. candidate in classics at Harvard, provides much information about ancient Rome: http://www.forumromanum.org/index2.html. For more information on the Roman Forum and more images, see these websites: http://www.vroma.org/~forum/, and http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/4_Forum_Romanum.html

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Scotland: A website focused on sites and maps of ancient Scotland: http://www.stonepages.com/ancient_scotland/navigati.htmAmericas: The Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation created this website entitled “Mystery of the Maya”: http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mminteng.html.

Middle AgesMiddle Ages and Early Modern European: and Early Modern European: These websites, which were compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, are a good place to start. They an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to the Middle Ages: http://www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm and http://www.teacheroz.com/castles.htm. This website, edited by Paul Halsall and called the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, comes from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.htmlThis listing of websites is part of The Best of History Web Sites series: : http://besthistorysites.net/Medieval.shtmlA website on the Vikings entitled “Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga: http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vikings/Education World’s Millennium Website focused on “The Middle Ages”: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_01.shtmlThis History Channel website, focused on the Crusades, is entitled “The Crusades: The Crescent and the Cross: http://www.historychannel.com/crusades/The following website has all sorts of links for Western Civilization. It is called “An Internet Book on the Medieval/Renaissance/Reformation World”: http://www.omnibusol.com/medieval.htmlAn Annenberg CPB Exhibit focused on the Middle Ages: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.htmlThis website from Georgetown University provides focuses on resources for medieval history: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/This website, focused on Joan of Arc, is a scholarly website developed by the International Joan of Arc Society: http://www.smu.edu/ijas/.This website is one of the Best of History Websites. Its focus is on early modern European history: http://besthistorysites.net/EarlyModernEurope.shtml

Exploration and RenaissanceExploration and Renaissance: : Smithsonian had an exhibit dealing with the Columbian Exchange called “Seeds of Change,” which dealt with how Columbus’s explorations and subsequent European explorations of the Americas contributed to major changes in foods and cultures throughout the world. Here is a website related to that exhibit: http://www.mnh.si.edu/garden/This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, is a good place to start. It has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to the Renaissance: http://www.teacheroz.com/renaissance.htm. Education World’s Millennium Website focused on the Age of Exploration: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_02.shtmlAn Annenberg CPB Exhibit focused on the Renaissance: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/

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An Annenberg CPB Exhibit focused on the collapse of Mayan civilization: http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/PBS website accompanying the series “Conquistadors”: http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/

EnlightenmentEnlightenmentThis website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to the Enlightenment: http://www.teacheroz.com/Enlightenment.htm.

Nineteenth Century:Nineteenth Century:This PBS website was designed to accompany a television program on Napoleon: http://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/

Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution :: A website focused on the Industrial Revolution: http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html . This website addresses the history of railroads: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm.World War IWorld War I :: This website, filled with solid content and activities, comes from “The Learning Curve,” a website created by the National Archives of the United Kingdom for British high school teachers: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/default.htm.This website, which was compiled by “Teacher Oz” for teachers, has an incredible number of links to websites pertaining to World War I: http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm. World War I music websites from Jerry Aschermann, professor at Missouri Western State College:

http://www.worldwar1.com/media.htm, http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=222, http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~worldwarone/WWI/Music/, http://www.ishk.org/files/war_songs_9812.html

This website, designed for Western Civilization courses, has many links pertaining to World War I, which teachers will find useful: http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv.html#WWI.This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the World War I for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module16/index.htmlThis website from the Library of Congress focuses on life on the homefront during World Wars I and II: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/homefront/index.html This website from the History Channel provides copies of letters written home by six different people during World War I: http://www.historychannel.com/letters/main.html

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Spanish Civil War:: This is a website containing 1938 artwork made by Spanish who had lived through the Spanish Civil War: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/frame.html.World War II: This website is one of the “Best of History Web Site” series of websites: http://besthistorysites.net/WWII.shtmlWorld War II: This website, prepared by London’s National Archives, features a newsreel mocking Hitler, posters of brave British soldiers, other morale-boosting artwork created for Britain's Ministry of Information during World War II, and much more: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/World War II: This website, filled with solid content and activities, comes from “The Learning Curve,” a website created by the National Archives of the United Kingdom for British high school teachers: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/snapshots.htm#1939.World War II: This website is one of communication of boys and girls of today with people who experienced WWII first hand—British, German, Dutch, Australian, Polish, Austrian, etc.: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/memories.html.World War II: This “Learning Curve” website from the British Archives focuses on World War II: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/default1939.htm. World War II: This website with documents and lesson plan ideas from the Truman library focuses on poster art of World War II: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/posters/index.htmlWorld War II: This website from Calvin College (MI) presents lots of information, including primary sources, focused on Nazi propaganda: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/index.htmWorld War II: This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the World War II for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module19/index.html World War II: This BBC website focuses on the war from the soldier’s perspective: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/World War II: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television series “Bataan Rescue”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan/World War II: These websites focus on D-Day from the perspective of veterans:

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/stories/ (Library of Congress Veteran’s History Project)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/ (PBS American Experience Program on D-Day)

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature1/index.html (National Geographic Society’s Untold Stories of D-Day website)

http://search.eb.com/normandy/ (Encyclopedia Britannica Normandy Invasion website)

World War II: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television series “The Battle of the Bulge”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/World War II: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television series about women who were pilots during World War II entitled “Fly Girls”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/

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World War II: This Teachers’ Guide focused on Joseph Goebbels, but with lots of information about the war and Nazism was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television program: The Man behind Hitler: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goebbels/tguide/index.html World War II: This website has numerous useful links for World War II: http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv2.html#WWIIWorld War II: This website was designed to accompany the HBO television series Band of Brothers: http://www.time.com/time/classroom/brothers/. World War II: This website from the Library of Congress focuses on life on the homefront during World Wars I and II: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/homefront/index.html World War II: This website from the Truman Library focuses on Truman’s Decision to drop the atomic bomb: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/abomb.htmWorld War II: This U.S. National Archives website presents photos from World War II http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails/index.htmlHolocaust: The website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/Holocaust: The Facing History and Ourselves website focuses on the Holocaust and on other instances of genocides and of human inhumanity: http://facinghistory.orgHolocaust: This website, in question-and-answer format is especially good for those who plan to visit the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington: http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/html/holoques.htmHolocaust: This website from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. explains recent German holocaust education policy: http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/archives/background/holocaust.html. Holocaust: This informative website comes from “About.com” on the Internet: http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/Holocaust: This website of the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center presents information about the Holocaust and information about the services of the museum and learning center: http://www.hmlc.org.Holocaust: This website has links to many other Holocaust websites: http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm?once=true&Holocaust: This website, by David Dickerson, entitled “Holocaust/Shoah,” also has many links to other sites pertaining to the Holocaust: http://www.igc.org/ddickerson/holocaust.htmlHolocaust: Remember.org is a website library of Holocaust materials, with plenty of links: http://www.remember.org/Holocaust: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has a website, which includes much information useful for those teaching about and studying the Holocaust: http://www.yadvashem.org/Holocaust: Gerda Weitzman was a survivor of the Holocaust who married Kurt Klein, a U.S. GI, who had earlier been sent from his homeland of Germany by his parents to escape anti-Semitic persecution. (Kurt Klein died in 2002.) The Kleins set up a foundation called the Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation, which is committed to helping people learn lessons from the Holocaust and also to commit themselves to making the world a better place, especially by fighting hunger. The website includes links to many,

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many other websites on the topics of the Holocaust and world hunger. http://www.kleinfoundation.org/.Holocaust: Timeline of the Holocaust: See this timeline of the Holocaust from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/timeprint.html.Holocaust: Timeline of the Holocaust from a website set up at the University of Southern Florida with links to primary sources: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htmHolocaust: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television series “America and the Holocaust”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/Holocaust: In this website much information is presented on the Holocaust. See, among other links, the link entitled “Hitler’s Death Camps,” which has many more links well worth exploring: http://www.omnibusol.com/westernciv2.html#Hitler's%20Death%20CampsHolocaust: This website from the Harvard Law School Library’s Nuremburg Trial Project consists of documents and other information pertaining to the Nuremburg trials: http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overviewHolocaust: This website from PBS is about a TV program that was shown January and February 2005 entitled Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State: http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/Holocaust: This website from the Truman Library focuses on the Nuremburg trials with timeline, documents, and photos: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/#1941Holocaust: This January 2005 website from the Guardian of the United Kingdom focuses on the Holocaust as a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and of other concentration and death camps. It contains many links focused on the Holocaust and other history-related topics: http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1397261,00.html. Following are the links noted at this website:

This website from the Holocaust Education Trust has practical ideas for helping students explore the assumptions lying behind the Nazi holocaust and the ethical dimensions of the holocaust: http://www.thinkequal.com/

This website provides an interactive conflict map focused on each decade of the Twentieth Century: http://nobelprize.org/peace/educational/conflictmap/

These websites are from Holocaust memorials: http://www.holocaustcenter.org/, http://www.nehm.org/, and http://www.holocaustmmb.org/.

This website presents testimonies of people who lived through and witnessed the Holocaust: http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

This website of the Jewish Foundation of the Righteous focuses on the relatively few people who risked their lives to save the lives of others in the Holocaust: http://www.jfr.org/

This website from the United Kingdom focuses on the Remembrance of the Liberation of Auschwitz sixty years after that event occurred: http://www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/

This website entitled “The Learning Curve” from the United Kingdom provides excellent resources not only on the Holocaust, but also on the discipline of history: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/.

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This website provides many primary sources on perpetrators, victims, and bystanders from the time and place of the Holocaust: http://www.remember.org/witness/

This website from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum provides lots of information of about Jewish life before the Holocaust and about the Holocaust, its events, developments, consequences, and aftermath: http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/before.htm

Cold WarCold War :: This website provides an annotated listing of Cold War-related websites with ratings of each site: http://www.besthistorysites.net/20thCentury_ColdWar.shtmlThis website focuses on the history of the Cold War, 1945-1991, with links to online documents and other Internet sources, and lists of Cold War web links, books, and films: http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.htmlThis website was designed to accompany the CNN series on the Cold War: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/This website from ‘”Teacher Oz,” provides numerous links to the Cold War and to other international conflicts following World War II: http://www.teacheroz.com/coldwar.htm. This website, with lots of links, is from the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience program entitled “The Race for the Super Bomb”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience program entitled “Nixon’s China Game”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/china/

Twentieth Century World HistoryTwentieth Century World History :: A website focused on inventions and engineering feats of the 20th century: http://www.greatachievements.org/greatachievements/A WebQuest focused on resolving the conflict between India and Pakistan: http://www.angelfire.com/wy/peacequest/This website focuses on Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman who is now struggling to bring democracy to Burma: http://www.ibiblio.org/freeburma/assk/assk.html.

History of Nations and Cultures of the WorldHistory of Nations and Cultures of the World :: British History: This website, called “The Learning Curve,” focuses on British History: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/.British History: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to British history: http://teacheroz.com/Great_Britain.htm. Canadian History: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to British history: http://teacheroz.com/canada.htm. French History: This website from “Teacher Oz” provides numerous links to websites pertaining to French history: http://teacheroz.com/france.htm. Islam.Islam. This website focuses on the history and religion of Islam: http://www.theislamproject.org/

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Japan. Japan. This website focuses on Japanese Samurai: http://www.samurai-archives.com/Russian History: A website on Russian history from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/timeline-index.html

U.S. HistoryU.S. HistoryU.S. History (General Sites):U.S. History (General Sites):On-Line Journal for U.S. History Teachers: Launched in 2004, History Now is a quarterly on-line journal for American history teachers and students developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. This website permits people to access all issues of History Now : http://www.historynow.org/past.html Teacher Oz Links: This is a wonderful resource for teachers of history. First, here is what “Teacher Oz” says about herself: “I am the mother of two super children and have been married to my High School sweetheart for 24 years. I am a violinist with the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra and teach 9th grade Pre-AP World Geography and 10th grade World History for a large suburban school district outside of Dallas, Texas.” This amazing website is one all teachers of history should examine: http://www.teacheroz.com/generalUS.htm >From Revolution to Reconstruction and What Happened Afterwards: This site, assembled by history students in the Netherlands, provides outline histories of the United States, the U.S. Economy, the U.S. Government, and American Literature as well as many, many primary sources: http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/.About.com: This website is a good one for beginning studies of U.S. history: http://americanhistory.about.com/Academy of Achievement, a Museum of Living History: This website focuses on people who have achieved much with their lives in fields of the arts, public service, and the sciences: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/pagegen/index.htmlAmerican Experience for Kids: This website from PBS deals with many topics including secrets about the Presidents, discrimination, transportation, and changing demographics of families: http://pbskids.org/wayback/American Studies: A website on American Studies sponsored by the American Studies Association: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/The Best of History Web Sites: : http://besthistorysites.net/USHistory.shtmlCapitol: This site, developed by C-SPAN, deals with the history of the U.S. capitol, having many illustrations and links related to the capitol and other topics: http://www.c-span.org/capitolhistory/. Digital History: This website from the University of Houston has links to all sorts of facets of U.S. history, making it a must for social studies teachers to examine. It has such sections as “Primary Sources,” “Ethnic Voices,” “For Teachers,” “Active Learning,” “Multi-Media,” “Interactive Timeline,” “Visual History,” “Virtual Expeditions,” “Special Topics” (“Current Controversies,” “Ethnic America,” “Film and History,” “Historiography,” “Personal Lives,” and “Science and Technology”), and “History Reference Room.” This is a magnificent resource: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/.Documents: This TeacherFirst.doc website has links to U.S. history documents and to collections of documents, U.S. history themes, and lessons: http://www.teachersfirst.com/ushistory/

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Documents: The Texas Education Agency has developed a website with U.S. history documents that are often emphasized in social studies programs: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ssc/primary_resources/primary_sources.htmlDocuments: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has identified newly discovered documents: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive.htmlElections: The Truman Library has an exhibition dealing with elections during the past 80 years entitled “Every Four Years”: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/4years/index.htmGilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers many resources to help improvement of teaching in American history, including primary sources, lesson plans, and virtual exhibitions. The institute also sponsors institutes for teachers. Its website is http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.html. The website also has produced special modules on events and developments of U.S. history and about documents of U.S. history: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/modules.html and http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/docs_archive.htmlHeritage Studies: A website focused on heritage studies: http://histpres.mtsu.edu/then/“History Central.com” provides timelines, links to other sites, and links to documents related to both United States and World History. The website address is http://www.multied.com/.The History Guide: This guide provides links to many excellent primary sources and other sites of relevance to students and teachers of history: http://www.historyguide.org/resources.html.History Matters: A website called “History Matters” from George Mason University with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/Holidays: This website developed for teachers and students by the Library of Congress provides information on the history of holidays using primary sources: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/doc_analysis/index.htmlInventions: The Library of Congress has created this interactive, informative website related to the topic of inventions: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/science/flash.htmlLegal History: Yale Law School’s Avalon Project has the following website pertaining to documents of American legal history from 1492 to the present: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htm#20Legal History: This Library of Congress website, entitled “A Century of Lawmaking for the New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates,” focuses on the years 1774-1875: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.htmlLegal History: This Bill of Rights Institute website has links to landmark Supreme Court lessons and to people who have made major contributions to U.S. history: http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/instructional/resources/Lessons/Lessons_List.asp. Lesson Plans Daily from the New York Times: The New York Times produces lessons daily related to articles it publishes: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/americanhistory.htmlLibrary of Congress websites:

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General: Check out “American Memory in the website.” http://www.loc.gov/index.html For information about current bills in Congress, check out “Thomas.”

A Library of Congress website for kids: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

A Library of Congress website rich with ideas for teachers and students on the study of history using the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html. (See especially within that site “Collection Finder” and “Learning Page.”

A Library of Congress website that includes excellent lesson plans and professional development ideas http://memory.loc.gov/learn/

Military History: A website of the National Park Service on military history with sketches of NPS military history sites and discussion of those sites: http://www2.cr.nps.gov/pad/defenders/index.htmMilitary History: Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars is an on-line exhibition of letters and audio created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project. It features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq. Documents are from famous generals, lesser-known troops, parents, sweethearts, and children. See http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.htmlMr. Donn’s U.S. History Website: This website has lessons on many U.S. history topics: http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html#UNIT“My History is America’s History”: A website from the National Endowment for the Humanities called “My History is America’s History,” which has lots of good ideas for children, families, and classrooms on how to personalize the study of U.S. history: http://www.myhistory.org/National Archives: The website of the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/. (Be sure to click on “Educators and Students.”) National Assessment of Educational Progress: The website from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) which one may use to access its items on U.S. history: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ushistory/National Security Archives: This website focuses on national security issues and provides declassified items related to U.S. history and current events: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/. Naval History: See the website of the U.S. Navy for the history of the U.S. navy from the early days of this nation to the present: http://www.history.navy.mil/Our Documents: This website, a collaborative effort of the National Archives and Records Administration, National History Day, and the History Channel, presents 100 milestone documents from U.S. history with leads for how to use those documents and others in the classroom: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&Popular Culture: The Authentic History Center has many primary sources focused on popular culture for different eras of U.S. history from Antebellum U.S. to 9/11. For each era, where possible, the website presents primary sources for the categories “Audio,” “Images,” “Letters and Diaries,” and “From the Diversity Section.” The address is http://www.authentichistory.com/. Preservation: This website from the History Channel, called “Save Our History,” is part of a national initiative promoting history education and preservation, which also aims to encourage students to get involved locally and nationally with the preservation

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of historically significant sites and/or artifacts: http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/save/soh.html.Presidency: This PBS website for younger students, “American Experience for Kids,” deals with many topics giving special emphasis to the Presidency: http://pbskids.org/wayback/Presidency: This website from the Truman Library was developed as part of Smithsonian’s outreach program for schools. It is based on the American Presidency exhibit at Smithsonian: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/museum/burden/index.html.Presidency: The Smithsonian has an exhibit called the American Presidency: A Glorious Burden, which should be of great interest to teachers: http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.htmlPresidential Libraries: This website may be used to access all Presidential Library websites: http://www.archives.gov/presidential_libraries/index.html.Regional History (Piedmont): A website from the National Park Service focused on the Piedmont region of the United States, about the artifacts and people who lived there: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/journey/Religion in U.S. History: Divining America: Religion and the National Culture from the National Humanities Council is a rich resource for the study of religion in U.S. history: http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/divam.htmSmithsonian National Museum of American History: This website from Smithsonian has lots of links and activities of value for teachers of U.S. history: http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/. “Teaching with Historic Places”: A website on teaching history using historic places using properties in the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/“Technology at Home”: A website called “Technology at Home,” which has information about technologies that have changed the consumer household in the U.S.: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/Transportation: This website from the History Channel focuses on changes in American life and culture that result from changes in transportation: http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/aotm/aotm.htmVeterans’ History website: This is the website of the Veteran’s History Project of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/U.S. History (Minorities):U.S. History (Minorities):GeneralGeneral : : Authentic History Center: This website focuses on teaching about stereotypes for many ethic groups using popular culture images from the past. (The Authentic History Center is independently owned and operated by Michael S. Barnes, a teacher at Byron Center High School.) http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/Facing History and Ourselves: This website focuses on racism in world and U.S. history: http://facinghistory.orgAmerican IndiansAmerican Indians :: Website on American Indians: http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html . Learn about the history and mission of Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, KS: http://www.haskell.edu/archive/haskell_archive.htm

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Links to many American Indian websites from Haskell Indian Nations University: http://www.haskell.edu/archive/links.htm. Learn about the history of Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which operated in Carlisle, PA from 1879 to 1918 and which had as its mission to transform American Indian children “to resemble their so-called civilized American brothers and sisters”: http://home.epix.net/~landis/. Magnificent photo images of American Indians from the Rinehart Collection at Haskell Indian Nations Museum: http://www.haskell.edu/archive/Rinehart.htm.This website compiled by Charles J. Kappler at Oklahoma State University has the texts of laws and treaties pertaining to American Indians: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/.See on-line exhibitions pertaining to American Indians from Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian: http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=exhibitions&second=onlineAfrican AmericansAfrican Americans :: General: A website called the “African American History Challenge” with quizzes on students’ knowledge of African American history: http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/General: A website on Black American history: http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Tourmenu.htmDesegregation (Little Rock): A website with ideas on how to teach about the issue of racial desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/little_rock/Harlem Renaissance: Several websites were identified pertaining to the Harlem Renaissance by the Social Studies School Service: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html, http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html, and http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/.History of Jim Crow Laws: This incredibly useful new website, developed to support a four-part PBS television series to be shown in the fall of 2002, has been designed to help teachers in their efforts to teach students about the era of Jim Crow laws. It will be updated frequently: http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/.Lest We Forget: The Triumph over Slavery: This website from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the New York Public Library has a focus that is consistent with its title: http://digital.nypl.org/lwf/flash.htmlMigration History: This website focuses on the African-American migration experience throughout U.S. history: http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm.Missouri History: This website from the Missouri State Archives focuses on Missouri’s African-American history: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/intro.aspPerson (Frederick Douglass): A website from the Library of Congress on Frederick Douglass, a black slave who became free and became an eloquent antislavery spokesman: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/Person (Frederick Douglass): The following upper elementary/middle school lesson, developed by the Social Studies School Service, pertains to the life of Frederick Douglass: http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@qEt8B7I.KES_k/Pages/douglass.html?af@ssss.

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Person (William Grant Still): This website focuses on the life and times of the composer William Grant Still: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sgo/start.html.Person (Marcus Garvey): This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled “Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/Person (Jackie Robinson): A website from the Library of Congress for teachers pertaining to the life of Jackie Robinson, which also has information about the nature of primary and secondary sources: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/robinson/intro.htmlPerson (Rosa Parks): A website from the Academy of Achievement on Rosa Parks, her life and role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1For more recent history, go to this set of websites, which deals with civil rights.

Asian-American HistoryAsian-American HistoryPBS: This website presents excellent links: http://www.pbs.org/ancestorsintheamericas/aahistorysites.htmlJewish-American HistoryJewish-American History :: Links to Jewish History Museums: The National Museum of Jewish History has links to many Jewish History Museums in the United States: http://www.nmajh.org/links/links_1.htmlYiddish Radio Project: National Public Radio had a series in 2002 focused on Yiddish Radio in the 1930s and ‘40s. Check out this audio website for examples of the programs found in the archives of that series: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/yiddish/index.htmlHispanic-American HistoryHispanic-American History :: This About.com website has many links: http://americanhistory.about.com/od/hispanicamerican/A website, which might not be working now, from the National Register of Historic Places focused on Hispanic-American history historical sites for Hispanic-American History Month: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/hispanic/State HistoriesState Histories::This website, “Explore Pennsylvania History,” focuses on the history of Pennsylvania, which will, of course, have relevance for general U.S. history courses: http://www.explorepahistory.com/Women’s HistoryWomen’s History :: General: The website of the National Women’s History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/General: A website on women’s history from Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/women_resources.htmlGeneral: The website of the National Women’s Hall of Fame: http://www.greatwomen.org/General: The website of the National Women’s History Museum: http://www.nwhm.org/

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Independent Lens: “The Sisters of ‘77”: This website from PBS tells the story of an historic weekend in November 1977 in Houston, where 20,000 people gathered for the first federally funded National Women’s Conference, aiming to end discrimination against women and promote women’s rights: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/sistersof77/Eleanor Roosevelt: This website was designed to support a PBS program on Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most influential women in US. history: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/. Working Women (1870-1930): Harvard University has set up an open collection of countless primary source books and manuscripts dealing directly and indirectly with working women of all sorts. The collection is a bit challenging to use, but after experimenting with it, one may discover how to get into the texts of a rich body of primary sources on that topic. See http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/.

U.S. History (Presidents):U.S. History (Presidents):Inaugurations: "I Do Solemnly Swear . . .” Presidential Inaugurations is a collection of approximately 400 items or 2,000 digital files relating to inaugurations from George Washington's in 1789 to George W. Bush's inauguration of 2001.: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/.The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden: This website is based on a Smithsonian Exhibition at the Museum of American History: http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/2_frame.html.First Ladies: These websites enable teachers and students to find out about the lives and experiences of all of our nation’s First Ladies and in the process to gain new insights into gender and social history of the United States: http://www.alplm.org/museum/temp_exhibits/firstladies_gallery.html and http://www.firstladies.org/index.htm Specific Presidents: Following are websites on various Presidents from PBS American Experience programs, museums, and other websites3:

John (and Abigail) Adams: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/tguide/index.html

Thomas Jefferson: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html and http://www.monticello.org/.

Abraham Lincoln: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/, http://www.alplm.org/home.html (see especially http://www.alplm.org/education/home.html), http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=16, and http://www.historynow.org/12_2005/interactive.html.

Ulysses S. Grant: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/ Theodore Roosevelt:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/26_t_roosevelt/index.html Woodrow Wilson: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/ Herbert Hoover: http://hoover.archives.gov/

3 The websites shown here accompany PBS American Experience programs. Using PBS American Experience websites starting with George Washington, one may link to most presidents and find information on them. The George Washington website is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/01_washington/index.html.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/index.html and http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/.

Eleanor Roosevelt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/ Harry S Truman: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/;

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/index.php; http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/index.html

Eisenhower: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/34_eisenhower/index.html and http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/

Kennedy: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/ and http://www.jfklibrary.org/

LBJ: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/36_l_johnson/index.html and http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/

Nixon: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/37_nixon/index.html and http://www.nixonfoundation.org/

Ford: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/ Kennedy, LBJ, & Nixon:

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/index.html Carter: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/ and

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/ Reagan: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/ and

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/ George Herbert Walker Bush: http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

U.S. History (Chronological)U.S. History (Chronological)Ancient AmericaAncient America :: Cahokia Mounds State Park in Illinois: Websites dealing with Cahokia Mounds near St. Louis: http://www.cahokiamounds.com/cahokia.html and http://www.siue.edu/CAHOKIAMOUNDS/.Effigy Mounds National Monument: A website from the Effigy Mounds National Monument (Iowa) with teaching ideas pertaining to archaeology and prehistory: http://www.nps.gov/efmo/parks/table_of_contents.htmExplorationExploration :: Conquistadors: Retrace the adventures of Spanish Conquistadors five hundred years after they traveled to the Americas in search of fame and fortune, initiating a centuries-long era of imperialism and launching a debate about human rights that continues to this day. Meet the Conquistadors as well as the indigenous peoples they encountered: http://www.PBS.org/conquistadors

Colonial AmericaColonial America :: General: Colonial America from Education World’ Millennium Series: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_03.shtml

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General: At Archiving Early America, you will discover a wealth of resources in the form of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than two centuries ago: http://earlyamerica.com/Deerfield Raid: Learn about the complexities of historical interpretation by visiting this website focused on the raid on Deerfield in present-day Massachusetts. This award-winning website, developed by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association(PVMA)/Memorial Hall Museum, a membership-based organization in Deerfield, Massachusetts, sets the stage for the raid, helps its visitors understand the five cultures that came into conflict during the raid (Wendat, Kanienkehaka, Wobanaki, English, and French), and helps them learn about how that raid of 1704 remains a source of controversy to this day. The website address is http://www.1704.deerfield.history.museum/home_page.jspFrench and Indian War: PBS Television has produced a very good television series on the French and Indian War entitled “The War that Made America.” The website related to the series is http://www.thewarthatmadeamerica.org/default.aspx?id=30 Jamestown: This website from EDSITEMENT of the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a lesson pertaining to the history of the Jamestown settlement. The lesson involves students in using census data and primary sources. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=269.Salem Witchcraft Trials: This website, developed by Doug Linder, professor from the School of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, focuses on the Salem Witchcraft trials: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM.Salem Witchcraft Trials: Other Salem Witchcraft Trial websites include the “Salem Witchcraft Hysteria,” from National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/) and “Salem Witch Museum” (http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/).Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving: A website from Ben and Jerry’s on Thanksgiving, with references to Native Americans and dealing with inaccuracies often connected with the holiday story: http://www.benjerry.com/fun_stuff/holidays/thanksgiving/Thanksgiving: A second website concerned with Thanksgiving: http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/American Revolution and Founding of NationAmerican Revolution and Founding of Nation :: General: This website, entitled “Archiving Early America,” which focuses on 18th Century America, is an excellent resource for finding primary sources: http://www.earlyamerica.com/.American Memory Website on the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention: This website from the Library of Congress focuses on documents and timelines related to the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html. Bill of Rights Institute: The Bill of Rights Institute has a website focused on the Bill of Rights, taking both an historical and a contemporary perspective: http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/.American Revolution: This website was created to accompany a PBS Documentary Series entitled “LIBERTY! The American Revolution”: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/.American Revolution: See “Spy Letters of the American Revolution” on this website from the University of Michigan. It includes activities, curricular themes, study

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questions, and suggestions on how to interpret primary sources: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/lounge.html.American Revolution (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the American Revolution for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module1/index.htmlBoston Freedom Trail: This website on the Boston Freedom Trail is in podcast format: http://www.boston.com/travel/boston/freedomtrail/podcast/ Constitution (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the Constitution for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module2/index.htmlConstitution (National Archives): This content-rich website from the National Archives focuses on the U.S. Constitution. http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution.htmlGeorge Washington: This website from Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery focuses on George Washington: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/Hamilton: This New York Historical Society/Gilder Lehrman website provides much informative information on Alexander Hamilton: http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/Hamilton-Burr Duel: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience Website entitled “The Duel”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/New Nation (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the first decade of the nation following the ratification of the U.S. Constitution for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module3/index.html Jeffersonian Era (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the Jeffersonian era for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module4/index.htmlWashington: George Washington University created this online exhibit dedicated to the First Federal Congress. Each issue begins with a citation from the Constitution and provides numerous letters, newspaper articles, cartoons, and portraits in each section, as well as an online teacher's guide. http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/Washington: This website of EDSITEMENT of the National Endowment for the Humanities presents a lesson on “First Families” with an emphasis on students using portraits and other primary sources to have students form their own insights into Washington and other presidents using such sources: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=335.Lewis and Clark ExpeditionLewis and Clark Expedition ::

http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/ (a website developed by the Missouri Historical Society, which was posted in 2004, with excellent resources for teachers and others)http://dese.mo.gov/moheritage/Lewis&Clark.htm (a user-friendly website with links developed by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education)http://lewisclark.geog.missouri.edu/index.shtml (a website initiated by the Geography Department of the University of Missouri-Columbia in September 2002 with virtual landmarks in Missouri and many useful links)http://www.umsl.edu/~econed/louisiana/ (a website developed by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis)

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http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ (PBS website tied to the Ken Burns Series. Don’t skip this one.)http://www.lewisandclark200.org/index_nf.php?cID= (National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial)http://www.lewisandclark.org/ (Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation)http://www.lewis-clark.org/ (Discovering Lewis and Clark)http://www.nps.gov/focl/ (Fort Clatsop National Memorial Home Site)http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~maa8/ronda.htm (Lewis and Clark among the Indians)http://www.nps.gov/hafe/lewis/ (Lewis and Clark at Harpers Ferry)http://idptv.state.id.us/lc/index.html (Lewis and Clark in Idaho)http://www.mt.net/~rojomo/landc.htm?12,44 (Letter from Thomas Jefferson)http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/journals.html (The Journals of Lewis and Clark)http://www.nps.gov/knri/ (Knife River Indian Villages, Stanton, North Dakota)http://www.esu3.org/nebraska/nhm/clark.html (Lewis and Clark Campsites in Nebraska)http://lewisandclark.state.mt.us/ (Lewis and Clark in Montana)http://www.acnatsci.org/lewis&clark/index.html (Deals with plants observed by Lewis & Clark)http://www.ndlewisandclark.com/ (Lewis and Clark in North Dakota)http://www.nps.gov/lecl/ (Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail)http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/ (Lewis and Clark Trail, Relive the Adventure)http://www.lewisclark.net/ (Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail)http://greatfallscvb.visitmt.com/ (Relive the Journey of Lewis and Clark in Great Falls)http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html (Lewis and Clark from Monticello website from the University of Virginia)http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr001.html (American Treasures from the Library of Congress)http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/lewisandclark/index.html (This website comes from the Library of CongressMissouri artist Gary Lucy has a website about his studio and about his special interest in Lewis and Clark. Each week he is posting a new question about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. There is other information pertinent to Lewis and Clark teachers and students may find to be of interest.

Jacksonian EraJacksonian EraJacksonian Era (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the Jacksonian era for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module5/index.html Westward ExpansionWestward Expansion : :

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Oregon Trail and Morman Trail: These websites are from the American West website: http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/oretrail.htm and http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/mormtrl.htm.Alamo: This website, a companion to the PBS American Experience television program “Remember the Alamo,” explores the real story behind the Alamo: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/alamo/Westward Expansion (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on Westward Expansion for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module8/index.htmlUS-Mexican WarUS-Mexican WarU.S Mexican War: This website comes from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html. Pre-Civil War Issues and ReformPre-Civil War Issues and ReformPre-Civil War Reform (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the reforms of the pre-Civil War era for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module6/index.html Slavery (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These websites from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History present very useful information on slavery for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module7/index.html, http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/historian.html, and http://www.historynow.org/09_2005/interactive.html. Slavery and the Making of America: This website from PBS was designed to support the program “Slavery and the Making of America”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html. Be sure to click on “Teacher’s Guide Contents,” which provides a gold mine of resources for teachers. Slavery Website Resources: This website from the B. David Schwartz Memorial Library of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University provides many links to websites that deal with slavery: http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aaslvwww.htmCivil War and Reconstruction Times:Civil War and Reconstruction Times:General: Civil War and Reconstruction from Education World’s Millennium website series: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_06.shtmlWebQuest on the U.S. Civil War from Australia: http://www.htav.asn.au/webquests/us_civil_war/index.htmlCivil War Center (Louisiana State University): http://www.cwc.lsu.edu.Civil War (Smithsonian): Smithsonian has a website dedicated to the Civil War: http://www.civilwar.si.edu/home.htmlComing of the Civil War and the Civil War (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These websites from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History present modules on the coming of the Civil War and on the Civil War for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module9/index.html and http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module10/index.htmlJohn Brown: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television program entitled “John Brown’s Holy War”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/

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Lincoln: A website focused on U.S. partisan politics during the time of Abraham Lincoln: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/tl_tree.htmlLincoln: This website, entitled “The Papers of Abraham Lincoln,” a website of the Lincoln Historic Preservation Agency and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, has many useful links to Abraham Lincoln, including a link to “The Lincoln Log: A Daily Chronology of the Life of Abraham Lincoln”: http://www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org/.Lincoln: This website, which includes many primary sources related to the “Lincolns, the Civil War, and slavery,” was developed to accompany the PBS television series “Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/Lincoln: This website is sponsored by the Lincoln Library and Museum, which operates as part of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency: http://www.alplm.org/education/home.htmlGettysburg: A website from the National Park Service pertaining to Gettysburg with ideas for teachers: http://www.nps.gov/gett/getteducation/teachguide.htmGrant: A PBS website to accompany its two-part American Experience program on U.S. Grant, which is interactive, includes a teacher’s guide, and has information that includes and goes beyond what is on the television series: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/grant/Reconstruction: This website was designed to accompany the PBS television series related to “Reconstruction: America’s Second Civil War: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/index.htmlReconstruction (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These websites from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History present very useful ideas for teachers and students on Reconstruction: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module11/index.html and http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/historian.html. American WestAmerican West :: General: The American West: http://www.americanwest.com/index2.htmGeneral: A website with lots of primary source, public-domain documents pertaining to the U.S. West and the relationship between American settlers and American Indians: http://www.1st-hand-history.orgGeneral: Westward Expansion from Education World’s Millennium website series: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_05.shtmlGeneral: This website was designed by WETA and PBS to accompany the program New Perspectives on the West: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/. Be sure to click on “Resources” and then on “Archives of the West” for links to primary sources. Teachers may also want to click on “Lesson Plans.”General: This website from Yahooligans, Yahoo’s website for younger viewers, provides links related to the West: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History/Westward_Movement/Gold Rush: This website comes from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/Gold Rush: This website comes from the Oakland Museum of California: http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/Homestead Act: This website, which includes resources for teachers, comes from the National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/home/homestead_act.html

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Prairie Settlement: This website focuses on Nebraska settlements using family letters of one homesteader family in the prairies of the US: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/. Industrial Revolution and Gilded AgeIndustrial Revolution and Gilded AgeIndustrial Revolution: This website, rich with links to primary sources and to other websites, comes from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook from Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.htmlChild Labor: This website, entitled “Who Really Built America,” has lessons for middle school grades focused on child labor from 1880 to 1920: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/built/.Gilded Age (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the Gilded Age for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module12/index.htmlRockefellers: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience television program entitled “The Rockefellers”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/Progressive EraProgressive EraProgressivism (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on progressivism for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html Immigration and MigrationsImmigration and Migrations :: Migrations During Great Depression: A website with lessons pertaining to migration during the Great Depression and today from the American Memory Program of the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/migrate/intro.htmlImmigration (Gilder Lehrman Institute): These website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents very useful information on immigration to the U.S. for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module15/index.html and http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/interactive.html. Immigration (Library of Congress): This website has been created for teachers and students by the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.htmlImmigration at the Point of Entry (Library of Congress): This website has been created for teachers and students by the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/port/start.html. It provides an activity for teachers to use with students related to the experiences of immigrants at their points of entry.Immigration (The Great American Potluck from the Library of Congress): Here are recipes brought to the United States by immigrants: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/ckbk/index.html.Immigration: This website developed by KETC-TV (St. Louis) for PBS focuses on recent immigrants to the United States: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/newamericans/Immigration (Interviews of Recent Immigrants from the Library of Congress): This website has been created for teachers and students by the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/interv/index.html. It provides an activity for teachers to use with students related to the experiences of immigrants at their points of entry.

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Twentieth Century U.S. History (Variety of Topics)Twentieth Century U.S. History (Variety of Topics)Eleanor Roosevelt: This website was designed to support a PBS program on Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most influential women in US. history: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/. Progressivism (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on progressivism for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module14/index.html 1920s (Gilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the 1920s for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module17/index.htmlNewsreels from the National Archives: This website from Google provides National Archives newsreels, which may be downloaded or viewed: http://video.google.com/nara.htmlScopes Trial: This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled “Monkey Trial”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/Scopes Trial: This website was developed as part of a series of Famous Trials by the UMKC law school: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htmHistory of Flight: A website of the Centennial of Flight Commission with a special emphasis on the Wright Brothers: http://www.centennialofflight.gov/. See also this website from NASA: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/History of Flight: A website of from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which provides a timeline history of aviation in the U.S. and other nations with images: http://www.flight100.org/history_intro.htmlHistory of Flight: This website provides resources on the history of flight from the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/flight/index.html Inventions, History of & Teaching About: This website from EDSITEMENT of the National Endowment for the Humanities presents a lesson on inventions of Thomas Edison and how they changed the lives of people in the early 1900s:. http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=408U.S. Becomes a World Power (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the United States becoming a world power for teachers and students http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module13/index.html U.S. at the End of the Twentieth Century (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the United States at the end of the 20th Century for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module23/index.html Twentieth Century “Best of History Web Sites”: http://besthistorysites.net/20thCentury.shtml. See also this “Best of History Web Site” for sites related to World War II: http://besthistorysites.net/WWII.shtml

Great Depression and New DealGreat Depression and New Deal : : Migrations During Great Depression: A website with lessons pertaining to migration during the Great Depression and today from the American Memory Program of the Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/migrate/intro.htmlNew Deal: This website, sponsored by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Institute for Learning Technologies at Teachers College/Columbia University,

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has links to an enormous number of documents and images pertaining to the New Deal and lesson plans, among other things: http://newdeal.feri.org.Photos: This website from the United States Department of Agriculture show scenes of the United States mainly from 1930s and early 1940s: http://www.usda.gov/oc/photo/histfeat.htmCourt Packing: This website focuses on political cartoons related to Roosevelt’s “court-packing” plans. The website not only includes excellent cartoons from 1937, but offers ideas on how to analyze political cartoons. The site is as follows: http://newdeal.feri.org/court/toons.htmGreat Depression (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the Great Depression for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module18/index.htmlPost War America and TrumanPost War America and Truman :: The Truman Library website, which totals over 27,000 web pages, now includes material that was in Project Whistlestop. The site, which includes all sorts of information about Truman and his role in U.S. history with lesson plans, is as follows: http://www.trumanlibrary.orgPresidential Years: The Truman Library has a virtual museum tour of the Truman Administration at this website: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hst/index.html. United Nations: The Truman library presents documents, photos, and lesson plans on Truman and the U.N.: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/un/large/. Election of 1948: The Truman Library has a special section on the election of 1948: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/1948campaign/large/docs/1948campaign_base.htmLife and Times of Truman: This website focuses on the life and times of Truman: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/index.htmlKorean War: This website from the Truman Library focuses on the Korean War: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/index.htmPost-War America (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on post-World War II America for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module20/index.htmlCivil RightsCivil Rights::This website from the National Park Service provides much good information and lesson plans related to the tumultuous history of the integration of Little Rock Central High School: http://www.nps.gov/chsc. (Be sure to click on “Education Programs.”)This website from the Library of Congress includes all of the known photographic prints of discrimination signs found in the files of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information. The photographs were taken by government photographers in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The website address is http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/list/085_disc.htmlThis website from the Library of Congress provides many resources for students and teachers on the history of Civil Rights from the times of slavery to the present: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/civilrights/flash.html.

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This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled, “Scottsboro: An American Tragedy: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled, “The Murder of Emmet Till”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled, “George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents songs of the Civil Rights Movement: http://www.historynow.org/06_2006/interactive.html. To see African-American History, click here.I960s1960s (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the tumultuous 1960s for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module21/index.htmlVietnam WarVietnam War :: Vietnam War (Guilder Lehrman Institute): This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the Vietnam War for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module22/index.htmlThe Vassar College website focused on the Vietnam War: http://vassun.vassar.edu/~vietnam/Pat Bowles, an elementary teacher from Sharonville Elementary School near Cincinnati, Ohio, includes many resources for teaching about the Vietnam War: http://home.cinci.rr.com/patkers/VIETNAM.html1998-99 NC Social Studies Teacher of the Year Lindy Poling shows how to make the most of community resources in teaching the Vietnam era: http://www.wcpss.net/community_in_the_classroom/.This website was designed to accompany the PBS American Experience website entitled “Vietnam On Line”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/This website was designed to accompany the moving PBS American Experience website “Daughter from Danang,” which was about a young woman who as a girl was evacuated from Vietnam to come to the United States and who returned to Vietnam to find her mother: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/daughter/ and http://www.daughterfromdanang.com/This website from PBS American Experience deals with the fall of Saigon: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/Cuba Under CastroCuba Under CastroThis website was designed to support the PBS American Experience Program Fidel Castro: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/

Combined U.S. and World HistoryCombined U.S. and World HistoryGeneral: This website, called “The Best of History Web sites,” is an award-winning portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts: http://www.besthistorysites.net/

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General: The United Kingdom has several useful websites for history teachers, many produced by history teachers. Here are some of them:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ http://www.johndclare.net/ http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/ http://www.historymad.com/ http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ http://www.weatherheadhistory.ik.org/ http://www.thehistorysite.co.uk/contents.html

General: This website, called “HyperHistory Online,” has Over 2000 files cover over 3000 years of world history: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Archaeology: This website has many useful links pertaining to archaeology in history from ancient times to more recent times: http://www.archaeologica.org/. Biographies: A website called “Academy of Achievement” focused on people who have accomplished much during their lives and have helped to shape our lives: http://www.achievement.org/Conquistadors: Retrace the adventures of Spanish Conquistadors five hundred years after they traveled to the Americas in search of fame and fortune, initiating a centuries-long era of imperialism and launching a debate about human rights that continues to this day. Meet the Conquistadors as well as the indigenous peoples they encountered: http://www.PBS.org/conquistadorsExplorers: A website on exploration throughout history focused not only on explorers of Western nations: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/Eyewitness Accounts: An outstanding website that presents eyewitness accounts of historical events in print, in spoken word, and in photographs: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/Famous Trials from U.S. and world history: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htmGeneral: Education World’s list of history links: http://www.education-world.com/a_special/archives/history.shtmlGeneral: See this PBS website for lots of topics: http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/.“History Central”: A website with all sorts of items related to the teaching of world and U.S. history called "HistoryCentral.com": http://www.historycentral.comHistory Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/.“History Mystery”: A website from Scholastic for students entitled “History Mystery”: http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.aspThe History Net (“About History”): This website appears to be very user-friendly with many links focused on the following topics: 20th Century History, African History, African-American History, American History, Ancient History, British History, Medieval History, Military History, and Women’s History: http://history.about.com/?once=true&.“The History Place”: A website called “The History Place” with many features of interest, such as “This Month in History,” “Photo of the Week,” “Speech of the Week,” and “Main Exhibits”: http://www.historyplace.com/index.html

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Human Rights: This website from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for teachers (with lesson plans) and students focuses on human rights in the U.S. and international communities: http://www.unl.edu/HumanR/teach/Legal History Documents: Yale Law School’s Avalon Project has the following website pertaining to documents of legal history from ancient times to the present: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/chrono.htmModern History: This website, the Internet Modern History Sourcebook, developed by Paul Halsall of Fordham University, is an outstanding, well organized source for teachers of Modern History: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.htmlNational Center for History Education: The website of the National Center for History in the Schools of UCLA, the organization that developed the national standards for history and that has developed for sale units based on primary sources: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/National Endowment for the Humanities: An outstanding website on history and humanities from the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://edsitement.neh.gov/The History Net: This website has many useful links: http://www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay/Speeches: A website from the History Channel on great speeches from U.S. and world history: http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/Religion: Public Radio International has a radio program entitled “Speaking of Faith,” which is hosted by Krista Tripplett. The program, which explores religious issues of past and present, has the following: website: http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/.

The Events of September 11, 2001, and their AftermathThe Events of September 11, 2001, and their AftermathNational Council for the Social Studies: The website of the National Council for the Social Studies has website pages entitled “Teachable Moments” with many resources, lessons, ideas of social studies teachers, and links pertaining to the events of September 11, 2001, their aftermath (including the war in Iraq), and historical parallels: http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/moments/.National Education Association: The National Education Association has compiled a major website with lesson plans, historical documents, NEA policy statements, and all sorts of links to a variety of organizations, all with direct or indirect relationships to the events of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath: http://www.nea.org/nr/nr020827.html.The Fordham Foundation: The Fordham Foundation, a conservative foundation, has developed a website entitled, “What Our Children Need to Know, “pertaining to the September 11, 2001: http://www.edexcellence.net/Sept11/September11.html.National Association of School Psychologists: The National Association of School Psychologists has developed a website pertaining to the events of September 11, 2001 and subsequent terrorist events and how to handle them. The website has ideas for parents, teachers, media, and adolescents: http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/911memorial.html.Guilder Lehrman Institute: This website from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History presents a module on the significance of the events of September 11, 2001 for teachers and students: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module24/index.html

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Social Studies Research Council: The Social Science Research Council has launched a website featuring teacher guides and essays on aspects of the September 11 disaster and its aftermath written by social scientists: http://www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_intro.htm.War in Iraq: This website, entitled Unembedded, shows photographs of violent developments in Iraq following the U.S. invasion of that country. The photographs were taken young photographers, who were not embedded with U.S. troops: http://www.unembedded.net.

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