Lists

Provides units, lesson plans, activities & resources on American History.

Provides comprehensive, yet carefully selected resources by time period. Includes separate sections for Ancient World History, American History, and World History.

Provides resources compiled by librarians.

Provides several methods for finding materials in the Library of Congress's American Memory collection. 6-99

Materials

Provides a map depicting the location of Native American tribes within and near the newly formed United States.

Provides maps depicting the expansion of the territory of the United States. Many require a Shockwave plug-in for the browser.

Multimedia

Provides sound resources on appreciating wildlife of Texas. 9-99

Papers

Provides resources in American history by time periods, such as the Colonial Period or the Civil War.

Provides comprehensive, yet carefully selected resources by time period.

Includes the French and Indian War, the Plains Indian War, the Revolutionary War, the Spanish American War and the War of 1812. Students - Remember that the same war may be called a "battle for independence" or a "rebellion," depending on which side the author supports.

Provides the words from the Constitution of the United States. This is not a graphic of the actual document.

Provides the words from the Declaration of Independence. This is not a graphic of the actual document.

Provides information on the causes of The Great Depression.

Provides information from 1776 through 1990.

Provides information on key figures in history, as well as a number of key online documents, such as John Locke's influential 1693 education manual, "Some Thoughts Concerning Education."

Provides historical information about cleanliness practices, food safety, diseases, and laws.

Provides a history of the American Jamestown Settlement.

Provides some of the oral history of the Wampanoag, as well as information about their current status. 3-00

Provides pictures and historical information related to the Yukon, the Gold Rush of 1898 to the Klondike, the Alaska Highway, the Chilkoot Trail, Dawson City, Tlingit Indians, White Pass Railway, Tutshi, river boats, North West Mounted Police (N.W.M.P), and more. 4-00

Includes information used to try individuals as witches from the trials themselves and The Crucible.

Provides digests of the better books written on the Titanic. Includes the respected book, Titanic, An Illustrated History, by Lynch and Marschall.

Provides a short summary of the events, photos of key persons involved, pictures of the Titanic on the ocean floor, and much more.

Searchable.

Provides comprehensive, yet carefully selected resources by time period.

Projects

Worksheets

Provides hundreds of worksheets covering U.S. history, by time period. 3-00