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- American Presidents
- Civil War
- Colonial America
- The West and Pioneers
Books
- Jefferson, Thomas - Autobiography (Bibliomania)
Lesson Plans
- American Flag Lesson Plan (Montgomery Public Schools - Furr, Campos, and White)
Provides activities related to the flag of the USA. 9-01
- American Flag Resources (USFlag.org - Streufert)
Provides extensive resources related to the American flag, flag history, and American patriotism. 9-01
- American History (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Provides lessons, handouts, and Web resources for studying controversial issues in American history. 6-02
- American History (Information Institute of Syracuse)
Provides U.S. history lessons by grade level. 1-04
- American History Lessons (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides lessons by topic and ties them to national standards in education. 2-01
- American History by Period - Lessons (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides lessons on American history, correlated to national history standards. Includes Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930), The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945), Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s), and Contemporary United States (1968 to the present). 5-01
- Debates in American History (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Provides key questions and "Succinct essays on major historical controversies." 6-02
- Grandparent and Elder Lessons (Library of Congress)
"Through researching primary and secondary sources, students become conversant with significant aspects of twentieth century history." 5-02
- Great Depression - Three Lessons (Library of Congress - Perry and Sauer)
Provides an opportunity for research so that "...students will be able to gain a better understanding of why the government takes care of its people and how this type of welfare state started. Armed with this knowledge, they can then evaluate the current need of government programs, such as welfare, Medicare and Social Security, on the federal and state level." The three lessons are designed to take 2-3 weeks. 5-02
- Indian Removal Act (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Provides lessons and Web resources for studying this Act and its important consequences in American history. 6-02
- Letters, Telegraphs, and Photos Illustrating the Causes of the Civil War (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides lessons and documents showing how the causes of the Civil War. 5-01
- Star-Spangled Banner Lesson (National Park Service - Fort McHenry)
Provides activities related to the national anthem. Includes a handout with the words to the Star-Spangled Banner. 9-01
Lists
- American History (Donn)
Provides units, lesson plans, activities & resources on American History.
- American History (SSG - TeacherNet)
Provides comprehensive, yet carefully selected resources by time period. Currently (5-02) has a large number of "dead" links, however. Includes separate sections for Ancient World History, American History, and World History. (Editor's Note - A couple of the topics, Campaign 2000, Laymen's Guide to Bush v. Gore Decision, have a strong pro-Democrat orientation.)
- American History Resources 1 - Before 1870 (Smith)
- American History Resources 2 - After 1870 (Smith)
- American History Resources by Period (BestHistorySites.net)
Provides sources of information by American period, starting with pre-colonial. Includes lesson plans, activities, multimedia, and research resources by type at the bottom of the page. 6-02
- Historical American Documents (Project Vote Smart)
- History (KidsClick)
Provides resources compiled by librarians.
- History Resources (National Historical Society)
- History of the United States (Mabry)
- Labor Movement History (AFL-CIO)
Provides a history of labor and the labor union movement in the USA. 2-02
- Library of Congress Search (Library of Congress)
Provides several methods for finding materials in the Library of Congress's American Memory collection. 6-99
- Texas History (Tracey O.)
- US History (Yahoo)
Provides sources of information on U.S. history. 11-01
- Yahoo - American History
Materials
- American Flag (Theodora.com)
Provides American flags that can be posted on Web pages. 9-01
- American Flag - Star-Spangled Banner (Grolier)
Provides a short history of the development of the national anthem and a sound clip of the song. 9-01
- American History from the Library of Congress 10-00
- American Memory: Library of Congress
- Flags - American Flag (Awesome Library)
Provides flags of the United States for printing, placing on Web pages, placing on car antennas, or for "screen wallpaper." Also provides a history of the flag, how to display and show respect for the flag, how to fold the flag, words to the National Anthem (Star-Spangled Banner), the Pledge of Allegiance, and related activities, clip art, pictures, songs, and symbols of American patriotism. Includes other patriotic graphics, as well a an Earth flag and picture of the world. Clip art is sometimes spelled clipart. 9-02
- Map - Native American Tribes of 1783 (OSSHE)
Provides a map depicting the location of Native American tribes within and near the newly formed United States.
- Maps - Territorial Expansion of the United States from 1783 - 1898 (University of Oregon)
Provides maps depicting the expansion of the territory of the United States. Many require a Shockwave plug-in for the browser.
- Star-Spangled Banner (Grolier)
Provides a short history of the development of the national anthem and a sound clip of the song. 9-01
- Turn of the Century in the US Search (25,000 Photos) 10-00
Papers
- -African-American History (Library of Congress)
 Uses treasures, key historical documents in the Library of Congress, to weave a story on the history of African-Americans in the United States. 2-01
- 100 Documents that Shaped America (USNews.com)
Provides 100 documents that were voted the most important in shaping America.
Editor's Note: Uses a traditional view of history. For example, in describing the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, it states "the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land" from the French. Did the French really "own" the land or had they stolen it from the indigenous people who continued to occupy it? If the French did not own it, could they really sell it? 3-04
- American Flag - Displaying and Showing Respect for the American Flag (United States Code - Title 36, Chapter 10)
Provides patriotic customs and rules of etiquette, called the "Flag Code," for displaying the flag, saying the Pledge of Allegiance, singing the National Anthem (Star-Spangled Banner), and much more. Visitors sometimes misspell as alegiance, allegance, alegence, or allegence. 9-01
- American Flag - Pledge of Allegiance - A Short History (USFlag.org - Streufert)
Provides the original Pledge of Allegiance, as well as how it evolved into the version recited today. Visitors sometimes misspell as alegiance, allegance, alegence, or allegence. 9-01
- American Flag - Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag (United States Code - Title 36, Chapter 10, Section 172)
Provides the words and traditions for saying the Pledge of Allegiance. (In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that school children could not be forced to recite it.) Visitors sometimes misspell as alegiance, allegance, alegence, or allegence. 9-01
- American Flag and Francis Scott Key (USFlag.org - Streufert)
Provides a biography of the author of the national anthem, with an emphasis on the American Flag. 9-01
- American History - Lyrics 1 (Contemplator.com)
Provides the words (lyrics) for songs popular before 1900.
- American History - Lyrics 2 (Ferguson)
Provides the words (lyrics) for songs popular from 1918 through 1933.
- American Law History (Golding and Hofstetter)
Provides an outline, key resources, and class questions. Designed for college level. 8-02
- Biographies in American History (About.com - Kelly)
Provides dozens of biographies of famous or important figures in American history. 5-01
- Comprehensive North American/Canadian History
- Conscription to Military Service - American History (TeacherVision.com)
Provides a history of the use of conscription or the draft to gain soldiers for warfare. 10-02
- Constitution of the United States (Murphy and NPTN)
Provides the words from the Constitution of the United States. This is not a graphic of the actual document.
- Declaration of Independence (Murphy and NPTN)
Provides the words from the Declaration of Independence. This is not a graphic of the actual document.
- Democracy - Basic Readings (US State Department)
Provides some of the basic documents that record the evolution of democracy in the USA. 12-01
- Diplomacy - U.S. Diplomacy Timeline (DOSFAN)
Provides information from 1776 through 1990.
- English and American Literature - A History (Bartleby - Cambridge)
 The Cambridge History of English and American Literature is considered "the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published." This online encyclopedia covers 11,000 pages. 2-01
- Flags - Native American Without Flags (Flags of the Native Peoples of the United States)
Provides a list of tribes in the USA without flags, in alphabetic order. 8-02
- Glossary of Terms - American History (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Provides brief descriptions of terms and persons influential from early American history through the Twentieth Century. 6-02
- Glossary of Terms - Native American History (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)
Provides brief descriptions of terms and persons influential from early American history through the Twentieth Century. 6-02
- History of American Flag (USACityLink)
- History of American Flag - Old Glory (USFlag.org - Streufert)
Provides a story about how the American flag gained the nickname of "Old Glory."
- History of Education
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."
- History of Flags of the USA (Betsy Ross)
Shows pictures of flags of the USA.
- History of Flags of the USA (Itzalist.com)
Provides a timeline of events related to the development and display of the flag of the USA.
- History of Flags of the USA (Mastai)
Shows pictures of flags of the USA.
- Hygiene in the Nineteenth Century (Douglas)
Provides historical information about cleanliness practices, food safety, diseases, and laws.
- Important Events in the 1900's (FactMonster.com)
Provides a year by year account of important events of the 20th century in the United States of America. 2-01
- Jamestown Settlement (APVA)
Provides a history of the American Jamestown Settlement.
- Labor History (The Illinois Labor History Society - Brown)
Provides a history on labor in the USA, starting with colonial times. Includes handouts and suggestions for integrating the information into classroom lessons. 2-02
- Lewis and Clark Expedition - A History (LewisandClark.org)
"On February 28, 1803, the Congress appropriated funds for a small U.S. Army unit to explore the Missouri and Columbia rivers and tell the western Indian tribes that traders would soon come to buy their furs. The explorers were to make a detailed report on western geography, climate, plants and animals, and to study the customs and languages of the Indians. Plans for the expedition were almost complete when the President learned that France offered to sell all of Louisiana Territory to the United States. This transfer, which was completed within a year, doubled the area of the United States. It meant that Jefferson's Army expedition could travel all the way to the crest of the Rockies on American soil, no longer needing permission from the former French owners."
Editor's Note: It could be argued that the French never bought the land and really did not have the moral authority to sell it. The Indigenous people who had been on the land for centuries never sold the land to the French and were still there. What the Americans bought was the agreement for the French to provide no military resistance to Americans as the Americans took the land from the Indigenous people. 2-04
- Lighthouses by Name (IPL)
Provides pictures and descriptions of lighthouses by name, usually the location. Sometimes misspelled by visitors as light houses. 10-01
- Louisiana Purchase (National Archives)
Provides a copy of the document. 2-01
- Original Documents With Lessons (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides original documents that are an important part of the history of the United States, along with lesson ideas. 2-01
- Political Parties - Senators Switching Parties Since 1890 (United States Senate)
Provides a discussion of the political climate that caused each senator to change parties, as well as a biography of each. Includes Jim Jeffords. 5-01
- Political Parties in the United States (United States Senate)
Provides a history of majority and minority political parties in the United States from 1789 to present. (The political parties of the 1st Congress of the United States were not Democrats or Republicans.) 1-04
- Presidential Libraries
Provides information on the presidents of the United States. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 9-00
- Primary Sources for Teachers and Students of USA History (National Archives and Records Administration - Digital Classroom)
Provides copies of docuements considered important in US history. 2-01
- Primary Sources in USA History (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides copies of docuements considered important in US history. 2-01
- Salem Witchcraft Trials
Includes information used to try individuals as witches from the trials themselves and The Crucible.
- San Francisco - History
- Senate - History of the United States Senate (United States Senate)
Provides a history of the Senate, including key officers of the past and present, such as President of the Senate, President pro tempore, Secretary of the Senate, Sargeant at Arms, Senate Chaplain, Legislative Counsel, and more. 5-01
- Song - America the Beautiful (Ed-Leardership.com)
Provides the words to the song. 9-01
- State Flags and Historical USA Flags (USFlag.org)
Provides pictures of the flags of states. Also includes pictures of each of the major historical flags of the USA. Shows flags with more than 13 stars and less than 50. Also includes flags the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy.
- Surrender Speech of Black Hawk (US State Department - Stevens)
"North America had never been an 'empty' land, and at the time of European settlement was settled by Native American tribes with well-shaped and well-functioning societies. The European settlers and the cultural values they brought with them clashed with those of the native inhabitants almost from the minute the English landed at the mouth of the Chesapeake."
"After the establishment of the United States, both state and national leaders recognized that the country had to adopt a national policy toward the Native Americans. Unfortunately, the policy adopted in the 1820s to solve the "Indian problem" was their removal and resettlement in the 'Great American Desert.' "12-01
- Terrorism (Awesome Library)
Provides information on terrorism, with a focus on the attack on the USA on September 11th of 2001. Also called 911, 9-11, or 9/11. 9-01
- Titanic Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia-Titanica.org)
Provides information on passengers and most other aspects of the sinking of the famous ship.
- Titanic Resources (Tracey O.)
- Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans (Avalon Project - Fray and Spar)
- U. S. History - Core Knowledge (Quaboag)
Provides comprehensive, yet carefully selected resources by time period.
- U.S. Constitution (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides a readable copy of the U.S. Constitution. 2-03
- U.S. History from the Colonial Period to the 1970's (Feldmeth)
- Underground Railroad (About.com - McElrath)
Describes the network used to free slaves in the 1800's in the United States. 2-01
- Wampanoag (First Nations - Sultzman)
Provides some of the history of the Wampanoag. 6-02
- War of 1812 (Thinkquest 22916)
Provides information on the causes, timeline, battles, people, and aftermath of the War of 1812. 7-00
Projects
- American Flag Puzzles (SurfNetKids.com)
Provides an online puzzle of an American flag that can be moved around within a two minute deadline. Provides additional activities. 2003
- Time Detective (IL Tweb)
Purchase Resources
- History Videos (HistoryChannel.com)
Provides videos and DVDs on history themes. 3-02
Worksheets
- American History Research Worksheets (School Express)
Provides almost 100 worksheets. 1-02
- Historical Documents Analysis Worksheet (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides a worksheet to examine historical documents of the USA. 5-01
- Historical Photographs Analysis Worksheet (National Archives and Records Administration)
Provides a worksheet to examine historical photographs. 5-01
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