Americas

The Americas

Native American sites

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection: http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/

Anasazi: Canyonlands: http://raysweb.net/canyonlands/pages/anasazi.html

Anishinabe - Ojibwe - Chippewa: Culture of an Indian Nation: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=369

Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian: http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - Native Americans: http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/nativeamericans.html

Circle of Stories: http://www.pbs.org/circleofstories/

Compact Histories: http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html
45 different Indian Nations, about 200 different tribes, are recorded on the site. The histories include information on culture and current status of the different tribal groups. These histories are gathered from the oral traditions of the
different groups.

Creek Indians: http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/creek.htm

Detroit Institute of Art-Native American Art: http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/nativeamericanart/nativeamericanart.html

Finding New Voices: Native American Poets: http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/4/91.04.01.x.html

First Americans-Native American Indian Studies for Grade Schoolers: http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/amer3.htm

The Greasy Grass Native: Native American - Old West Graphic : http://www.thegreasygrass.com/

Hopi-The Corn People: http://www.viewzone.com/day5a.html

Images of Native Americas: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/nativeamericans/
The Bancroft Library draws on its special collection on the history of California and the American West for this exhibition, which consists of "illustrations from rare books, pamphlets, journals, pulp magazines, newspapers, and ephemera in addition to selections of original photographs, including stereographs, lantern slides, and cyanotypes."

Indian Country Wisconsin: http://www.mpm.edu/wirp/

Indian Land Lost in Wisconsin: http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/i34.htm

Indian Mounds of Mississippi: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/mounds/

Lakhota.com: http://www.lakhota.com/

Native American Chart: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/navigation/native_american_chart.htm

Native American Cultures Across the U.S.: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=347

Native Americans: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/index.htm

NativeTech:Native American Technology and Art: http://www.nativetech.org/
"An internet resource for indigenous ethno-technology focusing on the arts of Eastern Woodland Indian Peoples, providing historical & contemporary background with instructional how-to's & references"

Native Web: http://www.nativeweb.org/

Native Word of the Day: http://www.knba.org/knba_nwod_archives.shtm

Not 'Indians,' Many Tribes: Native American Diversity: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=324

Powhatan, Sioux and Pueblo-An Online Quiz: http://www.quia.com/pop/25175.html

St. Croix Riverway - Time and the River: A History of the Saint Croix: http://www.nps.gov/sacn/hrs/hrs.htm

Southwest Native Americans: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/swest.htm

The Study of Native Americans: http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/native.htm

Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=378

Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans - The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/ntreaty.asp

Virtual Jamestown: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/

Wisconsin Electronic Reader Image Galleries:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Galleries/Indians.html

Cabeza de Vaca and La relacion On-Line: http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/cdv/index.html
Comprehensive web archive devoted to the Spanish explorer. Digital access to the 1555 edition of La relacion, full-text academic essays, art, bibliographies, and more - Texas State University-San Marcos

Salem Witch Trials
National Geographic - Salem Witch Hunt - Interactive: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/?
"Are you a witch? Why won't you confess?!" This National Geographic grim game is based on the 1692 Massachusetts trials—your answers could be the death of you.

American Revolution
NPR: George Washington's Rules of Civility: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1248919.html

George Washington's Rules of Civility (Memory): American Treasures of the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm077.html

George Washington's Papers at the Library of Congress:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw1&fileName=mgw1a/gwpage001.db&recNum=0

The Founders' Constitution: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
The constitution, annotated line by line with links to documents and letters explaining the intellectual and legal background and the founders' reasoning behind the words they chose.

Lewis and Clark and The Louisiana Purchase
Medicine & Health on the Lewis and Clark Expedition: http://hsc.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/lewis_clark/

Discovering Lewis and Clark: http://www.lewis-clark.org/

Echoes of a Bitter Crossing: Lewis and Clark in Idaho - Videos
http://idahoptv.org/ramfiles/lc/tease.ram
http://idahoptv.org/ramfiles/lc/crossing.ram
http://idahoptv.org/ramfiles/lc/ordeal.ram
http://idahoptv.org/ramfiles/lc/campfire.ram
http://idahoptv.org/ramfiles/lc/nezperce.ram
http://idahoptv.org/ramfiles/lc/dugouts.ram

Economic Spotter: Scarcity with the Lewis and Clark Expedition: http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM314

Eductation in St. Louis in 1804: http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/SchoolAtTimeOfL&C.htm

Ethnography of Lewis and Clark: http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis_and_Clark/

Follow in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark: http://www.sierraclub.org/lewisandclark/

Go West Across America with Lewis & Clark!: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/main.html

Jefferson's West: http://monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/index.html

Journals of Lewis and Clark: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JOURNALS/journals.html

Lewis & Clark: http://idptv.state.id.us/lc/index.html

Lewis & Clark Expedition Artifacts Poster: http://www.monticello.org/education/posters/lewisandclark/index.html

Lewis & Clark Expedition: National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/01/lewis.html

Lewis & Clark Expedition: National Park Service: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/lewisandclark/

The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Reason: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr001.html

The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the USGS: http://www.usgs.gov/features/lewisandclark.html

Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/trailer.html
The National Geographic Lesson Plans go with the IMAX film.

Lewis, Clark and Beyond: http://www.lewisclarkandbeyond.com/mainPage/

Lewis & Clark Journey Log: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/journey_intro.html

Lewis & Clark: Journey of the Corps of Discovery: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

Lewis & Clark: Mapping the West: http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/

Lewis & Clark: Maps of Exploration 1507-1814: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html

Lewis & Clark Trail: http://www.lewisandclarktrail.com/

Life of Thomas Jefferson by B. L. Rayner, published in 1834: http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/biog/
This is the actual book that you can read on the internet.

Louisiana Purchase: Legislative Timeline - 1802 to 1807: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/louisianapurchase.html

Meriwether Lewis: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/aug18.html

Plants of the Lewis & Clark Trail - Clearwater National Forest: http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/clearwater/LewisClark/lewis_clark_plants/lcindex.htm

Senate Ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty October 20, 1803:
http://www.americasstory.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/lapurchas_1

The Ultimate Adventure: Lewis & Clark: http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/

Oregon Trail
TeacherVision-Oregon Trail Lesson Plan:
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2929.html

Utah Pioneers: http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/MonsonUnits/jilrad/pioneers.htm
A 4th grade lesson plan

Civil War
AmericanCivilWar.com: http://www.americancivilwar.com/

American Slave Narratives: The University of Virginia's web site with short excerpts from interviews of former slaves.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Civil War Women: Online Archival Collections - Special Collections Library, Duke University: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html

Crisis at Fort Sumter: http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/CrisisMain.html

Factory vs. Plantation in the North and South: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=289

HarpWeek - Eductational Tools for Learning about the 19th Century World!: http://education.harpweek.com/Default.htm

U.S. Historical Documents Regarding Slavery: http://www.bungi.com/cfip/slavery.htm

Valley of the Shadow-Two Communities in the American Civil War: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/

Vermont Civil War Units - A Short Chronology of the War: http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units.shtml

Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman Biography: http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_harriet_tubman.htm
Harriet Tubman Quotes: http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blqutubm.htm

Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html

Reparations
America's Civil War - Aftermath: http://fredericksburg.com/CivilWar/Teaching/Education/Aftermath_students

'Dixie': http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/dixie/index.html

Making Amends: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/racism/010827.reparations.html

North Carolina Black Soldiers to the Freedman's Bureau Commissioner:
http://www.inform.umd.edu/hist/Freedman/roanoke.htm
At the end of the war, black soldiers stationed near Petersburg, Virginia, wrote to the commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau to protest the suffering of their wives, children, and parents at a settlement on Roanoke Island.

Reconstruction (1866-1877): http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/recon
" Play Chronicles Life of Slave Pianist Who Awed Audiences in 1800s"

Spirituals: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1046417

The Tale of 'Blind Tom' Wiggins: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/mar/blindtom/index.html

1860-1880
The Dakota Experience: Creating Communities: The Frontier (1860-1880): http://www.dakotaexperience.org/cvfrontier/
Audience: Fifth grade to adult
Civic and social life on the Dakota frontier developed out of competing goals and visions. Some came looking for wealth in the mines of the Black Hills. Others sought and found chances to take part in local or territorial government. Missionaries carried their gospel, hoping to replace tribal ways with Christianity. Native Americans sought to maintain their traditional life in the face of change.
Explore this history through online interactives, historical artifacts, photographs, and documents, and interpretive text. Journey to the gold rush town of Deadwood to discover the "real" story of the Old West. Make a magic lantern show to share online with your friends.

The Gilded Age
The following web sites are about the Andrew Carnegie era and the present. The past era has been called "the Gilded Age".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gildedage.html
http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/gapesites.htm
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture04.html

The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch.
This page was last updated on November 3, 2009
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