HSA - U.S. History Links

General
Colonial Period
Revolutionary Era
Westward Expansion
Civil War Era
Populist Era
Progressive Era
World War I
Depression/New Deal
World War II
Japanese Internment
Korean War
Vietnam
1960s
1970s
Cold War
Individuals
AP US History Resources
Maryland History
Institutions/Programs

General

http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/preshome.html

Grolier's encyclopedia of the American Presidency

http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html

Smithsonian Institute's On-line exhibit of the presidency called "The Glorious Burden"

http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html#modern_america

National Archives site with primary sources and lesson plans on how to use them

http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html

Popular songs in American History

http://www.gliah.uh.edu/documents/documents_p1.cfm

Primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

http://memory.loc.gov/

Digital library from the Library of Congress. Includes lesson plans.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Primary sources grouped into historical eras.

http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/

Links to primary resources for both World History and US

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

Primary source documents from the National Security Archive

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.html

A great resource for teachers and their students. This site is divided into four periods — Settlement, The Growing Nation, The Great Surge, and Immigration Today.

http://oyez.nwu.edu/

Historic Supreme Court Cases

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex.htm

Primary sources from FBI files

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

Landmark American History documents (GW's initiative)

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm

Primary documents related to American history from the 1400s to present day.

http://www.foia.ucia.gov/search.asp

Primary sources from CIA files

http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decsg.html

20^th Century History Sources

http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/video.html

American Social History Project

http://www.hpol.org/

History and Politics Out Loud- Speeches from American History

http://www.americanstrategy.org/home.html

Links to the collections of several dozen Federal Agencies

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

Repository of primary source collections

http://courses.history.ohio-state.edu/history563/links.htm

Links for US History, 1877-1917

http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm

Comprehensive labor history site, includes primary sources

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/portraits/presidents/index.html

The History Place's Presidential Portraits

http://www.historyplace.com/specials/sounds-prez/index.html

The History Place's Sounds of the Presidents- real audio of historic presidential moments

http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/

A site constructed by two 10th grade students takes a serious look at immigration from 1607 to the present. Various sections deal with the reasons of immigration

http://www.ellisisland.org/

This is the home page of one of America's most well known landmarks, Ellis Island. Visit the historic "Wall of Honor."

http://www.nps.gov/stli/mainmenu.htm

This web site provides information on the Statue of Liberty and how if has become the symbol of freedom.

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

Site contains 100 "milestone" documents in U.S. History and information about the National History Day Competition.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/index.htm

From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History

http://www.chs.org/

Connecticut Historical Society

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

America's Story from the Library of Congress- includes biographies as well as social studies activities for kids

http://airlines.afriqonline.com/

A History of Commercial Aviation

http://www.jewish-history.com/Default.htm

Jewish American History

http://webcorp.com/video/nixon/

Audio Clips from History

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Colonial Period

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm

A great index of hyperlinks to information about life in the Colonial period.

http://www.plimoth.org/

Many links in this site from an electronic field trip to current information about the area.

http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/

Compare the past and present of Plymouth, Massachusetts on this interactive web site. Students can link to the Plymouth Plantation and take a tour of the Colonial town.

http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html

There are carefully documented narratives such as "Girls on the Mayflower". Full text coverage of several historical documents regarding the people on board and their descendants provides worthwhile teaching material.

http://www.history.org/

Teachers can use this a good site to gather lesson plans about Colonial Williamsburg. This site also doubles as a virtual field trip. There are also many student focused lessons include.

http://earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/index.html

This is a superb quarterly magazine that features historical articles.

http://www.tolatsga.org/Compacts.html

Your class can select from a long list of native peoples to study. They can study individuals or tribes and their location.

http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/

Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Colonial American History

http://etext.virginia.edu/users/deetz/

Plymouth Colony Archive

http://law.vanderbilt.edu/library/research/colonial.html

Research Guide on Colonial Laws, Cases, History and Early Court Records of the United States.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/statech.htm

The Avalon Project at Yale Law University: Colonial Charters, Grants, and Related Documents.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

Primary Source Documents pertaining to the Salem Witch Trials

http://www.pbs.org/williamsburg/backdraft/

Backdraft: Colonial Fire Engines

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Revolutionary Era

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html

The History Place's collection of American Revolution information

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/wash-pix/gallery.htm

The History Place's collection on George Washington

http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/kids/teacherguide.html

George Washington: A National Treasure

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/washington/index.html

Historic Valley Forge- includes transcripts of primary sources

http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/

The companion site to PBS's "Rediscovering George Washington"

http://www.mountvernon.org/

This website gives the students text and photos of life on Mount Vernon. A good site for students to learn about America's first President and his plantation.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/

Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive

http://members.tripod.com/~txscv/revolt.htm

Students can take a colorful tour through time by viewing the flags that have represented us over time. This important symbol can tell the story of history through its appearance.

http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html

This is a great web site for elementary students to study one of first great American heroes and all his accomplishments.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1751-1775/BOSTON~1/ANON.HTM

In 1849, an eyewitness account of the Boston Massacre was published.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html

A transcript of Thomas Jefferson's original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and an 1826 letter declining to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the document.

http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/index.html

Few symbols of American history are as well-known as the Liberty Bell. Good site for lessons and activities regarding American symbols

http://earlyamerica.com/

Primary source materials including original newspapers, maps, and writings.

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/

This site is organized in chronological order of events that lead up to the American Revolution and those that followed.

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/index.html

The American flag and Betsy Ross are the focus of this richly historic site.

http://www.constitution.org/bcp/colright.htm

An online text of the "Declaration of Colonial Rights: Resolutions of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774.

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Westward Expansion

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/

This is a fantastic online cooperative learning activity that uses the content of the Donner Party tragedy on the Oregon Trail to teach the skills of historical research.

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

This is an introduction to the Oregon Trail for elementary students. Students can read about the life on the trail and complete the activities.

http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm

This site links to a number of sites that revolves around the life of a cowboy in the old west.

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/index.html

This is a great site that links to many other related topics. Students can read about the men on the trip and their goals. Other links will lead students to information on Native American tribes complete with primary documents.

http://lewisandclarktrail.com/

The Lewis and Clark Trail

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

National Geographic's Interactive Journey with Lewis and Clark

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

Companion site to Ken Burn's film on Lewis and Clark

http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

This site contains the history of the Cherokee Indians and their historic march. Students can follow the movement and the effects on the people.

http://cherokeehistory.com/

The history of the Cherokee Nation.

http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/

Primary source materials about Native American policy in the 19^th century.

http://nativeamericanrhymes.com/index.htm

Native American Rhymes

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Civil War Era

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/index.cfm

Jefferson Davis Papers

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/triumphnationalism/triumphnationalism.htm

The Triumph of Nationalism/ The House Dividing- Lesson plans which use primary sources

http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html

The History Place's collection on Abraham Lincoln

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html

This is an excellent resource that is devoted entirely to our 16th President. The section on Lincoln's thinking is particularly insightful.

http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

This site is organized around a timeline to help students understand the sequence of events leading up to the Civil War and following the war. Some links provide more information.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/diary.html

Three first-person accounts from Civil War participants can be accessed here.

http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html

Letters written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers are included in the fascinating archive. These letters give a detailed look into life in the Union Army camps.

http://www.civil-war.net/

This site provides links to many primary documents including letters, pictures and unit information.

http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html

Civil War Letters

http://users.erols.com/kfraser/

Great site for students to get a different perspective of the war through music, poems and song lyrics.

http://www.gettysburg.com/

Set up to make browsing as a visitor or a historian easy. This site contains an excellent summary of the battle.

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/civwar.shtml

A hyperlink index of Civil War era sources from 1830s to 1890s.

http://www.stowecenter.org/

Harriett Beecher Stowe Center- Great primary source documents from the Abolitionist movement

http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/shedd/index.htm

Civil War Papers of a New Hampshire Soldier

http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/

The Lost Museum: P.T. Barnum's American Museum

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Populist Era

http://www.populist.com/Populist.Reader.html

The Populist Reader

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4275/index.html

Black Populism in the South

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seminar/unit8/home.htm

The Election of 1896: The Grand Alignment

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Progressive Era

http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/uscartoons/GAPECartoons.htm

Political Cartoons about the Progressive Era.

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/internet/index.html

List of links about the Progressive Era

http://prohibition.history.ohio-state.edu/

History of temperance and prohibition

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/default.html

The Triangle Shirt Waist Fire

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

Photography of Lewis Hine

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/207_hine.html

Library of Congress' Lewis Hine Collection

http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/index.html

Site on the campaign to end child labor

http://140.190.128.190/History/contents.html

Observations on living and working in the Lower East Side of New York City

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/overview/over.htm

The Dramas of Haymarket

http://www.inform.umd.edu/HIST/Gompers/web1.html

The Samuel Gomper's Papers: A History of American Labor

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World War I

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

WWI document archive

http://www.worldwar1.com/

Trenches on the Web- an internet history of the Great War

http://www.ibiscom.com/w1frm.htm

An Eyewitness History to World War One

http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/index.html

Propaganda Postcards from World War One

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Depression/New Deal

http://www.geocities.com/mb_williams/hooverpapers/

Herbert Hoover's "Depression" papers

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html

Posters from the WPA

http://digital.library.arizona.edu/cowpuncher/

Little Cowpuncher: Rural School Newspaper from Arizona written by Anglo and Mexican American children from 1932-1943

http://www.mhric.org/fdr/fdr.html

FDR's Fireside Chats

http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/index.htm

The New Deal Document Library

http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/1997/Yee/1929.htm

Overview of the 1929 Stock Market Crash

http://otal.umd.edu/~vg/

The story of Greenbelt, MD- a planned community created as a part of the New Deal

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

Some 2,900 documents provide a glimpse of the life and work of men and women from various occupations and geographical regions from 1936 to 1940 as part of the Folklore Project.

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World War II

http://www.teacheroz.com/wwii.htm

WWII site that contains primary sources, statistics, etc.

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

National Geographic's Remembering Pearl Harbor

http://www.openstore.com/posters/index.html

This site includes 26 patriotic posters that were commissioned by various agencies of the U.S. government.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

FDR Library

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/index.html

The History Place's collection of the War in the Pacific

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/index.php

Einstein exhibit at Smithsonian, primary source documents

http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml#first

Einstein's letters to FDR

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/educatio.htm

Project Whistle stop has primary sources and lesson plans from the Truman Library.

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/Frame.htm

Political cartoons of Dr. Seuss

http://www.theaha.org/Projects/GIRoundtable/index.html

AHA Project on World War II Propaganda Pamphlets

http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html

Decision to drop the Bomb Website

http://www.marshallfoundation.org/

George C. Marshall Foundation

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Japanese Internment

http://www.si.edu/postal/far/

No Forwarding Address Required: Letters from children in a Japanese Internment Camp

http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html

Articles from the San Francisco News in 1942 about the Japanese Internment

http://jarda.cdlib.org/

Japanese American Relocation Digital Library

http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution

http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html

Suffering a Great Injustice: Ansel Adams Pictures of the Japanese Internment Lesson Plan with Primary Sources

http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/

Japanese American Exhibit

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/conscience/index.html

Conscience and the Constitution: The Story of Japanese American Internees who refused to be drafted

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Korean War

http://korea50.army.mil/welcome.shtml

50^th Anniversary Commemoration Site

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Vietnam

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/

Vietnam War primary and secondary sources

http://www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html

Vietnam War Internet Project

http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/oralhistory/

Vietnam War Oral History Project

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html

The History Place's Collection on the Vietnam War

http://www.viewthewall.com/

View the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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1960s

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/apollo11/index.html

The History Place's collection on Apollo 11

http://www.historyplace.com/kennedy/gallery.htm

The History Place's collection on John F. Kennedy

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1970s

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/education/panama/index.phtml

Lesson plans from the Jimmy Carter library, topics include the Panama Canal.

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Cold War

http://cwihp.si.edu/

Cold War International History Project- contains primary sources

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

CNN's Cold War Site

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Individuals

http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

H.L. Mencken page

http://www.alberteinstein.info/

Albert Einstein Archives

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AP US History Resources

http://www.historyteacher.net/2000DBQsMainPage.htm

Teacher created page with DBQ's.

http://www.lawrence.org/edlinks/dbq/dbq.htm

Links to DBQ web sites

http://www.historyteacher.net/APUSH-Course/APUSH_Weblinks-MainPage.htm

Links to primary sources and websites by era

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/index.html

American History 102- excellent links & lecture notes on U.S. History 1865- Present

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Maryland History

http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite/MD/MD_Home.html

Lesson plans from the Pride of Baltimore

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/irc/boc.html

African Americans in the Chesapeake Bay Region

Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR)

Site of Maryland State government documents including COMAR, Code of Maryland Regulations.

http://www.gunstonhall.com/probate/wdmdxxpr.htm

18^th Century inventories of Maryland households that border the Potomac River.

http://www.mdhs.org/library/Z24Index.html

Maryland Historical Society's Image Collection.

http://mdroots.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp

Maryland Public Television's site "Exploring Maryland's Roots"

http://www.mdkidspage.org/history.html

Maryland History for Kids

http://aacounty.thinkport.org/

MPT's "Story of Anne Arundel County"

http://frederick.thinkport.org/

MPT's "Frederick County- A Crossroads of History"

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Institutions/Programs:

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/

Maryland State Archives

http://www.mdhs.org/index.html

Maryland Historical Society

http://ncwhs.oah.org/index.htm

National Collaborative for Women's History Sites

http://www.civilwar.org/library_and_classroom.htm

Civil War Trust

http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/

Veteran's History Project