US History Web
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Create Rubrics
Performance Assessment
Resources including rubrics
Create
Bibliographies
Reference Desk
National Standards of History
History matters- Documents, resources,
curricula, Plans...
Lessons from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
Biography of America- Site to
accompany video Series
California State Board
resources & links
University of Kansas- Links and
Resources
Every
Government site
Relevant
to
Social Studies
U. C. Davis Social Studies
Resources
Major
Documents-Gov't site
Library of Congress Resources
The Avalon Project- "Documents
in Law, History and Diplomacy"
Sound and images
Using Music to teach
Social Studies
Songs in American History
"Historical voices" oral
history exhibitions
National Gallery of Art
Image database
Digital History- Resources
Assorted
articles- 20th Century-
Assorted Articles- 19th Century
History channel study guides for videos
U. Texas at
Austin Collection
SMU Collection
Ancestry.com
resources
Historical Atlas of the
Twentieth Century
Historical Atlas
Historical Atlas Europe
West Point
Collection
Library of Congress Map collection
on line
The David Rumsey
Collection-Period color images
WWI
and Versailles- Treaty and maps
WWII
Collection-University of San Diego
National Geographic
printer-friendly outline maps
Presidential Election Results- Amazing!
Presidents- Resources
Political Cartoons
Party Platforms
since 1840
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Reconstruction & Jim Crow
The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow- PBS
site
Without
Sanctuary- Postcards of Lynchings- Powerful!
Booker T. Washington v.
W.E.B. Dubois
Lesson- The Career of Lena Horne
The Gilded Age- Resources by
topic
Andrew Carnegie- PBS Site
Rockefellers- PBS Site
Chicago-"City
of the Century"
Links to Technology Resources (RRs, Flight, Machines, etc)
Historical
Prices- Unusual Resource
Thomas Nast Cartoons
Songs about Automobiling
Audio Resources
Haymarket- in depth
Homestead-Documents
A Curriculum by the Illinois
Labor History Society
Radical
Labor-History of Anarchism
Labor Songs
Ellis Island-Research Immigration Records
Ellis Island.com
Story of the Statue of
Liberty
Brief video
on Frontier Line
Explore
Immigration in Chicago
Scholastic
Magazine Site
The Triangle Fire- Online
Exhibit
Progressivism- from
Biography of America Series
NAACP Official
History
Nebraska
Studies Historical site- very detailed
Hull House Museum
Women's History Stories
The Election of
1912
Politics
in Chicago
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America’s Rise as a Power
Spanish-American War- PBS
Philippine
Insurrection- summary and links
Panama Canal Museum
Walter
LaFaber on the Roosevelt Corollary- PBS
WWI
and Versailles- Treaty and maps
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Twenties- Social Upheaval
The Red
Scare
Images of Red Scare
Era-many useful cartoons
Flapper Culture
The
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Lindbergh
Temperance and
Prohibition
Student made resources
from James Madison University
Informal Social History
The Crash
of '29- New York Times articles
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Thirties- A Nation in Turmoil
FDR's Fireside Chats- text transcripts
Political Cartoons
Images of the Thirties
Thirties Prices
Library of Congress resources
Inflation/deflation calculator
Oral Accounts of
Sit-Down Strikes
The New Deal Network- extensive
resources
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WWII- America Achieves Greatness
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
German Propaganda- Use
Responsibly
WWII Posters- NH state site
Rosie the
Riveter oral Histories
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Debate over the decision to use the
Atomic Bomb
Inexpensive sound files
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Postwar America- Cold War
Cold War- CNN site- Comprehensive
Cuban Missile Crisis
McCarthyism
Resources on Nuclear Weapons (Study guides)
History of TV
http://www2.blackside.com/blackside/BlacksideFilms/EYES1film.html
The Murder of Emmett Till
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk
Teacher
Resources- U. of Alabama
http://www.africanpubs.com/
Malcolm X
Resources
American Experience companion web
site
The Vietnam Project
Many Terms and names
A "Picture Essay"
Vassar College Site
http://www.tvhistory.tv/
Timeline
of Protest
Watergate
TIME Coverage of Watergate
Listen
to Nixon Tapes
Commanding Heights- The Story
of Economic Policy- Excellent!
Documents on
Florida's Presidential election of 2000
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