Web Resources For US History Studies and Exit Level TAKS
Geography
 American Mile Markers:
http://kodak.com/country/US/en/corp/features/onTheRoad/index.shtml
 Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation: http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html
 Atlapedia Online: http://www.atlapedia.com/
 Atlas: United States: http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/unitedstates.html
 CIA World FactBook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
 Color Landform Atlas of the United States: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
 Culture Maps in American Studies: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
 Geo-Generations: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/17/geogen.html
 GeoBee Challenge: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/
 Geography IQ: Map of North America: http://www.geographyiq.com/namerica.htm
 Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names:
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/
 Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection:
http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
 Historical Atlas of the 20th Century: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
 Lizzie’s Morning: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/11/lizzie.html
 National Geographic Map Machine:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: http://www.noaa.gov/
 Outline Maps: http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/
 Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
 Topography of the World Game: http://www.dotsphinx.com/games/topo/
 USGS Geography Information: http://geography.usgs.gov/
 VirtualGlobe: http://anutime.com/globe/3Den.html
The American Revolution
 The American Revolution: http://www.nps.gov/revwar/index.html
 Colonial Hall: Biographies of America’s Founding Fathers: http://www.colonialhall.com/
Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/
 George Washington:
http://www.americanpresident.org/history/GeorgeWashington/biography/LifeBeforePreside
ncy.common.shtml
 George Washington: A National Treasure: http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/
 History of the Declaration of Independence:
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/declaration.html
 The History Place: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html
 Images of the American Revolution:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/american_revolution_images/revolution_i
mages.html
 The Papers of George Washington: http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/
 People of the American Revolution Biographies:
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/index.html
 Rediscovering George Washington: http://www.pbs.org/georgewashington/
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights
 Ben’s Guide: Grades 9-12: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/index.html
 A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
 Delegates to the Constitutional Convention:
http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/constitution_founding_fathe
rs.html
 E.thePeople: http://www.e-thepeople.org/
 The Federalist Papers: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/FEDERAL/frame.html
 FindLaw: Cases and Codes: Supreme Court Opinions:
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
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FirstGov: http://firstgov.gov/
Founders’ Constitution: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/toc.html
House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/
Other Historical American Documents: http://www.usconstitution.net/otherdocs.html
Oyez U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia: http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage
Reform Party USA: http://reformparty.org/
Schoolhouse Rock Site: http://www.schoolhouserocklive.net/history/
U.S. Legislative Branch: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html
U.S. Senate: http://www.senate.gov/
Write Your Representative: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
The Civil War and Reconstruction
 Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
 Abraham Lincoln Online: http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
 Abraham Lincoln Papers: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html
 American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
 The Civil War: http://www.civilwar.com/
 The Civil War Home Page: http://www.civil-war.net/
 Civil War Leaders: http://www.us-civilwar.com/leaders.htm
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Civil War News Home Page: http://www.civilwarnews.com/
CivilWar Smithsonian: http://www.civilwar.si.edu/
Crisis at Fort Sumter: http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/
The Emancipation Proclamation: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/emancipa.asp
The Gettysburg Address: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition:
http://www.yale.edu/glc/
The History Place: http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
Letters, Telegrams, and Photographs Illustrating Factors that Affected the Civil War:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/civil_war_documents/civil_war_document
s.html
Mathew Brady Portraits: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/index2.htm
Outline of the Civil War: http://greatamericanhistory.tripod.com/gr02006.htm
Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/bloomer_suffrage_petition/bloomer_suff
rage_petition.html
The Red Badge of Courage: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/title.html
Selected Civil War Photographs: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Slavery Images: http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
Westward Movement and Immigration
 Adeline Hornbek and the Homestead Act:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/67hornbek/67hornbek.htm
 Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/chinese_boycott_case/chinese_boycott_c
ase.html
 American Immigrant Wall of Honor: http://www.wallofhonor.com/
 American Verse Project: Carl Sandburg, Prairie: http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?sid=1a31bc4b5634d60b9bc40baf7596c628;idno=BAC7176.0001.001;c=amverse;rgn=div
2;view=text;cc=amverse;node=BAC7176.0001.001%3A4.1
 The American Old West: http://www.historybuff.com/library/refwest.html
 The American West, 1865-1900:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/west/west.html
 Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars: http://www.buffalosoldier.net/
 California, First Person Narratives: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
 Crossing the Plains, 1865: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plains.htm
 Death of the Dream: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/farmhouses/
 Eyewitness to the Old West: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/owfrm.htm
 Farming the Land: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/paz_home.html
 Fight No More Forever: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/six/
 Freedom: Yearing to Breathe Free: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web10/index.html
 Frontier House: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/
 The Homestead Act of 1862:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/homestead_act_1862/homestead_act.ht
ml
 How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis:
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
 Letters of a Woman Homesteader: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixednew?id=SteHome&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/pa
rsed
 Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers’ Enrollment Case File:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/federal_indian_policy/federal_indian_poli
cy.html
 Massacre at Wound Knee, 1890: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/knee.htm
 Myth of the Melting Pot: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/national/longterm/meltingpot/meltingpot.htm
 National American Indian Heritage Historic Places: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/indian/
 NativeWeb: http://www.nativeweb.org/
 Naturalization Records:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/topics/naturalization.html
 The New Americans: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/
 The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html
 Panoramic Maps Collection: 1847-1929:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html
 Railroad Maps Collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
 Settling the Land: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/hult_home.html
 SnapShots: Immigration at the Turn of the 20th Century:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim.htm
 Tenement Museum: http://www.wnet.org/tenement/index.html
 The West and Pioneers:
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/History/The_West_and_Pioneers.
html
 Westward Expansion History Resources: http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/westexp.html
Industrialization
 Alexander Graham Bell’s Patent for the Telephone and Thomas Edison’s Patent for the
Electric Lamp:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/telephone_and_light_patents/telephone_
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American History Sweatshop Exhibition: http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/
American Industrialization Outline: http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/lec.indust.html
American on the Move: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/
Andrew Carnegie Timelline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/timeline/timeline2.html
Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth, 1889:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
Bridging the Urban Landscape: Andrew Carnegie: A Tribute http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/carnegie.html
Early Adventures with the Automobile: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/auto.htm
Edison and the Light Bulb:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/sfeature/acdc_insidebulb.html
Flights of Inspiration: http://www.fi.edu/flights/
Frank Lloyd Wright: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/flw/
George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/
Gilded Age Documents: http://srnels.people.wm.edu/gildage/giltext.html
Gilded Age Timeline: http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline7.html
Henry Ford: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/btford.html
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Henry Ford Museum: http://www.hfmgv.org/museum/default.asp
How Stuff Works: http://www.howstuffworks.com/
The Industrial Revolution: http://www.neo-tech.com/businessmen/part6.html
Inventions Index: http://www.sacklunch.net/inventions/index.html
John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Company:
http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/SO/index.htm
The Life of Henry Ford: http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf/default.asp
Read All About the Gilded Age Through WWI:
http://www.germantownacademy.org/academics/ms/8th/gilded/
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/
Rise of Industrial America:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/riseof.html
Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Laboratory:
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/edison/default.asp
Time 100: Henry Ford: http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford.html
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site: Monument to the Gilded Age:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/78vanderbilt/78vanderbilt.htm
WayBack - Technology 1900: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/index.html
The Wright Brothers: http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/wright/default.asp
 The Wright Brothers – First Flight, 1903: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/wright.htm
Growth and Reform
 Analyzing a Thomas Nast Cartoon: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/sia/cartoon.htm
 Cartoons for United States History: Thomas Nast, The Gilded Age and Progressivism:
http://history.osu.edu/Projects/USCartoons/default.htm
 Child Labor in America: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
 Child Labour Activity: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Twork.htm
 Children at Work: 1908-1912: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hnintro.htm
 The Evolution of the Conservative Movement:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
 The Jungle: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/SINCLAIR/toc.html
 Populism and Progressivism Timeline: http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline8.html
 Twenty Years at Hull House: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ADDAMS/title.html
 United States Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive:
http://www.albany.edu/history/LaborAudio/
Imperialism and Expansion
 The American Experience: Theodore Roosevelt: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tr/
 Imperialism Timeline: http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline9.html
 Online Bookshelves: War with Spain: http://www.army.mil/cmhpg/documents/spanam/WwS.htm
 Platt Amendment, 1901: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1901platt.html
 Rough Riders Storm San Juan Hill, 1898:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/roughriders.htm
 The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html
 http://www.boondocksnet.com/stereo/warcards.html
 Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century:
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/roosevelt/index.htm
Isolationism
 Kellog-Briand Pact 1928: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/kbpact.htm
 Neutrality Act of August 31, 1935:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar/neutralityact.htm
 Neutrality Act of February 29, 1936:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/interwar/neutrality2.htm
 Neville Chamberlain, Peace in Our Time:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs36.htm
 The Perilous Flight – Isolationism:
http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/home_front/isolationism/
World War I
 Assassination of an Archduke: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/duke.htm
 Combat Photography, 1918-1971: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cbpintro.htm
 Eyewitness to World War I: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w1frm.htm
 The First Lusitania Note to Germany: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/lusitania1.html
 President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/14points.html
 SnapShots - World War I: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi.htm
 Strict Accountability: President Wilson’s First Warning to the Germans:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/strict.html
 Woodrow Wilson: Peace Without Victory: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww15.htm
 Woodrow Wilson: A Portrait:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_suffrage.html
 Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs34a.htm
 The World War I Document Archive: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
 World War I Timeline: http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline9.html
 World War I – Trenches on the Web: http://www.worldwar1.com/
The 1920s
 Al Capone:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone/index_1.html
 By Popular Demand: “Votes for Women” Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
 Committee on Women’s Suffrage:
http://www.archives.gov/records_of_congress/house_guide/chapter_14_woman_suffrage.ht
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 Eleanor Roosevelt: Battle for Suffrage, 1848-1920:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande09.html
 Freedom: Depression and War: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web12/index.html
 Harlem: http://www.harlem.org/
 Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns: http://www.pbs.org/jazz/
 National Women’s History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/
 Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony:
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
 Old Time Radio: http://www.otr.com/index.shtml
 Progressive Reform: Votes for Women: http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
 Prohibition: http://prohibition.osu.edu/
 Radio History Archive: https://umdrive.memphis.edu/mbensman/public/
 Scopes Trial Home Page:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
 SnapShots – America in the 1920s: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpmech.htm
 Variety Stage: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vshtml/vshome.html
 Votes for Women: Timeline: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 17752000: http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
 Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000:
http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/
 Working for Freedom: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web09/index.html
The Great Depression
 American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
 Documenting America, America from the Great Depression to World War II:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
 Dorothea Lange Photos: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/index.html
 FDR Presidential Library and Museum: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms Address to Congress:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/ralph/workbook/ralprs36b.htm
 New Deal Network: http://newdeal.feri.org/
 New Deal Network Photo Gallery: http://newdeal.feri.org/library/5_1g_4r.htm
 Riding the Rails: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/
 SnapShots – America in the 1930s: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snprelief.htm
 Surviving the Dust Bowl: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/
 Voices from the Dust Bowl: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html
Totalitarianism
 Hitler Receives an Ultimatum, 1939: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ultimatum.htm
World War II
 A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/index.html
 African-Americans in WWII:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/aframerwar/index.html
 After the Day of Infamy: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
 American Involvement in World War II:
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.ww2.html
 The Atomic Age: http://www.atomicarchive.com/
 Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941 – The Japanese View:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl2.htm
 Auschwitz Tattooing:
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Curriculum/Auschwitz_Tattooing/auschwi
tz_tattooing.html
 Battle of the Bulge: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/
 D-Day: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/
 Eyewitness to World War II: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm
 First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/26roosevelt/26roosevelt.htm
 Fly Girls: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/
 German Propaganda Archive: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
 I Survived the 20th Century Holocaust: http://isurvived.org/Frameset_folder/Wiesenthal.html
 Iwo Jima: http://www.iwojima.com/
 Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/default.html
 July 1942: United We Stand: http://americanhistory.si.edu/1942/home.html
 Liberty Ships and Victory Ships, America’s Lifeline in War:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/116liberty_victory_ships/116liberty_victory_sh
ips.htm
 Life Interrupted: http://www.lifeinterrupted.org/
 A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/
 National D-Day Museum: http://www.ddaymuseum.org/
 National WWII Memorial: http://www.wwiimemorial.com/
 Newseum War Stories: World War II:
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/wmv/wars/war.asp
 The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
 Pearl Harbor - The day:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.p
hp?documentdate=1958-0312&documentid=73&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1
 Produce For Victory: Posters on the American Home Front:
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/victory/
 Radio History: 1941: http://www.old-time.com/halper/halper41.html
 Remembering Pearl Harbor:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/18arizona/18arizona.htm
 Resources Listing for WWII: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
 A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/
 Time 100: Eleanor Roosevelt:
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html#
 Time 100: Rosa Parks: http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
 Today in History: December 7: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html
 Voices of World War II: http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/main.htm
 U.S. Troops in Action: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/index.html
 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/
 What Did You Do In The War, Grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/
 Women Come to the Front: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
 Women In Military Service For America Memorial:
http://www.womensmemorial.org/index.html
 World War II Documents: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp
 World War II Poster Collection:
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
 Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority:
http://www.yadvashem.org/
McCarthyism
 American Masters – McCarthyism:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/mccarthyism.html
 Hollywood Blacklist: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
 HUAC: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhuac.htm
 HUAC 8-5: The Hiss-Chamber Hearings:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/8-7testimony%5B1%5D.htm
 Joseph McCarthy: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmccarthy.htm
 NPR: Closed-Door McCarthy Transcripts Released:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1252460
 Schwarz, You Can Trust the Communists to Be Communists:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schwarz-cover.html
The Cold War
 Atomic Archive: http://www.atomicarchive.com/index.shtml
 Berlin and the Two Germanies, 1945-1989: http://sonic.net/~art/uniaccess/
 Between the Wars: The Red Scare: http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/palmer.html
 Chris De Witt’s Berlin Wall Website:
http://www.appropriatesoftware.com/BerlinWall/welcome.html
 Cold War: Postwar Enstragement: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html
 The Cuban Missile Crisis: http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
 The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
 The Cuban Missile Crisis Primary Documents:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/msc_cubamenu.asp
 Freedom: Democracy and the Struggles:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web13/index.html
 Red Scare (1918-1921): http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/
 Seattle Times Trinity Web: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/trinity/
The Korean War
 Examining the Korean War: http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/stanley/home.html
 The Korean War: http://www.korean-war.com/
 Korean War Project 4: http://www.koreanwar.org/
 Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library: http://www.theforgottenvictory.org/
 KWVA – Korean War Veterans Association: http://www.kwva.org/
 Newseum War Stories: Korea:
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/wmv/wars/war.asp?warID=2
 Online Bookshelves: Korean War: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/Korea/kwremem.htm
 Truman Museum and Library: The Korean War:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/
The Vietnam Conflict
 Battlefield: Vietnam: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
 Documents Relating to the Vietnam War:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/vietnam.htm
 LBJ in the Oval Office: Johnson’s Vietnam Anguish: http://www.hpol.org/lbj/vietnam/
 My Virtual Collection Vietnam War Era:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietimages/virtual.htm
 NARA: Military Resources: Vietnam War:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/alic/reference_desk/military_resources/vietnam_wa
r.html
 Newseum War Stories: Vietnam:
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/wmv/wars/war.asp?warID=3
 P.O.V. – Re: Vietnam: Stories Since the War: http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/
 Sixties Project Web Site: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Scholar.html
 Tonkin Gulf Incident, 1964: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/tonkin-g.asp
The U-2 Incident 1960: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/u2.asp
Veterans Coalition: http://www.vvnw.org/
Viet Nam War Overview: http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html
The Vietnam Center: http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/
Vietnam: Yesterday and Today: http://www.oakton.edu/user/2/wittman/
Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Wall Page: http://thewall-usa.com/
Vietnam Vets, Vietnam War, History of Vietnam: http://www.vwam.com/
Vietnam War: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html
Vietnam War Declassification Project, April 2000:
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/vietnam/vietnam.htm
 Vietnam-Era POW/MIA Database: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html
 VietnamWar.net: http://www.vietnamwar.net/
 The Wars from Viet Nam: http://vietnam.vassar.edu/index.html
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 African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/
 African American Perspectives: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
 After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/rec/rhome.html
 Alabama Archives: Montgomery Bus Boycott:
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/rights1.html
 American Experience/Vietnam: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
 American Visionaries: Frederick Douglass:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/douglass/
 Baseball and Jackie Robinson: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/
 Black Panthers: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?CollectionID=20
 Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/WASHINGTON/toc.html
 Brown v. Board of Education:
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/display.html?terms=brown%20v%20board&url=/s
upct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0347_0483_ZO.html
 Brown v. Board of Education, Landmark Supreme Court Cases:
http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/home.html
 Freedom: A History of US: Let Freedom Ring:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web14/index.html
 Freedom: A History of US: We Shall Overcome:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web15/index.html
 From Freedom of Choice to Integration:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/104newkent/104newkent.htm
 LBJ And Equality of Outcome: http://www.hpol.org/lbj/civil-rights/
 Marian Anderson: A Life in Song:
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/anderson/lincoln.html
 Martin Luther King – Biography: http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
 The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/
 Montgomery Bus Boycott: http://mlkkpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1
955_1956/
 National Civil Rights Museum: http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
 Plessy v. Ferguson, Landmark Supreme Court Cases:
http://www.landmarkcases.org/plessy/home.html
 The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King, Jr.: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/index.html
 Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html
 Teaching with Historic Places: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/feature/afam/
 Thurgood Marshall Biography, Brown v. Board of Education:
http://www.landmarkcases.org/brown/marshall.html
 W.E.B DuBois, The Souls of Black Folks: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DUBOIS/toc.html
 We Shall Overcome: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/
The 21st Century
 NOVA Online Why the Towers Fell: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
 NPR: The Middle East Conflict:
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/mideast/transcripts/index.html
 Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/
 September 11: Bearing Witness to History: http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/
 The September 11 Digital Archive: http://911digitalarchive.org/
The Past Meets the Present: From the American Revolution to the Present
 HyperHistory Online: http://www.hyperhistory.com/
General
 America’s Library Presents America’s Story: http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi
 American Experience: The Presidents: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/
 American Treasures of the Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/
 Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
 Drawing from Life: Caricatures and Cartoons: http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/caricatures/
 The Electoral College:
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/government/theelectoralcollege.htm
 The Gilder Lehman Institute of American History: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/
 Graphic Masters: http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/graphicmasters3/
 Graphic Organizer Index: http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
 History 102: Image Gallery Civil War to the Present:
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/photos/photos.html
 Inside the White House @ nationalgeographic.com:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/whitehouse/whhome.html
 Internet Public Library: POTUS (President of the United States):
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
 JFK Assassination Web Sites: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/sites.htm
 Law Focused Education: http://www.texaslre.org/
 Meet Amazing Americans: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa
 Mr. President: Profiles of Our Nation’s Leaders:
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/idealabs/mr_president.html
 National Park Service Ask a Historian: http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/askhist.htm
 The New York Times – Editorials and Opinion:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/editorial/
 Our Documents: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&
 Presidential Inaugural Addresses: http://www.historybuff.com/presidents/presidents.html
 Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
 Quiz Hub: http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
 Time Magazine: Time 100 – People of the Century: http://www.time.com/time/time100/
 US Historical Documents: http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
 Veterans History Project: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/
 The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov