History Links

Colonial Period

K-12 Resources for Studying Colonial America

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

The American Colonists Library

http://home.wi.rr.com/rickgardiner/primarysources.htm

The Writitngs of Samuel Adams

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2092

Papers of Thomas Jefferson

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjquery.html

Selected works of James Madison

www.constitution.org

Excellent Revolutionary War Site

www.americanrevolution.org

Shaker Crafts

http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iadshake/iadshake-main1.html

Colonial Occupations

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/occupation.html

Jefferson’s Monticello

http://www.monticello.org/

Stratford Hall

http://www.stratfordhall.org/index.html?EDUCATION

Gilder Lehrman

www.gilderlehrman.org

Mapping Colonial America

http://www.history.org/History/museums/online_exhibits.cfm

Civil War

Civil War Map Collection from the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/

Civil War Audio Clips from the Library of Congress

Civil War Photographs Homepage

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

Civil War Artillery website

http://www.civilwarartillery.com/

National Park Service

www.nps.gov

Virtual Gettysburg

http://www.virtualgettysburg.com/

Civil War Preservation Trust

http://www.civilwar.org/

Shotgun’s View of the American Civil War

http://www.civilwarhome.com/

National Civil War Museum

http://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

http://www.civilwarmed.org/

Industrialization

Henry Ford Museum

http://www.thehenryford.org/museum/dymaxion/default.asp

Lowell National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/lowe/

Edison National Historic Site

http://www.nps.gov/edis/

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site

Canada

http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/grahambell/index_e.asp

Jacksonian Era/Westward Expansion/Monroe Doctrine/ Plains Indians

Jacksonian Era

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/jacksonian/index.cfm

National Cherokee Indian Museum and Cultural Center

http://www.cherokeemuseum.org/

The Hermitage

http://www.thehermitage.com/

Oregon Trail:

http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/histhome.html

Gold Rush:

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

American Experience Gold Rush

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/

California Museums and the Gold Rush

http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/

Gold Rush Anniversary

http://www.calgoldrush.com/

Chilkoot Trail Historic Site

http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/yt/chilkoot/index_e.asp

Sand Creek Massacre

www.nps.gov/sandcreek/

Battle of Little Big Horn

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm

Battle of Little Bighorn

http://www.nps.gov/libi/

American Experience Battle of Little Bighorn

www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/six/bighorn.htm

The Alamo

http://www.thealamo.org/

Fort Laramie National Park

www.nps.gov

Bent’s Fort

www.nps.gov

Lewis and Clark for Educators

http://www.lewisandclarkexhibit.org/4_0_0/page_4_2_0_0.html

The Presidency and the White House

The American Presidency

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

The Presidency

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

American Presidents: Life Portraits

http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Center for the Study of the Presidency:

http://www.thepresidency.org/

Miller Center for Public Affairs

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/

White House Website

www.whitehouse.gov

The White House Historical Association

www.whha.org

The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum

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

FDR Library

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

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/

Truman Library

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/

Kennedy Library

http://www.jfklibrary.org/

Reagan Library

http://www.reaganlibrary.com/

Ford Library

http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/

Eisenhower Library

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/

Nixon Library

http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/index.php

Johnson Library

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/

Hoover Library

http://hoover.archives.gov/

Clinton Library

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/

George Bush Library

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

Other Resources:

Library of Congress

www.loc.gov

National Archives

www.archives.gov

Audio Letters from Wars—putting Primary Sources and text together

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/collection/battlelines/index_good.html

Free videos on a variety of subjects

www.izzit.org

Timeline resources

www.timepage.org

Historic Map Sites: ( National Park Service Etc)

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historic_parks.html

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Adventure of the American Mind Project

http://aamcolorado.mscd.edu/about.htm

Colorado Digitization Project

http://www.cdpheritage.org/

Denver Public Library

http://denverlibrary.org/whg/index.html

White House Historical Society

www.whha.org

Gilder Lehrman Institute

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

http://www.lincolnlibraryandmuseum.com/index.htm

National Gallery of Art

http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/

National Holocaust Museum

www.ushmm.org/

Corcoran Museum of Art

http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/press_results.asp?Exhib_ID=186

National Portrait Gallery

http://www.npg.si.edu/

Smithsonian Institution

www.si.edu

Ohio History Teacher Project

http://www.ohiohistoryteachers.org/02/04/index.shtml

National Holocaust Documents

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/document/document.htm

Our Documents

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

South Dakota State Archives of Primary Sources

http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/ps/primarysources.htm

Student Activities and Articles

Do Photographs Ever Lie?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwpcam/cwcam1.html

What Are Primary Sources

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/discover/primary.html

Teaching with Primary Sources

http://www.primarysourcelearning.org/