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America's Story from America's Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/index.php
Meet Amazing Americans: Leaders and Statesmen, U.S. Presidents, Adventurers and Explorers, Musicians and Composers, Writers and Artists, Industrialist and Entrepreneurs, Scientists and Inventors, Athletes and Entertainers. |
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Chronicling America
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Search America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. |
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Constitution Day |
Constitution Facts
http://www.constitutionfacts.com
Start your investigation of the U.S. Constitution with an online quiz. Use the top menu to read the constitution, meet the signers, read landmark cases and more. |
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American History |
Museum of the Moving Image: The Living Room Candidate
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
Prsidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012 |
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The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/
Use the left menu to access many other resources |
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Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
An interactive U. S. history textbook including well-arranged links to primary sources, an "Ask a Historian" section, classroom handouts, audiovisual archives, and much, much more. |
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A Chronology of US Historical Documents
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
Documents from Pre-Colonial to present. |
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100 Milestone Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?page=milestone
A list of the 100 milestone documents compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration. The documents chronicle United States history from 1776-1965. Primary documents listed with transcripts and printable pages. |
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SchoolHistory
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/
A collection to on-line history lessons, PowerPoint presentations. |
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History and Politics Out Loud
http://www.hpol.org/
A searchable archive of contemporary American politically significant audio material. |
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The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/
The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you will find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. |
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New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/
The New Deal Network is an educational guide to the Great Depression of the 1930s. An extensive collection of primary source documents and classroom activities. |
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History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
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Abolitionism in America
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/abolitionism/
A comprehensive site on slavery in America. Included: |
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Library of Congress Collections
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/book/cntrbook.html
Alphabetical listings of primary source material with lesson suggestions. |
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The Authentic History Center
http://www.authentichistory.com/
The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them. A large audio archive of speeches and news broadcasts are also included. |
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American Leaders Speak
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/
Recordings from WWI and the 1920 election. |
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Top 100 Speeches of the Twentieth Century
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/newtop100speeches.htm
A complete index to and partial database of full text transcriptions of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address. |
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American Labor Studies Center
http://www.labor-studies.org/
A collection of excellent links on Labor in America. |
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Untold Stories of D-Day
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0206/feature1/index.html
Graphics, information, and links to D-Day history. |
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Camp Harmony Exhibit
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Exhibit/default.htm
This exhibit tells the story of Seattle's Japanese American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center known as "Camp Harmony." |
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Missin US: A Revolutionary Way to Learn History
http://www.mission-us.org/
Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8. The first game in a planned series, Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?” explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists and Patriots in 1770 Boston. This website provides information and materials to support the use of Mission 1 in your classroom. Download all the teacher materials as a DOC or PDF. Classroom guides are available for the components of the simulation. |
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Our Documents
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/
Milestone documents that chronicle United States history from 1776-1965, and teacher's guides. Documents will be added. Translations are provided when necessary. |
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Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/
Archive of Early America primary source material from the 18th century displayed digitally.
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