| Links to Selected Websites |
| General Resources: General History Websites |
| - Topic: Interactive Websites Aligned with BHH units |
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Kindergarten
When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood
Website -- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/young/young-exhibit.html
This is a Library of Congress website. K students may explore the photos of children long ago to compare with the photos from their own childhoods. During the Children Long Ago unit, students may also find objects in the long ago photos that we don’t see in our daily lives today.
2nd Grade
An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm
Students take a virtual tour of Ellis Island.
3rd Grade
Decide Eliza Paige’s Future!
http://www.uml.edu/tsongas/MGIRL/page_00/index.htm
On the University of Massachusetts Center for Lowell History website. On this interactive site, children follow and participate in the story of a young 19th century textile worker. At various times in her life, Eliza must make decisions about where to live, work, etc. The activity engages students in making the decisions for Eliza and then seeing the consequences of their choices. A good introduction to contingency in history.
4th Grade
Alice Paul’s Attic
http://njhistorypartnership.org/home_page.html
On this site built by the New Jersey History Partnership, students explore the virtual contents of a historic suffragist’s attic and seek to answer questions about her life and work from the available sources.
5th Grade
The Road to Revolution Game
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html
Twin Cities Public Television hosts this website. Our students may use this quiz-style interactive game as an engaging review and self-assessment.
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| - Topic: The Big Three |
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts.
Home page:
http://www.loc.gov/
Search Tutorials:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/gs_search.html
On this page, click the link to the collection you wish to explore.
The Smithsonian Institute
The Smithsonian Institute is the world's largest museum complex and research organization. Composed of 16 museums and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and 2 museums in New York City, the Smithsonian's exhibitions offer visitors a glimpse into its vast collection numbering over 142 million objects.
Online Smithsonian History and Culture Archives: http://www.si.edu/history_and_culture/
Links to the Smithsonian Museums:
http://www.si.edu/museums/
National Archives and Records Administration
NARA, an independent Federal agency, is the United States’ national record keeper. NARA seeks to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal officials, and the national experience.
Home Page:
http://www.archives.gov
Research Topics:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/getting_started/research_by_topic.html
Search Tutorial:
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/getting_started/getting_started.html
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| - Topic: Library of Congress |
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http://memory.loc.gov/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rbpehtml/pehome.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/index.html
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/primary.html |
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LOC Motion Picture and Reading Room
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic |
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Pictures of Famous Americans
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html |
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Speeches
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html |
| - Topic: General |
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Digital History: An excellent index of various online resources – maps, biographies, museums, primary sources, interactive timeline, etc.!
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reference_room.cfm |
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Teacher’s Oz
http://www.teacheroz.com |
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Public History Resource Center
http://www.publichistory.org/index.asp |
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American History Since Reconstruction
http://sage.tamu.edu/grades/US_History/additionalUShistory.htm |
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America's Story
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi |
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A History of Us - for Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/teachers/ |
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The Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/res.cgi/Subjects/Social_Studies/US_History |
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Online Exhibit
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ |
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The New Deal Network: Document Library
http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/default.cfm |
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Project Gutenberg: Full Text Historical Books online
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page |
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Northwestern University Library: World War II Poster collection
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/collections/wwii-posters/ |
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Rutgers Oral History Archive (focused on WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Cold War)
http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu// |
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Mark Kornbluh's American History since 1877 Online Readings
http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/readings.html |
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Columbus' First Letter (about the Americas)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/columbus/translation.html |
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The Internet History Sourcebooks
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ |
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The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm |
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American Women's History: Digital Collections
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-digcoll.html |
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Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/ |
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Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/ |
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New York Public LIbrary Digital Collections
http://www.nypl.org/digital/ |
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Drawing the Western Frontier
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/taylor/taylor.htm |
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Harper's Weekly on the Civil War
http://www.harpersweekly.com/ |
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Harper's Magazine Archive (1850-2007)
http://www.harpers.org/archive |
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The Making of America (Cornell University)
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ |
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American Studies at the University of Virginia
(great gateway site; also has hypertexts from American history)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/ |
| - Topic: Justice Learning |
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http://www.justicelearning.org/
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National Archives and Records Administration |
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http://www.archives.gov/index.html
http://www.archives.gov/education/history-in-the-raw.html
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/
http://archives.gov/education/presidential-libraries.html |
| - Topic: Milestone Documents |
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http://www.ourdocuments.gov/content.php?flash=true&page=milestone
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm
http://www.americasstory.com |
| - Topic: Photos |
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http://www.moderna.org/lookatme/
http://cvisions.cat.nyu.edu/search/create.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html
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| - Topic: Posters |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaposters/wpahome.html |
| - Topic: Maps |
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Sites for indexed links to maps on many world and U.S. history topics
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/maps/maps.cfm#topic
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/maplinks.htm
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/map/history.html |
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Map showing developing boundaries of U.S.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html |
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Clearinghouse of Historic U.S. Map sites
http://geography.about.com/msub12.htm |
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Maps -- University of Texas Library Online
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html#US |
| - Topic: Music |
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http://www.civilwarmusic.net
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/sm/index.html
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/sm2/index.html |
| - Topic: Oral History |
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History and Politics OUT LOUD (An archive of politically significant audio materials such as historic speeches.)
http://www.hpol.org/ |
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Voices of the 20th Century
http://www.eyewinesstohistory.com |
| - Topic: Museums |
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http://icom.museum/vlmp/
http://www.coudal.com/moom.php
http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/history/hist314/vmtedl/index.html
http://www.carnegielibrary.org
http://www.eduref.orghttp://www.thehenryford.org |
| - Topic: Statistics |
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http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/statistics.htm |
| - Topic: Political Cartoons |
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http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/pc_intro.html
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/political_cartoons.html |
| - Topic: Clipart |
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http://school.discovery.com/clipart/copyright.html |
| - Topic: Television Network Companion Sites |
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http://www.pbs.org/
http://www.historychannel.com |
| - Topic: History Lesson Plans |
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George Mason University ’s History News Network History Lesson Plan Finder
http://hnn.us/articles/875.html |
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History Teacher’s Mall Lesson Plan Collection, from Histor-e-search
http://www.historesearch.com/tlessons.html |
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Justice Learning – Powerful lessons for civic education
http://www.justicelearning.org/ |
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SCORE History Resources
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/ |
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Hispanic Heritage Activities
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-6629.html?s1 |
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Rubrics – from the Teach-nology site
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ |
| - Topic: National History Organizations |
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National Center for History in the Schools
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/ |
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Academic Info – U.S. History Gateway Clearinghouse
http://academicinfo.net/histus.html |
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National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.socialstudies.org/ |
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National Council for History Education
http://www.history.org/nche/ |
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Organization of American Historians
http://www.oah.org/ |
