Bringing History Home

Third Grade

Unit 2 | Select Websites

Topic: Timelines

• African American History Timelines
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin3.html
  http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/timeline.htm
• Reconstruction timeline
  http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog12/key_events/index.html
• Struggle for Equal Rights -- Timelines
  http://public.findlaw.com/civil-rights/civil-rights-basics/civil-rights-timeline.html

Topic: Maps

• The South – Click on this map for links to primary sources of events that occurred in the individual states.
  http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/geographic/usmap.html#South_Carolina
• Civil War – Important Battlegrounds
  http://www.ehistory.com/USCW/pic_data.cfm?id=403
• Mason Dixon Line (Scroll down for map)
  http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa041999.htm?once=true&

Topic: Background Resources

• Cultural Landscape of the Plantation
  http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/panel1.html
• The History of Jim Crow
  http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm
• Resource guide for the Library of Congress
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam001.html
• Oral History from the Federal Writer’s Project 1936-38
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
• The following topics all are available via keyword search in the American Memory section of the Library of Congress website:
• The African American experience in Ohio
  
• Oral history of the South, 1860-1920
• The African American pamphlet collection 1822-1909
• Music
• Jim Crow Virtual Museum
  http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/

Topic: Civil War

• Outline of the Civil War
  http://members.tripod.com/~greatamericanhistory/gr02007.htm
• Civil War Sources
  http://www.civil-war.net/
• The Civil War Explorer
  http://www.civilwar.org/
  

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