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Abraham Lincoln Online -- Your Source for Lincoln News

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I am not a professional historian or writer. I taught American history for 28 years and was particularly interested in Abraham Lincoln's assassination. For 24 years my students did a mock trial simulating the real one that followed the assassination in 18

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Teacher educators Leni Donlan and Kathleen Ferenz have taken a new twist on the WebQuest model in this Activity. Like all good WebQuests, "American Dreams" challenges students to tackle a complex topic, access rich resources , and work together to synthes

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Explore artifacts from our museum and historic manuscripts from our library that reveal the history of New England."

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Teacher educators Leni Donlan and Kathleen Ferenz have taken a new twist on the WebQuest model in this Activity. Like all good WebQuests, "American Dreams" challenges students to tackle a complex topic, access rich resources , and work together to synthes

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American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and

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Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.

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A guide to some of the "treasures" in the Library of Congress. Check out Thomas Jefferson's handwritten draft of the Declaration of Independence. Also included are Maya Lin's original drawing for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the earliest known baseball

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American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, disse

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An easy to use and entertaining site that uses the vast American historical collections of the Library of Congress. Topics include Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, Join America at Play. Interactive elements include Scavenger

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This website provides an interactive map, summaries, biographies, and primary documents about major conflicts.

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The battle opened at dawn on the 17th when Union General Joseph Hooker's artillery began a murderous fire on Jackson's men in the Miller cornfield north of town. "In the time I am writing," Hooker reported, "every stalk of corn in the northern and greater

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America has never forgotten Benjamin Franklin because he did both. He lived these words of wisdom by writing as much as he possibly could and by doing even more. He became famous for being a scientist, an inventor, a statesman, a printer, a philosopher, a

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The exhibit features many examples drawn for the California History Section's extensive manuscript collections. Scores of Gold Rush manuscript collections holding thousands of letters were examined. Included are such treasures as Marshall's own map showin

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Campfire Stories uses art, artifacts, and primary source texts to bridge American history, geography, art appreciation, environmental conservation, and multicultural studies. The site and its lesson plans were developed in consultation with a panel of tea

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Think colonial life was all about pious Pilgrims, powdered wigs and freedom for all? Think again! Two dozen modern-day time travelers find out the hard way what early American colonial life was really like when they take up residence in COLONIAL HOUSE, p

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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia-the restored 18th-century capital of Britain's largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World. Here we interpret t

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The plight of the Donner Party remains one of the most poignant episodes in the history of westward expansion during the 19th Century. "Donner Online" is a type of Web-based activity in which you learn about a topic by collecting information, images, and

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A wealth of newspapers, documents, maps and images is available from this site, which focuses on the late 18th to early 19th Centuries in the United States. Younger students will enjoy the movies, which use artwork and documents of the time to tell the st

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More than 22 million passengers and members of ships' crews entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Information about each person was written down in ships' passenger lists, known as "manifests." Mani

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This site was produced by Karen Martin, MA in Education and member of the Muscogee Nation. Many people have offered ideas and feedback including Ms. Casey, a 3rd grade Teacher at Cabello Elementary School, Stephanie Fryberg, a Phd. student in sociology.

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The immigration activities are designed to help students understand, interpret and appreciate the story of immigration to America, to Iowa and to Waterloo. Students will interpret artifacts such as biographical information, photographs, letters, maps, and

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"Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history."

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Invasion of Iraq takes viewers behind the scenes of the allied invasion on Baghdad. Through interviews with key commanders and soldiers -- U.S., British, and Iraqi -- as well as Iraqi civilians, the documentary offers a rare battlefield perspective on the

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In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of Jame

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Visit the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and their Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project!

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People first arrived in the Americas at least 12,000 years ago. The timing of their arrival and the route by which they travelled are not known. Did they follow an inland ice-free corridor route from Siberia to the unglaciated regions south of the ice she

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The Local Legacies project was initiated by members of Congress and individuals across the nation to commemorate the Library of Congress Bicentennial and to celebrate America's richly diverse culture. For more than a year, Local Legacies teams documented

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MayflowerHistory.com is the Internet's most complete and accurate web site dealing with the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony. This web site was originally created back in 1994 as the "Mayflower Web Pages", and later moved to its own dom

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We've been learning all about the Wright Brothers. We did lots of reading, researching, and experimenting. Wilbur and Orville Wright were two very special inventors. We learned that they were the first people to fly an engine powered plane. We learned tha

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Explore the house, gardens, and plantation of Monticello, the mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence

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A true webquest designed for US history classes in middle school. Students work in groups of four to research the challenges faced by immigrants to America in the early 1900's. They then analyze their research and use the information to create a PowerPoin

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Historical Society and made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Discover Chicago and connect the city's past to life today. My Chicago is designed for children ages 6-12, and uses the symbols and design of the Chic

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Our Web site offers online exhibitions, behind-the-scenes glimpses into our collections, and an overview of Museum programs and activities. Using the Web site, you can plan your visit to the Museum or go on a virtual tour from your home.

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Discover how the historical landmarks of our area weave a tapestry of gold rush history. Learn about the Native Americans who lived in Nevada County for thousands of years. Join early prospectors as they discovered gold along the streams and rivers in Nev

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Our staff of talented historians are always hard at work learning, growing and expanding the body of research in their fields of expertise. We invite you to browse through the articles they have written on a broad range of topics. More research is being d

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Welcome! In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presiden

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The Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861 - 1865, collection contains 1,100 Civil War encampments, battlefields, and portraits as captured by Mathew Brady and other photographers."

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An important part of the Memorial Fund's mission is to educate both young and old about the lasting impact of the Vietnam War. Through a variety of educational initiatives, the Memorial Fund has been able to provide educators with the necessary tools and

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The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The page opens a gateway to the Internet's multi-formatted resources about what is argua

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The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The page opens a gateway to the Internet's multi-formatted resources about what is argua

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The Civil War is produced by the National Portrait Gallery and is dedicated to examining the Civil War through the Smithsonian Institution's extensive and manifold collections. Since the war itself, 1861-1865, the institution has been actively collecting,

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They spent two months at sea to reach a strange new world, and barely survived once they got there. Learn how the Pilgrims reached America and lived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving.

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Discover how the historical landmarks of our area weave a tapestry of gold rush history. Learn about the Native Americans who lived in Nevada County for thousands of years. Join early prospectors as they discovered gold along the streams and rivers in Nev

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The immigration activities are designed to help students understand, interpret and appreciate the story of immigration to America, to Iowa and to Waterloo. Students will interpret artifacts such as biographical information, photographs, letters, maps, and

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Informative website focussing on American history from the Colonial period to present-day. Many on-line exhibits include timelines, photographs and famous

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This web site is brought to you by teachers Mike Trinklein and Steve Boettcher, creators of The Oregon Trail, the award-winning documentary film which aired nationally on PBS. During the three years we spent researching the film, we found lots of great ma

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The Port Chicago Disaster: A Resource for Students and Teachers - A history of the events of 1944, when a major explosion rocked the naval base at Port Chicago, CA. The working conditions, explosion, mutiny, court martial, and pardon of African-Ame

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Just theory in the late 1930's and not funded until the end of 1941, a collection of American and expatriate scientists race to build the first atomic bomb. In four short years it is developed and causes an end to World War II. This web site looks at

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The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is the home of an American treasure-the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired our national anthem. In 1998 we launched a significant effort to preserve this icon, which has been endangered by ti

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Back for its fifteenth year, this simulated journey allows classes to travel the trail as part of the Westward HO! Wagon Train. In classrooms across the country, collaborative families, based on real families from America's past, make daily decisions (tra

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With our commitment to history education, Colonial Williamsburg helps the future learn from the past. Inspire your students with our award-winning teacher resources or plan a school visit to help your students understand the beginnings of America.

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Located at the Behring Center, an eighteenth century house from Ipswich, MA gives a glimpse of American history through the stories of five families who

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As you work through this guide, you and your students will use the skills of historians to peel away the layers of myth and misconception surrounding "The First Thanksgiving" and discover what might really have happened during the fall of 1621. Along the

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Historians study the everyday lives of people who lived in the past by looking at clues: the objects and documents that people left behind and that have somehow survived. Someday future historians interested in the history of the late 20th century may stu