
American History
American History Web Sites
Colonies
PMS Library Website – Ed1stop includes Grolier Online (America the Beautiful), World Books Online and Discovery Streaming.
http://www.piedmont.k12.ca.us/pms/Library.html
ABC-CLIO American History
http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Colonial America 1600-1775 K12 Resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies
http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial North America
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook07.html
Class Wikis
http://13coloniesa.wikispaces.com
http://13coloniesb.wikispaces.com
http://13coloniesc.wikispaces.com
http://13coloniesd.wikispaces.com
http://13coloniese.wikispaces.com
http://13coloniesf.wikispaces.com
http://13coloniesg.wikispaces.com
General
ABC-CLIO American History – http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com/
Think Tank http://thinktank.4teachers.org/
History/Social Science Score (Select grade level 8; units 5c and 6) http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/SCORE/
Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
Influenza 1918 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/influenza/
The Great Pandemic of 1918: State by State� http://www.pandemicflu.gov/general/greatpandemic.html
All American Girls Professional Baseball League http://www.aagpbl.org/
History Works http://www.historyworksohio.org/index.cfm (Includes primary sources and images around six core themes.� Click on “core themes” to see a variety of information on topics in American history.� Click on “resources” to go directly to primary source documents and images.)
Putting American History Online Pathfinders http://www.cusd.com/calonline/tah/default3.htm (Click on Pathfinders.)
Child Labor in America http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/labor/plan.html
Document Library http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/ (a list of letters, speeches, documents, web sites, books, and articles on significant people and events in American political thought and history)
Orphan Trains http://www.kidskonnect.com/OrphanTrains/OrphanTrainsHome.html
Museum of the City of San Francisco (Includes Chinese Americans, Gold Rush, Earthquake and Fire of 1906, Earthquake of 1989, Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and more) http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index0.html
San Francisco Exploratorium Faultline:Â The Great Shake:Â San Francisco 1906 http://www.exploratorium.edu/faultline/great/1906/1906_2.html
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/
Ancestors in the Americas (Asian Americans) http://www.cetel.org/
Children of the Camps (Japanese American Internment)
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history
The History Place: Child Labor 1908-1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/
Women in Military Service http://www.womensmemorial.org
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
Chinatown Resource Guide http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinatown/resourceguide/index.html
442nd Regimental Combat Team http://www.goforbroke.org/ (Japanese American soldiers in WWII)
The Triangle Factory Fire http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
20th Century History by the Decades (from Chico High School) http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decsg.html
Primary Sources
Smithsonian American Art Museum http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/
www.ourdocuments.gov Includes 100 milestone documents of American history.
The Civil Rights Documentation Project (African Americans) http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/index.htm (especially good information about the laws that were passed)
Family Economics in 1900 (Chicago Public Library) http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/1900/fam.html
Updated 09/22/08