HISTORY LINKS
AMERICAN HISTORY
CONTENTS:
GENERAL SITES
DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD
PILGRIMS/COLONIAL LIFE
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
WESTWARD EXPANSION/PIONEER LIFE
THE CIVIL WAR



GENERAL SITES
• The History Place: http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
• History: http://members.wbs.net/homepages/r/o/s/roserockhsg/link_history.html
• Awesome Library K-12 History Lesson Plans: http://www.awesomelibrary.org/history.html
• Welcome to Great American History: http://members.tripod.com/~greatamericanhistory/index.html
• History on the Internet- Historical Era Index: http://www.classicalhomeschooling.org/history/eraindex.html
• An Outline of American History: http://www.usis.usemb.se/usis/history/
• The History Corner: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~gorman/bmhist.html
• Biography Collection- Eras: http://members.home.net/klanxner/lives/Collect_era.html
• Blupete's History Page: http://www.blupete.com/History.htm
• Helping Your Child Learn History: http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/history.html
• Mr. Donn's U.S. History Lesson Plans: http://members.aol.com/MrDonnHistory/American.html
• Investigating Primary Documents: http://www.infinet.com/~baugust/primary.htm
• Historical Picture Collections: http://ac.acusd.edu/History/documents/clipsources.html
• 21st Century Schoolhouse: http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~morris/lp_index.html
• Crossroads - A K-16 American History Curriculum: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/
• Hannible's History/Social Studies Lesson Plans: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~history/lessons/hannibal/lessons.html
• History/Social Studies LWeb Site for K-12 Teachers: http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
• Liana's paper Doll Boutique - Historical: http://www.dreamhaven.net/~liana/paperdolls/historical.html

DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD
• Where Conquistadors Went in North America: http://www.FloridaHistory.com/inset3.html
• United States Expeditions: http://www.globalearn.org/expeditions/use/index.html
• Christopher Columbus (Kindergarten Lesson Plan): 
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/kcolmbs.htm
• Europe & America Meet 1492-1673(Middle School): 
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/Unit_2/Unit_II.html
•Spanish Conquest of Native America: http://www.webcom.com/sheppard/
• Columbus Unit (3rd Grade): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9673/columbus.htm

PILGRIMS/COLONIAL LIFE
• The Old Time's Page: http://www.lis.ab.ca/walton/old/
• The Mayflower Web Pages: http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html
• Archiving Early America: http://209.54.40.178/index.html
• Colonial America:  http://russell.gresham.k12.or.us/colonialamerica.html
• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project: http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jfd3a/
• The American Colonist's Library: http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jfd3a/
• Colonial hall: Biographies of the Founding Fathers:  http://www.colonialhall.com/index.asp
• The Early America Review:  http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/index.html
• The Founding Fathers: Delegates t the Constitutional Convention:
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/confath.html

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
• Spy Letters of the American Revolution: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/
• Betsy Ross Home Page: http://www.historyplace.com/index.html
• The Flag of the United States of America: http://www.usflag.org/
• Revolutionary War Home Page: http://205.161.11.2/student/revwar/revwar.html
• Revolutionary War: http://www.dos.state.pa.us/election/kidspg/war.htm
• Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS): http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
• A Journey Towards Freedom: http://library.advanced.org/tq-admin/day.cgi
• The World of Benjamin Franklin: http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
• Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson: http://www.monticello.org/index.html

WESTWARD EXPANSION & PIONEER LIFE
• Education First: Donner Online: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/
• Gold Rush Curriculum: http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/curriculum/curr-less.html#5th
• Westward Ho!: http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webquests/oregon/oregon.htm
• The Journals of Narcissa Whitman: 
http://www3.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs620/whitman0.htm
• SCORE: Westward Expansion: 
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/DB_Search/db_search.cgi?setup_file=resource5_db.
setup.cgi&include=true&grade5=5_8a&submit_search=Submit+These+Search+Parameters
• California Gold Rush: http://edtech.sdcs.k12.ca.us/teach/hotlist/cagoldrush.html
• "California as I Saw It": http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
• Ghost Towns: http://www.ghosttowns.com/bottom.html
• Cowboy Hall of Fame: http://www.cowboyhalloffame.org/
• Welcome to the Calgary Stampede: http://www.calgary-stampede.ab.ca/new99/index.htm
• In Search of the Oregon Trail: http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/teacher/
• Pony Express History: http://www.ccnet.com/~xptom/facts.html#RTL
• Mountain Men Page: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Mtmen/home.html
• Pioneers, Frontiermen, Fur Traders: http://www.americanwest.com/pages/fwpnfron.htm
• Take the Lewis & Clark Trail: 
http://www.usaweekend.com/97_issues/971102/lewis_and_clark/971102trail_intro.html
• PBS Online - Lewis and Clark: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

THE CIVIL WAR
(Due to my extensive list of sites on this subject as well as Abraham Lincoln, the Underground Railroad & materials pertaining to this segment in time, I am liking this topic to it's own site)


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