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Teaching American History Program: List of Web Sites and Online Resources

Massachusetts Department of Education

Industry, Immigration and the Progressive Era
World War II, the Cold War and the Modern Era

 

Program Partners

Mount Wachusett Community College
Fitchburg Public Schools
Fitchburg State College History Graduate Program

 

Massachusetts Department of Education

Curriculum Frameworks
History curriculum    

General Historical Sites 

Best of History Websites
Common-place
Facing History Campus
Library of Congress
Library of Congress, American Memory
Library of Congress, America's Story
Mass Moments
Merlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School:  Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Colonial America, the Revolutionary War and the Early Republic

Albion's Seed Grows in the Cumberland Gap
Colonial Williamsburg's Electronic Field Trips
Early Canadiana Online
Fort Necessity National Battlefield Site
Fort Tidonderoga National Historic Landmark
French and Indian War 250
French and Indian War Primary Sources
George Washington in the Ohio Valley
Historic Deerfield and the Raid of 1704
Jamestown Rediscovery
Library of Virginia
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Native Culture Links
Ohio Historical Society
The Ohio Valley-Great Lakes Ethnohistory Archives: The Miami Collection
Pequot War
Plimouth Plantation
Project Gutenburg (Mary Jemison's memoir)
see also Epitaph from the tombstone of Mary Jemison
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project

Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction

American Civil War Homepage
Census Browser
Civil War-Era Documents
Civil War Index
Congressional Biographical Directory
Congressional Globe
Congressional Records
Crisis at Fort Sumter
Documenting the American South
Federick Douglas Papers
Jefferson Davis Documents
Lincoln/Net
Lincoln's Collected Works
Lincoln Online
Lincoln's Papers
Making of America (Cornell)
Making of America (University of Michigan)
Nineteenth Century Documents
Secession-Era Editorials
US Civil War Center
Valley of the Shadow
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

Westward Expansion and Life on the American Frontier

Department of the National Park Services - US Department of Interior
eThemes - collection of specific themes created for use in the classroom
GPS and Mapping Along the Trails
Kingwood College Library - 19th Century Cultural History
MOREnet - facilitates the creation of high-quality digital resources for Lewis and Clark materials
PBS - Lewis and Clark
The American West

Women in American History

Abolitionism 1830 - 1850
American Women's History: A Research Guide
American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture
A Midwife's Tale
Hotbed of 19th Century Reform Agitation
Women in World History
Women's History in America Presented by Women's Internatinal Center


Industry, Immigration and the Progressive Era

Lowell National Historical Park
Tsongas Industrial History Center

World War II, the Cold War and the Modern Era