- History Quest
Features a number of unusual and little known facts from American history.
historyq.freeservers.com
- PBS: Freedom: A History of U.S.
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Learn why men, women, and children have lived for, sacrificed for, and died for freedom.
www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus
- U.S. History for Students
Includes tests, links, maps, projects, student work, analysis and course outlines for researching the United States with 8th graders.
www.americanhistory.nu
- Shmoop: U.S. History Study Guides and Teachers' Guides
Study guide and teachers' guide for U.S. history. Helpful study tools for students and teachers of high school, AP, or college level history courses. Fun-to-read, deep analyses written by Stanford and Berkeley Ph.D. and Masters students.
www.shmoop.com/history
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Permanent exhibition of the rarest, most interesting, or significant items relating to the history of the United States.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures
- United States Historical Census Data Browser
Online database of census data that describes the people and the economy of the U.S. for each state and county from 1790 to 1970.
icg.fas.harvard.edu/~census
- US State Department - Office of the Historian
Publishes the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy and provides historical research and advice for the Department of State.
www.state.gov/r/pa/ho
- Historical Thinking Matters
Focuses on key topics in U.S. history in order to teach students how to read primary sources critically and how to critique and construct historical narratives.
www.historicalthinkingmatters.org
- Outline of American History
Covers Native American cultures and the first European settlements to the Cold War and America in the 1990s.
usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/histryotln/index.htm
- 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America@
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/10_Days_That_Unexpectedly_Changed_America
- American Treasures
Online exhibition of the rarest, most interesting or significant items relating to America's past, drawn from every corner of the world's largest library.
lcweb.loc.gov/treasures
- Our Country, Volume I
Chronicles American history from the Viking explorations in the 10th century through the French and Indian wars.
www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_Vol_1
- History Response Papers: In Search of Summa Diplomatica
Essay on U.S. foreign diplomacy, written by Garrett Moritz.
www.gtexts.com/college/papers/s8.html
- Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia
Provides sketches of selected British and U.S. people, topics, and events from medieval times to the 1960s.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
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