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Includes key events, maps, video transcripts, and related links for each era in American history.
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Student-created site offers a graphical overview of each decade in the 20th century.
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Learn about American history through these songs. Provided in mp3 file format and lyrics.
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Contains detailed review guides for preparing for the Advanced Placement United States History Exam. Arranged by decades, and available in PDF and HTML formats.
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Stories and facts celebrate the library's 200th anniversary.
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Presented by the Library of Congress, a site with information about American people and historical events, and each of its states.
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Provides information on the history and development of the American West.
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Historical look at Native Americans for kids, ages 6-10. Emphasizes Indian family and community life.
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Consists of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. These historical collections are the key contribution of the Library of Congress to the National Digital Library.
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Middle school topics in American history with rhyming couplets on the front and questions on the back.
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Captures several milestones, personalities, and influences that helped civil rights in America.
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Pictures of students dressed as famous colonists, a timeline of events, activities and quizzes. Provided by Mountain City Elementary School, Tennessee.
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This celebration of life in the 1700s tells all about life in Colonial America. Includes interviews, games, video excerpts, photographs, and other activities.
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Experience Colonial Life by exploring the trades, politics, and other aspects of 18th-century living. Browse the Colonial Dateline highlighting events from 1750-1783.
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View photos, videos, and documents about the history of the different ethnic groups and cultures that have lived in the Northwest.
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Uses video clips to report the history of the United States from 1900 to 2005.
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Explores the history of the people who lived in Wisconsin and the Mississippi River Valley before the European settlers arrived.
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Explore the shores, build your plantation, and meet the people of early Maryland in this highly interactive website by Maryland Public Television. With activities and lesson plans for Maryland teachers, colonial Maryland comes alive.
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Provides witness accounts of historic events in America.
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Excerpts from interviews with about a dozen men and women who weathered the Great Depression and the difficult years of the 1930s.
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A PBS series with sixteen "webisodes" about freedom in the United States, and dangers to freedom in the nation's history.
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From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards. A project about American History containing outlines of American History and Culture, source materials, essays, biographies and presidential information.
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This site preserves and supplements four major exhibitions celebrating the gold rush sesquicentennial, at the Oakland Museum of California.
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Great political speeches from 1645 to the present day. For students of speech and American History.
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Provides an overview of American History from colonial times through the Reagan years. Some chapters include interactive quizzes.
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Interactive electronic field trip to re-live Lewis and Clark's journey across the American West. Explore, watch, listen, and keep a journal.
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Provides help with American history projects. Includes games, costume help, library, crafts, and links.
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Features virtual exhibit of a private collection of memorabilia, relics and souvenirs, gathered over a 20 year period. Includes gift shop.
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A theatrical middle-school social studies teacher models her over a dozen costumes relating to various periods of American history. Includes colonial garb, multicultural, and military dress.
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PBS special and online exhibit that chronicles the planning, design, and implementation of this national monument.
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Click on different exhibits to find related bits and pieces of historical trivia.
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Resource for teachers, students and adults interested in the state's history, geography, culture and people. Features lesson plans, video, and primary source historical documents.
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Companion site to Ken Burns' program about the American West featuring an interactive timeline, maps, and archived primary source materials.
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The museum re-creates the daily work activities and community celebrations of a rural 19th-century town in authentic living history fashion.
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Features lyrics of patriotic songs, the Pledge of Allegiance, and other important documents.
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Includes previews of history records, thoughts, and events.
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Information about pioneers, wagon trains, and life on the trail in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Study sheet about puritans and how they are related to the early colonial times in America.
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Take fun history tests from 1600-1900's. Also includes recipes by the century.
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Describes a shipwreck, and survival of crewmen and on-board Africans bound for slavery in 1841 near the Bahamas includes past history, cultural influences, and mysteries about the incident.
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Traces slavery in America from its earliest origins to post-Emancipation. Includes links to primary sources and personal slave accounts.
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Interactive site designed to help middle school students understand the condition of African slaves in New England.
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Offers an overview of the struggles for religious freedom, women's rights, and desegregation. From PBS.
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Explores the push and pull factors of immigration. Includes a virtual tour of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Also explains how immigration today differs from that of years gone by.
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Companion to the PBS history series; includes features on a range of people and events in American history, from Hawaii's last queen to Joe DiMaggio.
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Notes based on the US History text book, "The American Pageant."
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Imagine being a part of the old west in South Dakota. Click on the Native American, military man, and prospector to see what their concerns were. Includes photos from that time period.
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Virtual history lesson where visitors can make the decisions needed to found the colony.
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This web site is based on the award-winning documentary film from PBS. Read about the history of the trail and see the historic sites located along the trail.
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History of the state's Indian tribes, early settlers, and more recent immigrants. With a county map.
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Significant dates in the French, British, and American era's of the fur trade.
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Leads kids on a virtual tour of historical places throughout Ohio. From the Ohio Historical Society.
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Highlights major events in United States history.
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Each day, an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.
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Travel from 1492 to the end of the Revolutionary War. Includes pictures.
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Student-created timeline places 30 major events in historical context. Also includes essays and short profiles of Thomas Edison and Norman Rockwell.
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A virtual tour to historic places.
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A look at the history of the United States from a British perspective.
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Discover the roots of slavery, follow the life of a slave and witness a slave auction through the eyes of characters including a slave, auctioneer, buyer and seller.
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Learn about Native American tribes, who lived in the Missouri river in the area that is now known as North and South Dakota. Features photos of original dig sites, people, and the earth lodge. Page also offers walk through tours [Requires Shockwave Plugin].
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American history for kids. From PBS.
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An illustrated site that tells the dramatic story of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex.
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Learn about the controversy surrounding the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, 1942. From PBS.
