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General

• Select a Candidate Quiz
• The History of Dueling in America
• Digital History: Resource Guides by Period American history from the 16th century until today.
• America's Story from America's Library History of people, places, and cultures.
• FamousAmericans.net

Colonial Period

• The Conquistadors (1500-1542)
• Era of Religious Intolerance (1641-1674) Timeline
• Age of Exploration and Colonial Settlement (pre 1763)
• Colonial America: 1600-1775: K12 Resources History, people, maps, documents, daily life, and religion.
• Virtual Jamestown
• MayflowerHistory.com Information on the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and early Plymouth Colony (also contains teaching resources).
• Mayflower Compact
• Plymouth: Its History and People
• Salem Witchcraft Hysteria Interactively attempts to put you at an actual witch trial.
• Democracy in the Colonies  Contains information on New England Town Meetings and the House of Burgesses.
• The Early English Colonies Contains information on the three types of colonies; Self-Governing, Proprietary, & Royal.
• Zenger Trial (1733)
• The Colonial Ecomony: Mercantilism Highlights the Navigation Acts and Triangular Trade Routes.
• Events, People, & Laws That Led to the Declaration of Independence All the "Acts" are here.
• Royal Proclamation of October 7, 1763
• Boston Tea Party
• The Intolerable Acts
• The Quartering Act & the Stamp Act
• The Seven Years' War
• A Brief History of The French & Indian War Includes links to maps.

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Revolution and Discovery

• The American Revolution Timeline, teacher's guide, links.
• Battles of the American Revolution Use the menu on the left-scroll down to "American Revolutionary War".
• Loyalists and Patriots
• Treaty of Paris Ends the French and Indian War
• Treaty of Paris Primary Source Document
• The Story of Valley Forge    
• Liberty: Chronicle of the Revolution Newspaper articles from the time period report the events.
• Declaring Independence: Chronology of Events June 7, 1776 - January 18, 1777.
• Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
• The Articles of Confederation Explanation and primary source documents.
• George Washington
• The Bill of Rights: The National Archives Experience
• John Adams
• 18th Century in American History
• Digital History: Chronology of 18th Century American History  

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19th Century

• 19th Century America
• 19th Century America
• 19th Century Cultural History
• 19th Century American Cultural History
• 19th Century U.S. History Sites Online Chronology begins with 1776. Some links have expired.
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Summary of 19th Century Supreme Court Cases  Marbury v. Madison, McCullough v. Madison, Gibbons v. Ogden.
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward
• The Industrial Revolution
• Age of Imperialism
• Thomas Jefferson
• The Louisiana Purchase
• Discovering Lewis and Clark ...from the decade of the expedition, tracing their impact on intervening 200 years, and seeking meanings and lessons for the 21st century.
• The War of 1812 Articles, links, and photographs.
• The West A chronicle of western expansion.
• The Alamo
• The U.S. and Mexican War (1846-1848) A great site from pbs.org.
• CivilWar.com Timeline, battles, places, music, documents.
• Civil War Homepage Great source for archives of photos and original documents.
• The Battle of Little Bighorn
• The History Channel: Ellis Island
• Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War
• Digital History: Chronology of 19th Century American History
• 19th Century Women Artists
• U.S. History: 19th Century: People

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20th Century

• The Wright Brothers: The Invention of the Aerial Age
• World War I: Trenches on the Web Contains information on the people, places, and events of W.W.I.
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century Interviews, interactive timeline, maps.
• World War I Document Archive Primary source documents from America and Western Europe.
• Defining Documents of the United States: The Eighteenth Amendment Commentary and original language.
• The Great Depression and the New Deal
• Historical Text Archive: W.W.II Collection of primary source documents from W.W.II.
• World War II Links An extensive site offering memories of service men, oral history projects, tank battalions, propaganda, women in W.W.II, military, etc.
• Holocaust Chronicle Online, full-text version. Search by chapter or time period. This site covers all aspects of the Holocaust.
• Jewish-American History on the Web Focuses on the involvement of Jewish people in the major events of U.S. history.
• Nuclearfiles.org Choose a decade and view information on the major events of the Nuclear Age (many in-text links too).
• Conflict and Consequence: The Korean War and its Unsettled Legacy
• McCarthyism Scroll down for links to sites on events, communist spies and investigation.
• NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis Timeline and documents.
• Milestones in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
• National Civil Rights Museum: Virtual Tour of the Civil Rights Movement
• Battlefield Vietnam Explores individual battles and offers additional resources.
• Recalling the Vietnam War Explores the causes and consequences of decisions made by the key U.S. players in the war.
• Revisiting Watergate Commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Watergate Hotel Burglary and includes a full history.
• CNN Special on the Cold War Interactive maps, archival footage, information on key players, declassified documents.
• Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall The history of the Berlin Wall, from creation to destruction.
• Frontline: The Gulf War
• The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
• Ambush in Mogadishu: Chronology: The US/UN in Somalia
• History of the War in Kosovo
• History of the War in Bosnia
• The Clinton Years

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21st Century

• Election 2000
• September 11 News
• BBCNews: World Edition: After Saddam...
• War on Terrorism Resource Guides Provides selected links on various aspects of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent war on terrorism: Osama Bin Laden and al-Qa'ida, Afghanistan and the Taliban, Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Post-Saddam Iraq.
• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath Excellent collection of primary source documents pertaining to all aspects of modern terrorism.
• NPR: The 2004 Election
• NPR: Tsunami Information

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