| An
Overview of American History (flash movie)
Political Cartoons: America in Caricature, 1765-1865
Time
Machine - Journey back to the past in a 21st century
time machine
Foner
Chapter 1: A New World
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Timeline:
Events in history from 28,000 B.C.E. to 1500 A.D.
- NOVA:
Mystery of the First Americans - including "Meet
Kennewick Man," two academics' perspectives
on "Does
Race Exist?" and "The Dating Game"
- The Kennewick Controversies
- The
Mound Builders (National
Park Service site)
- Climate
Change and Violence in the Ancient American Southwest
- Digital
Stories About American History: The World Before
1492 (video)
- The
Conquistadores - including Cortes,
Pizarro,
Cabeza
de Vaca, and Orellana, as well as a Timeline of
Conquest
- Blood and Tribute - The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Empire
- Medieval
Sourcebook: Christopher Columbus: Extracts from His Journal (translated into English)
- History
of the Caravel
- Library
of Congress Exhibition: Exploring the Early Americas (text,
interactives and more)
- Laws
of the Indies: Spain and the Native Peoples of the New World
- The
Journey of Alvar Nuñez
Cabeza De Vaca (1542)
- “All Over the Land Nothing Else Was Spoken Of ”: Cabeza
de Vaca Takes Up Residence as a Medicine Man in the Southwest,
1530s
- The
Pueblo Revolt: An Account ( Letter of the governor
and captain-general, Don Antonio de Otermin, from New
Mexico)
- The Journey of Coronado
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- Native
Americans of the American West (vintage photographs)
- Junipero
Serra - established Spanish Catholic missions in Old
California
Foner Chapter 2: Beginnings of English America, 1607–1660
Foner Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660–1750
Foner Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle
for Empire, to 1763
Foner Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1763–1783
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Africans
in America: The Middle Passage, 1600-1800
- The
American Revolution (video)
- Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States
- Separating
Church and State
- John
Adams and the Boston Massacre Trials
- The Boston Massacre Trials of 1770
- "Common
Sense" by Thomas Paine
- Thomas
Paine, 1737-1809
- Hobbes,
Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government
- Library
of Congress Exhibition: Thomas Jefferson's Library (text, interactives, more)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: The Hemingses of Monticello: An
American Family (video)
- The
Declaration of Independence
- Library
of Congress Webcast: Publishing the Declaration (video)
- Declaration
of Independence and Natural Rights
- Library
of Congress Exhibition: Creating the United States (text, interactives, more)
- "Faces"
by David McCullough
- Betsy Ross Homepage
- The
Liberty Bell
- The
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
- Valley
Forge National Historic Park
- Benjamin Rush, 1745-1813
- Joseph Priestly, 1733-1804
- Text
of the Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Battle
Lines: Letters from America's Wars
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
Foner Chapter 6: The Revolution Within
Foner
Chapter 7: Founding a Nation, 1783–1789
Foner Chapter 8: Securing the Republic, 1790–1815
Foner Chapter 9: The Market Revolution, 1800–1840
Foner
Chapter 10: Democracy in America, 1815–1840
Foner
Chapter 11: The Peculiar Institution
Foner
Chapter 12: An Age of Reform, 1820–1840
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- William
Lloyd Garrison
- American
Colonization Society
- The
Shakers
- The
Persecution of the Mormons
- Digital
Stories About American History: The Alamo (video)
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Mormons (investigate, learn, watch
the film)
- The Transcendentalists in Action
- Indian
Removal: The Cherokees, Jackson, and the “Trail of Tears”
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: We Shall Remain: The Trail of Tears (investigate,
learn, watch the film)
- Kit
Carson - trapper, scout, Indian agent, soldier
and authentic legend of the West, text and photo
- Interactive
Historical Timeline
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
Foner
Chapter 13: A House Divided, 1840–1861
Foner
Chapter 14: A New Birth of Freedom: The Civil War, 1861–1865
- Today
in History (Library of Congress: American Memory
Project)
- Today
in History (History Channel - video)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: American Heroines (video)
- Presidential
Biography: Abraham Lincoln (from White House Web site)
- The
Dakota Conflict Trials of 1862
- The
Civil War (video series - History Channel)
- Library
of Congress Webcast: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through
His Private Letters (video)
- Black
Troops in Union Blue
- Slave
in Jefferson Davis' home gave Union key secrets
- Civil
War Diseases
- Library
of Congress Exhibition: With Malice Toward None:
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition (text, interactives,
more)
- Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address (text)
- Lincoln,
Douglas, and Their Historic Debates (photo
slideshow/essay)
- Wilberforce,
Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery
- Eric
Foner: “Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Rights of Black
Americans” (podcast - listen to Professor Foner argues that the idea
of sending African American slaves to colonize Africa (an
idea which Abraham Lincoln at times embraced) was part
of the larger idea of emancipation for American slaves,
but it did not allow its supporters to consider how freed
slaves might become part of American society. It was Lincoln’s
consideration of this very issue, Foner says, that distinguishes
him from other advocates of emancipation.)
- The
Homestead Act of 1862
- Timeline:
Events in History from 1860-1870
- The
Buffalo Harvest
- The
Emancipation Proclamation
- The
Lawrence, KS Massacre of 1863 by a Band of Missouri
Ruffians Under Quantrell
- Lincoln's
Second Inaugural Address
(text)
- Trial
of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators in 1865
- You're
the General (play the game - at the Battle of
Shiloh, would you have made the same decisions as Ulysses
S. Grant?)
- New
York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection
of The Times's endorsements for the presidency,
from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial
board's choice of Senator Barack Obama
- History
of the United States Supreme Court
- AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (investigate, learn, watch the film)
- General
Philip Henry Sheridan
- General
William Tecumseh Sherman
- General William T. Sherman's Special Field Order No.
15 (1865)
- Battle
of Lexington (MO) State Historic Site
- "I take up my pen":
Letters from the Civil War
Civil
War Battle Summaries (National Park Service, with links
to National Military Parks - click here for Missouri's
Civil War Battles)
1861
- First Battle of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861
- First
Battle of Bull Run (Manassus), 1861
1862
- Second
Battle of Bull Run (Manassus), Virginia, 1862
- Battle
of Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland, 1862
1863
- Quantrill's Raid/Lawrence Massacre, Kansas, 1863
- Battle
of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863
- Battle
of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863
1864
- Battle of Westport, Missouri, 1864
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