American History...

Excellent site. A Biography of America. Based on PBS series. Chronological. Includes interactive links to timelines, photos, paintings, maps of the era, drawings, and more. Annenberg/CPB.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu
for high school survey courses, netsites, primary sources, threaded discussions, interactive resources, syllabus, and more

LINKS:
http://www.sevastopol.k12.wi.us/socialstudies/apush.html
excellent links to readings and other resources, note primary source links

NEW   Primary source documents of American history. Includes lesson plans
chronologically arranged. excellent site. http://www.ourdocuments.gov/

NEW. Primary sources of Southern Culture. Includes slave narratives, artifacts, literature, education, religion, manuscripts and currency. For secondary students.  http://docsouth.unc.edu

Links to Black History

Projects...
     Interviews. What did you do in the war, Grandma? 
     http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

     Links to projects. covers the spectrum
     http://www.neh.gov/projects/online.html

     Sample award winning projects on the American Presidents.
     http://www.americanpresidents.org/classroom/apwinners.asp
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Westward Expansion sites...

http://www.lewisandclark.org/

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/alamo.htm

http://www.texhoma.net/~glencbr/p001.html

http://www.beatricene.com/homestead/world.html

http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/gunslingers/

http://www.buffalosoldier.net/

http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/ponyexp1.htm

http://www.indianwars.org/

http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/mormtrl.htm


Immigration sites...
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/

NEW  http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/
click on the immigrant experience
check the family histories

http://students.itec.sfsu.edu/EDT628/shovanes/index.HTM

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook28.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAimmigration.htm

http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/immigration/

CHRONOLOGICAL LINKS...

1600's. Maps, artifacts, photos, architecture, resources, and more. 
Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project.

1748-1799. Diaries of George Washington. Primary source. 
Smithsonian

1750-1789. Maps and charts of the American Revolutionary era. 
Smithsonian

1800-1865. Civil War sites in Virginia. 65 sites.
  Journey

Civil War to the Present. Amazing links
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/html/maintainers.html

1894-1915. Americans at work/leisure. films. 
Smithsonian

1936-1943.  Posters. From WPA. 
Smithsonian

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