US HISTORY

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Map Collections, 1639-today is a search engine for locating thousands of maps & photographs in the online collections at the Library of Congress.

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/
The Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Web site contains hundreds of activities, lesson plans, and Internet links that support the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies textbooks used by many California teachers.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es
Each State is introduced with a single paragraph overview.

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm
European Explorers organized by country for which they explored.

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_exploration.php
Exploration and Explorers

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
"The Oregon Trail" web site--the award-winning story of the great western journey.

http://www.history.org/
Tour Williamsburg by visiting the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation site. Includes lesson plans and historical information to increase student understanding of life in Colonial times.

http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/index.html
Gold Rush at the Oakland museum of California.

http://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html
The history of the original 13 colonies

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/American_colonies
Definition of the thirteen colonies

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
Links on the Colonial Period - 1600-1775

http://www.people.memphis.edu/~kenichls/13Colonies.htm
Helpful handout summarizing the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies by the English.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13colonies1.htm
The 13 American Colonies

http://members.aol.com/calebj/clothing.html
The Pilgrim Clothing

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/
'The Time of the Lincolns' paints a vivid picture of life in America in the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the most volatile issues of the period: slavery, states' rights, women's rights, and the growing prominence of the industrial economy.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/
Women in the military, aviation, World War II, U.S. military history.

http://www.coldwar.org/
Cold War Museum

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
The Vietnam war.

http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory. Commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, this virtual exhibit includes hundreds of images.

http://www.colonialhall.com/index.php
Read the biographies of some of America's founders.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html
The first is a site devoted to Abraham Lincoln. It includes a Lincoln trivia quiz. And you can look up Lincoln's letters, writings and speeches.

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
Lincoln/Net presents historical materials from Abraham Lincoln's Illinois years (1815-1861), including Lincoln's writings and speeches, as well as other materials illuminating Illinois life during Lincoln's time.

http://www.americanpresidents.org/
C-SPAN examines AmericanPresidents and their "Life Portraits." Use this website to learn more about the personal stories of these 41 men.

http://sunsite.unc.edu/lia/president/pressites/PresidentS-res.html
This site has biographies on all the presidents of the U.S. from Washington to Clinton.

http://www.mountvernon.org/
Georges Washington - Mount Vermon

http://www.thekingcenter.org/
Martin Luther King Junior Center

http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html
Amelia Earhart web-page.

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
A Web site from the University of California (UC), Calisphere offers educators, students and the public free access to more than 150,000 images, documents and other primary source materials from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage organizations across California. Primary sources at Calisphere include photographs, documents, newspapers, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising and other cultural artifacts, which reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. The materials are organized into historical eras, from the Gold Rush to the 1970s.

http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/index.html
Picture This: California’s Perspectives on American History is an educational resource that features primary source images from the Oakland Museum of California’s collections that reflect the rich cultural diversity of California.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
California Heritage Digital Image Access Project- an archive of photographs from the Bancroft Library collection illustrating California history.