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US History: Newspaper Project

 

The American Flag

General Sources

 

Series of History Links from Indiana University aimed at high school students

 

Library of Congress American Memory: Browse the collections by subject area; includes advertising, architecture, culture, immigration, war, and more. Check out Coca-Cola’s “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke” ad from 1971

 

History Channel’s This Day in History

 

American History Sites from the Multnomah County Library. Broken down by subject

 

Best History Sites: Provides links to the top 5 U.S. History Sites. You’ll see links for topics and time periods on the left

 

Political & Editorial Cartoons In U.S. History: Lots of good cartoons through the centuries

 

Images of American Political History: Browse by era or by topic

 

Popular Songs in American History: Organized by century

 

Primary Sources Documents in American History. Browse by era

 

 

The American Flag

To 1800s

 

From the Discovery through the 1790s: Lots of links

 

The Columbus Navigation Homepage 

 

A Brief History of Jamestown

 

The Revolutionary War- History Place. Also: Read Longfellow's famous poem, Paul Revere's Ride

 

 

The American Flag

1800 to 1900

 

1800 through 1860

 

Discovering Lewis and Clark   

 

Civil War Sites: Lots of links

 

Civil War Women: Primary sources and photographs

 

Some Abraham Lincoln sites worth checking out: Abraham Lincoln (time lines and photos); Lincoln's Home (a picture tour); the Gettysburg Address (includes the only known photograph of Lincoln at Gettysburg!)

 

Oregon Trail

 

Learn about The Donner Party from the PBS Special

 

Read stories from the Klondike Gold Rush era

 

1860 through the 1890s

 

Bridging the 19th and 20th Centuries: Immigration, Inventions and Child Labor On the Web.

 

Ellis Island

 

 

The American Flag

1900 to Present

 

20th Century History By the Decades

 

First World War: U.S. declares war on Germany

 

Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945 

 

America from the Great Depression to World War II (Photographs)

 

Life Interrupted: The Japanese-American Experience in WW II in Arkansas  

 

Remembering Pearl Harbor (from National Geographic)

 

The Cold War (from the British National Archives)

 

Korean War: Includes photographs, oral histories, and more

 

Battlefield Vietnam: History, guerrilla tactics, air war, and other web resources (from PBS)


 

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