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973: United States History

America's Past and Promise: On-line resources from the text book, America's Past and Promise, published by McDougal-Littell. The publishers have created a site with supplemental information. You can take reading the text to the next level by investigating the links the publishers have provided for each chapter.

American Memory Historical Collections: "A major component of the Library's National Digital Library Program, are the multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently over 40 collections in American Memory."

The Constitution of the United States of America: Contains the entire text of the U.S. Constitution.
Electoral College of the United States of America: Part of Grolier's On-Line web site, this site contains links to information on the Constitution, the President, the Vice-President, House of Representative, and the Senate.
History of the United States: Provides many links to information from the Colonial Period up through the 20th Century.

The White House for Kids: "Helping young people become more active and informed citizens. Lead by Socks, President Clinton's cat, you can visit the White House and learn more about the President and the American government. You can also see pictures of the President's pets and family."
The Whole World Was Watching: an oral history of 1968: "The Whole World was watching is a joint project between South Kingstown High School and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group. The resource contains transcripts, audio recordings, and edited stories of a series of interviews conducted in the spring of 1998.
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: "This is the place to learn about how women gained the right to vote in the United States."

African-American History:

African-American History: Provides many links to people, places, events, and other resources in African-American History.

African American History and Culture: "Selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations."

African-American Journey: "A chronicle of Africans in America from early colonial times through the present. The history of African Americans is largely the story of their struggle for freedom and equality. This feature examines that struggle in sections beginning with the slave trade and continuing through the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960's."

The African-American Mosaic--A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture: "The Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African-American collections. Covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere, the Mosaic surveys the full range size, and variety of the Library's collections, including books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and recorded sound."
African-American Odyssey--A Quest for Full Citizenship: "This Special Presentation of the Library of Congress exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the Library's incomparable African American collections. The presentation is not only a highlight of what is on view in this major black history exhibition, but also a glimpse into the Library's vast African American collection. Both include a wide array of important and rare books, government documents, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, plays, films, and recordings. This presentation is not yet searchable."
Africans in America: "Learn all about the history of Africans in America at this educational site. It is a great resource if you are doing any type of report on American history from the 1400s to the mid-1800s."

http://www.afroam.org/history/history.html: "An interactive set of exhibits highlighting African-American contributions throughout United States history."
Afro-American History: "While this site may not be as lacquered as some of the others, it highlights interesting links."
The Amistad Case: Cornell Law School's Amistad page, which emphasizes the legal issues relating to the mutiny -- and to the controversy surrounding the film.
The Amistad Page: The National Archives and Records Administration presents this collection of documents relating to the 1839 mutiny that is the subject of the current Spielberg hit. The site also includes suggestions for teaching activities.
The Anacostia Museum: This Smithsonian museum site features exhibits on a host of topics, including the role of black churches, African American inventors, and arts in the 1920's.
Black Facts Online: "If you want to find out what happened in black history on any given calendar day, this is the site for you. An easy-to-use search engine allows you to input any date or keyword to search for important events."
Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web: This site has five activities including a treasure hunt plus an extensive list of links to other relevant sites.
Black History Internet Resources: This site from the Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Humanities at the University of Virginia contains a plethora of materials concerning Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and the nation's response to it. The site features a complete electronic edition of the first published version of the novel along with the various prefaces Stowe wrote for different editions as well as audio versions of most of the Christian hymns presented in the text.
Black Military History: "This site gives short accounts of military units, such as the 54th Massachusetts Division, the Tuskegee Airman, the Harlem Hell Fighters, the 10th Cavalry, and nearly a dozen other groups of black soldiers who bravely fought for this country."
Civil Rights Timeline: "This page is part of the "4 Little Girls" site which honors the memory of the four little girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963. Begin by clicking on one of the range of dates to go to a wonderfully detailed timeline of significant events in the fight for black civil rights, and the important people who played a role in them."
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century: "This is an elegantly designed site with a simple purpose: providing a window on the world of black Americans in the 1800s through photos and artwork."
Stamp on Black History: "Learn about Black History through the accomplishments of Black Americans who have been featured on U.S. Postal stamps. Choose from an index sorted alphabetically by name, by curriculum area, or take the Black History Tour which will introduce you to each person's contributions in context of the decade during which their achievements were most important. This site was created for the Think Quest competition.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement: The timeline begins with the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision in 1954. One can click on each event and the site provides a photography and brief description of the event. Most of the events also include links to primary sources relating to the specific event.
Welcome to African American History: "In a text-only, easy-to-read format, this site addresses five important topics in black history in sequence. Starting with the Dred Scott case and moving on to the civil rights movement and school integration, there is well-documented information on these subjects and a host of subtopics."