The following web links will be useful throughout the school year for a number of academic areas. Students will be directed to these links at different times during our studies to explore their world.

Reading: 

Historical Fiction - Time Periods - WEBLINK-

http://www.ducksters.com/history/

Social Studies - American History

A Day in History: http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

Black History: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html

Columbus - The Door to American History: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/COLUMBUS/colhome.html

The History Place: http://www.historyplace.com/index.html

Those Were the Days: http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

Today in History: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Early Exploration and Settlements

Vikings: http://www.viking1000.org/

Vikings: They got here first, but why didn't they stay? : http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/north/nor-i/thule/thu-020e.htm

Leif Ericsson: http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-leif-ericson-and-the-discovery-of-america.aspx

Columbus: http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/

Journal of Columbus' Voyage: http://www.usgs.gov/education/learnweb/Explorers.html#1492

The Explorations of Christopher Columbus: http://www.mariner.org/age/columbus.html

John Cabot: http://www.cabot.ac.uk/Matthew/landfall.htm

John Cabot: http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cabot.html

Jamestown Settlement: http://www.col.k12.me.us/documents/teacher/socialst/jamestown.html

Plimoth Plantation: http://www.plimoth.org Brief History of the Mayflower: http://members.aol.com/calebj/ship.html

Journey West

Images of the American West: http://www.treasurenet.com/images/americanwest/

The Gold Rush: http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html

The Oregon Trail: http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

Welcome to the West: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/wpages/wpgs000/w010_001.htm

The Revolutionary War

American Independence: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html

Benedict Arnold: http://earlyamerica.com/review/fall97/arnold.html

Gallery of Spy Letters: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/index-gallery.html

Hotlist of the Revolutionary War: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/bookmarks.html

Liberty! The American Revolution: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/ Major Events of the Revolutionary War: http://www.multied.com/revolt/battles.html

Maps of the Revolutionary War: http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/American%20Revolution/ARToC.htm

Spy Letters of the American Revolution: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/ The American Revolution: http://www.mce.k12tn.net/revolutionary_war/american_revolution.htm

The American Revolution: http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/ The American Revolution: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/amrevol.html

The American Revolution: http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/coakhist/amrev.html

The American Revolution: http://www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/War/EMAmRev.htm

The American Revolution: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ibex/archive/IDOT/idot4.htm

The American Revolution Essays: http://revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays.html

Women of the American Revolution: http://info-center.ccit.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part7.htm

Women of the American Revolution: http://www.needham.mec.edu/t_links/tc00/pc00/

The Civil War

Boys in the Civil War: http://www.civilwarhome.com/boysinwar.htm

Chamberlain's Medal of Honor & Bracelet: http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/jlcmedl.htm

Civil War for Kids: http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm

Civil War Links: http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

Civil War Selection Navigation Bar: http://www.civilwar.com/navbar.htm

Colonel Joshua Chamberlain: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/aramsey/civil/chamberlain.html

Flight to Freedom: http://academic.bowdoin.edu/flighttofreedom/intro.shtml

Historical Image Collection: http://www.treasurenet.com/images/

Images of Children from the Civil War Era: http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/1999/lessons/teams/24/images.htm

Official Home Page of Joshua Chamberlain: http://www.joshuachamberlain.com/ Selected Civil War Photographs: http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html

Soul of the Lion: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: http://world.std.com/~khebert/index.htm

Student Civil War Trivia Questions: http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/aramsey/civil/studenttrivia.html

The American Civil War Homepage: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

The Underground Railroad: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

History of the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin: http://historyalive.weac.org/

Presidents

A collection of biographies and photographs from the official White House Site. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

This web site, created for the television series, contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus these additional resources: Biographical facts, Key events of each presidency, Presidential places, and Reference material: http://www.americanpresidents.org/

Welcome! In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site. http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ This area is an index on the presidents of the United States and contains information and documents of their speeches, writings, biographies and anything else related to their person or the office they are holding. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/ Presidential portraits http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html

 Portraits of Presidents from the National Gallery: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/travpres/index6.htm

Basic information about the presidents: http://www.usahistory.com/presidents/