Jr. Research Paper

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Mr. Calabro

The Colonial Era

Colonial America 1600-1775: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm

Internet Public Library - Colonial America: http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48454

PBS - Colonial House: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/
 

The Revolution

American Revolution: http://www.americanrevolution.com/

American Revolution: http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/

America's Library - Revolutionary Period: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/revolut

Black American Literature in the United States 1734-1860: http://haughey.com/black_literature_Netscape.htm

Library of Congress - Benjamin Franklin...in His Own Words: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/franklin-scientist.html

Mount Vernon.org: http://www.mountvernon.org/index.cfm/

PBS - Liberty: The American Revolution: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/house/

Women in the American Revolution: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/women_american_revolution/

A New Literature

African American Registry - Black Spirituals: http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1295/Coming_home_the_Black_spiritual

American Privateers in the War of 1812: http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/warof1812paper/paperrevised2006.html

The British Burn Washington, DC, 1814: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/washingtonsack.htm

C-Span.org - The United States Capitol: http://www.c-span.org/capitolhistory/

The Daniel Webster Era: http://www.danielwebsterestate.org/DanielWebster.php

Digital History - Day by Day: www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/daybyday/daybyday_menu.cfm

Founding Fathers.info - The American Flag: http://www.foundingfathers.info/American-flag/

The Gilded Age - 1865-1900: http://www.sagehistory.net/gildedage/index.htm

History of the Erie Canal: http://www.history.rochester.edu/canal/

History of the U.S. Navy: http://www.history.navy.mil/history/history2.htm

Kingswood College - 19th Century Cultural History: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1800.htm

Library of Congress - Guide to the War of 1812: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/1812/

National Geographic - The Underground Railroad: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

Nineteenth Century American History: http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/19Am.html

The Tripolitan War - 1801-1805: http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa092001a.htm

Rebellion: John Horse and the Black Seminoles, the First Black Rebels to Beat American Slavery:  http://www.johnhorse.com/index.html

U.S. History Sites, Museums and Documents: http://fasttrackteaching.com/favoritelinks.html

Independence in Literature

PBS - American Masters - John James Audubon: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/audubon_j.html

Seneca Falls Convention: http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/SenecaFalls.htm

Walden Pond State Reservation:  http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/walden/

John Brown’s Raid – 1859: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/johnbrown.htm

The Hudson River School – American Landscape Artists of the 19^th Century: http://home.att.net/~hudsonriverschool/home.htm

MSN Encarta – Factory System: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761553165_2/Factory_System.html

The Rise of Industrial America – Work in the Late 19^th Century: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/work/work.html

PBS – Destination America –  U. S. Immigration: http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/usim.html

Native Americans and the Clash of Cultures: www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/3/99.03.03.x.html#c

Realism and Naturalism

American Cultural History - Nineteenth Century - Education: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1890.htm#edu

American Educational History - A Hypertext Timeline: www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html

Antique Farming - Farm Equipment: http://www.antiquefarming.com/machinery.html

Charles Lindberg - An American Aviator: http://www.charleslindbergh.com/

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - The Oklahoma Territory: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/O/OK085.html

The Ford Model T: http://www.modelt.ca/background-fs.html

History of the Atlantic Cable and Undersea Communications: http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Maps/

History of Steamboats: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamship.htm

Inventing the Telephone: http://www.corp.att.com/history/inventing.html

National Women's History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/

Native Americans and the Age of Incorporation - Reservation Life: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/INCORP/Native/reservation.html

PBS American Experience - The Gold Rush: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/

PBS American Experience - Reconstruction: the Second Civil War: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/

PBS American Experience - The Transcontinental Railroad: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/

Steamboat Museum: http://www.steamboats.com/museum/

The Truth About the Robber Barons: http://www.mises.org/story/2317

Social Change

Famous Trials in American History - Tennessee vs. John Scopes - The "Monkey Trial" - 1925: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

Harlem History: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/

History and Archaeology - Ku Klux Klan in the 20th Century: www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2730

History of Women's Suffrage: www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=932&display_order=1&mini_id=1286

Lindberg Flies the Atlantic - 1927: http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp

Looking Back at the Crash of '29: http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html

National Geographic - Remembering Pearl Harbor: http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

Pulitzer Prize: http://www.pulitzer.org/

Sigmund Freud Archives: http://library.med.cornell.edu/Library/HTML/sigmund_freud/index.html

The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti - 1921: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/SaccoV.htm

Into the Future

The Challenger Disaster: http://www.life.com/Life/space/challenger.html

The Chernobyl Disaster: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456957/html/nn1page1.stm

Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Movement: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/10_march.html

Korean War - Remembering Our History: http://korea50.army.mil/history/index.shtml

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated: http://history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm

PBS - Battlefield Vietnam: http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/

Robert F. Kennedy Assassination - Summary: http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/rfkasumm.htm

Rosa Parks Portal: http://e-portals.org/Parks/

Viking Mission to Mars: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/viking/viking30_fs.html

Washington Post - The Watergate Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/