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U.S. History Resources

Belvidere, South of intersection Camp Road & Gibson Hill Road, Belvidere, Allegany County, NY Source: Library of Congress

United States History Classroom Links from NYSCSS

Gilder Lehrman Institute: Teaching with Primary Source Documents; Using Primary Sources in the Classroom

Colonial Times- Pre-Revolutionary
Colonial Williamsburg Games
Mission US | Thirteen
The Papers of George Washington
Citizenship Test
Avalon Project – 18th Century Documents : 1700 – 1799
Meet the Daggetts
Colonial Williamsburg – Kids – Games & Activities
Introduction ~ Historic Threads: Three Centuries of Clothing ~ Colonial Williamsburg’s Museum Collection Online Exhibit
Lacrosse Word Search
Coin & Currency-Colonial America
Mapping Colonial America
Merchant Match-Up Game


American Revolution
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party Historical Society
Coming of the American Revolution
Coming of the American Revolution: Lesson
Fort Ticonderoga
Library of Congress American Revolution
Massachusetts Historical Society | Crossroads
Primary Sources Home
Revolution Links
The Ethan Allen Homestead Museum | Home
The Manual of Arms, 1764
The Olive Branch Petition
Tourist Attractions New York, War & Battle Re-enactment, Family Vacations Ideas
Treaty of Paris 1783
Trumbull Interactive Independence
Valley Forge NPS
Zoom in signers of the Declaration of Independence

Constitution

Life without the Bill of Rights
Madison’s Notes are Missing
Founders’ Constitution: Table of Contents
National Constitution Center: Home
Interactive Constitution
ConstitutionFacts.com – Learn about the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and much more!
National Constitution Center – International Engagement
Our Documents – Articles of Confederation (1777)
National Constitution Center: Interactive Constitution
National Constitution Center: Interactive Constitution
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga
The Conquistadors – PBS
Ian Chadwick’s Biography of Henry Hudson, 17th century Elizabethan explorer
1609-Henry Hudson
The Mariners’ Museum | Exploration through the Ages

Current Events

Political Junkie : NPR
Choices: Global Security Matrix
Whose Democracy Is It
Global Revolution – live streaming video powered by Livestream
Arable and permanent cropland statistics – Countries Compared – Nation Master
September 11th – Personal Stories of Transformation
What Is iCivics? | iCivics
How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic – NY Times.com
Arable Land
Need To Know | PBS
The Road to the White House | Campaign 2012
Blogs | Resources | C-SPAN America wants to work

Primary Source Resources

National Archives Experience
Activities | DocsTeachInvestigating US History
Gilder Lehrman Center Index of Online Documents
Census Bureau Home PageNew York State Archives | La Escuela Electronica | The Electronic Schoolhouse
National Register of Historic Places Official Website–Part of the National Park Service

General US Art

Met Museum
Women Artists of the American West
National Gallery of Art | NGAkids home page
Smithsonian Online for Kids
OurStory : Activities : Life in a Sod House
Interactive John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence”.
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness at the Seattle Art Museum
Portrait of George Washington (1799)
Declaration of Independence-What’s Wrong with This Picture

Civil War

The Diary of a Civil War Nurse
Walt Whitman – O Captain
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History Channel
The History Place: Civil War
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Civil War Trust
Civil War dot com
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History Net

Civil Rights

Welcome to NBC Learn- Finishing The Dream: Learning From The Civil Rights Era
Integrating Ole Miss
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The Leadership Conference
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National Humanities Center

Great Depression

History Channel
Hoover Institution Political Poster Database
1920-1929 index
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PBS American Experience
​Library of Economics and Liberty

Haymarket Affair

Bombing Image
Mass Meeting Flyer
Police Testimony
Chronology
The Narrative

Immigration

Do You Speak American . Words That Shouldn’t Be? . Track That Word! | PBS
The Great Hall | Interactive Tour of Ellis Island | Scholastic.com
Anti Immigration Art Through the Ages @ TigerDroppings.com
Immigration | HTI
Ellis Island National Monument – Materials for 6th Grade through 8th Grade (U.S. National Park Service)

FDR

History Channel
Library of Congress
FDR Periodic Table
FDR for Students

Imperialism

Cartoon. “Declined with Thanks.”
Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt – Political Cartoons

Cold War

JFK Library
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
We Choose the Moon: Pre-launch
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
Subs in the Cold War
Teachable Moment -
FRONTLINE: home | PBS
Voting Rights Timeline Interactive

Black History

Home Page-Jacob Lawrence Migration Series
Panther Pictorial Past – Black Panther Party back in the day…
SNCC Founding Statement
U.S. report: Racial disparities continue – Race & ethnicity- msnbc.com
American Black Codes 1865-1866
Arts Edge: Lift Every Voice and Sing

Abolitionism & Underground RR

Lincoln/Net: African American Experience Maps
North American Slave Narratives
Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom – Guides, Reference Aids, and Finding Aids (Prints andPhotographs ReadingRoom, Library of Congress)
Africans in America
The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress)
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
“Been Here So Long”: American Slave Narratives
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
Digital Library on American Slavery
Africans in America/Part 3/List & Inventory of Negroes on Plantation… Close-up
Ball’s Slavery in the U.S.
Network to Freedom Homepage
American Memory from the Library of Congress – Home Page
“I will be heard!” – Abolitionism in America
Digital History
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

Economics

Council for Economic Education
​Econ Ed Link
​Federal Reserve Education
Federal Budget Simulation Lesson Plan – John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Elections

Living Room Candidate Presidential TV Commercials
Project Vote Smart – American Government, Elections, Candidates and Voting
Candidates – Election Center – Elections & Politics from CNN.com
President – Election Center – Elections & Politics from CNN.com
Campaign 2016 – Road to the White House | C-SPAN
Lesson Idea: Constitution Clips | C-SPAN Classroom
Congressional Chronicle – C-SPAN Video Library
White House Interactive Tour | The White House
Presidential Race : NPR
Election 2016
270 to Win
Electionary
Electionary NY

Games

Dynamite Presidents
Batter Up!
Super Sleuth game
Explore the States
Games undefined Central Intelligence Agency
Toys! at The Henry Ford
Go back in Time!

Industrialization

Triangle Factory Fire
1911 Capitol Fire
American Steamship
The Dramas of Haymarket: Prologue
The Modern Day Sweatshops
The History Place – Child Labor in America: Investigative Photos of Lewis Hine

Native Americans

Marilee’s Native Americans Resource
Tracking the Buffalo
Native Web
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet – WWWVL American Indians
First Nations Histories
American Indian Resources
NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
Why Do Civilizations Collapse?

Political Cartoons

Thomas Nast.com
Thomast Nast 02
Analyzing a Thomas Nast Cartoon
Political Cartoons
Political Cartoons in the Classroom
Reconstruction and Thomas Nast
OSU Thomas Nast
Political Cartoons | Lesson
Thomas Nast Gallery: The New Board of Education
OpperProject Political Cartoons Lesson Plans
OpperProjectCartoons
Puck’s Cartoon Archive
cartoonnewsmagazine.com
Analyzing Rumors and Myths
“Fire!” (Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium, Library of Congress Exhibition)

Roaring 20s

Teaching the American 20s: Lesson Plans

Slavery & Slave Trade

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
A Map of American Slavery – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com

Supreme Court

Landmark Supreme Court Cases – HOME
Featured Lesson Idea: Interactive Supreme Court Timeline Case Study | C-SPAN Classroom

The Great War

World War One, The Submarine

Vietnam

Antiwar Songs (AWS) – The Editor’s to Blame

Visual-Art History

Picturing US History
Reel American History – About – Overview
Maps
Transparent New York
National Jukebox LOC.gov
Edward Hopper

Western Expansion

On This Day With Lewis and Clark | EDSITEment
Romanticizing the West
GoldRushStrikeItRich
National Gallery of Art | Frederic Remington | The Color of Night
Please Note:
Above is a list of links designed to help students, teachers, parents, administrators, and visitors in a variety of ways. Note that the NFCSS does not maintain or necessarily endorse any of these sites, and is not responsible for their content. Every effort is made to ensure this list is current; some sites, however, may be temporarily down or go out of service unexpectedly.

****Please remember to ALWAYS EVALUATE a web site as you would any other source of information. While every effort has been made to ensure that these are reliable sites, you should always test sites for yourself, especially if you are using them as sources for your research. Check out Robert Harris's article, Evaluating Internet Research Sources. ****

NFCSS appreciates your help in keeping these resource links up to date. If you encounter a broken link, please tell us the name of the link and the page that it is on.

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NFCSS: Niagara Frontier Council for the Social Studies

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    • American History Bee
    • Rich Newberg Reports >
      • Course Projects
    • Summer Civics Institute
    • Buffalo News Editorial Cartoon Contest
    • NYS Archives Research Project
    • Red Jacket Awards
    • Past Events >
      • NYSED Civics Summit
      • HISTORY Here Project
      • AASLH 2022 Meeting
      • Erie County Bicentennial
      • DYC GIS
      • Explore Buffalo Winter Speaker Series
      • TPS Seminar
      • My Italian Secrect
      • Webinar Series
      • ICS May 2020 Seminar
      • New Visions Night
      • NYSHA Project
      • Buffalo Never Fails: WWI Exhibit at Buffalo Library
      • Polonia Seminar
      • Scholarships
      • Essay Contest
  • 250th Events
    • NYS 250th Commission
    • Erie County Historical Commission >
      • Constitution Day
      • Civics Day
      • Law Day
    • Niagara USA 250
    • United States Capitol Historical Society
    • Sail 250 NYC
  • Resources
    • Shirley Chisholm Project
    • Teachable Moments in Time
    • NCHS Erie Canal Project
    • NFCSS/BTC IDM Projects
    • NCSS C3 Framework
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    • U.S. History
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    • ISTE Standards
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