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• American Bar Association - Your most powerful source for legal information.
• American Field Guide - Peer deep into America's past. Learn about the rich history of people and their relationship to the natural world...
• American Indians - Index of Native American Resources on the Internet.
• America's Library - This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.
• Constitutional Rights Foundation - To instill in our nation's youth a deeper understanding of citizenship through values expressed in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights...
• Educational Outreach - To provide in-classroom and in-courthouse learning experiences that prepare students to achieve stated learning standards.
• History/Social Science Literature K-6 - Pages of the Past aligns 1800 pieces of children's literature to the History-Social Science Standards. A Search Site by SCORE.
• California History/Social Science Framework and Standards - Curriculum Content Standards for K - 12.
  
• Law Day - In the late 1950s, the American Bar Association established May 1 as Law Day to promote recognition of the principles and practice of law and justice.
• Law Day, U.S.A., 2001 - By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation.
• Role of the Federal Courts in American Government
• The California State Assembly Presents - Kids' Stuff for Kids of All Ages.

US Government

• 50states.com - States and Capitals.
• American Memory - A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - GPO Access provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government.
• CIA for Kids - Who We Are & What We Do.
• Department Of Justice
• FDA Kids - Yorick would like to show you the many medical devices approved by the FDA for use.
• FirstGov for Kids - The Federal Consumer Information Center's FirstGov for Kids is a portal site of that provides links organized by subject to hundreds of government agency and other websites for kids.
• National Institute of Environmental Health Science - Kids' Pages.
• NARA - US National Archives & Records Administration.
• Order in the Court - An Electronic Field Trip from Colonial Williamsburg.
• Peach Corps Kids World - Join our pal, Traveler, as she explores the globe and learns about making a difference.
• Ranger Rick's Kid's Zone - National Wildlife Federation.
• The American President
• The Flag of the United States of America
• The White House
• USDA - U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• USFA - Part of the federal government. One of our jobs is to help prevent fires. We want everyone to be safe from fire, including you!
• White House for Kids - Provides educational information geared for children about the President, the White House, and the President's pets and animals, Spotty, Barney, India and Ofelia.

• Ad*Access - A history of newspaper and magazine ads from mainly US sources from about 1911 to 1955.
• Africans in America - The years 1450-1750 brought enormous changes to the North American continent. The native Americans, or Indians, as the Europeans came to call them, first encountered European explorers...
• Age of Imperialism - History of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• American Experience - Lost in the Grand Canyon.
• American History - The National Museum of American History is one of the Smithsonian Institution museums located on The Mall in Washington DC.
• American Indians of the Pacific Northwest - This digital collection integrates over 2,300 photographs and 7,700 pages of text relating to the American Indians in two cultural areas of the Pacific Northwest, the Northwest Coast and Plateau.
• America's Library - From the Library of Congress - Congressional Records, American History, Historical Research, Children's stories, American facts and more.
• American Memory Home Page, The - A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
• American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 - A multiformat collection of selected materials from the popular stage and allied arts.
• American Visions with Robert Hughes - Web companion to the 1997 PBS and BBC Television series on American art and culture.
• American West -A Presentation of the History and Development of the American West!
  
• America's Story from America's Library - This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.
• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - A site for Kids on GPO Access provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government..
• Caddo Confederacies, The - El Centro College.
• Caddo Indians - A History of the Caddo Indians, By: WILLIAM B. GLOVER.
• Caddo Indians, The - Of Texas.
  
• Child Labor in America 1908-1912 - 60 photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Beareau.
• Colonial Williamsburg - History Organization.
• Death of the Dream: Farmhouses in the Heartland - The rise and fall of Midwestern farmhouses, and the literature they inspired.
• Divided Highways - The Interstate and the Transformation of American Life.
• Early Adventures with the Automobile - The "horseless carriage" made its debut at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893.
• California History - Text written by James J. Rawls for the California Historical Society and edited by California Historical Society staff.
• California Historical Society - An online guide to over 300 years of California History.
• Eiteljorg Museum - Unique, one of two museums east of the Mississippi with both Native American and Western art.
• Exploring the West from Monticello - An Exhibition of Maps and Navigational Instruments, on View in the Tracy W. McGregor Room, Alderman Library, University of Virginia.
• Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier - A multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia.
  
• Great American Speeches - One of the most comprehensive on-line collections of speech texts of contemporary American History.
• History Globe.com - Develops and serves history Websites for educational uses.
• History Timelines ... The History Beat.
• I Hear America Singing - A comprehensive multimedia history of American concert song with performances by luminary artists such as Thomas Hampson, Fredreica Von Stade, Dawn Upshaw, Jerry Hadley and others.
• Iroquois of the NorthEast - The Carnegie Museum of Natural History's new Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians.
• Jefferson's West: An Electronic Field Trip from Colonial Williamsburg.

• Joe Hill - In commemoration of Labor Day 2000, PBS presented the story of Joe Hill, a labor organizer executed by the state of Utah in 1915.
• 1970 - 1979 - The culture and history of the 1970s.
• KET - Kentucky's Underground Railroad - companion web site to KET's documentary on the fugitive slave movement in Kentucky.
• Kids Democracy Project - Where visitors can take a kids tour of government, follow the President for a day, and decide which election issues are most important to kids.
• Kingwood College Library - American Cultural History The 19th Century.
• Kingwood College Library - American Cultural History - The Twentieth Century.
  
• Learning Adventures in Citizenship - On this site, kids can explore the intriguing history of New York, do activities to learn more about the history of their own towns..
• Legend of Steamboatin' the Grand Old South - Enjoy the nostalgia of the Mississippi paddlewheel steamboats and the Grand Old South.
• Lewis and Clark - The companion Web site to the Ken Burns film, 'Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery.
• MohawkIroquois Village - A Mohawk Iroquois Village: An Exhibit at the New York State Museum.
• Montana Historical Society: What I Did for My Summer Vacation.
• National Congress of American Indians - Official site.
• National Museum of the American Indian - Smithsonian Institution.
• National Women's History Project,The - National Women's History Project: Originator of Women's History Month.
• Native American Nations - Information on individual native nations.
• Native Bark Canoes - The widespread Algonquian-speaking peoples produced bark canoes in many shapes and sizes.
• NebraskaStudies.org - a resource for teacher, students and adults interested in Nebraska, its history, geography, culture and people.
• New Perspectives on the West - The West offers the opportunity to take a guided tour through the history of the American West...
• Nixon's China Game - Details the diplomatic breakthrough in 1972 that broke two decades of silence between the United States and China.
• Not For Ourselves Alone - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony helped to change the opportunities for women in the 1800s, 1900s and today.
• Order in the Court - An Electronic Field Trip from Colonial Williamsburg.
• Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Images and descriptions of the fabulous 1915 San Francisco worlds fair.
• Panoramic Photographs Collection - Contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation...
• PBS Online: Yellowstone - A Virtual Tour
• Pomp - The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar.
• President's - American Presidents: Life Portraits.
• President's, The - An index to the biographies of all presidents of the United States of America, from 1789 to present.
• President's - Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States.
• President's - By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
• President's Day - Students across the county learn about the achievements and contributions of the Presidents of the United States of America.
• President's Day - An Educational Virtual Museum for Primary Students.
• President of the United States - Office of.
• Rare Map Collection - Reconstruction and Expansion.
• African American Odyssey - Reconstruction and Its Aftermath.
• Red Scare - An image database about the period in the history of the United States immediately following World War I. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyper-inflation in mid-1920.
• Riding The Overland Stage - Mark Twain begins his journey in St. Joseph, Missouri, the starting point for the overland route to Sacramento, California.
• Save America's Treasures - Save America's Treasures is a public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
• Selected Civil War Photographs - 1861 - 1865, collection contains 1,100 Civil War encampments, battlefields, and portraits as captured by Mathew Brady and other photographers.
• Storytelling: the Art of Knowledge - The skillful art of storytelling is passed down from one generation to another by chosen, recognized or hereditary storytellers.
• The American Experience - WayBack: US History for Kids. Includes bios, games, quizzes...
• The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies - The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
• The Border - A new PBS series examining the history along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• The Oregon Trail - .Welcome to "The Oregon Trail" web site--the award-winning story of the great western journey. Enjoy the adventure!
• The New Jersey Historical Society.
• The Pilgrims' Route to Santiago through La Rioja. Spain
• Timucua Kid Page - Here are some quick questions and answers about the Timucua Indians.
  
• Today in History - American Memory - Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.
• Understanding Slavery: DiscoverySchool.com
• U.S. Army Center of Military History - The Center of Military History (CMH) is responsible for the appropriate use of history throughout the U.S. Army.
• United States of America, USFlag.org - A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America.
• US Mint's Site for Kids - Designed to be a fun, educational tool -- for students and teachers -- that generates interest in coins, the Mint, and U.S. history.
• The Internet African American History Challenge - An interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American History. It's an "open book" test.
• The History Place - U.S. Civil War 1861-1865 A Nation Divided: an easy to use annotated Timeline of the Civil War with many photos, historical documents, and interesting quotes.
• The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
• U-505 | On-Line Activities
• Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolutionary War - The Philadelphia Campaign of the American Revolutionary War.
• Wells Fargo - A history of this Old West company.
• Wells Fargo History Pages - Parts of Wells Fargo's heritage: stories and art; documents and treasure boxes; and, of course, stagecoaches.
• World History - Find famous people, significant places and important events in world history. More than 370,000 pages of data...
• PBS - New Perspectives on THE WEST.

Women in History

• Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad
• Important Women - A List of Women Achievers. Explore this list of over 30 women of achievement.
• Important Women - The Honor Roll.
• Not Just a Man's War - Women in the American Civil War 1861-65.
• Organization of American Historians - The largest learned society devoted to the study of American History.
• WomenInWorldHistory.com - Interactive site full of information and resources about women's experiences
  in world history. For teachers, teenagers, parents, and history buffs.
• Women's History - Internet Sourcebook
• Work, Lyddie! Work!