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• - Learn all about Nebraska's history and its geography.
  
• - WebQuest helps students explore the importance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  
• - A PBS series with sixteen "webisodes" about freedom in the United States, and dangers to freedom in the nation's history.
  
• - Provides an illustrated introduction to the people, places, and events for which America's western frontier is known. From PBS.
  
• - Take fun history tests from 1600-1900's. Also includes recipes by the century.
  
• - A theatrical middle-school social studies teacher models her over a dozen costumes relating to various periods of American history. Includes colonial garb, multicultural, and military dress.
  
• - Information about pioneers, wagon trains, and life on the trail in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  
• - Leads kids on a virtual tour of historical places throughout Ohio. From the Ohio Historical Society.
  
• - Student-created site offers a graphical overview of each decade in the 20th century.
  
• - Explore the shores, build a plantation, and meet the people of early Maryland in this interactive website by Maryland Public Television.
  
• - This web site is based on the award-winning documentary film from PBS. Read about the history of the trail and see the historic sites located along the trail.
  
• - Contains detailed review guides for preparing for the Advanced Placement United States History Exam. Arranged by decades, and available in PDF and HTML formats.
  
• - History of the westward expansion into the Ohio River Valley and the Old Northwest territory. With pictures and bibliography.
  
• - Study sheet about puritans and how they are related to the early colonial times in America.
  
• - Experience Colonial Life by exploring the trades, politics, and other aspects of 18th-century living. Browse the Colonial Dateline highlighting events from 1750-1783.
  
• - The history of the Indian tribes, early settlers, and more recent immigrants to Vermont. With a county map.
  
• - Contains outlines related to American history and culture, primary source materials, essays, biographies and presidential information.
  
• - Articles on recent and past events, written by students at Washington Elementary. Links to other related sites.
  
• - A look at the history of the United States from a British perspective.
  
• - Directory of Bible and American history links.
  
• - An interactive look at how this enormous monument was built and who built it.
  
• - Explore information on the history and development of the American West.
  
• - Captures several milestones, personalities, and influences that helped civil rights in America.
  
• - Presented by the Library of Congress, a site with information about American people, historical events, and each of the 50 states.
  
• - Explores the origins of the American flag.
  
• - Explores the push and pull factors of immigration. Includes a virtual tour of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Also explains how immigration today differs from that of years gone by.
  
• - Features lyrics of patriotic songs, the Pledge of Allegiance, and other important documents.
  
• - Provides help with American history projects. Includes games, costume help, library, crafts, and links.
  
• - Offers an overview of the struggles for religious freedom, women's rights, and desegregation. From PBS.
  
• - Great political speeches from the 20th century. For students of speech and American History.
  
• - Each day, an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.
  
• - Discover the stories of America's past. Meet amazing Americans from the past and present, explore the states, and read about everyday life.
  
• - This celebration of life in the 1700s tells all about life in Colonial America. Includes interviews, games, video excerpts, photographs, and other activities.
  
• - A virtual history lesson where you find yourself landing in the New World and making all the decisions needed to found the Jamestown colony.
  
• - Features historic documents from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
  
• - Traces slavery in America from its earliest origins to post-Emancipation. Includes links to primary sources and personal slave accounts.
  
• - Includes features on a range of people and events in American history from Hawaii's last queen to Joe DiMaggio, from World War I to Vietnam. From PBS.
  
• - Provides an overview of American History from colonial times through the Reagan years. Some chapters include interactive quizzes.
  
• - A complete pre-history and history text for high school students.
  
• - Features reports about explorers from students of Vinland School in Poulsbo, Washington.
  
• - Multimedia site includes a timeline, overview of the eras in black history, links to biographical sketches of dozens of well-known African-Americans, and historic audio and video clips.
  
• - Student-created timeline places 30 major events in historical context. Also includes essays and short profiles of Thomas Edison and Norman Rockwell.
  
• - Click on letters of the alphabet to find related bits and pieces of historical trivia.
  
• - Features virtual exhibit of a private collection of memorabilia, relics and souvenirs, gathered over a 20 year period. Includes gift shop.
  
• - Notes based on the US History text book, "The American Pageant."
  
• - Interactive site designed to help middle school students understand the condition of African slaves in New England.
  
• - Includes key events, maps, video transcripts, and related links for each era in American history.
  
• - The museum re-creates the daily work activities and community celebrations of a rural 19th-century town in authentic living history fashion.
  
• - Excerpts from interviews with about a dozen men and women who weathered the Great Depression and the difficult years of the 1930s.
  
• - American history for kids. From PBS.
  
• - History of Native Americans for kids, ages 6-10. Emphasizes Indian family and village lifestyles.
  
• - Learn about the controversy surrounding the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, 1942. From PBS.
  
• - A chronological look at the African American struggle for freedom.
  
• - Gateway to source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.