Links for 8th grade Tech Project

General

www.classzone.com

The online resource for the 8 th Grade U.S. History core text

http://www.gliah.uh.edu/documents/documents_p1.cfm

Primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Primary sources grouped into historical eras.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm

Primary documents related to American history from the 1400s to present day.

Immigration

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/immig/immigration_set1.html

A great resource for teachers and their students. This Web site is divided into four periods — Settlement, The

Growing Nation, The Great Surge, and Immigration Today.

http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/

A Web site constructed by two 10th grade students takes a serious look at immigration from 1607 to the present.

Various sections deal with the reasons of immigration

http://www.ellisisland.org/

This is the home page of one of America’s most well known landmarks, Ellis Island. Visit the historic "Wall of

Honor."

http://www.nps.gov/stli/mainmenu.htm

This Web site provides information on the Statue of Liberty and how if has become the symbol of freedom.

Westward Expansion

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/

This is a fantastic online cooperative learning activity that uses the content of the Donner Party tragedy on the

Oregon Trail to teach the skills of historical research.

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

This is an introduction to the Oregon Trail for elementary students. Students can read about the life on the trail and

complete the activities.

http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/oldwest/oldwest.htm

This Web site links to a number of Web sites that revolves around the life of a cowboy in the Old West.

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/inside/index.html

This is a great Web site that links to many other related topics. Students can read about the men on the trip and

their goals. Other links will lead students to information on Native American tribes complete with primary

documents.

http://lewisandclarktrail.com/

The Lewis and Clark Trail

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

National Geographic’s Interactive Journey with Lewis and Clark

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

Companion Web site to Ken Burn’s film on Lewis and Clark

http://ngeorgia.com/history/nghisttt.html

This Web site contains the history of the Cherokee Indians and their historic march. Students can follow the

movement and the effects on the people.

http://cherokeehistory.com/

The history of the Cherokee Nation.

http://www.csusm.edu/nadp/

Primary source materials about Native American policy in the 19 th century.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/collections/chinese/history.html

The California Gold Rush and Chinese Immigration

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/

First-person narratives

Civil War and Reconstruction Eras

http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/

America ’s Historical Documents, including the Emancipation Proclamation

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html

Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

United States History I: Revolution to Reconstruction, Grade Eight 216

Social Studies Office

Prince George ’s County Public Schools

2007 – 2008

http://jeffersondavis.rice.edu/index.cfm

Jefferson Davis Papers

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/pds/triumphnationalism/triumphnationalism.htm

The Triumph of Nationalism/ The House Dividing- Lesson plans which use primary sources

http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html

The History Place’s collection on Abraham Lincoln

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln.html

This is an excellent resource that is devoted entirely to our 16th President. The section on Lincoln’s thinking is

particularly insightful.

http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

This Web site is organized around a timeline to help students understand the sequence of events leading up to the

Civil War and following the war. Some links provide more information.

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/diary.html

Three first-person accounts from Civil War participants can be accessed here.

http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html

Letters written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers are included in

the fascinating archive. These letters give a detailed look into life in the Union Army camps.

http://www.civil-war.net/

This Web site provides links to many primary documents including letters, pictures and unit information.

http://www.civilwarletters.com/home.html

Civil War Letters

http://users.erols.com/kfraser/

Great Web site for students to get a different perspective of the war through music, poems and song lyrics.

http://www.gettysburg.com/

Set up to make browsing as a visitor or a historian easy. This Web site contains an excellent summary of the battle.

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/history/civwar.shtml

A hyperlink index of Civil War era sources from 1830s to 1890s.

www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/081_cwaf.html

Library of Congress

http://www.stowecenter.org/

Harriett Beecher Stowe Center- Great primary source documents from the Abolitionist movement

http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/shedd/index.htm

Civil War Papers of a New Hampshire Soldier