Social Studies
Students: These resources have been curated by LPS Library Services to support curriculum topics.
Teachers: If you plan to supplement curriculum with one of these resources, pre-read and use this rubric to make sure the content matches your specific instructional goals.
Early Contact
Establishing the American Colonies
Fact and Fiction of American Colonization
The Northern Colonies
Pocahontas
The Southern Colonies
The Slave Trade
Roots of Racism
Slavery
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
American Revolution
American Revolution
The American Revolution
The American Revolution: The Road to War
The Boston Tea Party
Fact and Fiction of the American Revolution
Final Years of the American Revolution
George Washington: Revolutionary Leader & Founding Father
Great Women of the American Revolution
Leaders and Generals of the American Revolution
Life During the Revolutionary War
Patriotic Mouse: Boston Tea Party Participant
Turning Points of the American Revolution
The Untold Story of the Black Regiment
Weapons of the American Revolution
Writing the Declaration of Independence
Establishing a Government
Alexander Hamilton
America is Born
American Citizenship: Constitutional Rights
The Bill of Rights in Translation
Establishing the Judicial Branch
Establishing the Legislative Branch
Freedom of the Press
Freedom of Religion
George Washington and the American Presidency
George Washington: Revolutionary Leader & Founding Father
The New Nation Through the Eyes of George Washington
The Right to Bear Arms
The Right to Protest
The Right to Vote
The United States Constitution
Expansion and Change
American Wilderness
Americans Move West
California's Gold Rush
Fact and Fiction of the Wild West
The Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Life on the Frontier
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase Through the Eyes of Thomas Jefferson
Manifest Destiny and the Journey West
The Mexican-American War
Sacagawea
Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
Thomas Jefferson and the Growing States
The War of 1812
Slavery in America
Diary of Charlotte Forten: A Free Black Girl Before the Civil War
Harry Tubman
How Slaves Built America
The Impact of Slavery in America
Slavery in the United States
Up From Slavery
Causes of the Civil War
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
African Americans in the Civil War
The Battle of Gettysburg
Battles of the Civil War
Civil War Spies
Civil War Weapons
The Civil War
The Civil War
The Civil War Through the Eyes of Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War: Slavery
The Civil War: Turning Points
The Civil War: Weapons
The Emancipation Proclamation
Fact and Fiction of the Civil War
Great Women of the Civil War
Harry Tubman
Life During the Civil War
Matthew Brady Records The Civil War
The Northern Home Front of the Civil War
Soldiers of the Civil War
Women in the Civil War
Yankee Mouse: Gettysburg Address Observer
Reconstruction
The Jim Crow Era
Reconstructing the South
Reconstruction
The Thirteenth Amendment and Its Legacy
Native Americans After the Civil War
Battle of Little Bighorn
Defending the Land
Dennis Banks and Russell Means: Native American Activists
Industrialization
The 1924 Immigration Act and its Relevance Today
Beyond Our Shores
A Brave New Mouse: Ellis Island Approved Immigrant
The Chinese Exclusion Act and Its Relevance Today
Head West, Young Mouse: Transcontinental Railroad Traveler
Journey to America
Life During the Industrial Revolution
The Migration North
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
William Williams Documents Ellis Island Immigrants
