Helpful Websites

General sites with a wide variety of information

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/

SITES with a VAST COLLECTION of EARLY U.S. HISTORY

Library of Congress - Largest library in the world, 144 million items...

http://www.loc.gov/index.html

History Channel - upcoming history shows, video clips, history quiz games, and much more!

http://www.history.com/

Early Americas Digital Archives - electronic texts originally written about Americas from 1492 - 1820

http://mith.umd.edu//eada/

Eyewitness to History - History through the eye of those who lived it, accounts from famous historical figures to the common person

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

The Atlantic Slave Trade - 500 years in 2 minutes video and additional resources

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html

Colonial Williamsburg Official History Site - ulimited information pertaining to our founding fathers, life in the 18th century, slavery, women, clothing, trade, American Revolution, etc..

http://www.history.org/history/index.cfm

GEOGRAPHY

Geography Games And Much More

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

COLONIAL AMERICA

Jametown Adventure Game - Make decisions for Jamestown and find out the results of your colony. Did you do better or worse than the people of Jamestown?!

http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Encyclopedia Britannica - Colonial Unrest Timeline

https://www.britannica.com/list/timeline-of-the-american-revolution

History Channel - Stamp Act and more

https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/stamp-act

Stamp Act - information pertaining to the act and much more... British view

http://www.stamp-act-history.com/

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum - Click on Research Library for information

https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/

Library of Congress - British Reforms and Colonial Resistance

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/brittwo/brittwo.html

Revolutionary Spy Letters - See their routes, Biographys, techniques, and soo much more!!

http://www2.si.umich.edu/spies/

George Washington - Mt. Vernon

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/

CONFEDERATION TO THE CONSTITUTION

ConstitutionFacts.com - Find many of the founding documents of our Nation - Take the Constitution Quiz & Much More

https://www.constitutionfacts.com/

Shay's Rebellion & the Making of our Nation

http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/index.html

GOVERNMENT / CIVICS

FEDERAL/NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

Executive Branch - President/ White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Congress/Legislative Branch/ Capitol

House of Representatives/Lower House

http://www.house.gov/

Senate/Upper House

http://www.senate.gov/

Judicial Branch / Supreme Court

http://www.supremecourt.gov/

CALIFORNIA STATE GOVERNMENT

Executive/Governor

http://gov.ca.gov/home.php

State Legislature / Senate & Assembly

http://www.legislature.ca.gov/

The Early Republic

The Civil War

Ancestery.com - Blue and the Gray - The Civil War was much more than famous battles and charismatic generals. Regular people. The enlisted soldiers and the families they left behind — have compelling stories to tell as well.

http://www.ancestry.com/civilwar_sub?o_xid=21837&o_lid=21837&o_sch=Search

The Center for Civil War Photography - Within this site you will find basic and complex information about Civil War photography and its practioners, virtual museums, as well as reproductions of many war photos.

http://www.civilwarphotography.org/

Civil War Trust - Take Virtual Tours of Battlefields, click on education and then students to find games and many resources

http://www.civilwar.org/aboutus/events/teacher-institute/la/regional-teacher-institute.html

PBS Civil War - Images and stories

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/images/

Appomattox Courthouse Virginia - maps, images, stories, items to purchase and additional links to information

http://americancivilwar.com/appo.html

Gettysburg - Visti the battlefield, history and the relevance of Gettysburg

http://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/

Baseball Almanac - the history of baseball and its orgins with the Civil War

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/aubrecht2004b.shtml