American History
American History
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The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
The Boston Tea Party (December 16th, 1773)
The Boston Tea Party (December 16th, 1773)
The Invasion by the British/Paul Revere's Ride (April 18th, 1775)
The Invasion by the British/Paul Revere's Ride (April 18th, 1775)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19th, 1775)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19th, 1775)
The Declaration of Independence (July 4th, 1776)
The Declaration of Independence (July 4th, 1776)
- Schoolhouse Rock! "Fireworks" (video)
The Industrial Revolution (1760-1870)
The Industrial Revolution (1760-1870)
Westward Expansion (1803-1861)
Westward Expansion (1803-1861)
Overview & Important Figures
Overview & Important Figures
- "Henry Clay" via History
- "John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny, 1839"
- "Louisiana Purchase; 1803 and Associated Documents" via The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Lillian Goldman Law Library
- "Manifest Destiny" via History
- Schoolhouse Rock! "Elbow Room" (video)
- "Westward Expansion" via History
- "Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads"
- "Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase" via U.S. History: Pre-Colombian to the New Millenium
The Mormon Migration/Utah Territory
The Mormon Migration/Utah Territory
- "Brigham Young" via PBS
- "Call of the West" via PBS
World War II (1939-1945)
World War II (1939-1945)
Research Project Information and Materials
Research Project Information and Materials
Have students use this template when creating their World War II presentation. Encourage them to customize it as much as they'd like.
Overview
Overview
- "World War II Overview Presentation" (pictured right)
- "Declarations of a State of War with Japan, Germany and Italy" via Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library
- "Germany: 1918-1945" via The BBC
- "Germany Gives Up, May 8th, 1945" via Internet Archive
- "World War II" via Eyewitness to History: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
- "World War II" via History Learning Site
- "World War II Audio Clips" via The BBC
- "World War II in Europe: Timeline with Photos and Text" via The History Place
Aviation
Aviation
- "Aircraft Carriers" via Voodoo World
- "The Fighting Lady: The Lady and the Sea, 1945" via The National Archives
- Kamikaze Images
- "Kamikaze Pilots" via World War II Insightful Essays
- "Suicide Tactics: Kamikaze During WWII" via Air Group 4
- "Warships Associated with World War II in the Pacific" via The National Park Service
- "World War II Planes: The Advent of Modern Aviation" via World War II Planes
Battles
Battles
- "Battle of Britain" via History Learning Site
- "Battle of Britain (1940)" via About
- "Battle of the Bulge, December 1944" via The United States Army
- "The Battle of the Bulge" via History Learning Site
- "The Battle of Iwo Jima" via Iwo Jima
- "The Battle of Iwo Jima" via History Learning Site
- "Battle of Midway" via History Learning Site
- "Battle of Midway, June 4th-7th, 1942: Overview and Special Image Selection" via Naval History and Heritage
- "D-Day, The Battle of Normandy" via United States History
- "The Japanese Invasion of America" via The National Archives
Children's Lives During World War II
Children's Lives During World War II
- "Britain Since the 1930s: What Was It Like for Children in the Second World War?" via Primary Homework Help
- "Children and World War II" via History Learning Site
- "Children of War: World War II Diaries" via Discovery Education
- "Home Front (1939-1945): Evacuation" via The National Archives (UK)
- "Jewish Victims of the Holocaust: Hidden Children" via The Jewish Virtual Library
- "Primary History: World War II" via The BBC (Life in the UK)
Concentration Camps/The Holocaust/Jews in Hiding
Concentration Camps/The Holocaust/Jews in Hiding
- "Between Two Religions" via Anti-Defamation League
- Dachau: Introduction
- "Did Poles Profit Off Jews During the Holocaust?" via TIME Entertainment
- "Hidden Children" via About
- "Hidden Children in France" via JewishGen
- "Hidden Children of the Holocaust" via The 700 Club
- "Holocaust Remembered in Stories of Rescuers" via International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
- "Holocaust Rescuers, Jewish" via The Jewish Virtual Library
- Holocaust Survivors (Survivor Stories)
- "Jewish Victims of the Holocaust: Hidden Children" via The Jewish Virtual Library
- Oscar Schindler: His List of Life
- "The Sobibor Death Camp: Life and Death Within the Sobibor Death Camp" via About
- "Sobibor Extermination Camp: History and Overview" via Jewish Virtual Library
- Sobibor: The Forgotten Revolt
- "A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Children" via The Florida Center for Instructional Technology
- "Topics to Study: Introduction to the Holocaust" via The United States Holcaust Memorial Museum
- "A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau" via Remember
- Voice/Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
- "World War II in Europe" via The History Place
- "WWII: Witnessing the Holocaust: Harold Osmond le Druillenec" via The BBC
Hitler Youth
Hitler Youth
- "Hitler Youth" via Historical Boys' Clothing
- "Hitler Youth" via The History Place
- "Hitler Youth Movement" via History Learning Site
- "The Nazi Party: Hitler Youth" via The Jewish Virtual Library
- "World War II, Pt. 2 - The Homefront: Crash Course U.S. History #36" via Crash Course
- "Youth Opposition in Nazi Germany" via History Learning Site
Home Front
Home Front
- "1940s Food and Groceries Prices" via The People History
- "1940s News, Events, Popular Culture, and Prices" via The People History
- "1940s Sound Archive" via 1940s Society
- "Classic Movies of the 1940s" via When We Were Kids
- "Entertainment in Britain" via History Learning Site
- "Everyday Life: Why Was Rationing Introduced?" via The National Archives (UK)
- "Farming in the 1940s: Victory Gardens" via Wessels Living History Farm
- "Films from the Home Front" via Moving History
- "Home Front: 1939-1945" via The National Archives (UK)
- "Life During World War II" via Nostalgia Cafe
- Television History - The First 75 Years
- "Vintage Advertising" via AdClassix
- "U.S. War Bonds" via United States History
- "Victory Mail (V-Mail) Online Exhibit" via The Smithsonian National Postal Museum
- "Were You Born in 1940?" via Feeling Nostalgic (Life on the Home Front)
- "What's Cooking Wednesdays: Canning for Victory!" via The National Archives (Victory Gardens)
- "Within These Walls..." via The National Museum of American History (Victory Gardens)
- "World War II Rationing" via United States History
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese Internment Camps
- Born Free and Equal via The Library of Congress Digial Collections
- "Internment History" via Children of the Camps
- "Japanese-American Internment" via U.S. History
- "Japanese Relocation Centers" via Infoplease
- The Library of Congress' "Collection Highlights" (Ansel Adams's Manzanar photographs of Japanese Internment)
- "World War II: Japanese Internment Camps in the U.S.A." via History on the Net
Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)
Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)
The Military/Soldiers/Soldiers' Lives
The Military/Soldiers/Soldiers' Lives
- "America's Front Line Soldier, 1944" via Eyewitness to History
- "GI Joe: U.S. Soldiers of World War II" via The BBC
- "Literature of the Holocaust: Klaus Barbie: Women Testify of Torture at His Hands" via The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
- "Nazi Perpetrators: The Gestapo" via The Jewish Virtual Library
- "The Nazi Police State" via History Learning Site
- "The SS: Himmler's Schutzstaffel 'Loyalty is My Honor'" via Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
- "The Triumph of Hitler: The Gestapo is Born" via The History Place
- "World War II: Western Europe (1939-1945): Occupation" via The National Archives (UK)
Military Vehicles and Weapons
Military Vehicles and Weapons
- "Aircraft Carriers" via Voodoo World
- "The Fighting Lady: The Lady and the Sea, 1945" via The National Archives
- "Fighting the U-Boats" via UBoat.net
- "Fighting the U-Boats: Weapons and Technologies" via UBoat.net
- "German Secret Weapons: The Advanced German Weapons of World War II" via World War II Insightful Essays
- "The German U-Boats" via UBoat.net
- "Infantry Weapons of World War II: The Rifles, Sub-Machine Guns, Pistols, and Other Weapons of World War II Soldiers" via World War II Insightful Essays
- "Shatterer of Worlds: The Road to the Atomic Bomb" via Science and Technology of World War II
- "Warships Associated with World War II in the Pacific" via The National Park Service
- "World War II Weapons" via Military Factory
The Pearl Harbor Attack
The Pearl Harbor Attack
- "Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Pearl Harbor Speech, December 8th, 1941" via American History from Revolution to Reconstruction
- "Modern History Sourcebook: Pearl Harbour Attack Documents, 1941" via Fordham University
- "Pearl Harbor Attack" via United States History
- "Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Sunday, December 7th, 1941" via The History Place: World War II in Europe
- "Pearl Harbor: Remembered"
- "Welcome to Paradise...Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Home Port of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet" via Home of Heroes
Prisoners of War (POWs)
Prisoners of War (POWs)
- "German Prisoners of War" via Traces
- "German POWs on the American Homefront" via The Smithsonian
- "World War II: German Prisoner of War Camps" via History on the Net
- "World War II: Japanese Prisoner of War Camps" via History on the Net
- "World War II POWs by the Japanese" via The Forties
- "World War II Prisoner of War Camps" via The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
- "World War II: Prisoners of War: Stalag Luft I" via Stalag Luft I Online (Prisoner of War Stories, Photos, Art, and Information)
Propaganda
Propaganda
- "American Propaganda" via Oracle Think Quest
- "German Propaganda Archive" via The Bytwerk Page
- "Nazi Propaganda" via Oracle Think Quest
- "Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II" via The National Archives (Propaganda)
- "Produce for Victory: American Posters on the Home Front (1941-1945)" via The National Museum of American History
- "Propaganda Posters in World War II" via World War II Planes
- "Russian World War II Propaganda Posters" via All World Wars
Resistance Movements
Resistance Movements
- Holocaust and Resistance in World War II Netherlands
- "The Jewish Partisans/Untold Stories of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust" via SFGate
- "World War II: French Resistance: European Theater" via Beyond Curricula
- "Resistance Movements" via History Learning Site
- "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" via United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- "World War II Resistance" via Libcom
Righteous/Rescuers
Righteous/Rescuers
- "Five Rescuers to Those Threatened by the Holocaust" via The Smithsonian
- "Holocaust Remembered in Stories of Rescuers" via International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
- "Holocaust Rescuers, Jewish" via The Jewish Virtual Library
- Oscar Schindler: His List of Life
- "The Righteous Among the Nations" via Yad Vashem
Women's Lives During World War II
Women's Lives During World War II
- "Home Front (1939-1945): Women at War" via The National Archives
- "A People at War: Women Who Served: The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron" via The National Archives
- "Rosie the Riveter" via United States History
- "WAC Recruits Take Oath of Enlistment (and Related Media)" via History
- Wings Across America
- "Women at War" via Spartacus Educational
- "Women in the Military" via The Minnesota History Center
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