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19th Century
America's Story from America's Library - The New Nation, 1790 - 1828 - From the Library of Congress.
American Women - from growth to Civil War 1800-1870; Revolutions in Territory, Industry, Morality, Equality.
BoondocksNet.com - a tremendous source of photographs from the 1800's to the early 1900's, emphasizing American Imperialism. Collections include Historical Graphics Gallery and Political Cartoons and Cartoonists. It features stereographs of World's Fairs, the Spanish American War, and Mark Twain.
Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History - Primary Documents, 1800 - 1850, Manifest Destiny & the Wild West, Industrial Revolution, Women's Rights, The Gilded Age, Spanish-American War, Imperialism - Progressivism - Populism, Various Misc. Topics
Voices from the Days of Slavery - "...the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. Several of the people interviewed were centenarians, the oldest being 130 at the time of the interview. The almost seven hours of recordings were made in nine Southern states and provide an important glimpse of what life was like for slaves and freedmen."
About.com American History, 19th Century - Look over the list of links to find the subjects mentioned in your book.
America's Story from America's Library - Westward Expansion and Reform; 1829 - 1859 - From the Library of Congress.
The American West - a Celebration of the Human Spirit - many links
Donner Party / Whitman Party -
Eyewitness: the Old West - Contains first-person accounts of historical events described as "history through the eyes of those who lived it." Note that the dates of the accounts run from 1861 through 1899. All topics have excellent photos and accounts that help the events come alive.
Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark - This truly interactive account covers the Lewis and Clark expedition, which began in 1804. Choose a path to follow and proceed through the trails finding interesting information popping up along the way. Be sure to check out the Journal section and the Did you know? section.
Images of the American West - Select images from the National Archives
International Museum of the Horse: the Buffalo Soldiers - These soldiers "explored and mapped vast areas of the southwest and strung hundreds of miles of telegraph lines. They built and repaired frontier outposts around which future towns and cities sprang to life." They also helped protect men who were building the railroads.
The Iron Road - PBS' American Experience offers this site as an extension of its series on the railroad, an important aspect of western movement in the United States. More than 20,000 men, mostly immigrants who worked in dangerous and exhausting conditions, helped build the railroad for the West's Central Pacific and the East's Union Pacific. You can learn about them at this site.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader (1847)
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade - Here you'll find nearly everything you could possibly want to know about those who participated in the fur trade of the Rocky Mountain West during the first half of the 19th century. This site covers the history; traditions; mode of living; and tools of the area's explorers, traders, and trappers. You'll find their narratives, diaries, and letters in the Library; business records in the Archive; artwork and portraits in the Gallery; and other artifacts in the Museum.
New Perspective: The West (PBS) - A time line of the Frontier Experience, biographies of important people, and a map containing information about important places in the Old West. The links section points to many useful places for additional research.
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920 (American Memory
PBS Online - Lewis and Clark - Interactive features distinguish this site. You can learn about the individuals in the Corps of Discovery, view maps and journals, and read the opinions of expert historians.
PBS Online - Remember the Alamo - takes an in-depth look at the life of Jose Antonio Navarro and his group of Mexican Tejanos, who started the original battle for Texas. Also provides access to eyewitness accounts of Alamo survivors and chronicles the settlement's most turbulent years from 1718 - 1871.
Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History - Excellent collection of links for the West.
WestWeb - Here you'll find a topically organized index of sites on the West from the College of Staten Island. Topics explored include the role of Native Americans, Canadian expansion, great migrations, the role of women, religious movement, battles over terrain, business in the West, and immigration. Each section includes links and images, and more are being added.
Westward Expansion - Animated map
Westward Expansion on the Internet - numerous listings posted by a school.
Wild, Wild West - After taking a quiz about the Old West, you can read about Manifest Destiny, the Louisiana Purchase, the Oregon Trail, Native Americans, the Sioux Nation, Cowboys and the American West, and Buffalo Bill Cody.
Women of the West and Every Day Life along the Trail - Part of the "Overland Trail" Project with extensive links for famous women, the Old West, recipes, clothing, song lyrics, etc.
Guilded Age - America's Story from America's People : Guilded Age, 1878 - 1889 - From the Library of Congress.
Gilded Age - huge listing of links which are up-to-date.
Child Labour: 1750-1900 - This is a British site with excellent primary resource material.
Eli Whitney Museum - Best known as the inventor of the cotton gin.
Lowell National Historical Park History Pages - The mills of Lowell, Mass. are famous for their role in the industrialization of the U.S. Using text, illustrations, and movies, several sections explain how the mills operated on water power and how the poer looms functioned.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum - This site tells the story of real American immigrants when they lived in the 97 Orchard Street tenement building on the Lower East Side of New York between 1860 and 1935.
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