Aimee Chanhatasilpa
SLM 521  Spring 2005
 
Web Link Bibliography

Unit 1:  Colonial America

The African-American Mosaic - A photo-history of African American history from colonization through the 1930's.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
Date last visted: 1/21/05

Colonial Currency  - A website with plentiful information on the many different currencies of America's colonial period.
http://www.coins.nd.edu/Colcurrency/CurrencyText/Contents.html

Colonial Williamsburg  - This website is about the city of Williamsburg, V.A. in 1774.  The website covers the entire recreated town's role in Colonial America.
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/visit/indexnoflash.cfm
Date last visited: 1/18/05

Salem Witchcraft Hysteria - A mysterious and spooky interactive website that takes viewers to Salem to experience the witchcraft hysteria.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/salem/
Date last visited: 1/21/05

Salem Witch Trials - An annotated chronology of the events of the Salem Witch Trials, quotes from the trials are also included.
www.salemweb.com/memorial/index.shtml
Date last visited: 1/21/05

Unit 2:  Government and New Nation

Bill of Rights  - Check them out, featured are your individual rights and freedoms.
www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html
Date last visited: 1/21/05

United States Constitution - It is now difficult to read the 200 year old document, here it is  transcripted and pictured for historical research.   Also included are biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/charters.html
Date last visited: 1/21/05

United States Department of State  - Official site of the United States Department of State.  You will find information here about State personnel and each of the foreign countries with whom the United States has diplomatic relations.
http://www.state.gov/
Date last visited: 1/18/05

United States House of Representatives   - This is the official website of the House of Representatives of the United States.  Information on each of the representatives is located here as well as the functions of the house and its committies.
http://www.house.gov/
Date last visited: 1/18/05

United States Senate  - This is the offical website of the Senate of the United States.  Information on each of the senators of the is found here as well as on the functions of the Senate and its committies.
http://www.senate.gov/
Date last visted: 1/18/05

Unit 3 Growth and Expanision

<>African American Scientists  - Many informative bibilographies of famous and not-so-famous African American scientists.
www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces
Date last visited: 1/18/05

American Presidents - A site from the University of Virginia containing encyclopedic articles and biographies of every U.S. President.  Pictures and related links are also included.
http://www.americanpresident.org/
Date last visited: 1/21/05

The Oregon Trail - Just about everything you could want to know about the experience of the Oregon Trail. Information is divided into managable section topics. Pictures and sound clips are included.
http://www.isu.edu/%7Etrinmich/Oregontrail.html
Date last visited: 1/21/05

Trail of Tears - A collection of links to find a wealth of historic information as well as modern parks, trail memorials and information on decedents.
http://www.rosecity.net/tears/
Date last visited: 1/21/05

War of 1812 - A site filled with pictures, exciting details, and facts of the War of 1812.
http://members.tripod.com/~war1812/
Date last visited: 1/21/05

Unit 4 Civil War

American Civil War - A site with a moderately sized collection of Civil War infomation of a generally very high quality.  Many unique pictures and documents. The maps are accurate and informational, but not of a professional quality.  Designed as a resource for middle and high school student research.
http://americancivilwar.com/civil.html
Date last visited: 1/24/05

Civil War.com - Here you'll find a timeline, information on battles and places, music, and documents from the Civil War.  There are few pictures though.
http://www.civilwar.com/docuhome1.html
Date last visited: 1/24/05

Civil War Home.com - A good resource of detailed text-based information parsed out into topic headings for easier navigation. Few graphics or attention-getting features, but good a source of information.
www.civilwarhome.com
Date last visited: 1/24/05

Index of Civil War Information - An exhaustive collection of links to other websites on nearly every aspect of the Civil War.
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/civlink.html
Date last visited: 1/24/05

Smithsonian Institution - Civil War - Textual background information is divided between separate pages under individual topic headings and a timeline.  A good preliminary source of information, but there are no documents, maps, or other features.
http://www.civilwar.si.edu/timeline.html
Date last visited: 1/24/05

Reference Sites

Library of Congress  - This is the official site of the Library of Congress of the United States.  An enormous wealth of online exhibits and materials for U.S. History social studies curriculum.
http://www.loc.gov/
Date last visited: 1/18/05

National Council for the Social Studies  - Website of the National Council for the Social Studies.  Terrific resources for every area of the social studies content area.
http://www.ncss.org/
Date last visited: 1/18/05