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AmericanRhetoric.com is an awesome site with famous speeches online
- The Road to Mt. Rushmore
--This lesson explores the movement of people into the far west and the
development of mining, ranching, and agriculture.
- Teacher Oz's
Kingdom of History-- A site with excellent links to history resources,
government resources and other general information.
- "Chatham Plantation: Witness to the Civil War" recounts what happened at
this plantation overlooking Fredericksburg, Virginia.
The house served as a headquarters & communications center for generals &
commanders. When General Irvin McDowell was housed there, President Lincoln
visited to confer with about strategy.
Later in the war, the house served as a hospital where Clara Barton & Walt
Whitman tended to wounded soldiers. Four major battles were fought in the
countryside surrounding Chatham.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/45chatham/45chatham.htm
- "Fort Hancock: A Bastion of America's Eastern Seaboard" is a lesson that
uses this fort, built in the late 1800s to defend New York Harbor, as a base
for examining issues in U.S. defense policy & military preparedness in the
late 1800s. (NPS,NRHP)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/37hancock/37hancock.htm
- Meet the
Presidents (excellent site from PBS)
- ESU5 has a great
Presidents
page with many resources.
- Civil War Home Page
and Civil War
photos and The US Civil War
home page
- A wealth of information can be found on the
White House site.
- Encyclopedia
Smithsonian -- A wealth of Information from A to Z
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Great
History site! (sponsored by the federal government)
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Some really nice web sites on Lewis and Clark: The
Nebraska Bicentennial's site
http://www.lewisandclark.net
http://www.lewisandclark.com
http://www.lewisandclark.org/
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A great site on US
government for kids. (Called Ben's guide to US government for kids.)
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Library of
Congress Memory Place - Great history site and educational resources
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Good interactive activities to learn about the legislative branch.
http://congress.indiana.edu/learn_about/launcher.htm
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Want to see what's hot in the news, Great visual to see
the major headlines: newsmap.jp
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Presidential Timeline of the 20th Century
http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/
U.S. Government
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