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	GENERAL HISTORY LINKS HISTORY NOW (An online journal for history teachers and students) ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY THE HISTORY CHANNEL ONLINE THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY DISTINGUISHED WOMEN OF PAST ANDPRESENT WOMEN AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1775-2000 PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN WEST WESTWARD EXPANSION WESTWARD EXPANSION RESOURCES A CHRONOLOGY OF U.S. HISTORY DOCUMENTS THE AVALON PROJECT: DOCUMENTS IN LAW, HISTORY AND DIPLOMACY CONSTITUTION FACTS.COM PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, 1860-1884 PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS HISTORY MATTERS: A GREAT RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS FAMOUS TRIALS IN AMERICAN HISTORY THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT: PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY RESOURCES WHAT IS A DOLLAR WORTH? A SITE TO CALCULATE INFLATION U.S. HISTORY ON THE WEB (Many links to other sites) THE BLACK HISTORY DATABASE AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS AND DOCUMENT BASED QUESTIONS A RESEARCH GUIDE FOR STUDENTS EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY (Eyewitness accounts of historical events) ANIMATED ATLAS: GROWTH OF A NATION 100 MILESTONE DOCUMENTS SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Back to top COLONIAL AMERICA TO 1775 COLONIAL AMERICA, 1600-1775 ROANOKE REVISITED JAMESTOWN VIRTUAL COLONY THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT THE PILGRIMS AND PLYMOUTH COLONY THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY SALEM WITCH TRIALS SALEM WITCH TRIALS, A CHRONOLOGY SALEM WITCH TRIALS: AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE COLONIAL WARS KING PHILIP'S WAR THE PEQUOT WAR PEQUOT MASSACRE NATIVE AMERICANS BACON'S REBELLION FIRST GREAT AWAKENING THE MARYLAND TOLERATION ACT THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR PONTIAC'S REBELLION PROCLAMATION OF 1763 BOSTON MASSACRE Back to top THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1775-1820 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE HISTORY PLACE:THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION LIBERTY: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: THE COMPLETE HISTORY THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.ORG ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION SHAY'S REBELLION THE FEDERALIST PAPERS THE FOUNDING FATHERS: DELEGATES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE WORK OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE DEBATES IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, 1787 THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1787 ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION THE RISE AND FALL OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON COMMON-PLACE: AN INTERACTIVE JOURNAL OF EARLY AMERICAN LIFE THE WHISKEY REBELLION JOHN FRIES' REBELLION, 1799 THE BURR CONSPIRACY THOMAS JEFFERSON JEFFERSON DIGITAL ARCHIVE THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION: A PBS PRESENTATION DISCOVERING LEWIS AND CLARK LEWIS & CLARK, AN INTERNET ARCHIVE (National Geographic) TECUMSEH AND THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE CREEK The War of 1812 Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention Francis Scott Key Era of Good Feelings Henry Clay on the Web John C. Calhoun THE MARSHALL SUPREME COURT CASES Back to top EXPANSION AND REFORM, 1820-1860 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, 1820 The Monroe Doctrine The Erie Canal Homepage John Quincy Adams, a Biography Jacksonian Democracy History of the Cherokee Trail of Tears THE CHEROKEE TRAIL OF TEARS -1838-1839 The Texas Revolution Chief Blackhawk, an Autobiography PBS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN WEST MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE FUR TRADE Oregon-Trail Archive Manifest Destiny Daniel Webster Webster-Hayne Debate Expansion, Reform and Economic Growth: Links The U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 The Mexican War The Second Great Awakening WOMEN AND SOCIAL REFORM, 1820-1940 United States Utopian Communities The American Immigration Homepage Hudson River School of Art Internet History Sourcebook: The Industrial Revolution DOROTHEA DIX Seneca Falls Convention Early Nineteenth Century American Literature Back to top SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM Slave Revolts The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad Site Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad An Encyclopedia of Slavery The Slave Trade and the Abolitionist Movement Abolitionist Movement William Lloyd Garrison "Bleeding Kansas" Dred Scott Decision HARRIET BEECHER STOWE American Slave Narratives Slavery Images Uncle Tom's Cabin AND AMERICAN CULTURE Back to top THE UNION IN PERIL, 1820-1860 An Outline of American History: Sectional Conflict Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s the kansas-nebraska act POLITICS AND SECTIONALISM IN THE 1850s THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 and the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT THE FREE SOIL PARTY JOHN BROWN Back to top CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877 CIVIL WAR INTERACTIVE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR CIVIL WAR WEB RING: A VIRTUAL ARCHIVE THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (Dakota State University) THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: TWO COMMUNITIES IN THE CIVIL WAR THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE HISTORY ONLINE GUIDE TO CIVIL WAR PRISONS THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HOMEPAGE THE CIVIL WAR IN MINATURE LETTERS TO HOME FROM AN IOWA SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS ABRAHAM LINCOLN RESEARCH SITE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ONLINE THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, 1861-1877 RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS AFTERMATH THE ROANOKE ISLAND FREEDMEN'S COLONY THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD THE WIZARD OF OZ: PARABLE ON POPULISM HAYES VS. TILDEN: THE 1876 ELECTORAL CONTROVERSY Back to top THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1877-1920 RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA, 1876-1900 AMERICAN IMMIGRATION HOMEPAGE THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE PROGRESSIVE ERA TO NEW ERA, 1900-1929 CHILD LABOR IN THE EARLY 1900s PROHIBITION PARTY CARTOONS TEMPERANCE AND PROHIBITION ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE WEBSITES FOR THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA JANE ADDAMS AND HULL HOUSE THE 1886 HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT WHO WAS SAMUEL GOMPERS? THOMAS ALVA EDISON PAPERS P.T. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM FIVE POINTS (Locale of the film, "Gangs of New York") SPANISH AMERICAN WAR BLACK PARTICIPATION IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ANTI-IMPERIALISM IN THE UNITED STATES , 1898-1935 THE HISTORY OF JIM CROW WORLD WAR I POSTERS THE GREAT MOLASSES DISASTER, 1919 Back to top PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1920-1945 RED SCARE BETWEEN THE WARS: THE RED SCARE THE 1920s WEB SITE AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE 1920s CHARLES LINDBERGH THE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE THE 1929 STOCK MARKET CRASH THE SAD TALE OF THE BONUS MARCHERS FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT'S FIRESIDE CHATS FDR AND THE DEPRESSION LINKS TO NEW DEAL SITES THE NEW DEAL NETWORK A NEW DEAL FOR THE ARTS WORLD WAR II RESOURCES WORLD WAR II DOCUMENTS WORLD WAR II TIMELINE MODERN HISTORY SOURCEBOOK: THE YALTA CONFERENCE ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION Back to top AMERICA SINCE 1945 THE ALGER HISS STORY: THE EARLY COLD WAR COLD WAR POLICIES DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLD WAR COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT BAY OF PIGS INVASION THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1955-1965 GREENSBORO SIT INS: LAUNCH OF A CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THE ROSA PARKS PORTAL (Web sites about Rosa Parks) VIETNAM WAR INTERNET PROJECT (Many links to web sites on the war.) THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: VIETNAM JFK / THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION JFK RESEARCH UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY FOR THE 1970s AN INTRODUCTION TO LOVE CANAL: THE LOVE CANAL COLLECTION LOVE CANAL, A HISTORY (A toxic waste disaster) WATERGATE: THE WASHINGTON POST WATERGATE: THE SCANDAL THAT DESTROYED PRESIDENT NIXON AFTER SEPTEMBER 11: AN ONLINE READER (Excellent readings about September 11, 2001) US Government Links US House of Representatives US Senate White House US Supreme Court US Appeals Courts US District Courts Illinois General Assembly Illinois Governor page Illinois Supreme Court and lower courts Livingston County, IL government page McLean County, IL government page Ford County, IL government page Fairbury, IL webpage Chenoa, IL webpage The Department of Homeland Security The White House White House Daily Press Briefing Annenberg Political Fact Check Thomas.Gov - Legislative Information Constitutional Law Cases - Case List Federal Judicial Center FindLaw.com Supreme Court Cases Search Engine Landmarkcases.org Landmark Supreme Court Cases & The Bill of Rights Legal History Sites Legal Information Institute - Famous Supreme Court Case s Summary of Important Cases (Oyez! 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