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PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Abolitionist Map of America
Through an interactive map, tours, documents, images, and videos, explore the account of the abolitionist movement in America.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Immigrant Women and the American Experience
Explore the ways that immigrant women have transformed America socially, politically, and economically.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: America During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
This exhibition explores the pandemic's impact on American life.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: Textiles of the North American Southwest
This site explores the weaving traditions of the Native American and Hispanic peoples of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. A gallery of artifacts, timeline, map glossary, and textual descriptions are included. This is a...
Other
American Journeys: Map of the Spanish Entrada Into North America [Pdf]
Map showing the routes taken by fourteen Spanish explorers in the Americas between 1509 and 1543.
The British Museum
British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Native North America
Learn about the art of native North Americans in this overview descriptions with accompanying image gallery with a detailed description of each piece.
The British Museum
British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Arctic Peoples of North America
Learn about the art of the native Americans of the Arctic region in this overview of their art with a selection of relevant objects each with it's own detailed object description.
PBS
Amazon: South America
Map of South America in which students can use the interactive site to explore political, physical, climate and populaton features.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: "Over There and Back"
Explore the diary of Private Homer Simpson that he kept during World War I. Entries are dated from April 1918 when he received a notice to report through June 1919 when he was discharged.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: American Empire
This exhibition explores the origins, development, and eventual fall of the American empire and maps the diverse and rocky terrain of the American empire to show how it informs contemporary conversations on heritage, citizenship, racism,...
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Exploration and Settlement Before 1675
A great map showing the explorations of Spanish, French, and English explorers in North America between 1530 and 1675. A detailed key identifies each explorer and route. From the Perry-Castaneda Collection
University of Texas at Austin
Ut Library Online: Historical Maps of the United States
This extensive collection of Historical United States maps from the University of Texas Library Online cover early inhabitants, exploration and settlement, territorial growth, military history, and later historical maps. These maps are...
Other
The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation:the Peopling of America: 1930 1965
This page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1930-1965.
University of Richmond
Digital Scholarship Lab: Atlas of the Historical Geography of United States
Review America's history with over 700 individual maps that address a broad range of issues with this atlas. This atlas maps a variety of historical topics: "exploration and settlement of the continent, the location of colleges and...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: New World: Part I: American Beginnings: 1492 1690
A variety of paintings and drawings that display European images of their first encounters with the land, plants, animals, and native peoples of the western hemisphere. With questions for discussion.
Curated OER
The Boston Massacre
The History Place provides this timeline broken into six different sections that highlight the important events from the early European exploration of America through to the United States becoming a country. Features include informative...
Curated OER
Exploring the Past: An Archeological Journey
Through an overview of past archeological expeditions, the author recounts the "Land Bridge" theory and delves into the life of the first inhabitants of North America.
Curated OER
Exploring the Past: An Archeological Journey
Through an overview of past archeological expeditions, the author recounts the "Land Bridge" theory and delves into the life of the first inhabitants of North America.
Curated OER
Exploring the Past: An Archeological Journey
Through an overview of past archeological expeditions, the author recounts the "Land Bridge" theory and delves into the life of the first inhabitants of North America.
Curated OER
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
Curated OER
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912
Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...
Curated OER
The Curse of California, the Wasp
Thirty-one primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges and opportunities of the industrial changes thrust on America in the late-nineteenth century.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Norse America, 861 1285
A facsimile of a map from the works of Carl Christian Rafn (1837) showing Iceland, Greenland, and the eastern portion of North America. The map shows the probable areas of pre-Columbian migration and exploration of the Norse from Iceland...
Curated OER
Etc: Early Discoveries and Explorations, 1497 1621
A map of the eastern coast of North America showing early European exploration from the voyages of Cabot (1497 and 1498) to the founding of New Netherlands in 1621. The map shows voyage routes, coastal features, rivers, and settlements...