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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Abolitionist Map of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Through an interactive map, tours, documents, images, and videos, explore the account of the abolitionist movement in America.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Immigrant Women and the American Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways that immigrant women have transformed America socially, politically, and economically.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: America During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition explores the pandemic's impact on American life.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian: Textiles of the North American Southwest

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

American Journeys: Map of the Spanish Entrada Into North America [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Map showing the routes taken by fourteen Spanish explorers in the Americas between 1509 and 1543.
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The British Museum

British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Native North America

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the art of native North Americans in this overview descriptions with accompanying image gallery with a detailed description of each piece.
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The British Museum

British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Arctic Peoples of North America

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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PBS

Amazon: South America

For Students 9th - 10th
Map of South America in which students can use the interactive site to explore political, physical, climate and populaton features.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "Over There and Back"

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: American Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Exploration and Settlement Before 1675

For Students 9th - 10th
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
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University of Texas at Austin

Ut Library Online: Historical Maps of the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

The Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation:the Peopling of America: 1930 1965

For Students 9th - 10th
This page displays a chart and description of the immigrants into the United States between 1930-1965.
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University of Richmond

Digital Scholarship Lab: Atlas of the Historical Geography of United States

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: New World: Part I: American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

The Boston Massacre

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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Curated OER

Exploring the Past: An Archeological Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Exploring the Past: An Archeological Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Exploring the Past: An Archeological Journey

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

The Curse of California, the Wasp

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Norse America, 861 1285

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

Etc: Early Discoveries and Explorations, 1497 1621

For Students 9th - 10th
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...