This university site offers a detailed summary the U.S. religious revival called the Second Great Awakening. Looks at various religious movements in the early United States.

Learn fast facts, the physiology, habitats, behaviors and range of the great blue heron.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about environmental issues causing problems for the Great Lakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.

In this lesson, learners look at photographs (portraits and people, historical events and images depicting strife or struggle, etc.) based around a given time period and contemplate the impact a photograph has on the perception of a...

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Article provides a discussion of the role played by the state in organizing the war effort both in terms of marshaling the troops to the front as well as mobilizing the society and the economy.

The storyteller of Indiana, the Historical Society collects, preserves, interprets, and shares great historical stories of Indiana. This is a great site to check out for both general and specific information on the subject.

An account of the Bonus March, when World War I veterans, whose war benefit payments could not be redeemed due to the Great Depression, marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 and were forcibly disbanded by the U.S. Army and President Hoover.

An in-depth site on the battle for Blanc Mont Ridge. It contains great pictures and a detailed description of the events that occurred during the battle.

Detailed information on Austria's first great offensive on the Italian Front campaign during WWI. The Battle of Asiago is described both by an English correspondent with the Italian Army and an official German observer with the Austrians.

In the midst of the Great Depression, Chicago managed to put on an incredible World's Fair, complete with Hall of Science, Transportation Building, and Enchanted Island.

A good review of the evolution of the support for the abolition of slavery from the first anti-slavery organization formed by the Quakers to the support for Abraham Lincoln as president. Focus is on the American Anti-Slavery Society and...

This is the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators homepage. A great starting point for new writers interested in exploring this genre.

This site from the Shakespeare Oxford Society contains a great deal of information in support of the theory that Edwared de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, actually wrote the works traditionally attributed to Shakespeare.

This is the full text of the novel The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim, a mystery novel. German Leopold von Ragastein meets Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, and plans to murder him and steal his identity to spy on...

The Historical Society presents a primary document from Frederick the Great to his Generals which includes 28 articles of importance.

A letter written by an eye-witness of the Great Fire of 1871, it gives details about how the fire spread quickly and efforts to fight the fire.

Excellent site devoted to the coal camps of southwestern Virginia. Great pictures, historic text, and personal narratives make this a wonderful resource for information on mining communities.

A great resource for students or teachers interested in the history of photography, specifically the earliest method, the daguerreotype, of the 19th century.

This marvelous site offers a chronology of WWI, an assessment of its cost to society, and links to such poets as Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen. Has a plethora of information on the war.

A comparison between Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

A very nice site with a great deal of information on boron and its properties and uses.

A great source of information on helium. Exceptionally thorough and well written.

Great site for teachers of Tennessee History. You can find multiple lesson plans on the history of the state, including Revolutionary Period, Civil War, World War 2, and the History of Appalachia.