Oakland Zoo
Oakland Zoo: North American River Otter
Meet the North American River Otter and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: North American Free Trade Agreement
This article provides an easy to understand explanation of North American Free Trade Agreement. Read this brief article to learn about and understand NAFTA.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Art and Identity in British North American Colonies
Consider the English identity of American colonists by examining the sorts of imported goods and decorative arts Americans chose to purchase and display.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: North American Cultures
In this lesson, middle schoolers develop an understanding of the wide variety of traditions and cultural practices in the United States and North America.
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...
National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation: North American Mystery Cat
This article, published by the National Wildlife Federation, explores the rare and elusive Canada lynx. The article primarily focuses on how wildlife researchers have been able to survey such a "Wide-ranging, mobile carnivore across so...
British Library
British Library: The American Revolution
Part of the British Library's On-line Gallery series. This section explores, in comprehensive detail, the American Revolution. The Gallery includes an introduction, a timeline of events and lots of documentary and pictorial evidence....
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: North American Deermouse
North American Deermice rarely leave their homes during the day, but feed opportunistically at night on whatever is available: seeds, nuts, fruit, berries, insects and other animal matter, and whatever they find tasty in houses. Deermice...
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Commodities and the Transformation of the American Landscape
Learning resource uses primary source material to explore the ways in which commodities are extracted, produced, and exchanged and how those processes have shaped the physical and cultural landscape of North America.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Exploring Borderlands: Samuel De Champlain
This passage highlights passionate French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, in his conquest for new lands in present day Canada and his establishment of France's North American capital of Quebec. Click the "Samuel de Champlain Activities"...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: North American Monsoon
NASA tracked rainfall and soil moisture for a three-month period in 1993 to confirm that these rain patterns were indeed a monsoon. Watch this animation to see the relationship between soil moisture and rainfall in the Southwest U.S. By...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Slavery and Freedom: Frederick Douglass
This concise biography presents author/journalist Frederick Douglass, who was groundbreaking in his slave narratives and establishing "The North Star" abolitionist periodical in mid-nineteenth-century America. See "Frederick Douglass...
World Atlas
World Atlas: North America
Features maps and a description of the geography and history of North America with links to information on its countries, famous people, flags, symbols, and much more.
University of North Carolina
North American Slave Narratives: Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Provides the text of the book, "The Life and Adventures of Nat Love," an autobiography written by Nat Love.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The American War for Independence
The decision of Britain's North American countries to rebel against their Mother Country was a risky one. The teaching unit is comprised of three lesson plans. Students explore the diplomatic and military aspects of the American War for...
The Newberry Library
Newberry Library: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Urban North
Learning resource using primary sources in which students study de facto segregation in the North following the Civil War and examine how African-Americans responded to segregation and racism compared to the South.
Other
Accessible Archives: African American Newspapers
Describes seven different African American newspapers that were published in the 1800s. These were newspapers written by African Americans for an African American audience. Access to the actual newspapers is only available on this...
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: North Carolina Poets
Poets.org provides an overview of the poets from a particular state. The overview for North Carolina includes information on the featured poets (Maya Angelou and Tony Hoagland) and poems specifically about North Carolina.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: Improvements in Transportation: Post American Revolution to Civil War
From the earliest days of European exploration, the land and waterways seemed to do their best to frustrate growth and movement in what was to become North Carolina. In its natural condition, the area was just not an easy place to get...
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Colonial Settlement 1600s 1763
The settlement of the colonies in America is the focus of this article. The course of events is divided into topics and time periods, making it easier to understand. Note is made of the effects to the already present Native Americans as...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: American Diplomacy
An on-line magazine that provides "Commentary, Analysis, and Research on American Foreign Policy and Its Practice." Also contains articles from actual ambassadors and diplomats in the Foreign Service.
Other
Native Peoples of North America: Agricultural Societies in Pre European Times
A good introduction to the three major Native American cultures in the Southwest prior to European contact. Find information about the Mogollon, Anasazi, and Hohokam cultures. Read how they influenced each other, and what was unique...
Henry J. Sage
Sage American History: Civil War Introduction
Article introducing the Civil War. The author provides background information on the debates between the North and South eventually leading to war.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Textiles
A comprehensive site on textiles of the North American Southwest. Includes a gallery, map, catalog, glossary and timeline.
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