A huge database of North American birds which can be searched within a taxonomic family as well as by region. Each bird is accompanied by high-quality photos, audio recordings, a map of its distribution and migration areas, and...

This is a brief overview of the Native American cultures, languages, and diversity amont the many tribes that lived in North America prior to European contact.

A collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day, this site contains over 18,000 pages of primary source, eyewitness accounts of North American exploration starting with the Vikings.

This is a collection of 27 Grade-Leveled texts (4-12) on the topic Native American History. Before European settlers came to North America, millions of native people lived in many unique societies. Explore the history of Native Americans...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about various Native American tribes who have lived throughout North America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Scroll through this site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University to New England and click on the primary source documents concerning Edmund Andros. This site contains dozens of links related to colonial America. Sections...

Enter the Europeans into the woods and plains of central North America. How did this effect the people that were here already? Who was here, and what happened when worlds collide? Click on the thumbnail images for more information on the...

This award-winning resource from the Ohio Historical Society presents Ohio's first cultures: PaleoIndian, Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, and Late Prehistoric Period cultures. Click on each period for additional information and great...

See documents and pictures of those actively involved in the anti-slavery movement. From the Library of Congress.

This resource features the Pan American Unity Mural located at the City College of San Francisco. Also known as Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and the South, the mural was created to promote diversity and show human...

Great color photographs link to a regional map and additional information on the Cottonmouth snake.

A collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day, this site contains over 18,000 pages of primary source, eyewitness accounts of North American exploration starting with the Vikings.

The military-industrial complex thrived in the North during the Civil War, but read about how inflation affected the ordinary worker. See how the role of women expanded to fill in for men who were away fighting. Women also had an impact...