Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Touring Turn of the Century America
This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...
Harvard University
Harvard University Library: Open Collections: Immigration to the u.s.,1789 1930
Find books, pamphlets, photographs, maps, and manuscripts about immigration to the United States, principally nineteenth-century immigration. With a timeline of key dates in U.S. immigration history and a browsable list of search themes...
HyperHistory Online
Hyperhistory.com: Timelines of the Great Depression
Peruse this timeline of the Great Depression and gather information about this era in United States History. Short, interesting paragraphs summarize U.S. and world events with an emphasis on economic issues.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Second Amendment
Check out this interactive timeline on the history of the second amendment.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Congress Cannot Grant Itself a Raise
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of Congressional pay.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Civil Liberties in Wartime
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of civil liberties at wartime.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: America and Nazi Book Burning
A comprehensive history of the purification of Nazi Germany by burning objectionable books.
Other
Kids Voting Usa
Kids Voting USA offers learning activities on the history and importance of voting, as well as a timeline of suffrage in the United States. Each learning activity includes materials, objectives, and questions to be raised in class.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Early America: The First Americans
Gives an overview of the timeline of humans establishing themselves in the Americas, starting with the crossing of the Bering Sea land bridge some time before 12,000 B.C. Archaeological evidence shows humans moving south and eventually...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The Making of African American Identity [Pdf]
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
PBS
Pbs Frontline: Al Qaeda's New Front
PBS Frontline investigates the threat radical jihadists pose to Western Europe and it allies - including the United States.
Other
Indiana Historical Bureau: Northwest Ordinance of 1787
A timeline of events significant to Indiana and the United States preceding and following the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: American Presidency: William J. Clinton
Brief biographical sketch of America's forty-second president includes background information on the era in which he served and linked-to objects from the Smithsonian's collections that help define the man and his presidency.
Other
Family Search: Philippine Insurrection, 1899 to 1902
During the Philippine Insurrection, more than 125,000 American soldiers were sent to the Philippines, and over 4,000 deaths occurred during this conflict. This was also known as the Philippine-American War and the War of Philippine...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Harlem Renaissance Unit
This unit on the history and contribution of the Harlem Renaissance combines research and creative presentations in the form of slideshows, a timeline, and desktop publishing.
Other
Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership
Resources, such as a timeline of women's struggle for equality in America, on topics related to the history of women in the United States. Also find information on two nineteenth-century rights activists, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: American Presidency: George W. Bush
Brief biographical sketch of America's forty-third president includes background information on the era in which he served and linked-to objects from the Smithsonian's collections that help define the man and his presidency.
CBS
Cbsnews: Hunting Bin Laden
An interactive site that has a timeline, the history of Osama Bin Laden, and his video tapes. Covers many different aspects of the hunt for Bin Laden and gives detailed information about Bin Laden and what the United States is doing to...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Freedom of the Press
Check out this interactive timeline on the history of freedom of press in the United States.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Right to Be Informed of Criminal Charges
Check out this interactive timeline of the history of right to be informed of criminal charges in the United States.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Right to Be Confronted by Adverse Witnesses
Check out this interactive timeline of the history of right to be confronted by adverse witnesses in the United States.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Right to Assistance of Counsel
Check out this interactive timeline of the history of right to assistance of counsel in the United States.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Right to Trial by Jury in Federal Civil Cases
Check out this interactive timeline of the history of right to trial by jury in federal civil cases in the United States.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Check out this interactive timeline of the history of protection against cruel and unusual punishment in the United States.