This Teaching With Historic Places unit, designed for students in grades 5-12 is about the conflict between American settlers and the Cherokee Nation. Students will outline events leading up to the forced relocation of the Cherokee in...

The Booker T. Washington National Monument in Hardy, Virginia, is on the site of the Burroughs Plantation where Mr. Washington was born a slave in 1856. In addition to information about monument activities, this site offers a biography,...

A short biography on former Los Angeles Police Chief, Bernard Parks, a founding member of the Oscar Joel Bryant Foundation formed to better communication between African American police officers and the communities around Los Angeles.

At the online arm of the Eisenhower National Historic Site, a home and farm purchased by Eisenhower in 1950, find information about Eisenhower's life, the plant and animal species that live there, park operations, and similar types of...

A good look at the impact of geography in regard to the Battle of Bunker/Breed's Hill. Site offers a great lesson plan put together by a Park Ranger from the battleground park.

Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument is nestled in San Francisco, California. Declared a national monument in 1908 and inhabited by the Miwok Indians originally, this redwood forest is filled...

Part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument is nestled in San Francisco, California. Declared a national monument in 1908 and inhabited by the Miwok Indians originally, this redwood forest is filled...

This site introduces the Women's Rights National Historical Park. Touches on information about the Seneca Falls Convention and the signing of the Declaration of Sentiments. Hyperlinks lead to additional information.

Concise history of the National Archives building. Covers the architecture and location in Washington D.C.

This site focuses on the boyhood home of Abraham Lincoln. "Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the site of the farm where Abraham Lincoln spent 14 formative years of his life, from the ages of 7 to 21."

This site provides a brief biography of Eugene O'Neill. The main purpose of this site is for the Eugene O'Neill Nation Historic Site.

Read an overview of Massachusett's Adams National Historic Park, which contains over five generations of history for the Adams family. Links to more specific information about the park and traveling there are available.

A lesson plan for K-1 about important people in the Civil Rights movement. Requires Adobe Reader.

Learn about working for the U.S. National Park Service. Read a list of career opportunities from archaeologist to park ranger, and find out about park volunteering and internships.

Although this on-line book is from 1986, it can give the student a good perspective of the National Park Service and their never-ending quest to interpret the history that took place on their grounds for the American public.

The National Park Service provides basic biographical facts on John Rolfe whose experiments with tobacco planting provided a profit for the Jamestown colony.

A site from the National Park Service that provides limited information on the Kennesaw Mountain Civil War battle.

The National Park Service offers a brief description of the Battle of King's Mountain fought near Blacksburg, SC.

The National Park Service site for the George Washington Birthplace National Monument located in Westmoreland County, VA.

This site from the National Park Service provides the history of Nidodemus, Kansas, first western town planned by and for African-Americans. Settled by exodusters, the town served as a symbol as a land of opportunity for blacks escaping...

This National Park Service site offers information on the history of this short-lived colony, established by the French in 1564.

Brief description of coastal rice plantations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries from the National Park Service.

The National Park Service provides a site that describes the Indiana Dunes. The site tells how dunes are formed, what moraines are, and the strange combination of plants found at the Dunes.

The National Park Service provides backgroud on the historic U.S. Supreme Court racial segregation case, Brown vs. Board of Education. Includes a link to a PDF on related historical places (requires Adobe Reader).