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The "Wild" West

• PBS - New Perspectives
• Kids Konnect.com
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Kansas Gunfighters
• The American West
• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• Little Bighorn
• George Custer
• Geronimo - His Own Story
• Dawes Act
• The American West

The Cattle Industry

• Chisholm Trail
• Barbed Wire
• Cattle Drive Map

Settling on the Great Plains

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Homestead Act
• Soddies
• Morrill Act
• The Grange

Populism

• The Populist Party
• The Populist Party
• Populist Party Platform

 

Oil and Steel

• History of the Oil Industry
• History of the Standard Oil Company
• Reflections on the Steel Industry
• Bessemer Process

 

Growth of the Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad
• George Pullman
• Munn v. Illinois
• Interstate Commerce Act

 

"Robber Barrons" - Big Business Owners

• Social Darwinism
• Horatio Alger Jr.
• J.P. Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie
• J.D. Rockefeller
• Sherman Antitrust Act

 

Rise of the Labor Unions

• Pictoral - Child Labor in the United States
• Sweatshop History
• Triangle Shirt Factory
• The Jungle
• Samuel Gompers
• Eugene V. Debs
• Mother Jones

The Progressive Era

• Sypnosis of the Progressive Movement
• Race and the Progressive Movement
• Issues of the Progressive Movement
• The Progressive Parties
• Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement
• Theodore Roosevelt on Film
• History Timeline of the Progressive Movement
• Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
• American Environmental Photographs
• Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
• The Life of a City
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America
• Last Days of McKinley
• Inside an American Factory
• NARA Digital Classroom
• Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
• The American Variety Stage
• Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
• The Gilbreth network
• National Child Labor Committee Collection
• Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
• Women and Social MovementsVotes for Women

World War I

General Information

• World War I - Trenches on the Web
• PBS - The Great War
• World War I - Document Archive
• The Great War
• Virtual Seminars
• Images of World War I
• The Great War in a Different Light
• Propaganda
• World War I Cartoons
• Encyclopedia of the First World War
• Art of the First World War
• BBC - World War I
• World War One Chronology
• Statistics of the War

Causes of World War I

• Events Leading to the Great War, 1870-1914
• British Documents on the Causes of the War
• The Zimmerman Telegram
• National Archives - The Zimmerman Telegram
• Wilson's Declaration of War
• The Triple Alliance
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• Causes of World War I
• The Assassination
• The Ultimatum to Serbia

The War Years

• History Channel - Letters to Home
• The American Experience - Letters of Soldiers
• The Western Front
• Battlefield Guide
• Battle of the Somme
• Life in the Trenches
• BBC - Tour of the Trenches
• Chemical Warfare
• Aviation in World War I
• U-Boats in the War
• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
• The Codetalkers

The Post War Era

• The Treaty of Versailles
• Wilson's 14 Points
• The League of Nations - Images
• The League of Nations
• The Battle over the Treaty
• The Palestine Mandate
• The Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928

The Roaring 20s

General

• 1920's.net
• The Booming 20's
• Wonderful Introduction to the 1920's
• A Nation in Flux
• 1925
• The Clash of the Cultures
• The Culture of the 1920's 

Woman's Suffrage Movement

• National Archives
• The American Experience
• Library of Congress
• Grolier'sWomen in American History
• American Woman's History Guide
• Women Pioneers in American Memory 

Music Art and Radio

• ABS in the Radio
• History of American Broadcasting
• The Roaring 20's Art and Culture
• The Jazz Age - Music Clips
• Art Deco
• Flapper Culture
• Jazz Age and Culture Resources 

The Red Scare

• Communist radicals archives
• Cartoons
• The Sacco and Vanzetti Case
• The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
• The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti 

Prohibition and Temperance

• Temperance and Prohibition
• American Prohibition
• Anti-Saloon League
• American Prohibition 

Rise of the "Mobsters"

• Gangsters, Outlaws and G-Men
• George "Bugs" Moran: His War With Al Capone
• Al Capone
• Bonnie and Clyde and Bonnie and Clyde
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre 

Scopes Monkey Trial

• The Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925
• The Scopes Monkey Trial
• William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes Trial

1930's and the Great Depression

General

• American History - 1930-1939
• America from Great Depression to WWII
• Celebrate the Century

The Dust Bowl

• The Dust Bowl and The Dust Bowl
• Voices from the Dust Bowl
• Surviving the Dustbowl

The Crash of 1929

• The Crash of 1929
• The Crash of 1929

The Great Depression

• The Economic Effects On Families Of The Great Depression
• The World Depression
• Reminiscences of the Great Depression
• We Made Do
• Sliding into the Great Depression  
• African-American Life During the Great Depression
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook: The Depression
• The Great Depression - Documenting America
• America's Great Depression
• America's Great Depression
• Great Depression Gallery
• Bungalow Gallery

The New Deal

• WPA Life Histories--Home Page
• New Deal Network Labor History
• USA: Other New Deal Programs
• Where Hope Was Found
• New Deal/WPA Art History
• USA: Roosevelt Battles Depression
• The New Deal Network: Online Resources
• New Deal Network
• The Great Depression & the New Deal
• Color Photographs from the FSA and OWI Home Page

1930's Culture

• The Swing Era Homepage
• Lindy Hop
• Greatest Films of the 1930s
• Century of Progress (Chicago World's Fair)
• 1939 New York World's Fair
• The Building of the Empire State Building

Child Labor Laws

• National Child Labor Committee Collection

Causes of World War II

• The World 1919
• Europe 1919
• Pre-War Chronology
• The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
• World War II Timeline
• The Causes and Consequences of World War II
• History Learning - UK
• Infoplease.com
• World War II Posters
• Pictures from World War II
• Diplomacy of Isolationism
• German Secret Rearmament
• The Rise of Hitler - Popups on this site
• Germany Under Hitler - Popups on this site
• Hitler - Speeches and Sounds
• World War II - Sounds and Pictures
• Time's Man of the Year - Hitler
• 1935 Nazi Propaganda for Rearmament
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy
• The Rhineland Crisis, 1936
• The German-Austrian Anschluss, 1938
• The Czech Crisis, 1938
• Neutrality Acts
• Lend-Lease program
• The Origins of Fascism
• Peace For Our Time by Neville Chamberlain
• The Munich Agreement
• "Radio Days - Neville Chamberlain"
• The Nazi Occupation of Poland
• War and Crisis in Asia and Europe
• Mobilization in WWII
• Japanese Occupation of China
• Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
  

Biographies

• Bradley, Omar
• Chamberlain, Neville
• Churchill, Winston
• de Gaulle, Charles
• Eichmann, Adolf

World War II - European Theater

• About.com
• Primary Documents - Germany
• Blitzkrieg!
• Lend-Lease program
• Battle of the Atlantic
• War in Scandanavia
• The German Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
• Battle of Britain
• Battles of Britain-1939-45
• Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
• London During the Blitz
• The Speeches of Winston Churchill
• Western Europe, 1939-1940
• Part 2, 1940-1944
• Part 3, Normandy to Berlin, 1944-1945
• France and the Low Countries
• The Maginot Line
• Italian Military History
• Battle of Monte Cassino
• Sicily - 1943
• Naples 1943-1944
• The Breakthrough to Rome
• North Apennines
• Po Valley 1945
• "Operation Overlord" - June 1944
• Normandy, June 1944
• The Normandy Invasion: The Story in Pictures
• Voices of D-Day
• The American Experience:Guts and Glory
• The Valour and The Horror - Normandy
• Battle of the Bulge
• The War of Attrition - 1944
• Defeat of Germany - 1945
• The Bombing of Dresden
• Rhineland, Sep. 1944 - May 1945
• North Africa
• Alternate Campaigns: Africa, the Med, and the Middle East
• Case Study North Africa
• Invasion of North Africa
• North African Landings - 1942
• The War in the Western Desert, El Alamein
• Victory in Tunisia - 1943
• The North African Campaign Of World War II
• Soviet Union Factbook
• The Russian Campaign 1941-1945 A photo diary
• The German Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
• The Battle of Stalingrad
• The Tide Turns
• Battle for Berlin
• Act of German Surrender
  

World War II - Pacific Theater

• Road to Pearl Harbor
• Pearl Harbor
• nationalgeographic.com - Pearl Harbor
• History Channel - USS Arizona
• Overview of the attack
• FDR's "A date which will live in infamy" Speech
• December Disaster - Pacific 1941
• Japan Moves South - 1941 Pacific
• America Responds - Pacific 1942
• Pacific Theater
• Lost Battalion of Texas in WWII Burma
• The Defense of Wake, Dec. 1941
• Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
• Bataan Death March
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Midway - National Geographic
• Midway
• Guadalcanal
• Guadalcanal
• Invasion of Saipan
• Saipan & Guam
• The Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Iwo Jima, 1945
• Stepping Stones to Tokyo
• Okinawa
• Japanese Surrender
• Japanese War Crimes

The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb

• Leo Szilard Online
• The Costs of the Manhattan Project
• History of the Manhattan Project
• Living on the Manhattan Project
• Los Alamos National Laboratory: History
• A-Bomb
• The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
• Trinity Test
• General Paul Tibbets
• Enola Gay
• Eyewitness - the bombing of Hiroshima
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
• Hiroshima
• IMAGES: Hiroshima Collection
• The Day The World Changed
• Hiroshima Archive
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki
• Fifty Years from Trinity

Holocaust

• Timeline
• Remember - Images
• Remember - Other Camps
• Gallery
• Museum of Tolerance
• U.S. Holocaust Museum
• U.S. Holocaust Museum for Students
• The Nizkor Project
• The Survivors of the Shoah
• Map of the Camps
• Chart - The Camps

Conferences of WWII

• The Avalon Project: Conferences During World War II
• German Surrender Documents
• The Nuremberg Trials

The Cold War

• Timeline of the Cold War
• Maps of the Cold War
• NATO and the Warsaw Pact Map
• The Marshall Plan - Primary Documents
• The Establishment of Occupation Zones
• Postwar Germany
• Map - Occupied Germany
• Department of State - Berlin Crisis
• Berlin Airlift
• Truman Library - Berlin Airlift
• U.S. Airforce - the Berlin Airlift
• The Berlin Wall Online
• The Concrete Curtain - The Berlin Wall
• Newseum - The Berlin Wall
• Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
• CNN Interactive - The Iron Curtain
• The Cold War and the Iron Curtain
• Examining the Korean War
• Department of Defense - Korean War
• National Archives
• The Truman Library
• Maps of the Korean War
• Korean War Educator
• The DMZ
• National Geographic - The DMZ
• The DMZ

 

Civil Rights

General Information

• Library of Congress-African American Perspectives
• Civil Rights. Table of Contents
• Welcome to The National Civil Rights Museum
• The Civil Rights Movement (Angela Hornsby) 
• Harry T. Moore Homesite - Mims, Florida 
• African American Inventors
• African American Scientists
• UGA- African Americans in History
• Understanding Other Cultures - You need FLASH - Click on Understanding Other Cultures
• African-American Heritage in Worcester County... 

Ida B. Wells

• Ida B. Wells
• Ida B. Wells

Martin Luther King Jr.

• MLK Online - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speec... 

Malcolm X

• Malcolm X: A Research Site
• Elke Moritz: The Malcolm X Picturebook

"Separate but Equal"

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - I was a Negro in th... 
• Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws 
• Segregation and Jim Crow Laws 

Multimedia Resources 

• Welcome to Webcorp Multimedia! 
• EarthStation1.com - The Civil Rights Audio / ... 
• Multimedia 
• KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White  

Desegregation

• CNN - 'Little Rock Nine' - September 24, 1997 

Southern Resistance to Change

• American History 102 Image Gallery: Ku Klux Klan
• Women's History: Ku Klux Klan 

Years of Turbulence

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion
• The Cuban Missle Crisis
• 14 Days in October
• The Vietnam War in Pictures
• American Experience - The Vietnam War

 

 

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