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General Links, American Studies Sites, Colonial American: The South, Slavery, Colonial America: New England, Philadelphia, Transcendentalism, The West, The Civil War, World War I (The American Dream)

 

 

 

General Links

 

 Supplementary Resources

 

WayBack Machine: the Internet Archive indexes billions of webpages, showing how they have changed over the years. With links to millions of pages and themed collections, this collection is a useful starting place for research on how the Internet has changed since its creation in 1990.

American Collection Literary Map The American Collection Literary Map provides a visual gateway to authors across America. By selecting any state, users can access author information or submit their own information and related web links. This site is brought to you by Exxon and the National Council of Teachers of English.

New York Times Learning Network The New York Times provides this free website with resources for students, teachers, and parents.

Newsuem: The Interactive Museum of News The Newseum features the front pages of over 300 US and international newspapers, online exhibits, such as one that features photographs that have received the Pulitzer Prize and a fine exhibit on D-Day, and resources for educators.

American Experience: Vietnam Timeline

History's Time Portal to Old St. Louis

Interactive Literature Links: The American Traditions Ebook supplement

Social Studies Literature Connections

 

 

Manuscripts
 American Folklore Net

 

 

American Studies Sites

 

 

 

Colonial America: The South

 

 

 

The New England Colony: Puritans & Pilgrims

 

Supplementary Reading

 

 

Famous Colonial Americans

 

 

 

Slavery

 

 

 

 

 

Colonial America: New England

Religion in Colonial America

 

Puritians For a further investigation of the Puritans, check out the Salem WitchhuntWebquest.

 

 

 

 

Philadelphia: The Quakers

 

 

Famous Americans: BenFranklin

 

 

 

 

1800-1840 A Growing Nation: From Reason to Romance
Introduction pages 164-179

 American Romanticism can be broadly defined as that perspective which looks at objects and sees them as emblems of a greater reality. In other words, freedom of perception for the individual can be completely liberated.

Romanticism:Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.

 

Romanticism

Webquest: Romanticism in American Art (homework credit)

Early American Fiction

The Rise of the Short Story

 

 

Transcendentalism

 Artists/ Movements and Ideas: Utopias

 

For a further investigation of Transcendentalism and the first Flowering of American Intellectualism, check out the Utopian Communities Webquest.

 

 

The Western Frontier

 

Dime Novels: Popular Depictions of the West

 

 

Historical Timelines on the West

Key Dates in the American West's Expansion

The American West

Westward Expansion

The Old West

Images of the West: A Very good webquest.

 

Native American Literature

First Nations

Black Elk Speaks

Atlas to the Sioux Wars

Buffalo Soldiers and Indian Wars

Buffalo Soldiers and the Frontier

 

William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) Good link to his life and to his autobiography.

The Wild West-Webquest

Gunfighters: Kansas

Kansas Heritage Server

Greatest Films: Including Westerns

Artcyclopedia: Western Artists

The National Cowboy and Western

Canadian Native Nations and English Treaties: English Royal Proclamation of 1763

Images of the West Webquest

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley

American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920

North American Map Archive: Territorial Exapansion of the United States 1783-1853

New Perspectives on the American West

 

 

Native Americans

 

Encyclopedia of American Indians This online version of Frederick E. Hoxie's Encyclopedia of American Indians includes over 400 entries, covering such topics as specific tribes, biographies of Native people, historical topics such as boarding schools, and current issues such as mascots.

Maps of Native American Lands and History

Native American Maps
Trail of Tears Map

Native American History and Culture

Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans

Relations Between the United States and Native Americans

Native Americans Etexts of Primary Sources

Named Campaigns of the Indian Wars

Indian Wars Time Table

The West: Indian Wars

Western Expansion: Research Sites

Border Wars or Indian Massacres

 

Famous Americans

 

PBS The West: People


Connecting Text: The Autobiography of David Crockett

General Resources

 Lewis and Clark

 David Crockett

 Davey Crockett: Bio and Selection

Handbook of Texas Online

David Crockett: His life and Adventures

 

Special Presentation: William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)

This is a very good link to his life and to his autobiography.

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier

Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Buffalo Bill Grave and Museum

Buffalo Bill on PBS

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Exhibit

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Photos

Denver Library's Photo Collection: including Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Railroad Pictures

 

Harvey, Charles M.. "The Dime Novel in American Life" Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library (1907)

 

American West Art Links

Artcyclopedia: Western Artists

Two Rivers Gallery: fine art of the American Wes

The National Cowboy and Western

Maps of Native American Lands and History

Native American Maps

Canadian Native Nations and English Treaties: English Royal Proclamation of 1763

Trail of Tears Map

Native American History and Culture

Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans

Relations Between the United States and Native Americans

 

Native Americans Etexts of Primary Sources

 

The Dakota Conflict

 

Film and Media Archive: Washington University Library

Named Campaigns of the Indian Wars

Indian Wars Time Table

Historical Maps: Including The Indian Wars

The West: Indian Wars

Western Expansion: Research Sites

Border Wars or Indian Massacres

North American Map Archive: Territorial Exapansion of the United States 1783-1853

New Perspectives on the American West

 

PBS The West: People

 

 

Cattle Drive Timeline

Kansas Timeline: Kansas Historical Society

Events in the West Timeline: PBS

Events in the West Timeline: PBS 1860's Cattle Drives

 

Picture of a Winter Cattle Drive

Timeline of Texas and the Western Frontier

Texas History Highlights: Why did cattle drives stop?

History of Barbed Wire

Cattle Brand History

American West Timeline: School Project



The Civil War

The History Channel: The American Civil War

 

For a further investigation of The Civil War, check out the resources for the Civil War Journals assignment, or the Online Syllabus.

 

The South: Myth and Reality

 

The William Faulkner Foundation
William Faulkner Short Story Collection

Faulkner's Characters: Glossary

Faulkner's Genealogical Charts

A Yoknapatawpha Timeline

 

 

The Moderns: Realism to Naturalism

For a further investigation of The 1920z, check out the resources for the The Great Gatsby Magazine Project assignment, or the Online Syllabus.

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance

For a further investigation of The 1930z, check out the resources for the The Grapes of Wratth Project assignment, or the Online Syllabus.


 

F. Scott Fitgerald and The Great Gatsby

 

Black Mask: Pulp Fiction

Gumshoe

 

 

 

The Moonlit Road: Ghost Stories and Strange Folktales of the American South

The Hero's Journey: an environment to explore the classic mythical story structure and create your own stories.

The Poetry Express: 15 poems you can write now.

Graphic Design for the 1920s and 1930s.

Knowing Poe: Cool site from the Maryland Public Television

The Mystery Spot: Activities for teachers and students to solve mysteries.

The History of Jim Crow: explore the African-American experience of segragation form the 1870s through the 1950s.

American Writers: C-Span

Writing

American Dreams through the decades:This WebQuest challenges you to investigate the American Dream ...look through the eyes of those who lived before us ...use the American Memory collections, The Library of Congress, to visit America's past ...learn research skills and experience the richness of the library collections ...defend your ideas, create products that show your understanding of others' dreams ...then share your dream for America's future.

Ancient China: the British Museum

MOMa Art Safari: An adventure in modern art

Museum of Modern Art

 

Blogs in Education: This page is designed to provide you some resources if you want to get started using blogs for yourself or with your students.

 

KAIROS: online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.

Basic Steps in the Research Process

The Bell South Digital Storyteller Project:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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