American History

 

Updated 1-15-24

  1. America’s Story
  2. Christopher Columbus
  3. Chronicling America–with old newspapers
  4. the Flag–evolution of the American flag
  5. Google Earth tours about American History
  6. Historic speeches
  7. Lewis and Clark–via Google Earth
  8. Mission US
  9. Native American Conflicts
  10. Oregon Trail—virtual tour
  11. Oregon Trail–a browser-based edition
  12. US History for Dummies –– videos
  13. US News Map–the news headlines between 1789 and 1922

Civil War

  1. Civil War I video
  2. Civil War II video
  3. Civil War—reconstruction—video
  4. Gettysburg Battle app

Colonies

  1. America–Colonies
  2. Jamestown Adventure Game
  3. Music of the Plimoth Colony Settlers

Revolution

  1. American Rev—5 min. summary video
  2. American Revolution
  3. American Revolution Curriculum Materials–from the National Park Service
  4. American Revolution Explained–a fun video
  5. Crash Course in US History: American Revolution — video
  6. Google Earth American History tours (including the Revolution)
  7. Images of the Revolutionary War–National Archives
  8. Jamestown Adventure Game
  9. Mission US–Crown or Colony
  10. Museum of the American Revolution virtual tour
  11. Pictures of the American Revolution
  12. Prelude to the Revolution–taxes and smuggling–from Crash Course
  13. USA Puzzles

WW

  1. D-Day through the eyes of a journalist--video

9-11

  1. Remembering 9/11 (from 2009)
  2. Great collection of sites about Osama bin Laden, terrorism, and the wars in the Middle East from Larry Ferlazzo.