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U.S. History - Women's Rights/History: Websites
| African-American Women On-line Archival Collections
Historical collection of letters and memoirs by African-American women in the nineteenth-century. |
| American Collection: An Educator's Site
Highlighting the works of six great authors—Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty—the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides. |
| American Experience
As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, PBS's American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its twentieth season, the series has produced over 200 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. |
| American Memory Project (Library of Congress)
Archival resources for exploring many aspects of American history and culture. |
| American Studies at the University of Virginia
The site is a repository of scholarly concentrations on such humanities topics as the 1930s, cultural maps, American literature, avant-garde and postmodern art exhibitions, and the U.S. Capitol building as an American icon. The site houses hypertexts of several American authors, including: Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
| At Home in the Heartland Online
In-depth materials on family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present. |
| BackStory with the American History Guys (NEW)
(NEW) BackStory is a brand-new public radio program that brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today. |
| Center for the Liberal Arts
Maintained by the University of Virginia, this site provides educators with a wealth of humanities resources for their classrooms and help in using technology effectively. |
| Conversations with History
Interviews with a broad range of historical figures from the latter half of the twentieth century. |
| Digital Classroom (National Archives and Records Administration)
Historical documents, activities, and training for educators and students. |
| Do History
The site centers upon the historical work surrounding the diary of Martha Ballard, an 18th Century midwife. The core of the site is Martha's actual diary, which can be browsed or searched online, but the site also includes a large archive of primary sources about Martha and colonial America. |
| Documents of Civil War Women
Resources by and about women during the Civil War. |
| E Pluribus Unum
The E Pluribus Unum Project, is designed for the use of students, teachers, and other researchers who wish to examine the attempt to make "one from many" in three critical decades of American life: the 1770s, the 1850s, and the 1920s. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project (George Washington University) (NEW
(NEW) A project dedicated to bringing Eleanor Roosevelt's writings (and radio and television appearances) on democracy and human rights before an audience as diverse as the ones she addressed. |
| History Matters
Designed for teachers of U.S. History Survey courses at high schools and colleges around the world, History Matters provides an excellent starting point for exploring American history on the Web. This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. It emphasizes materials that focus on the lives of ordinary Americans and involves students in analyzing and interpreting evidence. |
| History Now
A quarterly on events in American History from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The site also contains lesson plans, interactivities, and other educational resources. |
| Indivisible: Stories of American Community
Indivisible, a project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, documents, through photographs and interviews, the struggles and achievements of 12 communities that have made differences on their residents. The American communities, from Chicago's Southwest side to the North Pacific Coast of Alaska, each face different challenges, but their stories all feature individuals of exceptional vision and commitment. |
| Jazz: A Ken Burns Film
This highly interactive site offers many ways to introduce jazz as a musical genre and cultural tradition. An interactive map features hot places for jazz in America; a lounge defines jazz with recordings of key elements and genres; and audio files feauture nine different songs of nine artists. Artists featured on the site include: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan. |
| Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening
The site features 13 works by Chopin, including The Awakening, a transcript of the documentary, interviews with a Chopin descendent and Chopin scholar, and a basic chronology of Chopin's life. |
| Making of America (NEW)
(NEW) Searchable repository of monographs, journals, and imprints from 1840-1900. |
| National First Ladies Library
Background on the women of the White House. |
| Picturing Modern America (NEW)
(NEW) Site contains interactive exercises designed to: Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920; Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources; Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources. |
| Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Features comprehensive virtual tours of the institution’s current exhibits. A timeline maps the history of the United States through artifacts that are in the museum’s collection. The “Our Story In History” link leads to information on the museum’s educational programming that includes several interactive activities. Both teachers and students may browse the site’s recommended reading list, either by century, or ethnic history. |
| U.S. Women's History Workshop
Resources for middle and high school study of gender issues in American history. |
| Witchcraft in a Salem Village
The site provides accurate information about the history of the Salem witch trials using primary documents almost exclusively. These texts include complete court documents, profiles of those involved, rare books and treatises about witchcraft and the Salem trials, and original maps. |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-1940
Research projects on the role women have played in the struggle for social justice. |
| Women of Our Time (NEW)
(NEW) A photographic exhibition of notable American women of the 20th century; from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. |
| Women of the West Museum
Online exhibits about the experiences of women in the American west. |
| Women Working, 1800-1930 (NEW)
(NEW) Digitized texts and objects related to women working between 1800 and 1930, with a teacher resource page that provides five themed exhibits for incorporation in a lesson. |
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