CAPTAIN COOK AND THE ENDEAVOUR - view the Endeavour journal of Captain
James Cook in which he describes journeying to Tahiti to observe the transit
of Venus.
http://www.nla.gov.au/collect/treasures/mar_treasure.html
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW: Primary documents form the basis of this
online archive, showing the Civil War from two different but very real
perspectives: north and south.
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/
ONLINE GEOGRAPHY GAMES - Learn more about world regions, countries and
capitals by playing quiz-like games.
http://www.standard.net.au/~garyradley/games/
ELLIS ISLAND - At this Web site, visitors can learn more about the
immigrant experience, explore America's Immigrant Wall of Honor, and follow
links to related information sources.
http://www.ellisisland.org/
ELECTION SITE SUBMISSION - Read all about how we elect a President,
find words associated with the election process, vote for the Presi-
dent here, find fun things to do, and more.
http://www.pocanticohills.org/election/election.htm
IMMIGRATION STATION - Information on the history of California's
Angel Island which served primarily as a detention center and its role as a
quarantine station.
http://www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html
IMMIGRATION LAW - Information at this site includes the legal
rights, duties and obligations of aliens in the United States as well as the
laws by which certain aliens can become naturalized.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/immigration.html
EARLY AMERICA: Newspapers, documents, maps and images are available
from this site, which focuses on the late 18th to early 19th Centuries in
the United States.
http://earlyamerica.com/
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - "NARA is an
independent Federal agency that helps preserve our nation's history by
overseeing the management of all Federal records. There are digitized
versions of American History's greatest documents - the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as well as other
source
material such as veterans records. There is also a section where you can
create your own archives."
http://www.nara.gov/
A-BOMB WWW MUSEUM - Tells the story of "Little Boy," the atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima, from the point of view of those on the ground.
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
MAP MACHINE - World-wide mapping from National Geographic -- print
maps with different map options, view the oceans of the world and get flags
and facts of other countries.
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/index.html
THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE - is a non-governmental research
institute and library at The George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. that collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html
DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION - Loads of info in this directory
including research tools with maps, travel literature, atlases; links to
bibliographies, journals and biographies as well as time lines and historic
information.
http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/discovery.html
WITHIN THESE WALLS... This website from the Smithsonian looks at a
house in Massachusetts, and follows its occupants over two hundred years.
You can find out about the five families that lived there, artifacts from
each time period, and how to uncover more information about your own house or
neighborhood.
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/house/
MRS. GAMMONE'S WEBSITE
http://www.teacherweb.com/ny/stpatrick/mrsgammone