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
PLACE THE STATE: "There are three different levels to this
online and interactive game on the fifty states. You can start
with level one, fitting in the state outlines where the shapes
match. On Level 2, no outlines are visible; you will have to be
more familiar with their locations. Level 3 challenges you to
attach the correct state names to the outlines." ET Newsletter
1/21/10
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/flash/states_game2.html