- Best of History Web Sites: US History
United States History (U.S., American)This site contains an annotated bibliography of the top 5 history sites, plus many others.
Visit Best of History Web Sites for the best United States (American) history web sites -- reviewed and rated
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- Digital History (Multimedia and Interactive Historical Resources)
This site includes the Flash Movie "An Overview of American History" Dr. Steven Mintz shares his perspectives on the major themes in our country's past. See multiple other history links.
Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.
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- Choosing Revolution EFT: Electronic Field Trip: “Loyalty or Liberty?”
This is an interactive game called where students are given a role as a slave of a Loyalist. The slave goes on errands and learns different secrets. This site includes music, pop up windows which define vocabulary, pictures, it’s really awesome! It is connected to the Colonial Williamsburg site. They have several “electronic field trips” schools can purchase, but this one is free. Recommended by Lynn Pahl
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- Revolutionary War for Kids
This is a student-friendly website created by a teacher and students from Pocantico Hills School in New York. The site features students’ writing and artwork related to the Revolutionary War. The site is easy to understand and includes a student made time line, interactive cause/effect chart, Match the Country game and Complaints Against George III which would be helpful as assessment tools or for student practice. This site was actually created by an LD classroom. The site is easy to understand, and includes the main ideas, events and people from the Revolutionary War. Recommended by Lynn Pahl
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- Selective Bibliography and Guide for "I IS NOT FOR INDIAN"
THE PORTRAYAL OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Program of the ALA/OLOS Subcommittee for Library Services to American Indian People, American Indian Library Association, Atlanta, June 29, 1991 Compiled by Naomi Caldwell-Wood, President, AILA Lisa A. Mitten, Secretary, AILA
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- The American Revolution
This site is linked to many other sites about the American Revolution. Some of the things I found especially interesting were midi files I can download with folk music from the time period, virtual tours of Betsy Ross’ house, actual spy letters, and an activity where kids write their own “spy letters” with invisible ink, a colonial stamp art project and lesson plans for the Revolution. Recommended by Lynn Pahl
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- American Dialect
D.C.-area schools shift approach to teach students who arrive from cultures where the mother tongue is English, but not the standard American version.
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- College Is Possible American Council on Education
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