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General Research Links

The Oxford Dictionary
Improve your searching
The New York Times
BBC News
The Seattle PI
King County Libraries
Chinook Library Search
The Library of Congress
The National Archives
The U.S. Census
The Founding Documents
The Museum of American History
PBS: The American Experience

General History Links

American History Links
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
If there were 100 people in the world
10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

Tools and Ideas for Teachers

Poll Everywhere
Letters to the Future
Future Me
John Zingale's Blog
The Micro Lab Protocol
The National Archives: DocsTeach
Rewordify
ThemeSpark's Rubric Builder
HappyClass Smart Seating Charts
DPLA - Primary Source Sets
Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot
Ambient Sounds for Classroom Simulations
PERSIA Acronym

Maps

Washington Bodies of Water (Click the Basemap tab)
Historic Aerial Photographs
Library of Congress Map Collection
Demographic Maps
Old Maps
U.S. Population Distribution
40 maps that will help you make sense of the world
Early American Maps

First Week of School

What Life is Like After a History Major
Dead Poets Society - Your Verse
The Importance of Compassion
Ray Charles - America
Woody Guthrie - This Land
Animated Map of American History

Native Americans

The Burke Museum - Native American Boxes
Meet Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man is a debate not easily put to rest
A girl's skeleton similar to Kennewick Man is found in Central America
Kayaker following Kennewick Man from Washington to Japan
Northwest Indian Art and Tools'
Indiana Jones' would make a bad archaeologist
Kennewick Man bones not from Columbia Valley, scientist tells tribes
Kennewick Man was Native American
UW Libraries: Native American History
UW Libraries: PNW American Indians
Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
Native American Facts
Arctic Indians
Arctic, NW, Plateau Indians
Environment/Climate Atlas
10,000 year old stone tools found in Redmond, WA
Encyclopedia Britannica (choose the dictionaries/encyclopedia section from the drop down menu)

The Explorers

Christopher Columbus' Real Discovery: Syphilis
Columbus was awful, but this other guy was not
Chinese Explorer Zheng He reaches Africa
1492: The Prequel of Zheng He
What Would You Take to Jamestown?
Mel-O-Toons: Christopher Columbus
Comparing Smallpox and Chickenpox
Direct From the Garden an Ocean Away
Columbus Day protesters march in downtown Seattle
Columbus Day is Indigenous People's Day in Seattle
The American Empire
Carl Sagan's The Humans

The 13 Colonies

A Colonial Overview
Life in the Colonies
The Pilgrims were the original refugees
13 Colonies Facts
The Northeast Colonies
The Middle Colonies
The Southern Colonies
Religion in the Middle Colonies
A link collection spanning the Colonies to the Revolution
Slavery in America
The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England
Broadside - Visit Bend TV Commercial
Broadside - Super, Natural BC
Broadside - Visit Singapore
Broadside - America's Best Land Buy

The Road to Revolution

The French and Indian War Explanation
1776 - Momma Look Sharp
Trailer for HBO's John Adams Miniseries
Maps of Revolutionary Boston
Revolutionary War Timeline
SPARKNOTES: Road to Revolution
Revolutionary War Clothing and Music
John Marcelia's Deerfield Video
George Washington's Teeth
Editing the Declaration of Independence
Someone bought the Declaration of Independence for $2.48!
T.J and the Revo - Too Late to Apologize

The American Revolution

Britishbattles.com
Animated Battle Maps
The Battle of Quebec
PowerPoint Do's and Don'ts
1776 - Momma Look Sharp
Hamilton at the White House
Hamilton lyrics on genius.com
Using Hamilton in the classroom
We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident
PBS: LIBERTY!
The American Revolution
National Park Service: American Revolution
Pre-Revolution and Revolution Timeline

The Constitution

Crash Course in Government and Politics
Could you pass a Civics test from 1954
New York Times Election Results
Schoolhouse Rock - I'm Just a Bill
The Constitution in Modern English
Judge in the Classroom
Mock Trial Scripts
A Good Study Guide for the Test
An Annotated Constitution for your notes
Schoolhouse Rock - Three-Ring Government
iCivics Games!
A Propaganda Exhibit from the United States Holocaust Museum
A series of short videos about how Congress works
17 Supreme Court cases you should know
The ReDistricting Game
Interactive Learning Activities
Stop and Frisk
How to Refuse A Police Search
Baltimore enacts a curfew for children
U.S. Constitution no longer used as a model for other nations
An Interactive Constitution Timeline
All the Supreme Court's Decisions
American Bar Association Lesson Plans

Economics and Taxation 

Understanding Fiscal Responsibility
Where Did the Debt Come From? - YouTube
America's Debt Crisis Explained
Wealth Inequality in America
How would you fix the federal deficit?
This is where 70% of taxes go
Paying for College
How taxes are collected and spent by county in Washington
State by State Tax Policy
The National Debt Clock

Elections

Politics and Money
New York Times - Who is winning the Presidential Campaign?
Election Betting Odds
Income as an indicator of voting preference
Demographic indicators of voting preference
University of Annenberg Fact Checker
Campaign Ads
Radio Ads
The Crimson Party Campaign Advertisement
Who do you side with?
The 2012 Electoral College Map
How does the Electoral College work?
How does the Electoral College not work?
U.S. States and Territories by Population
What is Gerrymandering?
Is there a better way to elect representatives?
The rise of Congressional Partisanship
What is The Electoral College
What if all the states had equal population?
One way to get rid of the Electoral College
Party platforms magnify idea divide
Platform Debate Points
Roll Call
Presidential TV Ads
FactCheck.org
Real Election TV Advertisements
Wikipedia has blocked edits coming from members of Congress due to bias

A New Nation

The Papers of George Washington
The Inflation Calculator

Expansion and Reform

YouTube - Paul Revere & The Raiders - Indian Reservation
Trail of Tears in the news
Lewis and Clark - Choose your own adventure
U.S. Expansion Lesson Plans
YouTube - Lewis and Clark Student Video
YouTube - Lewis and Clark Student Video 2
YouTube - Lewis and Clark Student Video 3
YouTube - Lewis and Clark Student Video 4
YouTube - Lewis and Clark Student Video 5
YouTube - Lewis and Clark Student Video 6
Discovering Lewis and Clark
National Park Service: Lewis and Clark
PBS: Lewis and Clark
National Geographic Lewis and Clark
Mapping with Lewis and Clark
Journals of Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark only became popular 50 years ago
NPR - The very serious archaeological quest for Lewis and Clark's Poop

The Oregon Trail

Biographies of people on the Oregon Trail
Real Families on the Oregon Trail
The Barlow Family
Oregon Trail Basics
Research Topics
The Salish Villages of Puget Sound
Apple IIe Oregon Trail Game!
The Oregon Trail
Packing for the trail and the Barlow Road
Cooking without a Kitchen
YouTube - The Oregon Trail Game Parody Trailer
Seattle Times - Driving the Oregon Trail
Life on the Trail
Early Asian American Immigrants
Early Asian American Timeline
Asian Americans in Seattle
Destination City Research
Port Townsend 1878
Olympia 1879
Seattle 1878
Seattle 1884
Seattle 1891
Spokane 1884
Walla Walla 1876
Yakima 1889

The Civil War

Slavery and the Making of America
The country at the start of the Civil War
Sullivan Ballou's Letter to His Wife
Annotated List of Civil War websites
Another annotated list of Civil War websites
Library of Congress - Civil War Photographs
Battlefield Maps
Civil War photographs
The Soldiers at Gettysburg
Interactive map of the Battle of Gettysburg
A Digital Reimagining of The Battle of Gettysburg
National Park Service - The Civil War
The Civil War Infographic
Antietam: A Savage Day In American History
Hand Cranked Cotton Gin
Modern Day Cotton Ginning
PBS Civil War
Civil War Photography
Library of Congress: Civil War Photograph Collection
National Archives Civil War Photography
Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln Trailer
Civil War Everything!
Civil War Medicine
The Smithsonian: Civil War
The Battle of Snoqualmie
Casualties of the Civil War
Did the American Civil War Ever End?
Civil War Lesson Plans

PNW

The Point Elliot Treaty 155 years later
Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
Washington State Historical Society
For former WWII internees, UW degrees come after 66-year wait
Bainbridge survivors of Japanese internment are dying, and memorial not yet built
Nike Missile Sites on Cougar Mountain
Cougar Mountain hike is an adventure
100 years of hidden Cougar Mountain History
Missile Sites in Washington
A submerged Northwest Mine
Cougar Mountain Map
Bainbridge Island breaks ground for Japanese-American internment memorial
Nike Defensive Missiles
Plants Native to Cougar Mountain
Almost Live Bellevue Tourism Parody
Eastside Heritage Center Photo Collection
Lowering of Lake Washington: Underwater Mill Remains
The History of Lake Washington
Seattle Depression photos
Photos of The Great Seattle Fire
Seattle WWII Photos
Seattle: Past and Present
Historical Bellevue Photos
Census shows Bellevue becoming a cultural crossroads
The flattening of Seattle
Building Seattle meant moving mountains
Bellevue Schools Timeline - 1883 to the Present
Nike Ajax Model Kit
Heart Mountain Internment Center
King County Historical Maps
Fort Minor - Kenji
Internment's heartbreaking legacy: Rare, unpublished photos
Manzanar Japanese Internment Site: Then and Now
A reporter enters Hiroshima and sees...
A middle school student who survived the bombing of Hiroshima
Internees reading letters to Muslim kids