The Oxford English Dictionary

The Chicago Manual of Style

"Amazing Grace" (2006)

"Amistad" (1997)

"The Crucible" (1996)

"Little Women" (1994)

"The Mark of Zorro" (1940)

Links used in Class

History of Roanoke Island

Historic Jamestowne

Virtual Jamestown

What is a Wherry?

Patterns of Settlement in Virginia

John Smith's General Historie

Info on Pocahontas

The Mayflower Compact

Plimoth Plantation

National Museum of the American Indian

Indentured Servants from England
(searchable database)

Population of North American Ports to 1775

Map of Historic British Counties

Stowage on the British Slave Ship Brookes

Information about Governor Glen

French & Indian War 250 Commemoration

Maps of the French and Indian War

Ohio and the French and Indian War

The Seven Years War (from Canada's perspective)

Maps from the George Washington Papers

Map of the Progress of His Majesty's Armies in New York

Valley Forge National Historical Park

Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center

Map of the United States in 1783

Ratification of the Constitution

Information on Charles IV of Spain

Napoleon Timeline

The Louisiana Purchase

Map of the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Discovering Lewis & Clark

Information on Sacagawea

Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country

The Story of the Flag

The Star Spangled Banner (for kids)

Ohio Historical Society

Fort Meigs

Presidents of the United States

The Barbary Coast

Information on Prairie Schooners

The Gold Rush

The Oregon Trail

Cotton Gin Patent & Eli Whitney

Erie Canal Time Machine

Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Map of Lake Champlain

Factory Rules from the Handbook to Lowell, 1848
& Lowell National Historical Park

The Declarations of Independence & Sentiments

Women's Rights National Historical Park
(Seneca Falls, New York)

Information on Sojourner Truth

Information on Alexander Stephens

Battle Hymn of the Republic &
Information on Julia Ward Howe

Civil War Timeline (with links to photographs)

Events in "The West", 1860-1870

Map of Land Grant Institutions in 1862

Historic Maps of the Transcontinental Railroad

The Gettysburg Address
(drafts and zoomable copy)

Gettysburg National Military Park

Map of Lee's Retreat

Information on Abraham Lincoln

Information on Robert E. Lee

Clara Barton National Historic Site

Information on Julia Grant

The Emancipation Proclamation

Video clips about Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant

Pictures of Philadelphia

Illustrations of the Centennial Exhibition

State Buildings (including Ohio)
at the Centennial Exhibition

Old Abe the War Eagle

Virtual Tour of the
Wisconsin State Assembly Chamber

Further reading:

1421: The Year China Discovered America

Atlantic Monthly article on Pre-Columbian population figures

Ohio's First Peoples

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805 & other books on the Barbary pirates

Narrative of Sojourner Truth