American History

This is the place to find resources for teaching American history to your homeschool student. It is also a great spot for your children to find research links.

General History

• An African-American Resource Guide - A comprehensive source and gateway to African/African American history, society and culture.
• ChristianHistory.net
• Conservapedia - Everything needed to teach American History to ages 12-18, as used in 2008 in teaching the largest in-person homeschooled class in the nation: 65 teenagers in New Jersey.  No textbook needed.
• The Constitution of the United States of America 
• HippoCampus - HippoCampus provides free, multi-media content in many subjects, including Algebra, Biology, Physics, Calculus, Environmental Science, U.S. History, U.S. Government and more.
• The History Net - you'll just have to visit, a lot of interesting material
• The History Place - featuring pieces of  American history
• Know Your Rights: The United States Constitution

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Presidents

• Abraham Lincoln Online - a resource for everything you want to know about Lincoln
• Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
• The Life of George Washington - The Movie - Aim of the movie is to acquaint students with the roots of their country, inasmuch as GW's life parallels the beginnings of The Republic.
• The Life of George Washington - an online reprint of a book about George Washington 8 years after he died.
• Monticello - Thomas Jefferson's home.
• Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens - George Washington's home
• Papers of George Washington

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Early American

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage - an Exhibit of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• 1776 American Dream - listen to interviews with the founding fathers and answer quiz questions suitable for grade 3 through high school. Teach your children how to apply the founding father's values to life today.
• Archiving Early America - Our main focus is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago.
• Ben Franklin
• Colonial Williamsburg
• Founding.com: A User's Guide to the Declaration of Independence - contains thousands of pages of original source material, fully linked and searchable, and is one of the largest collections of documents of the American Founding anywhere on the Internet.
• French and Indian War Resource Guide
• Mayflower Web Pages. - The author of this web page, Caleb Johnson, is a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants with documented descent from Mayflower passengers.
• Seven Years War Website - the French and Indian wars
• USConstitution.net - Find out about the U.S. Constitution and other early American documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and more.

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Westward Expansionism

• The Oregon Trail - includes Historic Sites on the Trail, Fantastic Facts and Cool Trail media.

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Civil War - Present

• The Age of Imperialism - During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe
• The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of   Memory
• Selected Civil War Photographs
• Slave Voices - information with accompanying graphics relating to the slave trade, the work of slaves in plantation America, life in the slave community, and the problem of freedom when slavery was destroyed

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