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Lesson Plans:

• Anti-Railroad Propaganda: The Growth of Regionalism 1800-1860 a Constitution Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/1830rr.html
  
  
• Crossroads: A K-16 American History Curriculum is composed of thirty-six units equally distributed among elementary, middle, and high school grade levels, as well as course syllabii for preservice social studies educators on the subjects of American history and history education.
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec3/index.html
  
  
• Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin a Constition Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/whitney.html
  
  
• Lewis & Clark Expedition a Constitution Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/lewis.html
  
  
• Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West a Constitution Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/bloomer.html
  
  
• Tally of the 1824 Electoral College Vote a Constitution Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/electcol.html
  
  
• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo a Constitution Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/treatygh.html
  
  
• United States v. Thomas Cooper: A Violation of the Sedition Law a Constitution Community Lesson Plan
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/cooper.html
  
  

Resources:

• African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection from the Library of Congress
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
  
  
• The Age of Imperialism focuses on the period during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism.
  http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html
  
  
• Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
  
  
• America Votes Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library
  http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/
  
  
• American History site from The New York Times Learning Network
  http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/subjects/ushistory_index.html
  
  
• American Indian Studies from the Global Campus
  http://www.csulb.edu/gc/libarts/am-indian/index.html
  
  
• The American Revolution & Its Era: Maps & Chart of North American & the West Indies 1750-1789 from the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
  
  
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
  
  
• The American Revolution and the Struggle for Independence provides information from the Revolution to Reconstruction.
  http://grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
  
  
• The Big Picture a weekly jigsaw puzzle that, once assembled, provides information about the picture
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/puzzle/puzintro.html
  
  
• Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html
  
  
• By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson & Other Baseball Highlights, 1860's-1960's
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
  
  
• By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents & First Ladies, 1789-Present
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html
  
  
• By Popular Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
  
  
• California Missions Interactive an Internet field trip
  http://www.tsoft.net/~cmi/
  
  
• The Diaries of George Washington
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwintro.html
  
  
• The Early America Review
  http://earlyamerica.com/review/
  
  
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives is a collection from the History Department of the University of Houston.
  http://vi.uh.edu/pages/mintz/primary.htm
  
  
• National Women's Hall of Fame exploring the biographies of The Hall's inductees, women of US History whose contributions have been the greatest value to the development of this country.
  http://www.greatwomen.org/
  
  
• The Federalist Papers complete text of the famous series of articles in support of adopting the U.S. Constitution
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html
  
  
• From Revolution to Reconstruction from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html
  
  
• George Washington: First in War, First in Peace, & First in the Hearts of His Countrymen from the Library of Congress
  http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/gw/gwintro.html
  
  
• George Washington:Papers from the Library of Congress
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
  
  
• Historic Latta Plantation: An early 19th Century Living History Farm
  http://www.lattaplantation.org
  
  
• History of the United States from the Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State University
  http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=17
  
  
• History and Politics Out Loud gives a collection of audio materials capturing significant events and personalities of the 20th century.
  http://www.hpol.org/
  
  
• Images of the American Revolution
  http://www.nara.gov/education/cc/amrev.html
  
  
• Mary Lyon on the Web a remarkable woman who founded the worldwide model of higher education for women--Mount Holyoke College.
  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/
  
  
• The Oregon Trail by Mike Trinklein and Steve Boettcher
  http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html
  
  
• Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company 1890-1920 from the American Memory
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/detroit/dethome.html
  
  
• Pioneer Spirit from Great Plains Software
  http://www.gps.com/Pioneer_Spirit/
  
  
• Pioneering Women in American Memory
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/women/women.html
  
  
• Port of Entry: the American Journey of Immigration
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/start.html
  
  
• Railroad Maps of North America
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
  
  
• Sound Samples from U.S. Presidents from the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University
  http://web.msu.edu/vincent/
  
  
• Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns is web support materials and activities for a PBS video on Thomas Jefferson.
  http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/
  
  
• Timeline of African-American History from the Library of Congress
  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timeline.html
  
  
• The US Constitution from the National Archives and Records Administration
  http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/conmain.html
  
  
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary
  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/index.htm
  
  
• We the People ... The Citizen & the Constitution" helps elementary and secondary school students understand the history & the principles of our constitutional government.
  http://www.civiced.org/wethepeople.html
  
  

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