Grade+8+American+History+Research

After finding print resources in our library, there are many good gateway sites to historical information. Consider looking at some of the following:

GENERAL SOURCES: US History Timeline Library of Congress -- Primary Documents in American History American History Magazine --HistoryNet.com The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Library of Congress -- American Memory Collection History.com Biography.com Infotopia -- American History Infotopia -- Primary Sources ipl2.org

CIVIL WAR SOURCES: Civil War Photos Civilwar.com PBS - Civil War Civil-War.net Civil War Archive CivilWar.org -- primary sources Women in the Civil War 1 Women in the Civil War -3 Eyewitness to History -- Civil War Women Nurses in Civil War Civil War Women Spies in the Civil War - National Park Service Abraham Lincoln Conspiracy Theories [|Abraham Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy -History.com] Life of a Civil War Soldier Underground Railroad -- History.net Underground Railroad primary sources

WORLD WAR 1 SOURCES: World War 1 History How World War 1 Changed Aviation Forever (BBC) Aircraft and World War 1

WORLD WAR II SOURCES: World War II Primary Sources BBC History -- World War Two "Manhattan Project" -- UShistory.org World War II articles -- Finding Dulcinea

1930's SOURCES: The Great Depression Timeline -- PBS America in the 1930s American Exodus -- Displacement in the 1930s The Great Depression -- Finding Dulcinea Lindbergh Kidnapping- History.com Lindbergh Kidnapping - FBI Lindbergh Kidnapping - PBS

OTHER SOURCES Native American Medicine US Natl Library of Medicine: American Indian Health Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive Salem Witchcraft Trial primary sources [|Virtual Jamestown -- Firsthand accounts] National Geographic - Discovering the Lost Colony Oregon Trail on HistoryNet[[@http://www.nps.gov/oreg/learn/historyculture/index.htm|Natl Park Service: Oregon Trail]] Library of Congress: Oregon Trail Primary Sources Orphan Trains of Kansas Orphan Train Riders "Abraham Lincoln's Attitudes on Slavery and Race" Natl Park Service: Lincoln on Slavery "The Great Fever" PBS.org Short History of Yellow Fever in US JFK Museum: Death of a President US Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Background on Three Mile Island Dickinson College -- Three Mile Island Virtual Museum Olympic Regional Development Authority -- Miracle on Ice Miracle on Ice Impact of 9-11 on Emergency Preparedness Remembering 9/11 - National Geographic Challenger Explosion - History.com Coal Mining History - US Dept of Energy California Gold Rush - History.com Lost Colony of Roanoke Man O'War history