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8th Grade Research Web Links

8th Grade Web Links

American Revolution class links

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/usa.htm

1) From Revolution to Reconstruction

http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/amrevmil.html

2) American Revolution Resource page

http://www.wpi.edu/academics/military/battle-history.html

3) American Revolution Battle History

http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/time1.html

4) 1776-1783: Diplomacy of the American Revolution

http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/time2.html

5) 1784-1800: Diplomacy of the New Republic

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/history/timeline.html

6) Timeline Leading to Valley Forge

http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.rev.html

7) Timeline of Key Events

http://dcn.davis.ca.us/vme/vo/

8) Timeline

http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/revamer.html

9) Maps

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/histus.html

10) Historical Maps

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/terr_hp.html

11) US Territorial Maps 1775-1920

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/

12) America’s Freedom Documents

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/

13) Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/constRedir.html

14) Historical documents: Constitution, Declaration of Indepedence and others

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html

15) Federalist Papers

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/decofarms/

16) The Declarations of Arms, 1775

http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html

17) Signers of the Declaration of Independence by State

http://colonialhall.com/biography.php

18) Biographies of the Founding Fathers

http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/history/spies.html

19) Spy System 1777

Civil War class links

http://www.civilwarhome.com/records.htm

1) Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

http://www.americancivilwar.com/tl/timeline.html

2) Timeline and Maps

http://pinzler.com/ushistory/timeline6.html

3) Civil War and Reconstruction Timeline

http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.civwar.html

Civil War class links continued on next page.

Civil War class links continued:

4) Key Events and Battles

http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

5) Civil War – a nation divided

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwarC.htm

6) USA History: American Civil War

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/interactive/the-underground-railroad/?ar_a=1

7) Underground Railroad

http://www.sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html

8) American Civil War Homepage

Black History Links

http://www.biography.com/people/groups/black-history

1) Biographies -Black History

http://www.blackhistorypages.com/

2) Black History Pages

Women’s History Links

http://womenshistory.about.com/

1) Notable women and events

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/

2) Civil War Women

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/

3) Distinguished Women

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies

4) First Ladies

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html

5) American Women’s History

http://www.greatwomen.org/women-of-the-hall/view-all-women

6) National Women’s Hall of Fame