District 145 Public Schools TeacherWeb | Dan Jensen: Freshmen Core Websites

Here are some useful websites that are at a "Freshmen Core" level:

                               Go to the netTrekker website for additional links!
Conflict (War):
http://www.historycentral.com/Revolt
     (A freshmen-level Revolutionary War website)
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/index.html
     (Causes, events, and results of the American Revolution)
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
     (The American Civil War Website)
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm
     (Figures on the 10 Costliest Battles of the Civil War)
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/cwar-pix/civmap.gif
     (This is a basic map of the Northern states and the Southern states
       during the Civil War, 1861 - 1865)
http://www.quia.com/rr/30429.html
     (A quia quiz on some major causes of the Civil War; it's in the style
       of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire")
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/splendid.html
     (A nice freshmen level site on the Spanish-American War)
http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/great_war/causes.htm
     (Causes of WW I)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm
     (The Treaty of Versailles)
http://wps.sd54.bc.ca/projects/cay/WW2.html
     (A site written by "Heather"; a decent freshmen level account
       of the major causes of WW II)
http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm
      (Do you know your geography? Do you know where the nations
       are that fought each other? Do you know that Greenland is not
       a continent? This site has your physical geography needs!)
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_wwii_posters_index.htm
      (A collection of propaganda posters during WW II encouraging
       women to contribute to the WW II effort in the military
       and on the homefront)
http://818tdbn.org
      (The 818th Tank Destroyer Battalion website)

Change (Social Structure & Change):
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/index.html
     (A good site for information on the Donner Party)
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/geography/geography.htm
     (A website on the history of "Jim Crow" laws in the Post-Civil War South
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/washington_b.htm
     (Booker T. Washington)
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
     (W.E.B. DuBois)
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_83_Notes.htm
     (A website on the major causes of the Great Depression)
http://www.gday-mate.com/depression/effects_of_the_great_depression.htm
     (A collection of Great Depression links; among them the effects
       of the Great Depression)
http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration
     (the American Immigration Homepage)
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/nattrans.htm
     ("Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History")

Power (Oppression):
http://www.ushmm.org
     (The Holocaust Museum website)
http://www.lastoftheindependents.com/nativesring.html
     (A collection of websites about Native-American leaders and history)
http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/sacco.vanzetti
    (The Court-TV site on the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial)
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/Civil_Rights_Movement
   (A good collection of Civil Rights Movement sites organized by Yahoo)
http://www.mindspring.com/~docld/evinere/kingday/rightsquiz/quiz.htm
   (A site that offers a quiz on the Civil Rights Movement)
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/letter.html
   (MLK, Jr.'s "Letter From a Birmingham Jail")
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm
   (click on the mp3 link to hear MLK Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech)

Action / Reaction (Politics):
http://www.historycentral.com
     (among others items, Presidential Elections)
http://cehs.unl.edu/mcleite
     (Presidential Assassinations: the 2004 Webquest created by
      University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students)
http://www.whitehouse.gov
     (The official White House website)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4545
     (FDR and the New Deal; some nice links to other New Deal stuff)
http://www.presidentelect.org
     (If you need election results, here is a good site!)

Progress (Technology & Culture):
http://www.teacheroz.com/inventors.htm
     (A fairly comprehensive site on inventors and inventions)
http://inventors.about.com/library/bl_by_state_inventors.htm
     (Many of your inventors are on this site organized by their home state)
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm
     (A decent description of Edison's impact on history)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Carpathia
     (A very comprehensive Titanic disaster website)
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
     (A very large site featuring links to about any major "Trial
       of the Century" in American History, including the Scopes
       Monkey Trial)

Economics Websites (Basic micro and macroeconomic links)

The 1960's (Really 1954 - 1983 for U.S. History):

http://www.parascope.com/mx/luther1.htm
        (A site looking at different aspects of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
         assassination, including conspiracy theories)
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/2556/kent.html
        (A Life Magazine look at the Kent State Massacre)
http://www.woodstock69.com/linx2.htm
        (Different links to information about Woodstock, 1969)
http://uploader.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.html
        (The lyrics to "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel, with hyperlinks)
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/lyrics/satisfaction.html
        (Lyrics to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones)
http://www.badastronomy.com
        (Can you "debunk" the "bunk"? Use this Conspiracy Theory page
          as you navigate through this site!)
http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
         (A site that shows the benefits of the Space Race to various aspects of
           life; you can access a list of some of the benefits here, with
           NASA Spinoffs)


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