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National Constituion Center: provides an interactive version of the Constitution broken down article by article and amendment by amendment with explanations and viewpoints and   related Supreme Court cases

Presidents and First Ladies:

The American Presidency: Explore all aspects of the American presidency from biographies and quick facts to presidential programs and constitutional leadership.

POTUS: Presidents of the United States

American President.org:  info on presidents and first ladies

A ThinkQuest Presidential Exploration

Presidential Trivia

White House President's Page

MyReportLinks.com: Information about the Presidents

The American Experience features sites on the Presidents: Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Reagan.

American First Ladies Websites:

White House First Ladies' Page

National First Ladies Library

U.S Constitution: First Ladies Biographies--links to various First Lady websites

Historical People: includes First ladies

History U.S:First Ladies--links to webpages on individual First Ladies

First Lady Quotes: includes quotations by some, but not all, First Ladies

Quotable Women: includes quotes from various First Ladies

Quotations from the First Ladies: quotations from some, but not all, First Ladies

Civil Rights Movement Links:

Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Timeline

Library of Congress-American Memory: The Civil Rights Era

National Civil Rights Museum Virtual Tour

Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement Links

Speak Soft, Speak Sure

World Book:The Modern Civil Rights Movement

Ms. Sandford's Civil Rights Links:

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Brown v. Board of Education

Little Rock Photo #1

Little Rock Photo #2

Little Rock Photo #3

Montgomery City Code

5000 at Meeting Outline Boycott

Rosa Parks:Academy of Achievement

"I Have Been To The Mountaintop" : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"God's Judgment Of White America": Malcolm X

James Farmer:Letter to President Kennedy

Freedom Ride, 1961

James Farmer Telegram to President Kennedy: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

President Johnson's remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Bill of 1964

Civil Right Act of 1964

Ms. Klinger's White House State Dinner Assignment

Immigration sites: Links to sites which provide information about immigration to the U.S. throughout history

Hispanic-American History Links

Underground Railroad:  At this site you may access biographies and historical information pertaining the the underground railroad.

American Memory: From the Library of Congress-lots of information and primary source documents pertaining to all aspects of American history

America 1900Based on the PBS documentary on the beginning of a new era in our country, you will learn will learn much about the people and events of the year 1900 as well as obtain great information about events throughout this century.  

National Archives and Records Administration: This page contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States and learning activities correlated to many aspects of  American history.

Eye Witness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It:

The Museum of the city of San Francisco:  Provides a wealth of historical information on the city of San Francisco

Uncle Sam: An American Autobiography: History of the figure and symbolism of Uncle Sam, covering the origin of the term Uncle Sam during the War of 1812 to its official adoption and standardization by the State Department in the 1950s. Includes discussion of the importance of symbols and their evolution.

Ms. Sandford's and Ms. Roth's Vietnam War Research Page

 

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