American History

The Standards

• Washington State GLE Standards

Instructional Framework

• C3 Framework

Fab Five! 

• Since Time Immemorial

• Stanford History Education Group: Read Like a Historian

• Zoom In!

• Best of History Web Sites

• Kahoot!

Native Americans

• The Burke Museum - Native American Boxes

• Meet Kennewick Man

• Kayaker following Kennewick Man from Washington to Japan

• Northwest Indian Art and Tools'

• Indiana Jones' would make a bad archaeologist

• Kennewick Man bones not from Columbia Valley, scientist tells tribes

• UW Libraries: Native American History

• UW Libraries: PNW American Indians

• A Bibliography for Native American Groups

• Native American Facts

• Arctic Indians

• Arctic, NW, Plateau Indians

• Environment/Climate Atlas

• The Salish Villages of Puget Sound

• Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington

• Critical Bibliography on North American Indians

• Native American Facts for Kids

• Oyate

• Inuit: People of the Arctic

• First Peoples of Canada

• Kennewick Man is a debate not easily put to rest

• A girl's skeleton similar to Kennewick Man is found in Central America

• Northwest Indian Art and Tools'

• Kennewick Man bones not from Columbia Valley, scientist tells tribes

• Kennewick Man was Native American

The Explorers

• Chinese Explorer Zheng He reaches Africa

• 1492: The Prequel of Zheng He

• What Would You Take to Jamestown?

• Mel-O-Toons: Christopher Columbus

• Comparing Smallpox and Chickenpox

• Direct From the Garden an Ocean Away

• Columbus Day protesters march in downtown Seattle

• Columbus May Have Found Syphilis

• Ancient Chinese Explorers

• Legacy of Jamestown

• The Columbus Fairy Tale:

• Explorers for Kids

• Biography: Famous Explorers

The 13 Colonies

• A Colonial Overview

• Life in the Colonies

• 13 Colonies Facts

• The Northeast Colonies

• The Middle Colonies

• The Southern Colonies

• Religion in the Middle Colonies

• A link collection spanning the Colonies to the Revolution

• Slavery in America

• The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England

• Colonial Williamsburg

The Road to Revolution

• The French and Indian War Explanation

• Boston Tea Party Facts

• 1776 - Momma Look Sharp

• Trailer for HBO's John Adams Miniseries

• Maps of Revolutionary Boston

• Revolutionary War Timeline

• SPARKNOTES: Road to Revolution

• Revolutionary War Clothing and Music

• Editing the Declaration of Independence

• Someone bought the Declaration of Independence for $2.48!

• The Colonies to the Revolution

• Dec. of Independence for $2.48!

• T.J and the Revo - Too Late to Apologize

• Liberty! PBS Game

• PBS Road to Revolution

The American Revolution

• Britishbattles.com

• The Battle of Quebec

• 1776 - Momma Look Sharp

• We Hold These Tweets To Be Self-Evident

• PBS: LIBERTY!

• The American Revolution

• National Park Service: American Revolution

• Pre-Revolution and Revolution Timeline

• History Channel

• Animated Maps of American Revolution Battles

• PBS Road to Revolution

The Constitution

• An Annotated Constitution

• Schoolhouse Rock - Three-Ring Government

• iCivics Games!

• A Propaganda Exhibit from the United States Holocaust Museum

• A series of short videos about how Congress works

• 17 Supreme Court cases you should know

• An Interactive Constitution Timeline

• Annenberg Classroom's Key Constitutional Concepts videos and resources

A New Nation

• The Papers of George Washington

• The Inflation Calculator

Expansion and Reform

• Lewis and Clark - Choose your own adventure

• U.S. Expansion Lesson Plans

• Discovering Lewis and Clark

• PBS: Lewis and Clark

• National Geographic Lewis and Clark

• Mapping with Lewis and Clark

• Journals of Lewis and Clark