Social Studies Links
- Immigration to the US/PNW
- PNW Geography Links
- American Revolution
- Thirteen Colonies Research
- Japanese American Internment
Immigration to the US/PNW
- Westward Expansion: Encounters At Cultural Crossroads
- Mexican American Migration and Communities
- Immigration: Challenges for New Americans
- Free eBooks from the Library of Congress
- Westward Expansion
- Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today
Westward Expansion: Encounters At Cultural Crossroads
Mexican American Migration and Communities
Immigration: Challenges for New Americans
Free eBooks from the Library of Congress
The new Library of Congress Student Discovery Sets bring together historical artifacts and one-of-a-kind documents on a wide range of topics, from history to science to literature. Interactive tools let students zoom in, draw to highlight details, and conduct open-ended primary source analysis. Full teaching resources are available for each set.
Westward Expansion
Scholastic’s reading activity tells the fascinating story of how American pioneers trekked into the unknown western frontier during the 1800s.
Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today
PNW Geography Links
American Revolution
- A Revolution for Whom?
- American Memory from the Library of Congress
- American Revolution
- American Revolution Biographies
- American Revolution Dear America Activity
- Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
- Brief Biographies of the Founding Fathers
- Captain Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre
- Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
- Early America
- Historic Documents of the US
- Liberty! The American Revolution
- Myths of the American Revolution
- No More Kings
- Our Documents
- Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
- Second Continental Congress Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
- The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5, 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regt.
- The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights
- Thomas Jefferson's Account of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence
- William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act Jan. 14, 1766
A Revolution for Whom?
For two hundred years, historians have debated the consequences of the American Revolution. It certainly created a new nation — the United States of America. But how significantly did it change American culture and society? For the people living in Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, or South Carolina in the years after the Revolution, was life in the United States really very different from life in the British Empire?
American Memory from the Library of Congress
American Revolution
American Revolution Biographies
American Revolution Dear America Activity
Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
Brief Biographies of the Founding Fathers
Captain Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre
Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research
Early America
Historic Documents of the US
Liberty! The American Revolution
Myths of the American Revolution
No More Kings
Our Documents
To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
Second Continental Congress Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
When the second Continental Congress convened in May 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord had already been fought, and an informally organized American army was besieging General Gage's troops in Boston. It now became imperative either to plan and justify further operations or to give in. The Americans chose continued resistance. In the declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms, of July 6, 1775, they stated their case as it stood after the beginning of hostilities. Seven men were assigned to write this document, but it was chiefly the work of Thomas Jefferson and John Dickenson.
The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5, 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regt.
The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson's Account of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence
William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act Jan. 14, 1766
Thirteen Colonies Research
Japanese American Internment
- Video: Japanese American Internment (US Govt. Propaganda)
- "America's Concentration Camps" Maps
- "Dear Miss Breed..." Artifacts from Internment
- Life in a WWII Japanese American Internment Camp
- Japanese Americans: The War at Home
- PBS: "Child of Camp" Resources
- Primary Source Set: LOC
- The Remembrance Project: The Japanese American National Museum
- Bainbridge Island Breaks Ground for Japanese-American Internment Memorial
- Article: "Childhood Lost: The Orphans of Manaznar"
- Article: "The Truth about WWII Internment"
- Japanese-Peruvians Still Angry Over Wartime Internment in US Camps
- LA County Board Repeals Support of WWII Japanese Internment
- A Pain that Persists: Japanese Americans Scarred by WWII Internment
- Article: "Pain and Redemption of WWII Interned Japanese-Americans"
- Teacher's Guide from Library of Congress
- Article: "Profiling in the Wake of Sept. 11: the Precedent of the Japanese American Internment"
- 9 Min. Documentary: "This is Us! Manzanar"
- PBS: "Child of Camp" Teacher Resource Pamphlet
- Article: "Failure of Leadership"
- Article: "Insulting the Memory of FDR"
- Editorial: "Their Best Way to Show Loyalty"
- Political Cartoon: "All Packed Up and Ready to Go"
- 2 Min. Documentary about Executive Order 9066
- Executive Order 9066