University of Washington
University of Washington: Camp Harmony Exhibit
In the spring of 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Alaska, and sent...
The Atlantic Monthly Group
In Focus: World War Ii: Intermnent of Japanese Americans
Haunting photographs of Japanese-Americans as they were rounded up and placed in internment camps in the western United States not long after Pearl Harbor. The photographs all have captions which add context to the pictures as well as...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Japanese Internment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson delving into the reasoning behind interning the Japanese-Americans following the Pearl Harbor attack. Students will explore primary source documents to draw their conclusions.
Digital History
Digital History: Trail Gunner Joe
A charismatic demagogue, Joe McCarthy grew up on a Wisconsin farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. While still a teenager, he established a thriving business as a chicken farmer. He dropped out of school after eighth grade, but...
PBS
Pbs: What's Killing the Oysters?
A special report provided for by PBS on what's killing the oysters of Ago Bay in Japan.
PBS
Newton's Apple: Black Pearls
A lab activity to illicit discussion/understanding of the way in which mollusks produce an economic product.
Indiana University
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wright Fiction Collection
Full-text works by Harriet Beecher Stowe can be viewed as facsimiles of the original books, as PDF documents, and as plain text.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: World War Ii Resources: Events Learing Up to World War Ii
The 78th Congress published a pamphlet in 1944 which gave a chronological history of events that led up to World War II. Read the very detailed information set out year by year. The introduction explains the scope of the pamphlet.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Aesop's Fables
Work your way through the moral tales of Aesop. Table of context provides links to traditional tellings and modernized versions. Videos and original illustrations help tell the stories.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Animales Del Mar (Spanish)
This resource provides colorful pictures of sea animals interact with audio and the written vocabulary word as you move your mouse over the picture. This vocabulary would compliment a science unit on marine life.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: "The Scarlet Letter" Teacher Guide [Pdf]
Teacher guide for "The Scarlet Letter" commences with excellent introductory information, synopsis, commentary, and pertinent biographical/historical resources. Questions cover themes, language, characters, setting, symbolism, etc....
Other
Redwall Abbey: Personal Website of Brian Jacques
This link will lead you to the home page of Jacques' personal site. It contains links to every possible facet of the Redwall series.
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma College of Law: Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech
The complete text of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, December 8, 1941, declaring war on Japan.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Middle Ages: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This lesson focuses on Middle Age literature focuses on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It features links to the work both in prose and poetry format and an audio clip of lines 1-19. It also offers links to information of King Arthur,...
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1921: Anatole France
This website on 1921 Nobel Prize winner Anatole France is organized into the following sections: "Presentation Speech," "Biography," "Acceptance Speech," "Swedish Nobel Stamps," and "Other Resources."
PBS
Nova: Jewel of the Underground
Take a virtual tour of Lechuguilla, a cave discovered in 1986, which turns out to be one of the biggest in the Americas. Twelve different pictures of interesting formations reveal the reason the park service has decided to keep it off...
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Production of Specific u.s. Gemstones
Photos of the principal gemstones produced in the United States, including an introduction to historical and other background information for each one.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
This site provides a detailed overview of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Content includes an introduction to the text, three versions of the full text, numerous essays and articles which explore the text, and other resources.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Women of Nasa
Learn about the women who have played an essential role in the functions of NASA for almost a century.
Curated OER
Milestones to Pearl Harbor: The "Black Ships" Open Japan
An easy-to-understand site on the opening of Japan to the West via Commodore Perry and and the intimidating Black Ships.
Digital History
Digital History: War in Europe [Pdf]
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the course of the war in Europe, and America's involvement after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It examines the military strategies...
War Times Journal
War Times Journal: The Pacific War: A World War Ii Summary
This article provides a concise summary of the major events/battles of the Pacific War from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the surrender of Japan in August 1945.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Early American Trade With China: Profits & Commodities of the China Trade [Pdf]
After the American Revolution, Americans believed there were great profits to be made in the China trade. The successful voyage of the Pearl, which returned to Boston in 1810, demonstrated the kinds of profits that could be made.
The History Place
The History Place: World War Ii in the Pacific Timeline
This site has a timeline covering the years of 1941 (Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor) to 1945 (United Nations is born). Selected WWII battle photos are also included.