University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Colonization
For a variety of reasons, those who came to settle the early colonies sought a new homeland. Puritans, for example, established several settlements in Massachusetts. These English colonists were a pious, self-disciplined people who...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Colonial Period
The early settlers to the New World began to map strategy for their own system of government. This site details that strategy and what kinds of events spawned the idea of representative government.
PBS
Pbs Online News Hour: Economic Forecast
In early 2001, a group of the nation's top economists got together to comment on the economic slowdown in the US and predict how long it would last and what kind of an impact it would have.
University of Notre Dame
Department of Special Collections: The Coins of Colonial and Early America
This site provides links to a variety of coins used in the colonies and in the confederation. Extremely detailed.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Economic Growth and Stability
Overview of the early 20th Century, post-depression era period of economic growth and stability brought about by Keynesian economics and the New Deal.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Coffee Fazenda of Brazil 1911
The Modern History Sourcebook provides this great look at what life would be like on a coffee plantation during the early 20th century. It describes the houses, life on the plantation, colonists, and harvests.
PublicBookshelf Corporation
The Financial Panic of 1873
This excerpt from The Great Republic by the Master Historians, published in the early 1900s, provides a near-contemporary discussion of one of the many financial panics, depressions, and bank runs that plagued the American economy in the...
Other
All the News? American Revolution & Maryland's Press
Explore this collection of digitized historical newspapers and broadsides from the 1760s about pre-Revolutionary topics. Requires Adobe Reader.
Other
People of Mexico Living Up to the Ideals of the Revolution
This site provides in-depth information about the Mexican Revolution and the people that took part in it.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Child Labor in America
Historical photographs provide students with a firsthand look at the issue of child labor during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In this lesson plan, students will use photographs to further understanding of the...