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Little Animation for Kids: The Little Earth Charter
Explore this great site for kids to learn about life, family, love, earth, and more. View lessons that help kids to understanding and appreciate these words.
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
History Is Fun: Life at Jamestown [Pdf]
An extensive collection of resources for learning about the colony of Jamestown. Includes essays, lesson plans, biographies, the economics of tobacco, information about laws, leadership, and a culminating project where students design a...
Digital History
Digital History: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations [Pdf]
President Woodrow Wilson had great hopes that a League of Nations would mean that there would be no more world wars. Read about the charter for the League of Nations, especially Article X, which provided the teeth for the organization....
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Connecticut Constitution, 1639 1789
Develops the concept of "constitutionalism" as related to the U.S. Constitution and Connecticut's role in the Constitutional Congress and Convention. An overview of Connecticut's colonial history, and judicial origins and organization,...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The People's Petition
Fordham University provides the text of a British petition given to the Parliament asking that radical reforms be made.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir William Blackstone
(1723-1780) An English jurist who in 1759 published a new edition of the Great Charter and Charter of the Forest.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Fdr: Robert Dallek, Historian
An interview with Robert Hallek who discusses the foreign policy decisions made by Franklin Roosevelt prior to World War II. Read about the commitment Roosevelt made to Winston Churchill to fight against the Nazis in Europe.
Curated OER
Etc: Maps Etc: The Thirteen Colonies at the End of the Colonial Period, 1774
A map of the British Thirteen Colonies at the end of the colonial period in 1774. The map shows the boundaries of the colonies and notes the uncolored territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes as claimed by Georgia,...