Excellent overview of the Chinese experience in California complete with historical photos and primary documents. Site provides information on San Francisco's Chinatown, the anti-Chinese Movement, and Chinese laborers.

This collection uses primary sources to explore twentieth-century mining in the Mojave Desert.

This collection at the University of California-Berkeley can now be accessed online through the Online Archive of California. It provides a vast collection of historically significant primary source images of early California and the...

The 1880's in America were chock full of new architecture, technologies, businesses, modern conveniences such as gas and electric, operas, fashions, and much more as featured in this resource.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reading comprehension practice passages. An answer key is provided for these passages. A passage has questions that focus on different types of reading comprehension questions.

Collection in pdf format of seven lessons integrating poetry across-the-curriculum. Includes dramatization, developing poetry reading skills, and creating poetry appreciation. Printable graphic organizers and a fine bibliography...

This collection provides maps dating back to 1500 up to the present. The collection includes: cities, towns, discovery and exploration, conservation and environment, military battles, cultural landscapes, transportation, communication,...

According to this article, Elijah McCoy (1844-1929 CE) is one of the most prolific inventors in American history. Read about his parents who escaped slavery by traveling on the Underground Railroad and about his invention, the automatic...

The Gilded Age was a period of terrible labor violence, as industrialists and workers fought for control of the workplace. Workers organized the first large American labor unions during the Gilded Age, while employers tried to stop the...

Mary Ann Shadd was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1823. She emigrated to Windsor, Upper Canada and was a leader in advocating for integrated schools at a time when most Canadians believed segregated schools should predominate. This web...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Wesley Harris's escape from slavery. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

The actor Fred Morsell, a Frederick Douglass reenactor, provides plays about the 19th century civil rights leader as well as other resources about Douglass's life and work.

A brief history of the development of mountain man James Beckwourth's trail during the westward expansion. Beckwourth Trail begins near Reno, Nevada and heads through Marysville towards Lake Oroville. The path was effective for traveling...

This site by Britain Express gives a biography of inventor Richard Trevithink (1771-1833 CE).

This site from Britain Express provides a biography of George Stephenson (1781-1848 CE), inventor of the the railway system in Europe.

Describes a publicity stunt at Crush, Texas in 1896, that was put on by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company. Two locomotives were made to collide head-on before an audience of almost 50,000 people. The event took a bad turn...

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides ten free reading comprehension tests with a corresponding answer key and list of reading skills covered. All passages are high interest for middle school students.

This site provides images of trains and maps on the history of railroading in America. Exhibits include digital images of stereographs, railroad maps, engravings, historic papers and more.

This site provides images of trains and maps on the history of railroading in America. Exhibits include digital images of stereographs, railroad maps, engravings, historic papers and more.

This site provides images of trains and maps on the history of railroading in America. Exhibits include digital images of stereographs, railroad maps, engravings, historic papers and more.

A map from 1885 of Egypt showing contemporary and ancient cities of the region, including the borders along the Nile River between the Upper, Middle, and Lower kingdoms from 3150 to 31 BC. The ancient names of cities are given in capital...

"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...

A map of "Nancy, the ancient capital of Lorraine, afterwards the chief town of the French department of Meurthe, and since 1872 that of the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle." -Kellogg, 1903This map shows the location of roads, a...