Avalon Project: The Quasi War With France, 1791 1800

Work together as a class and get to know the ins and outs of World War II with this engaging collaborative project. Class members are broken into groups to research particular war topics, from life on the home front to the Holocaust and...

Compare and contrast World War II to the modern Iraq war with this instructional activity. After watching a film, learners use supporting evidence to support their point of view of the conflicts. Using the internet, they create a...

Learn about the issues and people involved in the XYZ Affair between the United States and France. This article explains both what happened and what some of the significant after-effects were for US diplomatic relations with European...

A brief explanation of the role the newly developed Navy played in the Quasi-War.

Text of the declaration of war which brought the United States into the War of 1812.

Provides a summary and detailed facts about the Quasi-War, an unofficial naval war with France 1798-1800.

The Avalon Project, at the Yale Law School, provides the actual text of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

On September 1, 1939, Germany attacked Poland. Hours later, Neville Chamberlain spoke to the members of the House of Commons. The gist of the speech was preparing Britain for war.

Get the story from those who experienced it. Engage learners with a structured oral history project involving Vietnam War era veterans. By conducting thoughtful interviews, class members learn what it was like to serve in the...

Yale University's Avalon Project provides a transcription of Charles II's Grant of New England to the Duke of York, 1676.