Eighth Grade Interest

Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum are partnering to create an online collection of the most important and influential 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks.

100 milestone documents of American history
To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."

Primary sources from popular American Culture The Authentic History Center is comprised of images of artifacts, sounds, and written letters and diaries. We believe that these items reflect the history and societal values of the time period in which they were produced. They are presented here for individual study of American History. Browse by era using the Navigation Bar on the left, and view the special collections in the Featured Areas below.

American Colonial Era American Revolution	Constitution Bill of Rights	Northwest Passage (1805)
Louisiana Purchase	War of 1812	Indian Wars
The US-Mexican War, 1846-1848	Westward Migration	Gold Rush
Civil War	Spanish-American War 1898-1899	Depression
Titanic	Energy	OTHER
DEBATES	Martin Luther King JR.

Native American

• Native People Games & Toys

• Native People Music & Toys

• Native People

• Native American Textiles and Clothing

• Native Clothing

• Written Heritage Clothing

• The Pocahontas Myth

• Multnomah County Library Homework - Native American

• OTHER Native American Links:
  • Cradleboard Teaching Project (Social Studies core curriculum from a Native perspective is free online)

  • Teaching Young Children About Native Americans

  • Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum

  • The International Brotherhood Days, a website that offers the Native perspective of American History and heroes, an important and fascinating site

  • Forgotten Founders, by Bruce Johansen. A doctoral thesis on the involvement of the Iroquois in the formation of democracy in America. Intriguing
  • The homepage for James Loewen, the best selling author, Lies My Teacher Told Me

  • Native American Quotes, great for understanding Native American philosophy and perspective

  • Teaching About Thanksgiving, a true Native perspective with curriculum
  • Alaska Native Studies Curriculum and Teacher Development

  • Oyate is a website that promotes the use of writings of Native people when teaching about Native people. There are a list of books and curriculum developed by Native people as well as a list of books that perpetuate stereotypes and historical untruths that should be avoided. You'll be surprised!!

  • History Of Native American Heritage Month from Canku Ota

  • United Native America, a website dedicated to a Native American holiday. Many links to other Native websites.

  • Native American History Links from Canku Ota

  • On This Date in North American Indian History by Phil Konstantin

  • 1992: "Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy

  • 1992: "Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy

  • Native Tech: a website that shows Eastern Native arts and crafts, games, foods, and much more throughout history. An excellent teaching source.

  • Indian Circle Web Ring: Complete list of Indian Nations on line and other contacts to the Indian community

  • Virtual library - American Indians index of Native American resources on the Internet.

• Mayflower

• Pilgrim Clothing

• Girls on the Mayflower

• Pocahontas
  • Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

  • The BIOGRAPHY Project for Schools

  • Colonial National Historical Park __ National Park Service

  • Powhatan Renape Nation

  • Virtual Jamestown

• Books on Pocahontas:
  • Fritz, Jean. The Double Life of Pocahontas. Illustrated by Ed Young and Feodor Rojanovsky. New York: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1987.

  • Iannone, Catherine. Pocahontas. Broomall, Penn.:Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

  • McDaniel, Melissa, and Catherine Iannone. The Powhatan Indians. Broomall, Penn.: Chelsea House Publishers, 1995.

  • Sakurai, Gail. The Jamestown Colony. Danbury, Conn.: Children's Press, 1997.

• American Centuries...View from New England

• Colonial Trades - Williamsburg, Virginia

• CyberHunt for Colonial America
  • Colonial America Gazette   Information about racism in the colonies, economics, culture, environmentalism, women, individual histories for each of the 13 colonies, and more.

  • New England Colonies - Background Facts

  • New England/Northern Colonies Reference

  • Middle Colonies - Background Facts

  • Middle Colonies Reference

  • Southern Colonies - Background Facts

  • Southern Colonies Reference

  Individual Colonies

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts: History

• Delaware History

• Georgia History FAQ

• Jamestown

• Virtual Jamestown - Images & Panoramas

• African Americans at Jamestown - Timeline

• New Hampshire Almanac -- A Brief History of NH

• New Jersey (Miscellaneous Links)

• Biographies of Early Pennsylvania Legislators

• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

• Plimoth Plantation - A Virtual Tour

• William Penn Home Page

• Rhode Island History

• South Carolina History

• Vermont Miscellaneous

• Virginia Visitor's Guide

• Politics in Colonial Virginia

• Life in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

• Salem Witch Trials - Factsheet

• Salem Witch Trials of 1692 - Museum

• Timeline of the American Revolution

• Timeline of the Revolution

• From Revolution to Reconstruction / Hypertext of American History

• Little Known American Revolutionary Facts

• LIBERTY! The American Revolution

• American Revolution

• Major Events of the Revolutionary War

• History Online:
  American Revolution
  History Online

• More American Revolution LINKS

• The Road to Revolution

• Intolerable Acts

• Historical Background of Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• The History of Tea

• ---Ride with Paul Revere---

• Paul Revere's Neighborhood - An Interactive Map

• Midnight Rider Virtual Museum

• Colonies & Battles of the American Revolution

• Battles of the American Revolution

• NSSAR - Military Actions of the American Revolution

• The Battle of Concord

• The Battle of Lexington

Colonial & Revolutionary War Personages

• Gallery of Early American Portraits

• Daniel Boone

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington 

• Thomas Jefferson Online

• Thomas Jefferson Online - Enlightenment

• Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States

• Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech
  Select Search from the top of the menue and type in Patrick Henry. Colonial Williamburg provides many opportunities for research at this site.

• Diary of Surgeon
  Albigence Waldo, Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777.

• Spy Letters of the American Revolution

• Women Soldiers of the Revolution

• Journal on People & Events of the 18th Century
  

General Colonial Reference

• Archiving Early America:  Historical Documents from the 18th Century

• Early American Maps (Boston circa 1800; America 1797; Various sieges/battles of American Revolution)

• How To Read A 200-Year-Old Document and Other FAQ

Colonial Writing

• Producing a Newspaper 1692 - 1792

• Colonial Newspapers: The Boston Newsletter:  America's First Newspaper       

• Colonial Newspapers: Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette / January 2, 1750

• Colonial Newspapers: The Boston Gazette / October 7, 1776

• Colonial Newspapers: Massachusetts Centinel / April 24, 1790

• Newspapers of the 16th-18th Centuries

• Outline of American Literature

• Colonial America and Children's Literature