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American Cultures Portal

Specific Topics

Specific Topics in American Cultures:

Immigration:

1. Immigration and Naturalization Service: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis

2. The American Immigration Home Page: http://www.bergen.org/AAST/projects/Immigration/

3. Center for Immigration Studies: http://www.cis.org/

4. Ellis Island Free Search for Immigrants: http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/

5. Ellis Island, The Museum: http://www.ellisisland.com/

6. Chinese Exclusion Act: http://sun.menloschool.org/~mbrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/

7. Gentlemen’s Agreement: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9036439/Gentlemens-Agreement

8. Boss Tweed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_Tweed

Jane Addams: http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/ja_bio.html

Imperialism:

1. Overview of the time period: http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html

2. Anti-imperialists: http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/d/192.html

3. Annexation of Hawaii: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/gp/17661.htm

4. Spanish American War: http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/

5. Panama Canal Website: http://www.pancanal.com/

6. Open Door Policy with China: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h908.html

7. Commodore Perry opens Japan: http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/ends/opening.htm

8. William Randolf Hearst: http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/willh.html

9. Queen Liliuokalani: http://www.uic.edu/depts/owa/history/liliuokalani.html

10. Spheres of Influence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_of_influence

Boxer Rebellion: http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/BOXER.HTM

Progressive Era:

1. Overview: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1061.html

2. Resources: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rbannis1/Progs/

3. Library of Congress “Learning Page”: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/progress.html

4. Teddy Roosevelt Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tr26.html

5. William Howard Taft’s Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wt27.html

6. Woodrow Wilson Bio: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1919/wilson-bio.html

7. Taft’s bathtub replica: http://www.wellswooster.com/phototaft.htm

8. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm

9. Ida B. Wells: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/idabwells.html

World War I:

1. Encyclopedia of WWI: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

2. PBS, The Great War: http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

3. Documents: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

4. Armenian Genocide: http://www.armenian-genocide.org/

a. And: http://www.theforgotten.org/intro.html

b. Russian Revolution: http://www.casahistoria.net/Russian_Rev.htm

c. Sussex: http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/sussex.htm

d. Lusitania: http://web.greatships.net:81/lusitania.html

e. League of Nations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations

Paris Peace Treaty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Treaties,_1947

1920s:

1. Overview: http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1920s.html

2. Numerous sources: http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/roaring_twenties.htm

3. More numerous links: http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html

4. Al Capone bio: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcapone.htm

5. The Jazz Singer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer_%281927_film%29

6. Red Scare: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/SaccoV/redscare.html

7. Calvin Coolidge Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/cc30.html

8. Warren G. Harding Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh29.html

Henry Ford Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

Stock Market Crash and Depression:

1. The crash: http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm

2. Economic overview: http://www.stock-market-crash.net/1929.htm

3. The depression overview: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/overview.htm

4. Causes of the Depression: http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/

Text with pictures: http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/great-depression.htm

The New Deal:

1. The Depression and the New Deal: http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/depression/

2. FDR and the New Deal: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4545/

New Deal Network: http://newdeal.feri.org/

World War II:

1. Numerous sources: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm

2. WWII timeline: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html

3. WWII resources: http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

4. Holocaust: http://www.holocaust-history.org/

5. Holocaust timeline: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

6. Holocaust: http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/

7. Adolf Hitler bio: http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/ahitler.html

8. Pearl Harbor: http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

9. Pearl Harbor with pictures: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm

Mussolini pics: http://www.ndonio.it/Mussolini.htm (text is Italian)

Cold War:

1. CNN Cold War: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/

2. Overview: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html

3. National archives: http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/

4. Harry Truman bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html

5. Berlin Airlift: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_airlift/large/docs.php

6. The Rosenbergs: http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/redscare/rosen2.html

7. McCarthy Era: http://members.aol.com/matrixwerx/glbthistory/mccarthyism.htm

8. Douglas MacArthur Bio: http://www.empereur.com/G._Douglas_MacArthur.html

Korean War websites: http://www.kimsoft.com/kr-war.htm

Kennedy and Johnson:

1. Kennedy Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html

2. Kennedy Assassination: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm

3. Johnson Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/lj36.html

4. Bay of Pigs: http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/bay_of_pigs.html

Cuban Missile Crisis: http://www.ndonio.it/Mussolini.htm

Civil Rights Movement:

1. Timeline: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html

2. Another timeline: http://www.goerie.com/nie_civilrights/civil_rights_timeline__1619_-_.html

3. Martin Luther King Jr. Bio: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

4. Malcolm X Bio: http://www.cmgworldwide.com/historic/malcolm/about/bio.htm

5. NAACP: http://www.africanaonline.com/orga_naacp.htm

6. SNCC Freedom Rides: http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/rides.html

7. March on Washington: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html

8. Civil Rights Act of 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

9. Black Power Movement: http://www.umich.edu/~eng499/concepts/power.html

Civil Rights Webquest: http://www.pekinhigh.net/classroom_links/social/owens/civil%20rights%20main.htm

Vietnam:

1. http://www.vietnampix.com/

2. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

3. Vietnam Yesterday and Today: http://www.oakton.edu/user/~wittman/

4. Ho Chi Minh: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNhochiminh.htm

5. Tet Offensive: http://www.vwam.com/vets/tet/tet.html

6. My Lai Massacre: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

7. Protests: http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/ThreeImages/brady.html

8. Richard Nixon Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/rn37.html

9. Johnson Bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/lj36.html

10. Fall of Vietnam: http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger25.html

Pentagon Papers: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0838198.html