Smithsonian Institution
Native Resistance: Native Resistance Then and Now
Native Americans lost so much—and gained so little in return. Scholars explore Native Americans' resistance to the United States government. The lesson uses primary sources to explore the different forms of protest and gives a voice to...
California State University
Life in the Missions of California
Academics explore the topic of life in California Missions for Native Americas. Class members complete a research activity, respond to writing prompts, and engage in hands-on-activities to learn who lived in the missions and what life...
Curated OER
The Tudors: Tudor Exploration
If you've just covered the Tudor kings and queens, you'll love this presentation describing Tudor exploration. It covers the Tudor navy, ships, explorers, and reasons for exploration. The slide show also includes rich images,...
Curated OER
Writing Exercises; Belief Systems
This cross-curricular assignment could easily accompany a religious studies or imperialism unit. Prior research is required, as historians compare and contrast major religions and describe religious expansion with regard to contributors...
National First Ladies' Library
Missionaries, Expansionism, and The Philippines
Students examine the quality of sources in research in the process of gaining an understanding of the Spanish American War, American expansionism, and the role of missionaries in history. They meet in groups to provide an audio/visual...
Curated OER
Oh, California
Students begin this lesson by charting information about the relationship between the Spanish missionaries and Native Americans at a California mission. Then, students identify the dynamics of those relationships that would have made...
Curated OER
California's Mission/Rancho Era
Fourth graders complete a variety of activities as they study the Spanish colonization of California, including the relationships among missionaries and Indians and their interactions with soldiers and people in the pueblos and ranchos.
Curated OER
Canadian Missionaries: An Investigation
Students discuss their ideas related to mission work, read an article on Canadian missionaries and review video clips on specific topics.
BBC
Bbc: Africa & Europe (1800 1914)
Part of the BBC's "Story of Africa" series, this article covers 19th century exploration and colonization. Archived.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Foreign Missionary Movement in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Article detailing the movement aimed at converting non-European populations to Christianity during an age of Imperialsim and Western Dominance. Discussion on who the missionaries were and how they went about their missions. Includes...
University of Michigan
Transposed Tales of a French Missionary Among Indians in the Oregon Country
The author of this article writes of how letters written by French missionaries describing their experiences in Oregon in the 1800s, were greatly revised for publication in France, so that the narratives took on far more positive tones....
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: American Indians
Immerse in the campfire stories of the people who defined Texas. Find out about how the two Americas: the Europeans' version, and the American Indians' version, started changing forever.
Bullock Texas State History Museum
Bullock Museum: Missionaries
Immerse in the campfire stories of the people who defined Texas. Learn how small the separation between church and state in 17th century Spain affected Texas.
Other
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
This is the homepage of the Evangelical Church in America and gives detailed information about the churches, missionaries, programs, and services provided by the ELCA.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: French and Indian War
This resource is an essay on the war between Britain and Indian allies and France and Indian allies in 1750s and 1760s. It discusses background, progress, and effects of the French-Indian war.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: East Asian History Sourcebook: East Asian History Sourcebook
Fordham University, known for its excellent primary historical resources in English translation, provides one for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese history.
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.
New Georgia Encyclopedia: Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Discussion of the lawsuit filed by Samuel Worcester against the state of Georgia protesting the way the state handled the Cherokee lands. The case went to the Supreme Court where although Chief Justice Marshall ruled in favor of the...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Methodist Missionaries
Who were the early missionaries? What were their mission sites? What is mission work? These questions, with many more, are addressed on this Methodist Missionaries website. In addition, maps of not only the missions, but early trade...
Buddha Dharma Education Association
Buddha Net: Buddhist Missionaries
BuddhaNet.net offers a short web-article that describes Buddhist missionary activity around the world.
Virtual Museum of Canada
Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Seeking the Story of Mission Beach
Mission Beach, Alberta has a history of Aboriginal people of different tribes and Christian missionaries of different faiths meeting together, making it the first mission west of the Red River Settlement.The exhibit includes historic...
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Missionary in Many Lands by Erwin House
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Missionary in Many Lands by Erwin House (1861), a series of sketches of missionary life.
Other
Salem Online History: Jason Lee 1803 1845
This website provides a brief biography of Jason Lee, early Methodist missionary and doctor and was the founder of Salem, Oregon.
Other
Oregon's First Settlers: Genealogical Research in Oregon
See a chart showing the number of settlers using the Oregon Trail between 1840 and 1859 by scrolling down to "Wagon Trains."
Texas Public Broadcasting
Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Spanish Colonial 1689 1821
Learn about the struggle between the native tribes and the Spanish missionaries during the Spanish Colonial era in Texas from 1690 until 1821.