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Winthrop Society

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online home of the Winthrop Society find information on the early settlers of Massachusetts, the ships that brought them to America, the documents that the colonists lived by, and the Great Migration of Puritans to the New World.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: A Prairie Mountain Promenade

For Students 9th - 10th
The Prairie Mountain Regional Museum is a group of historic buildings that portray the history of southwestern Manitoba. You'll find here a one-room school, a Ukrainian Catholic church and an Anglican church, a police museum, settler...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Pocahontas

For Students 9th - 10th
Among the most famous women in early American history, Pocahontas is credited with helping the struggling English settlers survive.
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The Independent: Carolina's Lost Colony

For Students 4th - 8th
The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island has endured over the centuries. A clue has, until recently, lain hidden in a map created by John White that is housed in the British Museum. Archaeologists began digging...
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The Norse Settlers in the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a time line of the events of the Viking voyages to Canada. Identifies different events that occurred during this time period of early Viking exploration.
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New York Public Library

Western Migration: The Land Promised Lesson Plan: African American Homesteaders

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Part of an online exhibit on the westward migration of African-Americans, this lesson plan looks at those with agricultural backgrounds who moved west following the Civil War and availed themselves of the opportunity to homestead. Young...
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Trent University

Susanna Moodie: Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed article on the life of Susanna Moodie has information on what Moodie wrote prior to marriage and emigration to Canada, her early experiences in Canada and writing that stemmed from them, and the hardships she and her family...
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Detroit Historical Society

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a resource on the history of the city of Detroit.
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Library of Congress

Loc: The Empire That Was Russia, Photographic Record Recreated

For Students 9th - 10th
The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Colonizing the Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
John Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was delivered as a sermon aboard the Arabella, as the Puritans approached their destination of Massachusetts Bay in 1630. The speech spells out his vision of the society they hoped to create...
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University of Maryland

Umbc: Children's Lives at Colonial London Town

For Students 3rd - 5th
A digital storybook called Children's Lives at Colonial London Town: The Stories of Three Families. London Town is located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and was a trading port in 18th century colonial America. There is an...
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University of Alberta

Atlas of Alberta Railways: Land Grant System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Presented by the University of Alberta, this resource contains information on the land grant system in the Alberta region. Information on how the Canadian government used land grants in the late 19th century to spur population growth in...
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New York Public Library

In Motion: African American Migration Experience: Western Migration: To Kansas

For Students 9th - 10th
From the extensive site about African-American migrations, this part of the site focuses on Exodusters and African-Americans who moved to Kansas after the Civil War. Read first-person accounts and see photographs of these hardy...
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University of Wisconsin

The Story of Madison

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an ebook about the history of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Virtual Museum of Canada

Virtual Museum of Canada: Community Stories: Francophones of Newfoundland and Labrador

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the arrival of the French to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century. Read about the people and their lives.
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British Library

British Library: Caribbean Views

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about plantation life during the 18th and 19th centuries by viewing images, maps, and text material in this virtual exhibition from the British Library. Writer Mike Phillips gives his personal interpretation of this exhibit on...
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PBS

Pbs: New Perspectives on the West

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....
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History of German American Relations: 1683 1900: History and Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
From the U.S. State Department, a comprehensive reference tool about the history of Germans in America starting in 1683 up until the present. Provides background, exhibits, digital images, statistics, teacher resources, internet links,...
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Bringing History Home: Communities Long Ago

For Teachers K - 1st
This Grade 1 unit explores U.S. communities in a historical context. By exploring their own community's buildings and services of both long ago and today, children in non-Native American communities are introduced to concepts of change,...
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Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the dramatic raid on Deerfield. You can read what the victims of the Deerfield Raid say in their stories through historical documents as well as see artifacts, find out about the assailants, and enter the conflict yourself.
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Langley Centennial Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
This museum provides access to a database of over 4,000 historical photographs and 8,500 artifacts about Langley, BC and the Fraser River Valley.
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Other

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

For Students 9th - 10th
This award-winning resource draws the reader into a consideration of history as witnessed from multiple perspectives. Discover the mystery of the French and Indian raid on colonial Deerfield, Massachusetts where five cultures clashed in...
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Organization for Community Networks

Academy Curricular Exchange: Simulation Oregon Trail

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A fascinating lesson plan depicting life in the mid 1800's and comparing it to modern day life.
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Historical Scene Investigation: The Starving Time in Jamestown

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will work with primary resources such as diary entries to investigate a historical situation: the starving time in Jamestown. This interactive site raises questions that will enable students to use 21st century skills to...

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