Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Odalie" by Alice Dunbar
Text of the short story "Odalie" by Alice Dunbar, an American author with a mixed-race heritage. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Small World
A instructional activity focusing on over-consumption where students are challenged to consider the impact of the American lifestyle on the environment. Using an apple as a model, this instructional activity offers students a visual...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Conservatism and Ronald Reagan
This site is provided for by Country Studies. By 1980, many Americans were ready for a change. Within the Republican party, the New Right emerged which brought along with it a new conservatism and a winning presidential candidate in...
US Navy
Naval History and Heritage: Survivors of the Uss Maine
List of crewmen who survived the explosion on board the USS Maine.
Other
New Netherland Project: Fort Christina
Read the story of the settlement of Fort Christina by Swedes led by the Dutch Peter Minuit. Find out what contribution the Swedes made to American colonial life.
Other
New Netherland Institute: Peter Minuit (1580 1638): Director of New Netherland
A profile of Peter Minuit who is usually credited with negotiating the purchase of Manhattan from the Native Americans in 1626.
Other
The Georgia Sea Island Singers
The Georgia Sea Island Singers are carrying on the tradition of their ancestors by performing chants, work songs, and gospel songs all over the world.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Pueblo Tribe
History for Kids gives an overview of the history of the Pueblo tribe which lived for thousands of years in the Southwest region of the U.S.
Other
New Netherland Institute: Early Descriptions of New Netherland
Excerpts from Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664, published in 1909, and available for free from Google Books. The first excerpt is from a 1644 account of Henry Hudson's descriptions of the new land he saw on his 1609 voyage. The...
American Indian Heritage Foundation
American Indian Heritage Foundation: Aztec Creation
A brief story describing the creation of the world according to Aztec belief called Coatlique.
Curated OER
Unesco: Canada: Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump
In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by aboriginal peoples of the...
Curated OER
Unesco: Canada: Rideau Canal
The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when...
Curated OER
Unesco: Mexico: El Tajin, Pre Hispanic City
Located in the state of Veracruz, El Tajin was at its height from the early 9th to the early 13th century. It became the most important centre in north-east Mesoamerica after the fall of the Teotihuacan Empire. Its cultural influence...
Curated OER
Unesco: El Salvador: Joya De Ceren Archaeological Site
Joya de Ceren was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, was buried under an eruption of the Laguna Caldera volcano c. AD 600. Because of the exceptional condition of the remains, they provide an...
Curated OER
Unesco: Usa: La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
Between the 15th and 19th centuries, a series of defensive structures was built at this strategic point in the Caribbean Sea to protect the city and the Bay of San Juan. They represent a fine display of European military architecture...
Curated OER
Unesco: Mexico: San Miguel and Sanctuary of Jesus Nazareno De Atotonilco
The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route inland, reached its apogee in the 18th century when many of its outstanding religious and civic buildings were built in the style of the Mexican...
Library of Congress
Loc: Mexican Immigration
Excellent site that examines the Mexican immigrant group beginning with early settlement in New Mexico in 1598 through to present times. The history as well as the intricate multiculturalism of this immigrant group is addressed.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Asian Educational Media Service
A tremendous resource for finding sites, multimedia, and other resources for teaching about or studying Asian countries. Search by country, media type, or grade level. Includes lesson plans and links to great online resources.
Yale University
Yale the Maya Culture of Mesoamerica
This lesson unit on Mayan culture focuses on Mayan art. It can be adapted to various grades and features classroom activities, student resources, a bibliography, and the like.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Enduring Culture Lesson Plans
This unit on Mesoamerican and Mayan culture contains lesson plans, a list of materials, objectives, bibliographies, and much more. The lessons could also be adapted to various grades.
US Census Bureau
U. S. Census Bureau: People of Arab Descent
This report, based on the 2005 Census, details the distribution of people of Arab descent based on gender, age, marital status, country of birth, English-speaking ability, educational attainment, employment status, poverty level/family...
Georgetown University
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies: Who Are the Arabs?
In an effort to dispel myths and counter stereotypical images of Arabs, this downloadable PDF file explains the richness of and diversity in Arab societies, including Arab communities in America. The document also offers ideas for...
Library of Congress
Loc: German Immigrants: Their Contributions to the Upper Midwest
Why did Germans immigrate to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century? What contributions did they make to the region's cultural heritage? Students use American Memory photographs and documents to answer these...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Alaska: The People and the Land
Young scholars will read the short story about Alaskan Native heritage, "Otoonah," as retold by Robert David San Souci. From the reading and interpretation of this native American story, students will study the indigenous people of...
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