Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Chaldean Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Chaldean Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Filipino Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Filipino Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Garifuna Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Garifuna Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Slovak Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Slovak Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Slovenian Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Slovenian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: South African Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of South African Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Sri Lankan Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Sri Lankan Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Swiss Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Swiss Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Taiwanese Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Taiwanese Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Thai Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Thai Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Tibetan Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Tibetan Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Turkish Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Turkish Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Ukrainian Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ukrainian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Virgin Islander Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Virgin Islander Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Swedish Americans
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Swedish Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
PBS
The Sixth Section
Site is a companion piece to a PBS special on a group of Mexican immigrants who live and work in America but send their money back home to Mexico.
Other
Gold Rush Players: Johann Augustus Sutter
Chronicles the life of John Sutter who immigrated to America to find his fortune and then saw it crumble away after the discovery of gold at his mill.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation 1919 1929: Transformation and Backlash
Examines the role nativism played in 1920s America, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the disconnect between urban and rural lifestyles and values, and the fractious debate over evolution that was highlighted in the Scopes trial.
Mount Holyoke College
Mt. Hoyoke College: Chinese Exclusion Act
Provides full length, section-by-section text of the Chinese Exclusion Act, passed by the 47th U.S. Congress in 1882.
Other
Encyclopedia of New Zealand: New Zealand Peoples
Meet the many peoples who make up the population of New Zealand! Who were the first inhabitants? Where did they come from? When did Europeans discover this faraway land? Who immigrated to New Zealand, and why? Answers to all of these...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 3: The Growing Republic
This extensive learning module examines how the United States' efforts to increase foreign trade, add new territory, and isolate itself from Europe affected its foreign policy and other initiatives. It investigates how advances in...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Biography of Amer: Philip Armour and Packing House Conditions
Philip Armour, an industry titan in the meat industry, made his money by exploiting the need of his workers for jobs. Read about the deplorable conditions the workers endured in the packinghouses and in the shanty towns in which they...
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: American Religion
History for Kids presents an overview of the history of American religion in all of its forms practiced by various groups of citizens. With resources for teachers.
Countries and Their Cultures
Countries and Their Cultures: Shakers
An article reviewing information about the religious sect known as the Shakers. Learn about the history of their founder, Mother Ann Lee, and eight followers who immigrated to the United States in 1774 and the life they made here.