Modern American & World Website Links

Lesson 2

www.civilwar.org. 

http://www.illinoisstatemuseum.org/content/online-resources

Lesson 3 

www.civilwar.org. 

Lesson 4 

https://www.civilwar.org/learn/maps/antietam-animated-map 

Lesson 5 

https://www.civilwar.org/learn/maps/jacksons-flank-attack-may-2-1863 

Lesson 6 

https://www.civilwar.org/ 

Lesson 7 

www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/map-free-slave-states.htm. 

Lesson 8 

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/south-carolina-slave-map.htm

Additional link submitted by a customer: http://railroads.unl.edu/views/item/slavery_rr?p=3

2nd link is no longer available. 

Lesson 13

http://www.ushistory.org/us/28a.asp 

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/garrison.htm 

Lesson 15 

https://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/147douglass/147locate2.htm 

Lesson 17 (updated link) 

https://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324 

Page 16 - The Wright Brothers 

https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-wright-brothers 

Lesson 32

https://www.nps.gov/wrbr/learn/photosmultimedia/index.htm 

Page 18 (updated link) 

https://www.theworldwar.org/explore/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/panth%C3%A9on-de-la-guerre 

Lesson 37 

http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/7100/7115/7115z.htm

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/places/ww1-western-front.htm 

Lesson 42 

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-world-war-i 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/europe1914.htm 

Lesson 43 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/maps/eastern_front.htm  

Lesson 44

http://www.christmastruce.co.uk/hampshire/

Lesson 45

https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution-of-1917

Lesson 48 

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/scientists/louispasteur.html  

Lesson 49 (updated link) 

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm 

Lesson 51 

https://urbana.org/go-and-do/missionary-biographies/small-woman-big-heart-great-faith 

Page 33 Post WWI America 

https://www.history.com/topics/new-deal 

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/sharecropping/

Lesson 57 

https://www.nps.gov/malu/learn/education/jim_crow_laws.htm  

Lesson 63 

https://www.sutori.com/item/untitled-1dc2-de7c 

For more background information on the Sino-Japanese wars see:

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/lesson-1-growth-us-japanese-hostility-1915-1932

https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/lesson-2-america-and-sino-japanese-conflict-1933-1939

Page 38 “ALOHA ‘OE” 

https://www.history.com/topics/liliuokalani 

Lesson 72 

https://depts.washington.edu/ikip/index.html  

Lesson 73 Prisoner of War #1 

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/21/world/kazuo-sakamaki-81-pacific-pow-no-1.html  

Page 39 “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition”

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2009/12/praise-lord-and-pass-ammunition-said.html

Lesson 74 updated link 

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/remembering-pearl-harbor/  

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor 

Lesson 81 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theatres-of-war/western-europe/1939/  

Page 44 “Leadership” 

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/in-case-of-failure 

Lesson 87

https://www.britannica.com/event/Normandy-Invasion 

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theatres-of-war/western-europe/1942/

A customer submitted this link which shows archival footage of D-Day, 1944: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/archival-footage-of-d-day/

Lesson 88 

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki 

Lesson 94 

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/korea/kwar.html 

Lesson 95 

www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=85. 

Lesson 96 

http://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Society/view?articleId=100532  

Lesson 97 

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/korean-conflict 

Lesson 103 

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-from-birmingham-city-jail-excerpts/ 

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Page 52 Picture Description of Boy on Buffalo (updated link)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/256653/On-the-horns-of-a-dilemma-boy-who-fell-asleep-on-a-huge-buffalo 

Lesson 106 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/w/water-buffalo/

Lesson 108 

https://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/02/seismology 

Lesson 109 

https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/ho-chi-minh 

Page 53 “The Cold War”

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war 

Lesson 110 updated link 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carter-and-crisis-rescuing-hostages/ 

Lesson 116 

https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall