Cold War Site http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
Jackie Robinson. Read the short passage and answer the questions at the bottom of that page in 3 complete paragraphs. http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/robinson.html
A page of links to Jackie Robinson sites! http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000807.shtml
Joseph McCarthy Biography http://www.apl.org/history/mccarthy/biography.html
The Greensboro Sit-ins http://www.sitins.com/index.shtml
Civil Rights Movement timeline! http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/civil_01.html
Brown v Board of Education: A Look Back in History This is just an eight minute clip about the importance of the case. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R279NLNBfLI
Brown v Board of Education: We were there! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d98aGdkX15U&feature=related
Virtual Tour of Ellis Island http://teacher.scholastic.com/ACTIVITIES/IMMIGRATION/tour/
Excerpts from Upton Sinclair's The Jungle http://www.powayusd.com/online/usonline/worddoc/jungle.htm
2008 Year in Review- CNN http://www.allthingscnn.com/2009/01/2008-year-in-review.html
Short video for 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBzqxBxE42M&feature=related
Holocaust Interview Website http://remember.org/witness/
Post World War II map http://www.dushkin.com/connectext/wpold/media/images/map4e.gif
Helpful D-day Information http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/btt/d_day/history.shtml
For more information on D-day http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/wwii/dday/default.aspx
Extra research on D-day http://www.britannica.com/dday/article-236170
Official Bombing Order: Atomic Bomb site http://www.dannen.com/decision/handy.html
Pros and Cons to dropping the bomb http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/trinity/supplement/procon.html
Korean War Cobblestone Magazine http://korea50.army.mil/cobblestone/1.html
Use this to help find information about symbols of freedom in our country. Symbols of Freedom
Virtual Tour of the Statue of Liberty Lady Liberty
National Geographic's history of Halloween History of Halloween
A great site on the Gilded Age... Gilded Age
Watch how the poor lived during the Gilded Age... Poor of the Gilded Age
Political Cartoons on the Gilded Age. Political Cartoons
This site contains links to many websites about the Gilded Age. Gilded Age links
For choice number 4, this is an example of a project you can complete. Gilded Age project example