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Quotes from Famous Americans including:
Martin
Luther King Jr. - Words that Changed a Nation - CNN Special
Report -- Thousands of primary source documents collected from the
papers of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Woodruff Library
for Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection helps
explore King's philosophy, goals and even his fears as he and those
around him created a revolution.
The Constitutional
Timeline - The Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline
is an online experience highlighting some of the key dates and events
that mark more than 200 years of our constitutional history. These
timeline entries, taken as a whole, tell the evolving story of the
U.S. Constitution and the continuing role that it plays in our lives.Visitors
can browse through a collection of stories and headlines -- annotated
by images, audio and video clips and interactive content -- to explore
some of the people, events and issues that have shaped the Constitution
and the history of our nation.
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Daily Diary - This site provides
access to the official log of the president's activities during
his administration. The President's Daily Diary Online consists
of a separate, text searchable PDF* file for each day.
An amazing amount of information!!!
The 1828 Campaign of Andrew Jackson: Expansion of the Voting Base
- After completing this lesson, students will be able to: Give examples
to indicate how the franchise was extended and limited in the first
half of the 19th century. Cite some differences in the newly enfranchised
population that could affect the way they would vote.
Abraham
Lincoln's Crossroads - an educational game based on the traveling
exhibition Lincoln: The online game is intended for advanced middle-
and high-school students. It invites them to learn about Lincoln’s
leadership by exploring the political choices he made. An animated
Lincoln introduces a situation, asks for advice and prompts players
to decide the issue for themselves, before learning the actual outcome.
At the end of the game, players discover how frequently they predicted
Lincoln’s actions.
State
of the Union Addresses - provides access to the corpus of all
the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. SOTU allows
you to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over
time, and to link to information on the historical context for their
use. SOTU focuses on the relationship between individual addresses
as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting
what is different about the selected document.
Amazing in my opinion!!!
=Elem/Middle School K-8
