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Online Resources by Topic

Blitzkrieg (Second World War)

Encylopedia Britannia - Blitzkrieg

History Chanel - Warsaw radio describing invasion 

UW Milwaukee - Nazi Invasion of Poland Photographs 

BBC - Bliztkrieg 

 

The Battle of Verdun-- Trench Warfare

The most horrific battle known to man

Trench Warfare

The Long Long Trail

 

The Bombing of Pearl Harbor

America's Story, Library of Congress - The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

U.S. Army - The Pearl Harbor attack, as remembered by the nurses who were there

National Archives - Remembering Pearl Harbor, 70 years later

National Archives - How Roosevelt attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor

National WWII Museum - The Path to Pearl Harbor

 

The Boston Tea Party

Digital Public Library of America - Boston Tea Party Primary Source Set

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum - Boston Tea Party History

Massachusetts Historical Society - The Boston Tea Party

 

Brown vs Board of Education

 U.S. Courts - Brown v. Board Re-enactment Site

National Archives - Documents related to Brown v. Board of Education

 PBS - "The Supreme Court" Section on Brown v. Board

 

The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis - State Dept. Office of the Historian 

Cuban Missile Crisis - JFK Presidential Library

One Step from Nuclear War - National Archives

A Look Back: Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis - CIA

 

D-Day Invasion 1945

D-Day- Imperial War Museum 

D-Day Experiencing War-Stories From the Veteran History Project

D-Day, The Invasion of Normand-Eisenhower Presidential Library

 

Fall of the Berlin Wall

National Archives: Berlin Wall

CIA: A look back at the Berlin Wall

CIA: Building the Berlin Wall

USC: the night the Berlin Wall went up

German History in Documents and Image

 

Nathan Bedford Forrest (Start of the KKK)

The Ku Klux Klan Hearings-Harper's Bazaar
Nathan Bedford Forrest-Civil War Trust

Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK -PBS

 

Harry Houdini

Smithsonian - Houdini

Smithsonian - Fox Sisters and Spiritualism

Library of Congress - Exploring an Illusionist’s Exposés through Primary Sources - This article created for teachers to use in class has links to great primary sources from LOC.  

 

I Have a Dream Speech

We shall overcome

Our documents: Lincoln Memorial Program

Stanford Institute: MLK

 

Immigration and the Nationality Act of 1906

Defining the Path to Citizenship-US Capital
Origins of the Federal Naturalization Service

Certificate of the Naturalization #1 and the "First Naturalized U.S. Citizen

 

Japanese Internment (Second World War)

 National Archives: Japanese Internment

 Library of Congress: Japanese Internment

 National Park Service: Japanese Internment

 Smithsonian Institution: Japanese Internment

 A brief history of Japanese American Relocation

 

Nancy Kerrigan's Attack 

New York Times: Nancy Kerrigan

This day in history: Nancy Kerrigan

Nancy Kerrigan

 

Henrietta Lacks (Medical Privacy)

Henrietta Lacks: Her cells, her legacy

Henrietta's Dance

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: HeLa cells

 

Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase Legislative Timeline

Jefferson Buys Louisiana Territory and the Nation Moves Westward

Louisiana: European Exploration and the Louisiana Purchase

 

Francis Scott Key

Smithsonian: Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot  includes description of prisoner exchange

History Reader - Includes details of prisoner change  

 

 

Rodney King

The trials of L.A. police officers

New York Times: L.A. Riots 25 years later

Los Angeles Times: L.A. Riots 25 years later

 

Mein Kampf

German History in Documents and Image
The Rise of the Nazi Party 1919-1933

Nazi Propaganda 1919-1924-Boston College

 

Jackie Robinson

Dodgers Purchase Robinson, First Negro in Modern Major League Baseball- New York Times

Baseball, the Color Line and Jackie Robinson-Library of Congress

Jackie Robinson-The Society for American Baseball Research

Jackie Robinson Story (1950 film)

Jackie Robinson Interview-Dick Cavett Show

Rachel Robinson: Meeting Branch Rickey (Video)

 

Rose the Riveter

DPLA Primary Source Set: WWII Women on the Home Front 

National WWII Museum:  Women in WWII

 

Royal Gorge War

State of Colorado - Public Utility Commission History 

 

The O.J. Simpson Murder Case

The Trial of Orenthal James Simpson: An Account

The Trial of OJ Simpson: Selected Documents

O.J. Simpson Trials: Maps

Simpson judge OKs jury prospects who admit bias

The OJ SImpson Case

The Simpson Trial Transcripts

 

The Space Race

Space Race - PBS NOVA

Space Program - JFK Library

National Aeronautics and Space Act text - NASA

U.S. and Soviet Documents regarding Space Race - NASA

Sputnik and the Space Race - Eisenhower Presidential Library 

Development of NASA - Eisenhower Presidential Library

 

The Thirteenth Amendment

Library of Congress - 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

OurDocuments.gov - 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 

National Constitution Center - Amendment XIII

 

The Trail of Tears

Trail of Tears -Cherokee Nation

Marshall-Cases: Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia 1831-University of Groningen

A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears-North Carolina Digital History

 

Transcontinental Railroad

Congress and the American West: The Transcontinental Railroad - National Archives

The Transcontinental Railroad - Library of Congress

Landmark Legislation: The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 - U.S. Senate

 

Vietnam War (Beginning of)

The Virtual Vietnam Archive

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Vietnam

Vietnam War 

 

Watergate Scandal

The Watergate Files-Ford Presidential Library
The Watergate Exhibit Evidence-Nixon Presidential Library
Watergate-The Washington Post

The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers

 

War of 1812

 NMAH: War of 1812

 NPS: War of 1812

 State Department: War of 1812

 The Unfinished Revolution: War of 1812

 

 Women's Baseball (Second World War)

AAGPBL - League History

Baseball Hall of Fame - League of Women Ballplayers

Wisconsin Historical Society - A League of their Own

Society for American Baseball Research - Dames in the Dirt: Women's Baseball before 1945