The Great Convergence
(SS-08-5.2.1)

• 1492: An On-Going Voyage (Library of Congress) 
• Top 10 Things You Should Know about Columbus (Time)

The Colonial Period
(SS-08-5.2.2)

• American Centuries...View from New England
• Colonial Williamsburg 
• Jamestown Colony (History Channel) 
• Mayflower Compact (History Channel) 
• Plymouth Colony (History Channel) 
• The Salem Witchcraft Trials (Famous American Trials)
• Salem Witch Trials (University of Virginia) 
• Virtual Jamestown 

The American Revolution
(SS-08-5.2.2)

• The American Revolution Center 
• The Boston Massacre Files
• Boston Massacre Trials (Famous American Trials) 
• The Coming of the American Revolution
• Declaration of Independence (National Archives)
• Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS) 
• Revolutionary War Animated  
• Was the American Revolution Inevitable? (BBC) 

The Early Republic

 (SS-08-5.2.3)

• The Aaron Burr Trial (Famous American Trials) 
• Discover the Real George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson Online (PBS) 
• Andrew Jackson (PBS)  
• The Zenger Trial (Famous American Trials) 
• War of 1812 (History Channel) 

Westward Expansion

 (SS-HS-5.2.3)

• All about the Oregon Trail 
• Discovering Lewis and Clark 
• Expedition: Lewis & Clark (Harcourt) 
• Explore the Mexican War (Prentice Hall) 
• Growth of a Nation
• Jefferson's West 
• Lewis & Clark 
• Lewis and Clark (PBS) 
• The Louisiana Purchase (HRW) 

The Civil War

 (SS-HS-5.2.4)

The Antebellum Era

• African American Odyssey (Library of Congress) 
• Africans in America (PBS) 
• The Amistad Case (National Archives)
• Amistad Trials (Famous American Trials) 
• I Will Be Heard (Cornell Library) 
• John Brown Trial (Famous American Trials) 
• Not for Ourselves (PBS) 
• Slave Narratives 
• Slavery and the Making of America (PBS) 
• Slavery Museum 4 Teens
• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Emory University) 
• Understanding Slavery (Discovery Education) 
• Voices from the Days of Slavery (Library of Congress) 

The Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum 
• Abraham Lincoln's Crossroads((National Constitution Center) 
• American Civil War (History Channel) 
• The American Civil War Homepage
• Battle of Antietam (Awesome Stories) 
• The Best Civil War Photos (Life) 
• The Civil War (PBS)
• Civil War Animated 
• The Civil War Homepage 
• Civil War & Reconstruction (Library of Congress)
• CivilWar@Smithsonian
• Debating Emancipation
• Gettysburg Address (Vimeo) 
• Lincoln Memorial Interactive 
• People of the Civil War (Pearson) 
• The Time of the Lincolns (American Experience) 
• The Valley of the Shadow (University of Virginia)

Reconstruction

 (SS-HS-5.2.1)

• America's Reconstruction (Digital History) 
• The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (Harper's Weekly) 
• The Johnson Impeachment Trial (Famous American Trials) 
• Reconstruction (American Experience) 
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS) 

The Industrial Age

 (SS-HS-5.2.2)

• Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Smithsonian) 
• A Brief History of the Lightbulb (Time) 
• Child Labor in America (The History Place)  
• The Dramas of Haymarket (Chicago Historical Society) 
• The Haymarket Riot Trial (Famous American Trials) 
• History Now: Shaping the American Economy (Gilder Lehrman) 
• Industrial Revolution (History Channel) 
• Inside an American Factory (Library of Congress)  
• The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (American Experience)
• The Town of Pullman 
• The Triangle Factory Fire (Cornell University)  

Immigration

 (SS-HS-5.2.3)

• American Immigration 
• Ellis Island
• Ellis Island Photographs (New York Public Library) 
• Ethnic America (Digital History) 
• Huddled Masses (Digital History)
• Immigrant and Ethnic America (Harper's Weekly) 
• Immigration (Library of Congress) 
• Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today (Scholastic) 
• Statue of Liberty Facts 
• Statue of Liberty Virtual Tour (NPS) 
• Tenement Museum
• US Immigration to 1965 (History Channel) 
• US Immigration Policy (MSNBC) 

The Progressive Era

 (SS-HS-5.2.4)

• America 1900 (American Experience) 
• A Brief History of the Federal Reserve Bank (Time) 
• Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film (Library of Congress) 
• TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (American Experience) 

World War I
(SS-HS-5.2.4)

• American Leaders Speak (Library of Congress) 
• American Troops in Combat (Eyewitness to History) 
• Influenza 1918 (American Experience) 
• First World War 
• The Great War (PBS) 
• World War I (BBC) 

The 1920s

 (SS-HS-5.2.4)

• Clash of Cultures (Ohio State University) 
• Lindbergh (American Experience) 
• Jazz (PBS)  
• Red Scare (CUNY) 
• Temperance & Prohibition (Ohio State University)  
• Tennessee v. John Scopes (Famous American Trials) 
• The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti (Famous American Trials)
• A Woman's Right to Vote (Time) 

The Great Depression

 (SS-HS-5.2.5)

The Great Depression 

• America from the Great Depression to WWII (Library of Congress) 
• America in the 1930s (University of Virginia) 
• Breadline (PBS) 
  
• The Crash of 1929 (American Experience)
• Great Depression (History Channel) 
• History Now: Shaping the American Economy (Gilder Lehrman) 
  
• Riding the Rails (American Experience) 
• Surviving the Dust Bowl (American Experience) 

The New Deal 

• Franklin D. Roosevelt  Presidential Library and Museum 
• The New Deal Network
  
• Posters from the WPA (Library of Congress) 

World War II

 (SS-HS-5.2.5)

World War Looms

• Learn about Pearl Harbor (Prentice Hall) 
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic)
• The Rise of Fascism  & Militarism (NBC)

The US at War 

• The D-Day (Infographic)
• Faces of D-Day (Time) 
• Hiroshima: A Survivor's Story (Scholastic) 
• The Human Toll of a Nuclear Blast (MSNBC)
• Inside WWII: A Global Perspective(History Channel) 
• Island Hopping: The Route to Japan(HRW) 
• Moment in Time: Coving the Pacific War(Time) 
• NMAI Codetalkers (Smithsonian)
• The Normandy Campaign 
• The Pacific (HBO) 
• Pacific War Animated 
• World War II (BBC) 
• WWII: Hiroshima (Life) 
• World War II (History Channel)
  
• WWII in the Pacific (HRW) 

The Homefront 

• American Homefront (Scholastic) 
• Children of the Camps (PBS) 
• Exploring the Japanese American Internment
• Japanese American Internment Camps(PBSKids) 
• Powers of Persuasion (National Archives)    
•  World War II on the Homefront (Smithsonian) 

The Cold War

 (SS-HS-5.2.6)

Cold War Politics

• Cold War (History Channel) 
• Experience: The Cold War (Prentice Hall) 

The Korean War

• 60 Years, A War on Hold (AP) 
• Korea Conflict in Pictures (NBC) 
• Korean War (History Channel) 
• Life in the Korean War (Life) 
• The Presidency & the Cold War (National Portrait Gallery) 
• Remembering the Korean War (Wall Street Journal) 

The 1950s

 (SS-HS-5.2.6)

• The 1950s (History Channel)
• The 1960s (History Channel) 
• The Kennedy-Nixon Debates (History Channel)
  

The Civil Rights Movement

 (SS-HS-5.2.6)

Segregation in the US

• African American Odyssey(Library of Congress) 
• Beyond Brown (PBS)
• The Legacy of Brown
• NAACP Timeline 
• Remember Segregation 
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (PBS) 

The Civil Rights Movement 

• A Brief History of the Sit-In Movement (Time)
• Civil Rights Movement (History Channel) 
• Eyes on the Prize (American Experience) 
• February One (PBS) 
• Finishing the Dream (NBC)
• Freedom Riders (PBS) 
• Greensboro Sit-Ins
• The History Makers 
• Integrating Ole Miss (JFK Library) 
• Legacy of the Greensboro Four (CBS News) 
• Selma to Montgomery (Time) 
• They Changed the World 

Widening the Struggle 

• Cesar Chavez (Harcourt) 
• Cesar Chavez Foundation 
• Cesar Chavez's Crop of Change (ABC News)
• Women of Our Time (National Portrait Gallery) 
• Women Who ChangedHistory (Scholastic)   

The Vietnam War

 (SS-HS-5.2.6)

• Battlefield: Vietnam (PBS)
• Interactive: Fall of Saigon (CBSNews) 
• Vietnam, 35 Years Later (The Big Picture) 
• Vietnam Online (American Experience)
• The Vietnam War
• Vietnam War (History Channel) 

Modern America

 (SS-HS-5.2.6)

• Apollo 11 (Time)
• Time Covers Watergate (Time) 

The Global Community

 (SS-HS-5.2.7)