|
||||
|
Quickly search online educational resources including over 350,000+ teacher reviewed online lesson plans and worksheets.
|
||||
|
While this site is designed for the US History student, the outlines, notes, biographies, quizzes and vocabulary can also be used by anyone who is interested in our country's history. Teachers are also more than welcome to use the information on this site
Students use critical thinking skills to evaluate historical data, and make sense of complex issues. Some of the techniques discussed include compare and contrast, continuity vs. change, cause and effect, and discipline-based analysis. Do you have a question about the national parks, the National Park Service or American history? Ask one of our historians listed below. Just click on the name of the person you want to contact and send your question by e-mail. To help you direct your ques Sophisticated Europeans from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries deemed "history painting" to be the supreme achievement in the visual arts. In addition to imaginatively re-creating actual events from the past, history paintings also il The 15th and 16th centuries saw the rise of capitalism and a burgeoning middle class, the creation of modern nation states, and the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation. For artists, an innovation of equally far-reaching importance was the perfection of In 1782 Jean de Crèvecoeur published Letters from an American Farmer in which he defined an American as a "descendent of Europeans" who, if he were "honest, sober and industrious," prospered in a welcoming land of opportunity wh The Golden Crescent, running in a wide swath along the Atlantic Coast from Savannah to Cape Canaveral and inland towards Tallahassee, is remarkably rich in history and prehistory. Following thousands of years of Native American occupation, this area witne This lesson could be used in history, social studies, and geography courses in units on colonization or European settlement and trading patterns in the Western Hemisphere. The Forts of Old San Juan will help students understand the role of Puerto Rico's f The SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) project is being carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a cooperative effort between the two agencies in the framework of the Solar akflag.gif A Brief History of Alaska Statehood (1867-1959) Author: Eric Gislason Introduction The one hundred years between Seward's Folly (1867) and statehood (1959) comprise an intriguing though often ignored narrative about the importance of the great |
||||