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This site can help students to lay out events in order using an interactive online timeline.

A printable PDF timeline of voting rights from the Northern California Citizenship Project's Mobilize the Immigrant Vote 2004 Capacity Building Series. Formatted in a very readable graphic organizer that can be cut and pasted as part of a larger visual timeline project, or simply as a reading resource. Timeline entry summaries are concise yet cogent and range from 1776 to 2002. It could be interesting to have students conduct research to fill in the gap from 2002 to present.

A great resource that chronicles policies and events related to the subject of voting rights.

The prompt this week for the ACLU link had to do with how we might use timelines in class to explore voting rights, and that reminded me of this wonderful websites. It allows you to create your own dynamic timeline for students to explore, and it also allows students to create their own timelines. It's easy to use and visually very friendly.

This is a great, detailed exploration of the timeline of the passage and ratification of the 14th amendment from 1866-1868.The site as a whole provides details and timelines for many of the great events of American history, as covered by Harpers Weekly. It's also a great place to access cartoons for use in class!

Since the 14th amendment is one of the amendments we tend to concentrate on in the classroom, this is a particularly helpful site. There are so many ways to go with the amendment so teachers need to be picky about what they have time to accomplish. With this website, you have a variety of things to consider before figuring out what you will actually do with students in the amount of time you have.

This is a great site that offers kid-firendly information about voting and voting rights.  It is interactive with timelines, history, ways to get involved and personal stories.

Simple, elegant timeline of major voting events in US history. This would be a great review for students studying the evolution of voting in the United States. It does not get bogged down in the details.

I like that you, as the teacher, can pick and choose the events you want to include, given your student population.

 A huge library of the founding documents and a timeline.  Many of the documents include a glossary.  However, many of the connected sites don't work.  Also just be careful as this website does seem to have a right wing agenda. 

In my search for court cases that would both illustrate the 'enduring legacy' of the Bill of Rights' and be of interest and relevant to younger students, I found this site. Very clear, brief explanations on a timeline of court rulings re: educaction, some of them centering around children's rights.

If you click on the resource section on the left side of the website there are great timelines and resources regarding the Chinese in America. There is census data and a list of organizations that can help you with resources. There is a lot to dig through on this site, but worth the effort.

Included is a document description, a transcript, the ten amendments, a timeline and games to play. The games include The Court and Democracy, Law, Power and Personality and The First Hundred Years. Each game begins with a question and then you can scroll over certain areas. Interesting facts in these games.

This is an Interesting, but busy graphic about the 4th of July past and present. It provides interesting statistics and information about the day in 1776 and also modern traditions and interpretations. I think this graphic could be great for a small discussion about the most American of holidays.

This link is even more useful - full-text copies of all major anti-federalist writings. I've spent hours looking for great anti-federalist resources - here they are all in one place! Fantastic.

This site offers a history of the death penalty through time, beginning with Hammurabi's Code. It provides brief overviews of each landmark moment presented, many including text excerpts from primary sources. Teachers may want to use this as a resource for information when teaching the 8th Amendment, rather than introduce students to the page itself as the information (as a result of the topic) can feel a bit overwhelming as a whole.

I've used this site before as a resource for debates on a variety of topics. I think it would work for that purpose with the death penalty as well. You are right, however, it is a bit overwhelming.... but fascinating, nevertheless.

This collection of images provides a pictorial account of the Suffrage Movement, as well as an historical overview of the National Women's Party, timeline, information on selected leaders of the party, tactics and techniques of the campaign, and Gallery of Suffrage Prisoners. The photo collection is particularly great as a way to show the actions of the NWP.