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What is this collection? Compiled service records of Confederate soldiers labeled with each soldier's name, rank, and unit, with links to revealing documents about each soldier. Collections include records for soldiers from over 50 territories and states.  Has a free 7 day trial.

Might be interesting as a compare/contrast activity with interviews/media accounts from September 12, 2001?

After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor presents approximately twelve hours of opinions recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from more than two hundred individuals in cities and towns across the United States. On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)

Why We Fight #1: Prelude to War (1943) 52:21 - 4 years ago The first part of a series of films produced by the United States War Department during World War II. The series explained the reasons for the U.S war effort up to that time. This first part covers the rise of Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, and Militarism in Japan and juxtaposes their political and social systems with that of the U.S. It also portrays the first examples of Japanese aggression in Manchuria and China, as well as the example of Italian aggression in Ethiopia. Supervised and Directed by Frank Capra. Be mindful of the ethnic stereotypes in this film.

Created by Rachel Duffy and Marc Ducharme. Focuses on the Gilded Age in the United States, but could be adapted to work with any historical era.

A month by month look at the progression of unemployment rates in the United States over the past 2 years.

Recommended for grades 5-8, this site offers an interesting overview of states and Native American tribes. Students learn about states, rivers, mountains, regions, tribes and then practice locating these on maps with a timer.

These are the semester outlines used by one of the best schools in my city, Brisbane State High School, for all subjects. 

A nice-looking collection of Civil War military maps from NOAA

An annotated guide to 35+ of the best Web sites about the U.S. Civil War, including deep links to a trove of primary resources, such as solders' records, first-hand accounts, photographs, etc.

Korean War Casualties records, 1950-1957, held in the National Archives.

'Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.'

"East and Southeast Asia" Library of Congress internet resources

Council on Foreign Relations

"The American Presidency Project (americanpresidency.org), was established in 1999 as a collaboration between John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Our archives contain 104,815 documents related to the study of the Presidency."

"Learn About" the U.S. House of Representatives.