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"American History: From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium"

I just added a link for this book to http://www.textbooksfree.org/History%20Internet%20Library.htm and http://www.textbooksfree.org/Free%20Nonbusiness%20Books.htm

A nice gallery of photos from the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A long and very comprehensive list of primary sources regarding colonial and revolutionary American history--which means it also includes some sources on early modern European history, esp. English history

A large collection of documents on Indian independence and partition.

Videos from the online Cornell X course "American Capitalism"

This is very well done. I have added a link in the first chapter of Interactive Internet Economic Notes http://www.textbooksfree.org/Economics_1_Economics_Defined.htm and plan to add individuals throughout the notes. Chapter 3 on the Characteristics of Market System Capitalism and Political Economy may be useful. http://www.textbooksfree.org/Economics_3_Basic_Characteristics_of_Capitalism.htm. One page on capitalism is at http://www.textbooksfree.org/Quick%20Notes%20History%20Political%20Economy%20Capitalism.htm.

Great annotated version of the Constitution. Includes clause-by-clause links of documents relevant to each section of the Constitution.

I added this well organized reading source good for research papers to http://www.textbooksfree.org/Quick%20Notes%20History%20Political%20Economy%20Our%20Democratic%20Federalist%20Republic.htm

An interactive map showing the spread of slavery. It gives you a variety of ways to look at the date (absolute numbers, percent of population, etc.) and also includes data for the free black population.

"Unchained Memories is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the government's Works Progress Administration. "

Links to resources about the history of the 1970s

Please note by the end of the decade radio households was up to 40%. Can you image a teenager of today transported back to a time with no smart phone! I'm not going back and I'm 72.

Slave narratives, WPA narratives, and other first hand accounts of slavery

An incredible animated, interactive map of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

Read through the US census records from 1940.  If you're in the US, and your house is old enough, you can see who lived in your house back in the day.

Excellent collection of rubrics and assessments to assess student ability to think historically and interpret primary source documents.  All US history, unfortunately.

A page about the American Revolution, with many good primary sources, from Rag Linen.

A site that makes it easy to search for online historical maps of various parts of the world.

Searchable list of history websites from teachinghistory.org, many with primary sources.

A great visualization of battle casualties from the American Civil War