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Tennessee 4 Me
www.tn4me.org
Tennessee History for Kids
www.tnhistoryforkids.com
National Atlas
nationalatlas.gov/mapmaker
The CoCoRaHS State Climates Page
www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=50StatesClimates
The CoCoRaHS State Climates Page (Tennessee)
www.cocorahs.org/Media/images/composite-TN-1100w.png
Tennessee State Government—Photo Gallery of Landscapes
www.tn.gov/photos/
Netstate—Geography of Tennessee
www.netstate.com/states/geography/tn_geography.htm
Tennessee Climatological Service
climate.tennesee.edu/
Water Encyclopedia—Tennessee Valley Authority
www.waterencyclopedia.com/St-Ts/Tennessee-Valley-Authority.html
Tennessee Atlas Online
web.utk.edu/~tga/atlas/Atlas.html
WorldAtlas.com
www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/imageg.htm
University of Tennessee at Knoxville—Library Map Service
www.lib.utk.edu/cic/tn.htm
US Geological Survey—Map of Tennessee Clay/Soils
www.surevoid.com/soil_maps/tn.php
Chapter 1: Coming Apart
Africans in America, Part 3
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/title.html
American Slavery Maps
www.nytimes.com
Bleeding Kansas
www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
Civil War Chronicle
www.civilwar.com/
The Coming of the Civil War—Border States
www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/
Harpweek: Explore History—Harper’s Weekly
www.harpweek.com
New York Times—Civil War Commentary
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/
Ordinance of Secession of Tennessee
www.csawardept.com/documents/secession/TN/index.html
Tennessee Canals
www.mapresources.com
Tennessee Currency
www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/
Weapons of the Civil War
www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarweapons.html
Chapter 2: A Nation and State Divided
American Black Codes
home.gwu.edu/~jjhawkin/BlackCodes/BlackCodes.htm
The American Experience—Jubilee Songs
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/sfeature/songs.html
American Slavery Maps
www.nytimes.com
Battles and Casualties of the Civil War Map
www.washingtonpost.com
Bonnie Blue Flag
www.civilwar.org
Civil War Chronicle
www.civilwar.com/
Civil War Commentary
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/
Civil War Facts
www.civilwar.org/150th-anniversary/
Civil War Landscape
www.civilwar.org/maps/
Civil War Medicine
www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-medicine.htm
Civil War Medical Books
www.civilwarmedicalbooks.com/hernstein.html
Female Civil War Soldiers and Spies
www.fold3.com/page/778_female_civil_war_soldiers_spies/
Fisk University—Jubilee Singers
www.fiskjubileesingers.org/our_history.html
General Sherman’s March
www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/shermans-march-to-the-sea.html
Gettysburg Reenactment
www.teachertube.com
Harpweek: Explore History—Harper’s Weekly
www.harpweek.com
Lincoln’s Assassination
law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/lincolnnews.html
Lowell Mill Girls
web.bryant.edu/~ehu/h364pro/summ_99/hutchinson/index.htm
National Women’s History Museum—Spies in American History
www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/spies/1.htm
“O Captain! My Captain!”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174742
Secret Agents in Hoop Skirts: Women Spies of the Civil War
www.history.com
Sharecropping Contract
chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/contract.htm
Weapons of the Civil War
www.civilwarhome.com/civilwarweapons.html
Chapter 3: From Reconstruction to an Industrial America
American Experience—Andrew Carnegie
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/money.html
Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South
Central Pacific Railroad
cprr.org/Museum/index.html
Digital History—Gilded Age Module
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/gilded_age/index.cfm
Famous Inventions
Great Exhibition of 1851
www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/exhibition/greatexhibition.html
Harper’s Weekly—The Memphis Riots
blackhistory.harpweek.com
1992 LA Riots
Sketches of a Southern Life
www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/writHarper.htm
“There Is Power in a Union”
www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/power.html
Chapter 4: Into a New Century
Anti-Suffragist Cartoons
www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/anti-suffrage-propoganda
Booker T. Washington’s Speech
historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/)
The Emergence of Modern America
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/namerica.shtml
The Great Migration
www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/flash/experience.cfm
The Jungle
www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/jungle/14/.)
Military Channel—WWI Weapons
military.discovery.com
PBS, 1914–1948: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
www.pbs.org/greatwar/
Rationing during World War I
The Souls of Black Folk
www.bartleby.com/114/3.html
Suffs and Antis
www.suffs-and-antis.com/?p=310
Theodore Roosevelt Biographies
Tennessee State Library and Archives—The Spanish-American War
www.tennessee.gov/tsla/exhibits/veterans/spanishamerican.htm
TIME Photos, Twentieth-Century Technology
www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2026224,00.html
The United Nations
www.un.org/en/
The United Nations (Video Clips)
www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/video_library.shtml
Weapons of World War I
www.avon.k12.ma.us/librarymedia/weapons%20world%20war%20one.htm
World War I
www.firstworldwar.com
Chapter 5: Good Times and Hard Times in Tennessee
American Experience—The New Deal
www.pbs.org
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm
Dust Bowl Photographs
weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Heritage Center Museum
www.fdrheritage.org/new_deal.html
Great Depression Images
Harlem Renaissance
www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.html
Hoovervilles
depts.washington.edu/depress/hooverville_photographs.shtml
Negro Leagues
Old Radio World—Vintage Commercials
www.oldradioworld.com/shows/Vintage_Commercials.php
See Rock City Gardens
seerockcity.com/pages/Barn-History/
Smithsonian.com—The Art of the New Deal
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/1934-Picturing-Hard-Times.html#
WPA Photographs
nutrias.org/photos/wpa/wpa07.htm
Woody Guthrie
woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics.html
Chapter 6: World War II
After the Day of Infamy
memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphseries.html
American Experience—World War II Cartoons
www.pbs.org
The American Home Front
www.history.com/topics/us-home-front-during-world-war-ii
A Million Thanks
www.amillionthanks.org/index.php
Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp (Japanese Interment Camps)
www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/breed_t.htm
History Channel.com—The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
www.history.com
Holocaust Memorial
www.holocaustmmb.org/
Letters from Home
www.merkki.com/letters_from_home.htm
Living On: Tennesseans Remembering the Holocaust
www.wnpt.org/productions/livingon/text/program.html
Navajo Code Dictionary
www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.html
One Clip at A Time: The Paper Clips Project
oneclipatatime.org/paper-clips-project
Propaganda Posters
Rationing on the Home Front
www.crossroads.odl.state.ok.us/shell/exhibits/ww2rationing/
Scrap Metal Drives
Smithsonian Institute, World War II on the Home Front
www.smithsonianeducation.org
Telegram to President Roosevelt
docsteach.org/documents/6050578/detail
Tennessee Holocaust Commission
www.tennesseeholocaustcommission.org/multimedia.php
Tuskegee Airmen
blackhistory.50webs.com/tuskegeeairmen.html
The National World War II Museum
www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/forstudents/ww2-history/
Chapter 7: From the United Nations to Civil Rights
Anti-Communist Propaganda Video
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media.php?id=2130
Best of History Websites, an EdTech Resource
besthistorysites.net/index.php/american-history/1900/cold-war-era
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
www.crmvet.org/
Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center
www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project
Duck and Cover
archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava11109vnb1
“Dear White Folks: Black People Are Sensitive to Race.”
www.ebony.com
“Every Day I Have the Blues”
jalc.org/multimedia/browse/item/150#.UXmFf0_Sok9
Library of Congress—Voices of Civil Rights
www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/civilrights-home.html
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
www.nasa.gov/
National Park Service—We Shall Overcome, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/sc2.htm
PBS Teachers—Resources for the Classroom
www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7059/preview/
PBS Teachers—The Civil Rights Movement
www.pbs.org/teachers/thismonth/civilrights/index3.html
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
civilrightsteaching.org/
Tennessee Power Plants
www.nrc.gov/info-finder/region-state/tennessee.html
Chapter 8: The Challenge of Democracy: From Civil Rights to the Present
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
www.crmvet.org/
Fallen Heroes of 9/11
www.nleomf.org/officers/remembering-9-11/
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library—Cuban Missile Crisis
www.jfklibrary.org/
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library—Report to the American People on Civil Rights
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/LH8F_0Mzv0e6Ro1yEm74Ng.aspx
Library of Congress—Voices of Civil Rights
www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/civilrights-home.html
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I Have a Dream”
www.history.com/videos/martin-luther-king-jr-i-have-a-dream
National Park Service—We Shall Overcome, Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/sc2.htm
PBS Teachers—The Civil Rights Movement
www.pbs.org/teachers/thismonth/civilrights/index3.html
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
civilrightsteaching.org/
Vietnam War Casualties from Tennessee
vietnam-casualties.findthedata.org/d/b/Tennessee
The Washington Post—Watergate
www.washingtonpost.com/watergate
