These are links to websites used during Jennifer Orr's presentation to Elementary School Teachers.

Websites for U.S. History - from presentation:
http://www.apva.org/jr.html
This site includes a portrait of John Smith, a crude sketch of the fort, a portrait of Pocahontas, a photograph of the church tower in Jamestown, a timeline with quotes from journals, lists of people including their occupations (see how many gentlemen were in each group).

http://www.folger.edu/institute/jamestown/index_main.htm
Here are maps of Virginia and Jamestown, portraits, quotes from journals, and contracts for indentured servants.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/virginia/chart01.htm
This site has the texts of the charters of the Virginia Company of London.

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/index.htm
This includes texts of many documents in US history including the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a draft and final copy of Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and other amendments, inaugural addresses and states of the union, supreme court cases, excerpts from autobiographies and other personal writings.

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/
http://www.currencygallery.org/
Here are pictures and information on Virginia and colonial currency.

http://spec.lib.vt.edu/civwar/
This is a collection of letters, memoirs, scrapbooks, etc from the Civil War.

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
This site has memoirs and letters from 3 African-American women around the time of the Civil War.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corlst.html
This site has various documents throughout US history—including documents relating to the fight for civil rights; letters, poetry, court cases.

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/education/primary_sources/index.htm
This is primary sources about African-Americans in baseball.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5838/
This is a recount of a conversation between a Powhatan Indian and John Smith.

http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
This site has maps of North America from the 1500s to the 1900s.

http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/slavery/index.html
This includes images of slaves and the slave trade.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/neh.html
Here are slave narratives from the 1700s on.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
This site is a history of Africans in the US from the beginning of slavery through the Civil War.

http://www.nypl.org/west/index.html
Here are maps and images about moving west.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/
This site has information about the Plymouth Colony including images, wills, biographies, laws, etc.

http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu/
This site includes documents and images on life in New England from the 1600s to the 1900s including pictures, contracts for indentured servants, journals, school books, and more.

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/origina2.html
Here are copies and typed text for various documents including supreme court decisions, letters, receipts from the Lewis and Clark expedition, etc.

http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/
This site includes letters and writings by John Locke.

http://www.thomaspaine.org/contents.html
This is writings of Thomas Paine.

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/index.html
This site has images of sheet music from late 1700s to 1900s, including patriotic songs, songs about presidents, wars, sports, and famous people.

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/h_home.shtml
Here is information on all of our presidents including links to their papers.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/home.html
This site is the companion to the exhibit at the Smithsonian, information about the presidency from inaugurations to limits on the office.

http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html
This site has diaries, letters, business papers, images pertaining to settlement in Texas and California.

http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/whole_cloth/
Here are activities and images on early industrialization including the cotton gin.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
This site has many images of women’s suffrage.

http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/suf_intro.html
This site has political cartoons on women’s suffrage.

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/liberty.html
This site includes poems, documents, and images on women and suffrage.

http://www.nyt.ulib.org/index.cgi
Here are articles from the New York Times from 1860 to 1866.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
This site has information on African American abolitionists.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
This is National Geographic’s Underground Railroad site with and activity and images.

More Sites for U.S. History:
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1755v5.jpg

http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/CurrencyImages/CC/CC-07-22-76-$3.obv.jpg

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/independence/doitj.htm

http://gropius.lib.virginia.edu/slavery/FMPro?-db=slavetrade.fp5&-format=details.html&-lay=web2&HiddenCategory=6&-max=16&-recid=32796&-find=

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/american_originals/expand.html#expansion

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/campbell/1838-01-30/1838-01-30.html

http://www.nyt.ulib.org/read.cgi?cview=topics&selected=2317555&type=column&issueid=9210769&pageid=4284676&columnid=547174

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?suffrg:1:./temp/~ammem_4rdD::displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a32338:@@@

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mcc&fileName=015/page.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/015))

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/education/primary_sources/robinson_jackie/photograph_02.htm

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/display.pl?record=009.088.001&pages=4