General United States History

Teacher Note: The following websites contain information related to Brown v. Board of Education, its background and implications. Be sure to review them to determine that they are appropriate and suitable for your students' abilities and needs.

http://www.statecourtwatch.org: This LYC/Russell Sage College-sponsored website is a resource for teachers and students interested in enhancing Social Studies curricula by making connections between state case law, famous U.S. Supreme Court cases, and topics covered in U.S. Government and citizenship classes. These connections make real the concepts of federalism and separation of powers that are important components of U.S. government at all levels of instruction.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/: Library of Congress national digital library with more than 400 collections on United States history
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm: Yale University's Avalon Project includes documents in fields of law, history, economics, diplomacy, and government
http://www.nara.gov/: National Archives and Records Administration preserves important U.S. government documents, photographs, images, maps, audio clips, letters, speeches, and films.
http://www.lib.msu.edu/vincent/: Vincent Voice Library features primary source sound samples from speeches by many U.S. presidents and other important people in history.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/mainmap.html: National Park Service historical places of the civil rights movement
www.vcdh.virginia.edu: The Virginia Center for Digital History
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu: University of Houston Digital History site) Click on "For Teachers" go to classroom handouts, "African Americans after slavery," and go to resource guides, "Civil Rights"
memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/crow/crowhome.html: Library of Congress lesson on segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown: A Retrospective of the African American Experience
www.jimcrowhistory.org: New York Life online resources for teachers
www.pbs.org/jimcrow: "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow" -- Four-part series on public television which was launched on September 17, 2002.