Resources for Teachers

Era 1: Beginnings to 1620 Three Worlds Meet	Era 2: 1585 - 1763 Colonization and Settlement	Era 3: 1754 - 1820 Revolution and the New Nation	Era 4: 1801 - 1861 Expansion and Reform	Era 5: 1850 - 1877 Civil War and Reconstruction

Era 6: 1870-1900 The Development of the Industrial United States	Era 7: 1890-1930 The Emergence of Modern American	Era 8: 1929 - 1945 The Great Depression and World War II	Era 9: 1945 - 1970s Postwar United States	Era 10: 1968- Present Contemporary United States


Other Resources:
The Library of Congress has put together the following primary source documents related to the American Revolution and the Early Republic: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/NewNation.html The National Archives is launching a new website that contains digitized artifacts and historical archives from all of the U.S. presidential libraries: http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/ Maryland State Archives: Teaching American History in the Classroom. Links to Primary Source Document Packets and additional primary source materials: http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/ Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Links to primary and secondary sources from Federal Agences: http://free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=178. Department of Special Collections at the Albin O. Kuhn Library, UMBC: Holds several fully digitized collections of American photography and much more: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/ The United States and the World, 1898 to the Present: A link from UMBC Professor Brad Simpson's Faculty Web page, this CHE seminar syllabus has useful links to narratives and primary source materials on all aspects of 20th c. U.S. foreign relations, straight from the original government archives: View Site. Picture History: the Primary Source for History Online: Here the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 19th century photography provides teachers and students with digitized photographs of all the leading lights of American life in the nineteenth century. The Foundation has illustrated PBS series and "The American President" Web site at the University of Virginia: http://www.picturehistory.com/ The Maryland Historical Society list of “Maryland Firsts”: Includes the first American-born saint, the first U.S. telegraph line, and the first female professor of medicine – all in Maryland: http://www.mdhs.org/library/MDfirsthome.html The Smithsonian for Teachers: The Washington museum has prepared plans for field trips, classroom lessons, and sells its own products and publications online at: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/ National Museum of the American Indian (The Smithsonian): http://www.nmai.si.edu/ The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture: http://www.africanamericanculture.org/ The National Humanities Center provides a series of program outlines and full text links that are an invaluable source to teacehrs: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/index.htm