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Grade 5 Historical Museum Project

Primary Source Sets @ Library of Congress
Colonial Williamsburg: Kid Zone
Letters of Note
The University of Michigan's "Spy Letters of the American Revolution"
American Revolution: Lighting Freedom's Flame

The Smithsonian's "War of Independence"

The Civil War

The Library of Congress' "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell their Stories"

Ohio State University's eHistory

The University of Virginia's "The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War"

The University of North Carolina's "North American Slave Narrative"

HarpWeek

History.net's "The Civil War"

Civil War @ Smithsonian

The Great Depression

PBS' "Surviving the Dustbowl"

PBS' "People's Century"

Kids Discover's "The Great Depression"

The Indianapolis Public Library's Kids' Blog's "The Great Depression"

Fact Monster: 1930 - 1939 World History

1930's - '40's in Color

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Artifacts from the 1930s

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Artifacts from the Great Depression

  World War II

PBS' "People's Century"

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?

1930's - '40's in Color

The Smithsonian's "Daily Life in the Internment Camps"

The following are general Web sites that may be useful to you:

The Library of Congress

The National Archives and Records Administration

American Experience

Time Magazine

Cornell University's "Making of America"

University of Michigan's "Making of America"

American Rhetoric

Historical Voices

EyeWitness to History

Letters of Note

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Updated 01/04/17