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Biography.com

This website created by the magazine Biography contains thousands of entries

Encyclopedia of World Biography

Contains a large biography collection of notable persons.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Digitized archives of JFK. Students can search primary resources )or view digitized media ( i.e. video clips and audio clips).

Eyewitness

Illuminating the past through personal narratives and other first-hand sources

Lewis & Clark by PBS

From PBS: An interactive site that challenges the student to solve the same problems that Lewis & Clark encountered

All About the Oregon Trail

A resource of information about the Oregon Trail

The National Archives, Digital Vaults

A database of some 1,200 documents, photographs, drawings, maps, other materials in (primary source documents)from the National Archives in Washington DC

Schoolhouse Rock : "How A Bill Becomes a Law" : video

The ever-popular and timeless sing-along animation that teaches the process of lawmaking.

Accessible Archives

A full-text database of primary source materials from 18th and 19th-century periodicals