Access official state and city Web sites that provide weather information, maps, best destinations, history, events, feature articles, and more. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball. Explore this site to learn about the color line, Robinson s baseball career, and the active role he played in the struggle for civil rights. Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Look for clickable maps, topics, and a hypertext timeline guide research related to Native American history, culture, and geography. World War II, An American Scrapbook Students created this excellent Web site to feature the stories they collected about World War II from their grandparents and great grandparents.
Links lead to Web sites the students used to learn more about supporting war efforts at home.
A colorful, cheerful site, Kids Space posts drawings, stories, and musical compositions by children sixteen years of age and younger. In the Kids Gallery there is a room set aside for class projects. Library of Congress Thanksgiving in American Memory Read the original proclamation by the Continental Congress declaring Thanksgiving a holiday. Share in the celebration of Thanksgiving throughout American history, from the early colonies to the Civil War to the Great Depression. The National Park Service Place on the Web A huge site covering all of the National Parks in the United States.