Fifty Years from Trinity
http://www.seattletimes
.com/trinity/index.html
Description: Download information and links on the development of the nuclear age. Supplementary material, interactive activities, and questions for discussion and debate make this a valuable classroom resource. 
Comments: From the education section of the Seattle Times WEBedition.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Albert Einstein
http://userwww.sfsu.
edu/~rsauzier/Einstein
.html
Description: In 1905, Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity overthrew commonsense assumptions about space and time. Since then, Einstein's revolutionary insights and his predictions have been borne out by experiment and observation.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Dwight D. Eisenhower
http://history.hanover.edu/
20th/eisenhow.htm
Description: This page is a good biography of Eisenhower's life, with links to his war years and to his Presidency.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: Low
 

Eisenhower Center
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/
heritage/abilene/ikectr.html
Description: Here is a compilation of links having to do with D-Day, family history, Eisenhower web sites, and main events of his Presidency.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
 

Illusion and Delusion: The Watergate Decade
http://www.journale.com/
watergate.html
Description: The Watergate story is simply told on this page which includes photographs of the major figures involved.
Comments: A good overview of the Watergate Scandal.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Material Culture of the 1950s
http://www.magnetplace.com/
RETRO/
Description: See pictures of clothing, furniture and other products of the 1950s. 
Resource Type: Photos or Pictures
Graphics Content: High

Campaign of 1948
http://www.whistlestop.org/
frcheck.htm
In September 1948, President Harry S. Truman hopped aboard the presidential railroad car and began a cross-country campaign odyssey that would take him through 30 states. To shouts of "Give 'em hell Harry!", the feisty Missourian would lash out at the "do-nothing" 80th Congress and reminisce about his childhood in small-town Missouri and his experiences as a farmer. Would you have voted for Truman?
Author: Wayne Ball, Nancy Lewis, Ronnie Moppin, and Mark Spaulding
 

Conservation Movement at a Crossroads: The Hetch Hetchy Controversy 
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/
ammem/ndlpedu/
lesson97/conser1/
xroads.html 
The debate over damming the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park marked a crossroads in the American conservation movement. Until this debate, conservationists seemed fairly united in their aims. San Francisco's need for a reliable water supply, along with a new political dynamic at the federal level, created a division between those committed to preserving the wilderness and those more interested in efficient management of its use. While this confrontation happened nearly one hundred years ago, it contains many of the same arguments which are used today whenever preservationists and conservationists mobilize. 
Author: Michael Federspiel and Timothy Hall
 

Constitutional Issues: Watergate and the Constitution
http://www.nara.gov/
education/teaching/
watergate/watergat.html
This activity examines the influence of the Constitutional separation of powers in American government on making the choice between prosecuting and pardoning Richard Nixon after Watergate. Actual documents from the National Archives are used. 
Author: National Archives Digital Classroom
 

The Blues
http://encarta.msn.com/
alexandria/templates/
lessonFull.asp?page=
2829&lvstart=K&lvend=
12&majorsubject=&
minorsubject=&source=
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Black+History+Month
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Blues music finds its roots in both African and European music styles. From these origins, the blues evolved into its three-line ballad form, blues notes, and basic three -cord harmony beginning in the 1890's. Analyze a blues song to answer the question "What is the blues?" Research and create biographical vignettes on blues artists and make multi-media presentations on how the blues relates to U.S. social history. The Encarta server is very busy, so this lesson may load slowly. 
Author: Patricia Ware

Students understand the differences between service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government.

Students can describe the significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the
agricultural economy, especially in California.

Students understand Trumanís labor policy and congressional reaction to it.

Students can describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression,
World War II, and the Cold War.

Students can effectively discuss the diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies, and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions.

Students are able to describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since
1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology.