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- Captains of Industry Project
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- Tenement Housing
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum Virtual Tour
- Pan Am Exposition 1901
- Inventions of the Gilded Age
My Links
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Here is a great collection of additional sites that may help you along your journey of 8th grade Social Studies.
Equality and Diversity
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Women's Fashion by decade
Here is a great example of how women's clothes have changed over time and how modern seamtresses recreate those fashions.
Civil War
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The South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
This is a great site from the Library of Congress on what it was like in the South during the Civil War.
Gilded Age
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Virtual Tour of the Elms
This PBS Site allows you to take a sneak peak into one of the mansions of the Gilded Age.
Progressive Era
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Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition of 1901
Take a look when Buffalo was the 8th largest city in the US. This is also where Pres. McKinley was assassinated.
Imperialism
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Hawaiian Annexation in Pictures
See how many mainland Americans interpreted the Annexation of Hawai'i from Puck Magazine.
World War I
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Palace of Versailles
Look where the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I was signed!
The Roaring 20's
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Seneca Falls Convention 1848
Take a look at where the roots of the American Women's Suffrage movement come from.
The Great Depression
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The Causes of the Great Depression
Here's an easy list of all the causes of the Great Depression. -
Great Source of Great Depression Links
Anything you want to know about the Depression is here at your fingertips.
World War II
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Stories of Service
These are short historical biographic mini movies about our soldiers & others who have been affected by war. It's a great site.
Great Current Events Sites
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The Primary Race covered by the NY Times
Find out who's going to be running for president this November! -
National Public Radio
This is a wonderful place to hear about new & old events in a different perspective -
Understanding Prejudice
How do you view the world? Are you bias? Check out this site and see where you fall.
Mrs. K's Favorite Historic Places
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Stratford Hall
This is the ancestrial home of the Lee Family. Take a look where two signers of the Declartion of Independence & the famous General Robert E. Lee were born. -
Cape Hatteras, NC
Here's my favorite spring time place to enjoy pirates, the ocean, hang gliding, and so much more! -
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Slide Show
One place I always wanted to visit but haven't got there yet!
How the Mind Works
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Multiple Intelligence Test
Get a snapshot of how your brain works on this wonderful site. Take the test, it's short and I promise you won't be graded on it : )