Social Studies Readings links for 
National Geographic Reading Expeditions

Voices from America's Past

Colonial Life   
Colonial Life-Library of Congress 
Famous Moments on Early American History 
A Day in the Life of Thomas Jefferson  
A Revolutionary Game
American Revolution for Kids 
Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents
Chronicle of the Revolution   
Perspectives of Revolution  

Our Journey West  
Library of Congress: The Way West 
End of the Oregon Trail 
The Oregon Trail   
The Oregon Trail from Thinkquest  

The Spirit of a New Nation   
Library of Congress: The Plans for Washington, D.C.
History of Washington, D.C.
The Alien & Sedition Acts-scroll to the bottom
Video of John Adams 
John Adams Photo Gallery
Historical Tour of the White House
History of the White House
Kids in the White House
Photo Finish at the White House 
White House Timeline 

Our New Life in America  
Harlem 1900 - 1940 
Immigration: The Living Mosaic of Peoples Cultures & Hope  
On the Trail of the Immigrant 
The Peopling of America 
Tour Ellis Island  
Ellis Island-History Channel 

Blue or Gray? A Family Divided   
Gettysburg Address
Library of Congress: A More Perfect Union 
Civil War for Kids 
Civil War Photographs
Civil War Women  
Conflict of Abolition and Slavery  
Ex Slaves Narratives  
Gettysburg Kidz Page  

Seeds of Change in American History 

The Age of Inventions  
Invention & Sound from the Library of Congress
Levi Strauss   
Jan Matzengler  
Technology in the 1900 
The Telephone   
Zoom Inventions & Inventors 
Mr. Watson Come Here

Building the Transcontinental Railroad   
Central Pacific Railroad  
Jesse James Virtual Museum 
New Perspectives on the West
Railroad Maps
Union Pacific Railroad History 

The Great Migration 
African American Migration 
Chicago & the Great Migration 
Art of Jacob Lawrence  
The Chicago Defender 
The Great War  
Harlem 1900 - 1940 
The Harlem Renaissance 
Langston Hughes   
Negro League Baseball   
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz 
Sounds of the Jazz Age  

Two Cultures Meet - Native Americans and Europeans
1492: An Ongoing Voyage
First Americans  
First Nations of the New France Era 
Homes of the Past: The Longhouse  
Horses & Native Americans  
Incursion in North America  
Indian Fur Trade-Visit links of left side of page  
Three Sisters 
Triangular Trade   

The Industrial Revolution    
Cyrus McCormick   McCormick's Farm 
Eli Terry 
Eli Whitney   
Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin
The Gilded Age  
Inside an American Factory   
The John Bull    More on the John Bull  
Lowell National Historic Park    
Robert Fulton & the Clermont    More on Fulton & the Clermont 
Samuel Slater: Father of the Industrial Revolution  
Technology in the 1900 
The Lowell Mills  Lowell Mill Girls
Lowell History