Life in 1800s America
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Frontier Life and Western
Expansion
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Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)
Prairie Songs (Conrad)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (Cushman)
Weasel (DeFelice)
A Gathering of Days (Blos)
The Borning Room (Fleischman)
Old Yeller (Gipson)
Gentleman Outlaw and Me, Eli:
A Story of the Old West (Hahn)
Jim-Dandy (Irwin)
George on His Own (Lawlor)
Dakota Spring (Love)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (MacLachlan)
Land of Dreams (Nixon)
Mr. Tucket (Paulsen series)
Walking up a Rainbow (Taylor)
Jericho's Journey (Wisler)
Winter of the Wolf (Wisler)
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Everyday Life Along the Trail
Diaries,
Memoirs, Letters and Reports Along the Trails West
Living in a Sod House
Oregon:
Land of Gold and Opportunity
Gold
Rush Stories of Women Pioneers
Women
of the West
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Patty Reed's Doll (Laurgaard)
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Overland
Trail Clickable Map
Oregon
Pioneer Biographies
The
Donner Party
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Laura Ingalls Wilder:
Little House in the Big Woods
Little House on the Prairie
Farmer Boy
On the Banks of Plum Creek
By the Shores of Silver Lake
The Long Winter
Little Town on the Prairie
The First Four Years
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Laura
Ingalls Wilder
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Slavery in the United
States
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Jump Ship to Freedom (Collier)
The Slave Dancer (Fox)
The Captive (Hansen)
My Name Is Not Angelica (O'Dell)
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons (Rinaldi)
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African-American
Mosaic Exhibition
Library of Congress divides this exhibit up into colonization,
abolition, migration out of the South, and the Works Project
Administration.
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Wolf by the Ears (Rinaldi)
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The
Hemings-Jefferson Controversy |
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Letters from a Slave Girl (Lyons)
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Excerpts
from Slave Narratives |
Steal Away (Armstrong)
Something Upstairs (Avi)
Family: A Novel (Cooper)
My Home Is Over Jordan (Forrester)
Sound the Jubilee (Forrester)
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Gaines)
Cowslip (Haynes)
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary
of Patsy, a Freed Girl (Hansen)
True North (Lasky)
Twins (Lynch)
United in Freedom (Lasky)
The Glory Field (Myers)
Jip: His Story (Paterson)
Nightjohn (Paulsen)
Runaway to Freedom (Smucker)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe)
Caleb's Choice (Wisler)
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The
Underground Railroad
Map
of Underground Railroad Routes
List
of Sites
See specific locations that helped slaves along the way on the
underground railroad, for example, the Hitchcock
House in Lewis, Iowa.
Harriet
Tubman
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Civil  War
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The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan:
A Novel of the Civil War (Armstrong)
Mary Mehan Awake (Armstrong)
Charley Skedaddle (Beatty)
Jayhawker (Beatty)
Turn Homeward, Hannalee (Beatty)
Bigger (Calvert)
Tamarack Tree (Clapp)
With Every Drop of Blood (Collier)
Family (Cooper)
An Island Far from Home (Donahue)
Bull Run (Fleischman)
Becca's Story (Forman)
Across Five Aprils (Hunt)
The Root Cellar (Lunn)
A Dangerous Promise (Nixon)
Keeping Secrets (Nixon)
Soldier's Heart: A Novel of the Civil War (Paulsen)
In My Father's House (Rinaldi)
Drummer Boy of Vicksburg (Wisler)
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer (Wisler)
Red Cap (Wisler)
Thunder on the Tennessee (Wisler)
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American
Treasures of the Library of Congress
Photographs, documents, and sketches reveal hints about life
in the Civil War era.
A
Nation Divided: U.S. Civil War
Brief timeline of the Civil War with photographs of people and
documents.
Timeline
of the Civil War
A walk through history with a photographic overview of
the Civil War.
Valley
of the Shadow
Comparison of two Civil War communities, one Southern and one
Northern.
Iowa Civil
War Project
Letters
from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War
Civil
War Battlefield Medicine
Discover common medical problems and surgery limitations of this
era.
Poetry and
Music of the War Between the States
This site adds extra background information about Civil War songs
and with the poetry helps explain the emotions of the men facing
battle.
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Mine Eyes Have Seen (Rinaldi)
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John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
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Native Americans
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Bold Journey: West with Lewis and Clark (Bohner)
Streams to the River, River to the Sea (O'Dell)
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Discovering
Lewis and Clark
National
Geographic: Lewis and Clark
Lewis
and Clark: The Corps of Discovery
Sacajawea
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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains (O'Dell) |
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The Haunted Mesa (L'Amour)
Sees Behind Trees (Dorris)
Sweetgrass (Hudson)
Moccasin Trail (McGraw)
Sing Down the Moon (O'Dell)
Canyons (Paulsen)
The Light in the Forest (Richter)
Calico Captive (Speare)
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The
First Americans
Native
American Home Pages
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