Historical Fiction:  Recommended Titles for Eighth Graders
The following links take you to lists of fiction available at Wellwood Library. 
Students should allow time to look at books in person to judge length and reading level.
           »   Civil War Era   
           »   Turn of the Century  
           »   1920s and 30s
           »   World War II Era  
           »   Modern History

U.S. History   

AAEC (Political Cartoons) 

» America's Story, from the Library of Congress 
   An excellent site for exploring many topics in history (esp. grade 5)

African-American History (timelines)     
Africans in America, PBS  
American Experience, PBS   
American Memory, Library of Congress  
American Rhetoric  
America's Story "Jump Back in Time" (Library of Congress)
Animated Atlas (timelines)    
Avalon Project at Yale University (documents)  
Bartleby.com (reference and primary material for all subjects) 
Biography of America  (timelines)
Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents, University of Oklahoma School of Law  
CivilWar.com
Civil War Women, from Duke University     
Digital History (documents and timelines)     
Documenting the American South
EyeWitness to History  
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum 
History Matters  
Historyplace (timelines)   
Library of Congress Teachers' Page     
National Archives   
National Security Archives, George Washington University (documents)   
Native American Archives at the NARA   
Native American Documents Project   
New Perspectives on the West (PBS)
New York History Net
New York Public Library, Digital Library Collection
New York State Museum  
Our Documents, National Archives and Records Administration  
Triangle Factory Fire, Cornell University
WWW-VL History, United States, Timelines 

Mr. Savicki's Quia Site 

·  Spies During the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin, World of Influence: Spies (PBS)  
Clandestine Women: Spies in American History  
Spy Letters of the American Revolution   
 

· 1920s Project 
  
Baseball Almanac (history of baseball)  
Baseball History, Baseball Hall of Fame  
Biography of America, 1920s page     
Christy's Fashion Pages   
Clash of Cultures 1910s and 1920s, Ohio State University   
Drop Me Off in Harlem (Harlem Renaissance), Kennedy Center 
Encyclopedia of Chicago (search for Capone, prohibition, gangs, etc.)  
Federal Bureau of Investigation (search for specific topic, such as "Capone")  
Flapper Fashion  
Harlem Renaissance, Library of Congress   
Harlem Renaissance, PBS        
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (PBS)  
The Jazz Age, Digital History     
Monkey Trial, American Experience (PBS)  
The Roaring Twenties, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum      
The Roaring Twenties, National Institute of Standards and Technology   
Speakeasies, Flappers, and Red Hot Jazz: Music of the Prohibition     
Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial (NPR) 
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Famous American Trials

Geography

• United States   
  America's Story "Explore the States" (Library of Congress) 
  America the Beautiful (Grolier Online)
  Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  50 States
  Stately Knowledge, from the Internet Public Library
  Statistical Abstract of the United States
  U.S. Bureau of the Census Gazetteer
• World
  Atlapedia
  CIA World Factbook  
  EMuseum (University of Minnesota) 
  INCOR Country Guides
  Library of Congress Country Studies
  National Geographic Xpeditions  
  
  Around the World (New Year's)  
  New Year's Celebrations around the World  
  New Year's Eve Customs around the World    

Government and Economics
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids, from the United States Government Printing Office
Coins of Colonial and Early America
FirstGov, from the United States General Services Administration
Presidents of the United States, Internet Public Library
Ron's World Paper Money Homepage
Uncle Sam for Kids, from the St. Charles City-County Library District
United States Mint
The White House   

Exploration 
Columbus Navigation Homepage  
Conquest of North America: deSoto, Coronado, daVaca  
European Voyages of Exploration: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries  
Exploration through the Ages, Mariner's Museum  
Pathfinders & Passageways: The Exploration of Canada (Cartier, Cabot) 


Ancient History
Ancient Greek World  
M  Ancient Mesopotamia for Kids 
M   Ancient Mesopotamia, University of Chicago
Ancient World Web 
M  BBC's Ancient History
The British Museum's Ancient Egypt
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Life in Ancient Egypt
Egypt: A New Look at an Ancient Culture  
EMuseum (Universityof Minnesota)  
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Greece
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Rome   
HyperHistory Online 
M   Mesopotamia, the British Museum 
Odyssey Online: Rome
Olympics Through Time
The Roman Army
The Romans, British Broadcasting Corporation

The Middle Ages
A Boke of Gode Cookery
Castles of Britain
KidsClick! Middle Ages links
The Middle Ages, from Annenberg CPB

Wellwood Library; revised 3/2008

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