Analyze the rewards and challenges of self-employment.

Count chicks in this fun game. Song available in Spanish and English.

Kentucky-based storyteller Mary Hamilton tells a haunting tale set in Victorian times, about a man who gives a young lady a ride across the Ohio River to her home in Louisville. When she disappears, he learns that he has become part of a...

North Carolina-based storyteller Donna Washington tells a scary tale from the Gullah culture about a man and his beautiful wife-who is not what she seems to be. The story explains the Gullah tradition of painting doors and windows blue...

Did you know there are over 200 statues and memorials of Lincoln in the United States? Click on each location to see a picture of the statue located there.

This brief summary covers major aspects of Polk's presidency, including his support of Andrew Jackson's policies.

This PBS site provides images of all pages of the original Louisiana Purchase, with a transcript.

See a photo of Lathrop and read about her achievements with the Children's Bureau in 1912 & 1914.

Buffalo Bill Cody, whose life lent itself to myth-making, helped define the American West. Read this biography about the man from PBS' series on The West.

This site from PBS provides information about the Arikara Indians and the Lewis and Clark expedition.

This site from PBS contains an article on the Teton Sioux Indians and the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Provides information on the Yankton Sioux Indians and the Lewis and Clark expedition.

This site from PBS provides a short description and map of "the Indian Territory set aside by the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the areas designated for each tribe."

Contains selections from "With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92" by E. Jane Gay, which provided an anthropological look at the Nez Perce Indians and their bewilderment at the Dawes Act.

This article focuses on the massacre of Chief Big Foot and his followers at the Massacre of Wounded Knee.

Instructions for making a simulated comet nucleus from simple materials.

A summary of what was happening in other world cultures during the Classical period in ancient Greece.

Gives a brief account of the inventors and developments that lead up to the creation of television.

This website explains why Virginia needed laborers, why it led to the use of African labor and how it was justified by Christians. Hyperlinks to related topics on the site.

Biography of John Sutter, a Swiss settler who helped to develop Californian and saw his fortunes dwindle after the California Gold Rush.

A brief biography of James Marshall who discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, which led to the California Gold Rush.

Examine characteristics of bowerbirds and their bowers. Compare and contrast various styles of bowers created by bowerbirds

Instructions for designing a mandala.

A lesson that takes young scholars through the process of examining tombstones as artifacts, identifying information that can be instrumental in investigating a community's past or an individual's genealogy. Students also make gravestone...