A guide to research from Yale University.

"America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts, each with a historical narrative."

Interviews with over 2300 former slaves.  The interviews took place from 1936-1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration.

Companion site to a PBS American Experience Program.  Explores the last five years of King's life.

A good timeline with related Internet links and a study guide.

From the University of Washington.

From a Kentucky Educational Television special program.

From the corporation for National and Community Service.

Slave accounts, slave life, how the slave system worked, individuals involved in the anti slave society.

Lesson plans and activities by grade level.

Good background information with additional links.

The effects of the plague on all aspects of life.

Translated from an eyewitness account by Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio.

Information documenting the arrival, impact, and results of the plagues in western Europe between 1348 and 1500.

From the Nation Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, this website allows users to search the database by inventor's name, by invention, or by invention decade.

From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This section of the Great Idea Finder website not only hosts profiles of inventors, but provides bibliographies to assist in finding more information in books and online.

A page from the website for the PBS series Lewis and Clark, this provides information on some of the Native American tribes encountered by the Corps of Discovery in their travels.

Compiled by a former librarian, this site provides links to internet sites about specific Indian nations. 

This genealogy site provides information about individual tribes as well as a list of which tribes were found in which states/regions.