Kurt Cobain - http://en.wikipedia.

org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain

The West – resources from PBS -

W. R. Hearst - http://www.lambiek.net/hearst_wr.htm
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resourc
es/

General documents of U.S. History

Geronimo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo
source – U.S. Archives site:
http://www.archives.gov/

Just Plain notorious Edu page: freshman, sophomore, junior,

senior… liberal arts college…
homecoming… no good sites as sources,
Lee Harvey Oswald - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/oswald/
but could do general info and suggest
ways to find out more about what
homecomings are like
Timothy McVeigh -
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/mcveigh/dawning_1.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstl
adies/ar32.html
Wealthy Americans
James Oglethorpe – Brit military,
founder of debtors colony in GA
Andrew Carnegie -
http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/peopl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/meet_andrews.html
e/oglethorpe.html
Bill Gates - http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp
Alcatraz
http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/mainpg.
John D. Rockefeller - http://tarbell.alleg.edu/archives/jdr.html
htm

Las Vegas
http://www.visitlasvegas.com/vegas/inde
x.jsp
Well-known Religious Leaders
World Trade Center
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trad
Billy Graham - USA Today story -
e_Center
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-05-15-graham-cover_x.htm
NASA
bio - http://www.beliefnet.com/billygraham.html
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?s
kipIntro=1
Mary Baker Eddy -
Nashville
http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/marybakereddy/marybakereddy.jhtml
http://www.givemenashville.com/
Brigham Young - http://unicomm.byu.edu/about/brigham/
Air Force One Moral Majority
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_ http://www.faithandvalues.us/
One
“hyphenated Americans”
Motown http://www.rpatrick.com/USA/americani
http://www.motownmuseum.com/ sm/

The Marx Brothers http://www.marx- cheerleaders

brothers.org/index.htm http://www.americancheerleader.com/

Ebonics http://www.cal.org/ebonics/ Golden Gate Bridge

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldeng
The Lone Ranger ate/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_
Ranger gangsta rap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta_rap
The People’s Temple
Flushing Meadow
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.ed
u/nrms/Jonestwn.html http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclope
dia/Flushing-Meadow_Corona-Park
New Amsterdam
http://www.nnp.org/newvtour/regions/M “Houston, we have a problem”
anhattan/new-amsterdam.html http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histo
ry/SP-350/ch-13-1.html
Scarlett O’Hara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_O' San Andreas Fault
Hara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andrea
Panama Canal s_Fault
http://www.canalmuseum.com/
SAT
Independence Hall http://www.collegeboard.com/splash
http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_indha
ll.htm Waco, Texas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline
/waco/
Little Big Horn http://www.lbha.org/
Ellis Island
Jamestown http://www.ellisisland.com/indexInfo.ht
http://www.apva.org/history/ ml

Academy Awards The Alamo

http://www.oscars.org/index.html http://www.thealamo.org/main.html
KKK/ Ku-Klux-Klan http://www.k-k- Ralph Nader
k.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nade
r
The Grapes of Wrath
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/fe
atures/patc/grapesofwrath/ Super Bowl
http://www.superbowl.com/
Jazz http://www.apassion4jazz.net/
City on a Hill
Abolitionists http://ar.essortment.com/puritansreligio_
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam raes.htm
005.html
Headstart
Fort Sumter http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/
http://www.civilwarhome.com/ftsumter.h
tm “This is the Place”
http://www.thisistheplace.org/
Marlboro Man
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/fe FBI http://www.fbi.gov/
atures/patc/marlboroman/
Pearl Harbor
Appalachians http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian arlharbor/
s
The Pilgrim Fathers
Jim Crow laws http://www.usahistory.info/New-
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.ht England/Pilgrims.html
m
Wounded Knee
“English Only” movement http://www.woundedkneemuseum.org/in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English- dex.htm
only_movement
Medicare/Medicaid -
Articles of Confederation http://www.medicare.gov/
http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.ht
ml The Truman Doctrine
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/do
“the elastic clause” ctrine.htm#oh
http://edusolution.com/myclassroom/clas
snotes/constitution/congress4.htm Bible Belt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt
Marshall Plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Pl Federal Communications Commission
an http://www.fcc.gov/
Ivy League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League Prohibition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
Warner Brothers
http://www2.warnerbros.com/main/hom Red scare
epage/homepage.html http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/re
dscare/
The Alien and Sedition Acts
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/mi The Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/
lestones/sedition/
Supreme Court
G.I. Bill of Rights http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
http://www.gibill.com/
March on Washington
The Four Freedoms http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/wa
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/histor shington.asp
y/ralph/workbook/ralprs36b.htm
IRS http://www.irs.gov/
NYSE http://www.nyse.com/
Phi Beta Kappa http://www.pbk.org/
Berkley http://www.berkeley.edu/
Doughnut
Quarterback http://www.krispykreme.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback
West Point http://www.usma.edu/
Louisiana Purchase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_P “trick or treat”
urchase http://www.holidays.net/halloween/trick.
htm
Lynching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching E Pluribus Unum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_
Plea-bargaining unum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_bargai
n Death Valley
http://www.americansouthwest.net/califo
New Deal rnia/death_valley/national_park.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
Camp David
Broadway http://www.broadway.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Davi
d
Woodstock
http://www.woodstock69.com/ Oval Office
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Office
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/
Rules Committee Star-spangled Banner
http://www.rules.house.gov/ http://americanhistory.si.edu/ssb/2_home
/fs2.html
National Security Council
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ Mt. Rushmore
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rushmor
“A Nation At Risk” e/
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/inde
x.html Ticker tape parade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker-
Yellow Press tape_parade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_jour
nalism State of the Union
http://www.whitehouse.gov/stateoftheuni
Televangelism on/2005/index.html
http://religiousbroadcasting.lib.virginia.e
du/televangelism.html Vanderbilt
http://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org/home.
Manifest Destiny php
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/d
ialogues/prelude/manifest/manifestdestin Arlington www.arlingtoncemetery.org
y.html
“Wetbacks”
Mayflower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetback
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/
Wall Street
Plessy v. Ferguson http://online.wsj.com/public/us
http://www.lawbuzz.com/can_you/plessy
/plessy.htm “The Spirit of St. Louis”
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/plane/i
Country-Western ndex.asp
http://www.cmt.com/
“fireside chats”
Bay of Pigs http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/firesi90
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpig .html
s/
Home Box office
Potlatch http://www.hbo.com/
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/potlatc
h/default.html AFDC
http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/
TVA http://www.tva.gov/
Dawes Act
NYPD http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resourc
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/ es/archives/eight/dawes.htm
Liberal arts college
The Fourteen Points
PTA http://www.pta.org/ http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/d
emocrac/51.htm
Harlem Renaissance
http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/harlem_i Fort Knox http://www.knox.army.mil/
ntro.html
GPA (GPA Calculating spreadsheet)
Huck Finn http://www.aad.berkeley.edu/gpacalc.ht
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfi ml
nn/huchompg.html
Blues
Hare Krishna http://www.blues.org/index.php4
http://www.harekrishna.com/
Confederacy http://www.moc.org/
Sunset Boulevard http://www.seeing-
stars.com/Streets/SunsetBlvd.shtml Cotton gin
http://www.eliwhitney.org/cotton.htm
Budweiser
http://www.budweiser.com/ (must be 21 Filibustering
to enter the site… strange!!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(l
egislative_tactic)
Mississippi Burning
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/project WPA
s/ftrials/price&bowers/price&bowers.ht http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/
m wpahome.html

“trickle down economy” Williamsburg http://www.history.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle_dow
n_effect Graceland
http://www.elvis.com/graceland/
Disneyland/Disney World
http://disney.go.com/home/today/index.h The Seneca Falls Convention
tml http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr
040.html
Dessert Storm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEB 1990 Immigration Act
B/NSAEBB39/ http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/aboutus/
statistics/legishist/568.htm
Affirmative Action
http://www.affirmativeaction.org/about.h District Attorney http://www.ndaa-
tml apri.org/

Poverty line Death row

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_lin http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
e
Forty-niners
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/jour
ney.html

GOP http://www.rnc.org/

CIA http://www.cia.gov/

Reverse discrimination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_dis
crimination

“separate but equal”

Thanksgiving Day
http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/

Halloween
http://www.halloween.com/

Magnet Schools
http://www.magnet.edu/index.htm

Cajun http://www.cajunculture.com/

No Pass no Play
http://connect.familyeducation.com/web
x/webx.dll?230@@.ee72dcd

Fraternity/ sorority