Mr. Smith's Class - Room 102

URLs for History Students and Teachers

   Interesting History Reading Online

• History Day, Canada Prizes: http://www.k12studycanada.org/news_history_day_awards.html

• Affidavit, Fugitive Slave, California, 1858: National Archives Description: Filed March 29, 1858, this is an affidavit by slave-owner C.A. Stovall in the case of "C.A. Stovall vs. Archie (Lee), a Slave," the only known federal Fugitive Slave case tried in California, a "free state." 

  • http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=329

   

• Native American Treaties - Documents:

  • "Hopi Petition signed by all the Chiefs and headmen of the tribe asking the Federal Government to give them title to their lands instead of individually allotting each tribal member:"

    • http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=327

  • Yakima Treaty of June 9th, 1855: http://www.ccrh.org/comm/moses/primary/yaktreaty.html

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie:

    • http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/index.html?dod-date=429  "In this treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people." (Archives.Org)

• Center for Columbia River History: http://www.ccrh.org/ (Promoting the study of Columbia River Basin history)

• The Vanport Flood & Racial Change in Portland (The Oregon History Project)

• Aloha Treatment for a 1954 Hawaii Petition (Prologue)

• The piece of paper that proved Hitler was fooled

• Lincoln Pardon (a fake)

• Prologue Magazine (National Archives)

  • A Founding Father in Dissent:

    • Elbridge Gerry Helped Inspire Bill of Rights in His Opposition to the Constitution
      By Greg Bradsher.

  • Civil War Draft Records:

    • Exemptions and Enrollments 
      By Michael T. Meier