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New Book of Knowledge set of articles on the presidents, the presidency and American politics. This set is designed for school grades 3 through 8. Many articles are interlinked within for fast access to information on related topics. After you have finished reading the articles, take The American Presidency NBK Test of Strength, a 25-question quiz that is automatically scored.

Academic American Encyclopedia set of articles on the presidents, the presidency and American politics. This set is designed for school grades 5 through adult. Many articles are interlinked within for fast access to information on related topics. After you have finished reading the articles, take The American Presidency AAE Test of Strength, a 25-question quiz that is automatically scored.

Encyclopedia Americana set of articles on the presidents, the presidency and American politics. This set is designed for school grades 6 through adult. Many articles are interlinked within for fast access to information on related topics. After you have finished reading the articles, take The American Presidency EA Test of Strength, a 25-question quiz that is automatically scored.

"Any Day In History" Gives a voluminous report on any given day of any month. Really impressive. Pretty quick, too. Why not have each student look up his/her birthday and then select one person/place/thing/event to research and present a report on?

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Federalist Papers The Federalist Papers were written and published during the years 1787 and 1788 in several New York State newspapers to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed constitution. In total, the Federalist Papers consist of 85 essays outlining how this new government would operate and why this type of government was the best choice for the United States of America. All of the essays were signed "PUBLIUS" and the actual authors of some are under dispute, but the general consensus is that Alexander Hamilton wrote 52, James Madison wrote 28, and John Jay contributed the remaining five. The Federalist Papers remain today as an excellent reference for anyone who wants to understand the U.S. Constitution.

The Constitution of the United States of America by United States

"Cæsar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius." Caesar, Julius.

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau. {"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe--"That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."} While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience" is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and sometimes visited, but for most of us there are not many occasions when it can actually be used. Still, although seldom mentioned without references to Gandhi and King, "Civil Disobedience" has more history than many suspect. In the 1940's it was read by the Danish resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by people who opposed McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against South African apartheid, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new generation of anti-war activists. The lesson learned from all this experience is that Thoreau's ideas really do work, just as he imagined they would. 

COMMON SENSE By THOMAS PAINE February 14, 1776. Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

DISSERTATIONS ON FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. By Thomas Paine. " There is no subject more interesting to every man than the subject of government. His security, be he rich or poor, and in a great measure his prosperity, are connected therewith; it is therefore his interest as well as his duty to make himself acquainted with its principles, and what the practice ought to be. Every art and science, however imperfectly known at first, has been studied, improved and brought to what we call perfection by the progressive labors of succeeding generations; but the science of government has stood still. No improvement has been made in the principle and scarcely any in the practice till the American Revolution began. In all the countries of Europe (except in France) the same forms and systems that were erected in the remote ages of ignorance still continue, and their antiquity is put in the place of principle; it is forbidden to investigate their origin, or by what right they exist. If it be asked how has this happened, the answer is easy: they are established on a principle that is false, and they employ their power to prevent detection. Notwithstanding the mystery with which the science of government has been enveloped, for the purpose of enslaving, plundering and imposing upon mankind, it is of all things the least mysterious and the most easy to be understood. The meanest capacity cannot be at a loss, if it begins its inquiries at the right point. Every art and science has some point, or alphabet, at which the study of that art or science begins, and by the assistance of which the progress is facilitated. The same method ought to be observed with respect to the science of government."

Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event. By Lafayette Houghton Bunnell. Lafayette Houghton Bunnell (1824-1903) was a member of the Mariposa Battalion that became the white discoverers of the Yosemite Valley in 1851 when they rode out in search of Native American tribal leaders involved in recent raids on American settlements. Dr. Bunnell later served as a surgeon in the Civil War. Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851 (originally published 1880) contains his account of that event, beginning with the history of the battalion and the tribal unrest that inspired its creation. He goes on to chronicle the unit's march from its camp near Agua Fria into the mountains down the South Fork of the Merced River. Bunnell recalls his comrades' reactions to the natural grandeur they encountered in the Yosemite Valley as well as the trivia of camp life and encounters with the native tribes they were sent to pacify. The book concludes with chapters of the Valley's history after 1851, discussions of the region's flora and fauna, and a chapter on the discovery of the sequoias and their later exploitation.

The Diary of a Fort-Niner, ed. by Chauncey de Leon Canfield . Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Gaer's Bibliography of California literature, 20 describes this book as written in the form of a diary, but fictional.' The diary of a forty-niner (1920) reprints Canfield's 1906 publication. It purports to be the diary of Alfred T. Jackson, of Litchfield County, Connecticut, during his days as a gold prospector, 1850-1852. Jackson offers firsthand accounts of Nevada City and neighboring Rock Creek; descriptions of Grass Valley, North and South Yuba Valleys, and the Sierra Mountains; details of gold mining with accounts of pioneer overland crossings, and foreign mineworkers (including Chinese). Entries concerning Jackson's personal life include details of his courtship of a French woman in the camps.

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison

"MORGAN'S MEN" A Narrative of Personal Experiences By HENRY LANE STONE: Stone's narrative of the Civil War, "Morgan's Men," was originally a speech given at a Confederate veterans' group meeting in 1919. The Free Public Library Press of Louisville, Kentucky, printed the story as a pamphlet at the suggestion of the Louisville Evening Post, which could "not find the space for this exciting and instructive story". The narrative begins with Stone leaving his family in Indiana, a free state, for Kentucky, where he could join a Confederate company. Stone explains that despite the fact that three of his brothers enlisted in the Federal army, he was "an earnest advocate of State rights," and "could not conscientiously go with them". Stone then describes his adventures fighting on the war's Midwestern fronts as a member of General John H. Morgan's famous cavalry; his capture and escape from multiple prisons; and his thoughts on the aftermath of the Civil War.

Ancient History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

Athena Review, Archaeology on the Web: http://www.athenapub.com/inet/guide2.htm

Arthurian Sources also try: Lague- Arthurian Celtic and Latin Chronicles Sources-Menu

Byzantine Sources in Translation: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byzantium/alltexts.html

Checklist Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca, and Tablets: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/clist.html

Church Fathers, Saints, and Christian Antiquities: http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ206.HTM

Columbia Library(NYC) Reference Tools and Indexes: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes

Columbia Library(NYC) WWW information systems: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/

Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon: http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/index.html

Crystal Hill MultiMedia and the San Graal School for Sacred Geometry: http://www.danwinter.com/index.html

EBSCO (top of page contains databases): http://www.epnet.com/

Ethnologue, Languages of the World: http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/

Extrabiblical Religious Texts: A collection of Gnostic texts, deemed heretical by the Church. ... add great depth to our understanding of the religious climate at the time of Jesus.

Federal Government Resources on the Web: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/federal.html

Genealogical Research: http://www.ancestry.com/

Greek New Testament Resources: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre/greek.htm 

Historian Net http://www.historian.net/newindex.html

King Arthur Information: http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html

Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library: http://www.slu.edu/libraries/vfl/

Library of Congress: http://marvel.loc.gov/

Oriental Institute Research Archives: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/Research_Arch.html

Satellite Arial Maps: http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/

Smithsonian Institute: http://www.si.edu/

The Gospel of Thomas: http://www.epix.net/~miser17/Thomas.html

Vatican Online: http://www.vatican.va/

Washington University Archives: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/

World Archival Internet Resources: http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html

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