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U.S. History Terms, Concepts and Links 112/1113/20122013 This document is always in development. Corrections and suggestions are welcome. Note: Use the application’s “find” function to locate a specific term. Many terms are in the dated folders in History Conference/History docs/USH Docs folder on First Class. Note on links: You can find hundreds of U.S. history sites all over the web. Preeminent is American Memory at the Library of Congress, especially The Learning Page with its links to Library resources. You cannot browse this site and not learn important history. Virtually all major universities have substantial electronic history (and other discipline) resource centers with cross links, and many individual professors have developed their own sites. Several of the most important include those at the University of Virginia (electronic texts and American Studies), Fordham (Modern History Sourcebook) and Yale (Avalon). Others are available at European University Institute in Florence, The University of Chicago (The Founders’ Constitution), the University of Texas (historical maps), Government and independent sites include PBS, NARA, National Park Service, Spartacus, Taxhistory, American Presidents Abraham Lincoln Online, Founding.com, Constitution.org, GilderLehrmanOnLine, Digital History, WWW-VL: History: United States, u-s-history and The National Humanities Center. All states have history sites. California’s is here. “Enthusiast” sites of the “geocities” variety can be pretty good, but one needs to approach them critically. As a rule of thumb, if the text is sophomoric and error-ridden and the layout weird, one should suspect the reliability of the content. If you want to know what a 1790 or other historical dollar is worth today, go here. For one of the best online overviews of American history, it would be hard to equal the U.S. government’s current Outline of American History, or its earlier vesion See also the State Department’s Basic Readings in American

Links: 10 William Penn: Holy Experiment (1680); Frame of Government (1682); Frame of Government (1696); another good bio sketch Treaty of Paris (1763); French defeated in Great War for Empire, but geopolitical contest continues until 1815, ending with the defeat of Napoleon at ______________.