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The USA - Themes/Topics

Monument Valley © Copyright 2004 Søren Viit Nielsen

  ·  The American Dream                                                                                 Immigration
  ·  The West/the Frontier/Native Americans                                              Wilderness
  ·  The City           Religion            The Family           Blacks           Art          US Tourism

  ·  Other pages:  The USA: Background                      New York City                     Guns

Brooklyn Bridge © Copyright 2005 Søren Viit Nielsen
 

The American Dream

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• The American Dream Robert H. Fossum & John K. Roth, 1981
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Changing Conceptions of the American Dream, 2002
• America dreams...  WebQuest. The Library of Congress
• The Myth of the Melting Pot Washington Post
• First Things: American Dreaming on idealism/materialism
• American Dreams "Blommes links"
   

Immigration
 

• MayflowerHistory.com
• Plimoth Plantation
• Immigration Library of Congress
• Immigration the living mosaic of people, culture and hope
• The Immigrant Experience (Ellis Island)
• From One Life to Another The History of European Immigration
   
• Swedish (European) emigration to America
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
              -    Virtual Tour
• Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
  Text + Photos. Appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
   
• Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island (Nat. Park Service)
• The New Americans
• Immigration History in Indiana

The West/the Frontier/
Native Americans

The Grand Canyon © Copyright 2004 Søren Viit Nielsen
 

• Univ. of Virginia/xroads                                   The Multicultural American West

• The American West                                                                                    WestWeb

• New Perspectives on the West
   

• The Wild West Show: Texas                                                         Old West Kansas

• North Georgia History
   

• The Oregon Trail:     Diaries                          Memoirs                        Period Books
  Across the Plains in 1844 Catherine and her six siblings were orphaned along the Oregon Trail

• Oregon Page
  
  
  Daniel Boon

• Daniel Boone Myth and reality in American consciousness

• The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon by Daniel Boon / Gutenburg
  
   

• The Gold Rush
  
  
  Transportation

• America on the Move Transportation transformed America. Choose from these three interconnected routes to explore how transportation shaped our lives, landscapes, culture, and communities. - Smithsonian

• The Pacific Railroads
  
  
  Frederick Jackson Turner

• Frederick Jackson Turner  -  Links

• Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" Historian Frederick Jackson Turner presented this paper to a special meeting of the American Historical Association at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. His assessment of the frontier's significance was the first of its kind and revolutionized American intellectual and historical thinking
  
   

• Homes on the Prairie

• Life on the Great Plains  Lesson plans

• Westward Expansion Research/Informational Sites. A collection of links

Gun Rights/Gun Control internal link

 

Wilderness

Great Smoky Mountains National Park.       Photo: National Park Service

• Nature Transformed: The environment in Am. history

• Wilderness.net:         What is Wilderness?        -                Image library

• Wilderness and the American Identity. Thomas Moran and the American Landscape

• Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)  - landscape painter

• Wilderness and the American Imagination
           - Texts

• Nature history Some Basic Historical Sketches
   

• The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature William Cronon

• The Philosophy of Wilderness Shane Steinkamp
   

• Primitivism Right-wing, anti-technological, anarchistic site
   

• Death of an Innocent How Christopher McCandless lost his way in the wilds.
     By Jon Krakauer. Outside Magazine, Jan. 1993

The City

Times Square, NYC © Copyright 2005 Søren Viit Nielsen
 

• The Three Cities Project is the project web site for a research project at the Universities of Nottinghman and Birmingham on "Literary and Visual Representations of Three American Cities, 1870s to 1930s."  There is a project page that surveys important theoretical considerations in the field of city studies, and a page for each city--New York, Chicago, Los Angeles
   

• The Am. City in Literature & Culture
   

• Tradition and the Modern City City Journal 1995
   

• New York City internal link

Religion in America
 

• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
• Divining America. Religion and the National Culture

The Family

• Steven Mintz:
  The Modern Family Digital history
  Mothers and Fathers in America Looking Backward, Looking Forward. Digital history
  Does the American Family Have a History? Family Images and Realities. Organization of American Historians
   
• The American Family U.S. Department of State, 2001
• The New American Family Claudia M. Lenart
• Family-Friendly Teachers: Tips for Working with Diverse Families

Richard Hamilton: Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (Collage, 1956)

Blacks
 

• The African-American Mosaic Library of Congress
• Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
• Africans in America
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• Slave Narratives Kirsten Fisher
• The Underground Railroad / Slavery
• Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
• The History of Jim Crow  Explore the complex African-American experience of segregation from the 1870s through the 1950s (with teacher's resources)
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
• Jim Crow WebQuest - Lotte Udsen
   
• Lynching
• The Ku Klux Klan
• Civil Rights Movement
• National Civil Rights Museum
• The Martin Luther King Papers, incl. I Have a Dream
• Martin Luther King Jr.   Seattle Times
   
• How race is lived in America - The New York Times
• African-American History about.com
• American Pictures Jacob Holdt. A personal journey through the American underclass
   
• State of the Dream 2007   -   United for a Fair Economy
• UFE's Racial Wealth Divide Project United for a Fair Economy

            Art
 

• Photorealism and The Great American Pin-Up
• Edward Hopper: artchive         Edward Hopper             Edw. Hopper

Film
 

• Film History - præsenterer en udmærket filmhistorie med fyldige omtaler af det 20. århundredes største og bedste amerikanske film

Masters of Photography
 

• Jacob Riis                                    Walker Evans
• Dorothea Lange            Robert Mapplethorpe

Jazz
 

• A History of America's Music: Jazz
• The Unofficial BILLIE HOLIDAY Website
                                           Strange Fruit
• Jazz internal link

   ·  The US50 - Virtual Guide to the Fifty States
      - History, Outdoors, Education, Travel and Tourism, etc.

   ·  Maps  Mapquest                  Rand McNally                     TopoZone Topografiske kort
   ·  Transport Greyhound                                   Trailways                                     Amtrak
   ·  Car Rental  bnm.com Car Rental Discounts                                       Enterprise
   ·  Parks: National Park Service                                                                  Disney World

California

Brooklyn Bridge © Copyright 2005 Søren Viit Nielsen
 

New York City  -  Washington, DC  internal links

Page 1 Midtown            Central Park/Times Square             Harlem             NYC links
Page 2 Brooklyn Bridge / Manhattan               Downtown                 Washington, DC

  ·  Hiking Alabama
  ·  American Discovery Trail The nation's first coast-to-coast recreation trail
  ·  American Trails  America's network of interconnected trails
  ·  The Appalachian Trail Conference                                             Trail Resource Links

  ·  The American Dream                                                                                 Immigration
  ·  The West/the Frontier/Native Americans                                              Wilderness
  ·  The City           Religion            The Family           Blacks           Art          US Tourism

  ·  Other pages:  The USA: Background                      New York City                    Guns
 

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