Immigration

http://www.nchs.ucla.edu/

The National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS) has a threefold mission: to develop and provide teachers with curricular materials that will engage students in exciting explorations of U.S. and World History; professional development for K-12 history teachers; and to collaborate with schools in building their history curricula.

Through publications, professional development, and community engagement, NCHS links UCLA to teachers and students in Los Angeles and across the United States. They help the best thinking about U.S. and World History understandable for teachers and their students.

U.S History for us all is a section that points to web resources available for teaching US history. The pages are organised by the eras as outlined in National Standards for History. They provide Primary sources and lesson plans for teachers also interactive games for the children to use in order to learn more.

Era 1 starts with Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
http://www.apva.org/
Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/
Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s)
Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)