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Additional Resources

Content Resources

A Biography of America
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog06/index.html
On this site, you can view the Biography of America video (or read the transcript) for Program 6: Westward Expansion, featuring historian Donald L. Miller. You can also access maps, listings of key events, and Web links on this topic.

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
This companion site to the PBS documentary Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery has extensive multimedia resources including a simulation of the expedition, an interactive trail map, lesson plans, and an interview with the film director, Ken Burns. There are also essays documenting the specific impact of the expedition on more than 15 Native American tribes.

Discovering Lewis & Clark
http://www.lewis-clark.org/
This comprehensive site provides multimedia resources on a broad range of topics related to Lewis and Clark's expedition, including geographic, technological, scientific, and cultural issues. These resources include journal excerpts, essays, historical maps, and audio and visual clips.

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/france/ fr1803m.htm
This site provides links to historical documents related to the Louisiana Purchase, including the Louisiana Purchase Treaty and Jefferson's addresses to Congress.

Trailtribes.org
http://www.trailtribes.org
This site looks at the Lewis and Clark expedition from a tribal perspective and provides films, interactive maps, and essays examining the expedition in relation to traditional and contemporary native cultures.

The Lewis and Clark Journey of Discovery
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/HomePage/HomePage.htm
This site provides extensive historical context to the expedition on topics such as medicine, architecture, native populations, and plant and animal life.

Lewis & Clark: Mapping the West
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/
This site focuses on the mapping process undertaken by the Lewis and Clark team. The site also provides a basic introduction to cartography and related lesson plans and activities.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Strategy Resources

Zoom Into Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/maps/introduction.html
Using historic maps from the Library of Congress, this site helps students understand what maps can tell us. Topics include exploration, migration, and transportation.

National Atlas
http://www.nationalatlas.gov
This site allows you to customize your own map for printing or viewing, create maps with different layers of geographic information, print pre-formatted maps on a variety of topics, interact with dynamic maps, and read articles about American geography.

Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
This site provides a printable collection of rare maps of the United States, including maps from the Colonial Period, Revolutionary War, Civil War, and the building of the railroad.

Map History
http://www.maphistory.info/webimages.html
This site contains an extensive collection of annotated links to early maps pertaining to American and world history.

Cultural Maps
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html
This site features an extensive compilation of links to online map collections -- including maps charting the territorial expansion of the United States by decade from 1775-1920 -- with a focus on historical and cultural issues.

Xpeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/expeditions
This site features lesson plans sorted by grades and standards, interactive activities, and printer-friendly maps.