U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Explore important topics and moments in U.S. history through historical primary sources from the Library of Congress Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763 The …

This feature presentation uses primary sources to introduce teachers and students to several groups' experiences of immigration, relocation, and migration in U.S. history.

Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Colonial Settlement, 1600s - 1763 Overview When the London Company sent out its first expedition to begin colonizing Virginia on December 20, 1606, …

Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline The American Revolution, 1763 - 1783 Overview Until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, few colonists in British North America objected to their …

Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877 Overview In 1861, the United States faced its greatest crisis to that time. Abraham Lincoln's Presidency …

Library of Congress Digital Collections Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918 to 1919 Articles and Essays A World at War

Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929 Overview The early 20th century was an era of business expansion and progressive reform in the United …

Previous Section The Cold War Next Section Martin Luther King, Jr. The Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, 1965 In the middle of the 20th century, a …

Presentation U.S. History Primary Source Timeline Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945 Overview The widespread prosperity of the 1920s ended abruptly with the stock market crash in …

Segregation Era timeline for Civil Rights. 1900 Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business League 1900 James Weldon Johnson and brother J. Rosamond Johnson wrote “Lift Ev’ry …