Helpful Web Sites 

Gale Student Research Center

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/johnmuir

For the password, look on the orange bulletin board in the library or ask your teacher or the librarian for a card.

American History

http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com

User name: muirsl

Password: muirsl 

American Memory Collection/Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ 

Steel Industry

http://history.osu.edu/Projects/Steel/Default.htm 

Andrew Carnegie

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/ 

The Oil Industry

http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_066100_oilindustry.htm 

John D. Rockefeller

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h957.html 

Building the Transcontinental Railroad

http://www.cprr.org/Museum/index.html 

Leland Stanford

http://www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/begin.html#Leland 

Baseball

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/treasure/autont2004b.shtml

http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/ 

Circus

http://www.answers.com/topic/p-t-barnum 

Tennis

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa053100a.htm 

Motorcar

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blDuryea.htm 

Statue of History

http://www.nps.gov/stli/prod02.htm#Statue%20of 

Alaska

http://www.everythingalaska.com/eta.sfy.html 

African-American History

http://afroamhistory.about.com/ 

Juana Briones

http://www.brioneshouse.org/ 

Tiburcio Vasquez

http://www.socalhistory.org/Biographies/vasquez.htm 

Chinese-American History

http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/chineseexperience.html 

Child Labor History

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/ 

The Homestead Act