American Journeys
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- Learn more about American history, culture, exploration, geography, and North America.
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American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Explore a timeline of famous American events, hyperlinked to eyewitness accounts.Teachers and students are provided with a variety of classroom resources including a collection of lesson plans, guidance on selecting a research or project topic as well as some suggestions, and information about the difficult nature of identifying nomenclature and geography in early eyewitness accounts.
