Resources and Requirements for this Project

Research Questions to Choose From:

1. When did the first people arrive in America? Was it before 12,000 yearsago?
   
   
   • Natural History Magazine - various 1987 journals
   • Historical Settlement of North America (you must download HistoricalSettlements.doc when you get to the site)

2. Why did the Anasazi abandon their cities?
   
   
   • Frazier, Kendrick. People of the Chaco. New York: Norton,1986.
   • What Happened to These People? from the Anasazi Heritage Center

3. Where did Columbus land?
   
   
   • Henige, David. In Search of Columbus. Tucson: The Universityof Arizona Press, 1991.
   • The Columbus Landfall Page by Keith Pickering

4. What happened to the lost colony of Roanoke (1587-1590)?
   
   
   • Hume, Ivor Noel. The Virginia Adventure. New York: Knopf, 1994.
   • The Lost Colony of Roanoke Island from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

5. Did Pocahontas Save John Smith?
   
   
   • Lemay, J.A. Leo. Did Pocahontas Save John Smith? Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
   • Dead Men's Tales from PBS

6. What caused the Salem witch-hunt?
   
   
   • Demos, John. Entertaining Satan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
   • Introduction to "The devil has been raised" by Richard B. Trask

7. Was Daniel Boone a Traitor?
   
   
   • Aaron, Stephen. How the West was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1966.
   • The Adventures of Daniel Boon by Daniel Boon (although this is a primary document, it's only available from Early America; ignore the ads!)

8. Why did Benedict Arnold turn traitor?
   
   
   • Wallace, Willard. Traitorous Hero. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954.
   • The treason of Benedict Arnold from Volume II of The Great Republic by the Master Historians by Hubert H. Bancroft

9. Was Sally Hemmings the mistress of Thomas Jefferson?
   
   
   • Gordon-Reed, Annette. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
   • Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings: A Brief Account from Monticello.org

10. Was Meriwether Lewis murdered?
    
    
    • Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
    • What Really Happened to Meriwether Lewis? and Self-Destruction on the Natchez Trace, both from the Washington State Historical Society

11. How did Davy Crockett Die?
    
    
    • Groneman, Bill. Defense of a Legend. Texas: Republic of Texas Press, 1994.
    • CROCKETT, DAVID from the Handbook of Texas Online, put out by the Texas State Historical Association

12. Why did Lee order Pickett's Charge?
    
    
    • Thomas, Emory. Robert E. Lee. New York: Norton, 1995.
    • The Fame of Pickett's Charge from the National Park Service