Social Studies
- Politics
- Primary Sources
- Colonial America
- The American Revolution
- Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny
- The Civil War
- Political Science
- Economics
- Demographics/Social Data/Geography
- K-12 geography
- History Net
- History Sites
- History Departments/ Research Institutes/ Associations
- African American Studies
Politics
http://politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/resources/almanac/ Almanac of Am Politics [every
Congressional district in detail]
http://corporate.cq.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=12 Congressional Quarterly
www.electionstudies.org National Election Studies/ICPSR
Primary Sources
http://www.earlyamerica.com - Archiving Early America
http://www.harpweek.com - historical cartoons and editorials from the primary sources
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html - wide varity of primary soures from
ancient world history to the present
Colonial America:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/index.htm - You be the Historian activity including a simulation about family life in New Castle, Delaware 200 years ago
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/ - Simulation about life in the early Jamestown
settlement
The American Revolution:
http://www.nps.gov/revwar/ - The official National Park Service website on the American
Revolution; includes links to battlefield sites and information about the war
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/ - Description of the Revolution; includes primary source documents and video links
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html - Revolutionary War/Road to Liberty Simulation game
Westward Expansion / Manifest Destiny
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/sfeature/game.html - Simulation game for the California Gold Rush
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/index.html - Primary source experiential learning
activity for the Donner Party and their experiences along the Oregon Trail
Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
http://lewisclark.net/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
http://www.lewisandclark.com/index.html
http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-channel.asp?ChannelID=54
http://www.lewisandclark.com/index.html
http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Maps/Lewis_and_Clark.html
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/index.html - Simulation of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition from the Bicentennial Exhibition
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/into/index.html - Simulation of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition
The Civil War:
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html - Collection of
primary sources about Civil War women
www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/ - Simulation of a runaway slaves' experiences on
the Underground Railroad
http://www.greenwichschools.irg/page.cfm?p=4054 - Sites about the Civil War
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/ - The official National Park Service website on the
American Civil War; includes links to battlefield sites and information about the war
Political Science
http://icpsr.umich.edu Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Political Science
http://icpsr.umich.edu Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Economics
http://cs.muohio.edu/ Economic History Services:
http://www.undp.org United Nations Development Databases:
Demographics/Social Data / Geography
http://popindex.princeton.edu/ Population Index
History Net
http://www.usask.ca/history/cjh Canadian Journal of History: articles on non-Canadian
topics
http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html Hanover College: Historical texts and documents
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/hs75menu.htm Labor history
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Medieval documents
History Sites
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/ World War I documents
http://www.ashp.cuny.edu. American Social History Project
http://www.chicagohs.org/ Chicago Historical Society
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/civil_war_usa/ Civil War:
http://earlyamerica.com/review/ Early National: E-Journal
http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/ Historical US documents
http://www.umn.edu/ihrc Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) U of Minnesota
http://www.ihs1830.org/ Indiana Historical Society
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow/vshadow2.html Valley of the Shadow =
Virginia, 1850s
Archiving Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/
Medieval Server
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp
History Departments/ Research Institutes/ Associations
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/infoserv Australian
The following URLs provide a wealth of information about historical African Americans:
WOMEN
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett - Pioneer Journalist
Clara Hale- "Foster Mother" http://www.wic.org/bio/chale.htm
Maya Angelou- "Greatness Through Literature"* http://www.wic.org/bio/mangelou.htm
Rosa Parks http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm
MEN
Martin L. King, Jr. http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/
Treasure Hunt based on African Americans http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/hunt.html
