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    US History

    Law- Related

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Social Studies

US History Web Sites by Topic

 

    Create Rubrics

    Performance Assessment Resources including rubrics

    Create Bibliographies

    Reference Desk

  • General Resources

    National Standards of History

    History matters- Documents, resources, curricula, Plans...

    Lessons from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

    Biography of America- Site to accompany video Series

    California State Board resources & links

    University of Kansas- Links and Resources

    Every Government site Relevant to Social Studies  

    U. C. Davis Social Studies Resources

    Major Documents-Gov't site

    Library of Congress Resources

    The Avalon Project- "Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy"

    Sound and images

    Using Music to teach Social Studies

    Songs in American History

    "Historical voices" oral history exhibitions

    National Gallery of Art

    Image database

    Digital History- Resources

    Assorted articles- 20th Century-

    Assorted Articles- 19th Century

    History channel study guides for videos

  • Maps

    U. Texas at Austin Collection

    SMU Collection

    Ancestry.com resources

    Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century 

    Historical Atlas

    Historical Atlas Europe

    West Point Collection

    Library of Congress Map collection on line

    The David Rumsey Collection-Period color images

    WWI and Versailles- Treaty and maps

    WWII Collection-University of San Diego

    National Geographic printer-friendly outline maps

  • Political Resources

    Presidential Election Results- Amazing!

    Presidents- Resources

    Political Cartoons

    Party Platforms since 1840

  • Reconstruction & Jim Crow

    The Rise & Fall of Jim Crow- PBS site

    Without Sanctuary- Postcards of Lynchings- Powerful!

    Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Dubois

    Lesson- The Career of Lena Horne

  • Industrial America

    The Gilded Age- Resources by topic

    Andrew Carnegie- PBS Site

    Rockefellers- PBS Site

    Chicago-"City of the Century"

    Links to Technology Resources (RRs, Flight, Machines, etc)

    Historical Prices- Unusual Resource

    Thomas Nast Cartoons

    Songs about Automobiling

  • Labor

    Audio Resources

    Haymarket- in depth

    Homestead-Documents

    A Curriculum by the Illinois Labor History Society

    Radical Labor-History of Anarchism  

    Labor Songs

  • Immigration

    Ellis Island-Research Immigration Records

    Ellis Island.com

    Story of the Statue of Liberty

    Brief video on Frontier Line

    Explore Immigration in Chicago

    Scholastic Magazine Site

  • Reforms

    The Triangle Fire- Online Exhibit

    Progressivism- from Biography of America Series

    NAACP Official History

    Nebraska Studies Historical site- very detailed

    Hull House Museum

    Women's History Stories

    The Election of 1912

    Politics in Chicago

  • America’s Rise as a Power

    Spanish-American War- PBS

    Philippine Insurrection- summary and links

    Panama Canal Museum

    Walter LaFaber on the Roosevelt Corollary- PBS

  • The Great War

                WWI and Versailles- Treaty and maps

  • Twenties- Social Upheaval

    The Red Scare

    Images of Red Scare Era-many useful cartoons

    Flapper Culture

    The Scopes "Monkey" Trial

    Lindbergh

    Temperance and Prohibition

    Student made resources from James Madison University

    Informal  Social History

    The Crash of '29- New York Times articles

  • Thirties- A Nation in Turmoil

    FDR's Fireside Chats- text transcripts

    Political Cartoons

    Images of the Thirties

    Thirties Prices

    Library of Congress resources

    Inflation/deflation calculator

    Oral Accounts of Sit-Down Strikes

    The New Deal Network- extensive resources 

  • WWII- America Achieves Greatness

    D-Day

    Pearl Harbor

    German Propaganda- Use Responsibly

    WWII Posters- NH state site

    Rosie the Riveter oral Histories

    Hiroshima

    Nagasaki

    Debate over the decision to use the Atomic Bomb

    Inexpensive sound files

  • Postwar America- Cold War

    Cold War- CNN site- Comprehensive

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    McCarthyism

    Resources on Nuclear Weapons (Study guides)

  • Social Change & Conformity-1945-62

History of TV 

  • Civil Rights

    http://www2.blackside.com/blackside/BlacksideFilms/EYES1film.html

    The Murder of Emmett Till

    http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilrights.htm

    http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk

    Teacher Resources- U. of Alabama

    http://www.africanpubs.com/

    Malcolm X Resources

  • Vietnam

    American Experience companion web site

    The Vietnam Project

    Many Terms and names

    A "Picture Essay"

    Vassar College Site

  • Protest and Change

    http://www.tvhistory.tv/

    Timeline of Protest

  • 1970s

    Watergate

    TIME Coverage of Watergate

    Listen to Nixon Tapes

  • The 80s and Beyond

    Commanding Heights- The Story of Economic Policy- Excellent!

    Documents on Florida's Presidential election of 2000