Social Studies Links

by class World History

by Topic

Advanced Placement Resources

Advanced Placement in U.S. History - a portal site put together by J. Hamann

Mr. Monahan's Web Site - AP Psychology

 

Africa Sub-Saharan Ethnic or Cultural Groups

CIA World Factbook

Culturegrams - Cultural information on the countries of the world.  It includes recipes, biographies and a picture file.  TUSD000 and culture as your password.

Discovering Collection - a database of resources that include information on culture and countries.  sabino

WWW Virtual Library - Indigenous Studies - Africa

Library of Congress Country Studies

Tucson Pima Public Library - to get to the EBSCO Magazine database choose Research and Magazines and then EBSCO.  The Multicultural Reference Center also has country and culture information. Sign up online for a database access number.

 

American History

American Cultural History - 19th century

American Cultural History - The 20th century

 

Citing Sources

Government Document Service - Citing

How to Cite Government Documents

 

Conflicts

Graphic Organizer - Compare and Contrast

Congress - 

Pathfinder for Congressional Legislation Persuasive Paper

CongressLink

Congressional Research Reports for the People

Federation of American Scientists - Congressional News Sources

FedSpending.org a project of OMB Watch

FirstGov – The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal search engine

GPO Access - Legislative Resources

Legislative History Tutorial

Thomas - Bill Text Search - legislative information on the Internet by bill number, topic and sponsor.

                Bill Summary and Status search

                Legislative Indexing Vocabulary

Internet

What's For Real on the Web?

Law

ACLU Student Rights

FindLaw - Family Law Center

LawForKids.org - Educating Arizona Youth about the Law  

 

Middle East - Ancient- multiple links on the Middle East

 

New Deal

FirstGOV Search - the government search engine

By the People For the People – Posters from the WPA  

New Deal Network – texts of speeches, letters and other historic documents

      from the Depression and New Deal period.

A New Deal for the Arts

Federal Emergency Relief Administration  

New Deal Legacy

New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935 – 1938

The Depression News – 1930’s from the Michigan Historical Society

FDR – Presidential Library and Museum

Mary McLeod Bethune – What Does American Democracy Mean to Me?

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1933 - 1945 – African

      Americans and Unions

 

News Sources on the Web 

AlltheWeb News - Newspaper sources world wide, usually free for the last week of news.

Google News - Includes regional, national, and world.

Rocket News - includes newspapers, media, and quality weblogs.

Sabino High School Online Newspapers - password is sabino.  Unclick everything except Opposing ViewPoints and Custom Newspapers and use the PowerSearch.

Search 22 - A meta search that searches the other news search tools like Google and Rocket.

Topix.net - Allows you to locate regional news and then by clicking on a story see how it was revised by another paper

Tucson Public Library Newspaper Databases - scroll down to Newspapers.  You need your Pima County Public Library Card or Database Access number.

Political Action Committees

Campaign Finance Information Center - Helping reporters follow the money.

Open Secrets - Political Action Committees: Your Guide to the Money in U.S. Elections.  More information about Soft Money, 527s and Industry contributions on homepage.

Political Money Line

 

Political Parties

Directory of American Political Parties

Nationmaster Encyclopedia - Links within itself to information on  third parties

Political Science Resources - University of Michigan

Third Parties in American Politics: Rich History, Many Roles

United States of America - Parties

Wikipedia's index to third parties

Yahoo - U.S. Political Parties

 

Revolutionary War

American and French Revolutions

American Revolution  - Domestic Medicine

Avalon Project at Yale Law School - 18th Century Documents

Christopher Vail's Journal - soldier

Chronological List of Library of Congress Documents

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Guilford Courthouse- National Military Park

Spy Letters of the American Revolution

 

Supreme Court

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia

Supreme Court Historical Society

 

Watergate

The Watergate Papers 1964 - 2001

 

General Resources

ALIS Online

Information Gateway, Web Sites and   - Documents for the Study of American History

America's West - Development & History

American RadioWorks - Korea The Unfinished War

Back to School, 2003!

Best of History  Web Sites - Portal site with annotations

CD/DVD cover creator for school projects

CENTER FOR HISTORY & NEW MEDIA

Center for Politics Youth Leadership Initiative

Center for Voting and Democracy - CVD  

CIA - Electronic Reading Room

CNN.com Specials

Constitutional Rights Foundation--Social Studies, Civic Education, Service-Learning, Law-Related Education, Civic Participation  

Data on the Net - University of California, San Diego (Statistics)

E-Democracy Resource Links - Compiled by Steven Clift

e.thePeople American Choices

Exploring Ancient World Cultures  

ECHO Exploring & Collecting History Online

EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it

FactCheck.org - Annenberg Political Fact Check  

Find and Using Data - a gathering of links

Founders' Constitution  

News Sources

GUIDE TO HISTORY ON THE WEB- history search engine  

Graphic Organizers and Templates

History and Politics Out Loud - audio clips of politically significant audio materials

History Matters The U.S. Survey on the Web

HistoryWorld

Human Ecology Textiles & Apparel Cornell Costume Collection

Justice Learning

Landmark Supreme Court Cases - HOME

Latest News

The Library of Congress   

LOC.GOV Wise Guide Home

New York Times News Room Navigator

Newspaper template

Political Cartoons of the Lilly Library

Spin of the Day  - Center for Media and Democracy

Statistics

Fed Stats - a search engine for federal statistics

Step-by-Step on the Campaign Trail  

Timeline Widget - see the example at MIT

What Is the History of Recall Elections

World History HyperHistory

Web Site Evaluation

Criteria for Evaluating Information Sources

Web Site Evaluation - Berkley - Select all, copy and paste to Word, after you have changed margins to .5