| General |
| New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards: Social Studies |
http://www.state.nj.us/education/aps/cccs/ss/ |
| National Council for the Social Studies |
http://www.socialstudies.org/ |
| Historynet |
http://www.historynet.com |
| Center for History and News Media |
http://chnm.gmu.edu/ |
| UCLA Institute on Primary Resources |
http://ipr.ues.gseis.ucla.edu/info/definition.html |
| Annenberg Media: Multimedia resources including streaming video |
http://www.learner.org/resources/browse.html?discipline=7 |
| Any Day in History |
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/ |
| Boondocks (photos, political cartoons and cartoonists: search “political cartoons”) |
http://boondocksnet.com |
| NOVA: World in the Balance |
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/ |
| Social Studies Inquiry Method |
http://www.vermontsocialstudies.org/resources/ ss_inquirymethod/index.html |
| National History Education Clearinghouse |
http://teachinghistory.org/ |
| Best of History Web Sites |
http://www.besthistorysites.net/ |
| Digital History |
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu |
| Facing History and Ourselves |
http://www.facinghistory.org/ |
| Women's History Hotlist |
http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/women.php |
| This Day in History |
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do |
| Social Issues (multiple perspectives on social issues) |
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html |
| Educators for Social Responsibility |
http://www.esrnational.org/otc/ |
| American History |
| Ellis Island |
http://www.ellisisland.org/ |
| Generations Network |
http://ancestry.com |
| Teaching with Primary Source Documents |
http://www.footnote.com/documents |
| Historical Thinking Matters |
http://www.historicalthinkingmatters.org |
| Biography of America |
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/ |
| Freedom: A History of Us |
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/index.html |
| American Founding: A users guide to the Declaration of Independence |
http://www.founding.com/ |
| Archiving Early America |
http://www.earlyamerica.com/ |
| The West: Episode Three: Speck of the Future |
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/episodes/three/ |
| Presidents of the United States |
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/ |
| The American Presidency: Teacher Materials |
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5b_frame.html |
| The White House |
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ |
| Thomas (U.S. Congress) |
http://thomas.loc.gov/ |
| Our Documents |
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true& |
| U.S. Department of State |
http://future.state.gov |
| The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
http://www.gilderlehrman.org |
| Reel American History (movies constructing our history) |
http://www.lehigh.edu/~ineng/ejg/rahh.html |
| USA: Outline of American History (1990) |
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/chap3.htm |
| Historical United States Census Data Browse |
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/ |
| The Center for Civics Education |
http://www.civiced.org/ |
| African American World |
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld |
| Civil Rights Special Collection |
http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/civil |
| Slavery in America |
http://slaveryinamerica.org |
| Documenting the American South |
http://docsouth.unc.edu |
| Uncrowned Queens: African American Women’s History |
http://www.uncrownedqueens.com |
| National Women’s History Museum |
http://www.nwhm.org |
| Virtual Jamestown |
http://www.virtualjamestown.com/ |
| Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery |
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ |
| FactCheckED.org (teacher interest) |
http://factchecked.org/ |
| Ellis Island |
http://www.history.com/minisites/ellisisland |
| American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress |
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html |
| National Archives Streaming Video Collection |
http://video.google.com.nara |
| American History & Government Hotlist |
http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/government.php |
| National Heritage Museum Online Exhibits |
http://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org |
| First Amendment Resources |
http://www.channelone.com/teachers/first_amendment_resources/ |
| Center for Civic Education |
http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=home |
| United States: 50 States |
http://www.50states.com/ |
| Archives of the American West: 1806-1914 |
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/ |
| Thomas Jefferson |
http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/ |
| National First Ladies' Library |
http://www.firstladies.org/ |
| Congress Link |
http://www.congresslink.org/ |
| National Archives and Records Administration |
http://www.archives.gov/index.html |
| The National Constitution Center |
http://www.constitutioncenter.org/education |
| U.S. Census Bureau |
http://www.census.gov |
| American Voices |
http://dept.houstonisd.org/curriculum/socialstudies/index_voices.html |
| From Revolution to Reconstruction |
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/ |
| The American Institute for History Education |
http://www.americaninstituteforhistory.org |
| Civics and Citizenship Study Materials |
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis |
| First Amendment Schools: Lesson Plans (5-12) |
http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/resources/lessonplans.aspx |
| The New Jersey African American History Curriculum Guide: Grades 9 to 12 |
http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/ Digital_Collections/AAHCG/index.html |
| Freedmen and Southern Society Project |
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen |
| Slavery: Flight to Freedom: an interactive simulation |
http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/projects/flighttofreedom/intro.shtml |
| In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience |
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm;jsessionid= f8301570631241459555708?bhcp=1 |
| New Jersey Women's History |
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/ |
| The Molly Brown House |
http://mollybrown.org |
| Lewis and Clark Expedition |
http://www.lewis-clark.org/ |
| FactCheck.org: Organization monitors the factual accuracy of statements made by major U.S. political figures |
http://www.factcheck.org/ |
| Calisphere: Culture and History of California |
http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu |
| World and U.S. Wars |
| Civil War Preservation Trust |
http://civilwar.org |
| Civil War Battles by State |
http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/index.html |
| Civil War Animated |
http://www.civilwaranimated.com |
| Boys in the Civil War |
http://www.civilwarhome.com/boysinwar.htm |
| Civil War Photos |
http://www.civilwarphotos.net |
| American Civil War Music |
http://www.pdmusic.org/civilwar2.html#1 |
| Civil War Food |
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/hardtack.htm |
| Civil War Index Page |
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm |
| Reporting America at War |
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/ |
| National WWII Memorial |
http://wwiimemorial.com/ |
| Gulf War Veterans Resources Pages |
http://www.gulfweb.org/locator/locator_search.cfm |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
http://www.ushmm.org/ |
| America and the Holocaust |
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/ |
| The Nizkor Holocaust Educational Resource |
http://www1.us.nizkor.org/ |
| The Holocaust Research Project (info about all of the concentration camps) |
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/toc.html |
| Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium Holocaust Home Page |
http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/ |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center |
http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=4441251 |
| Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State |
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/ |
| C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Surviviors) |
http://www.candlesholocaustmuseum.org/ |
| The Nazi Deathcamp Sobibor |
http://www.auschwitz.dk/sobibor/Default.htm |
| Inside a Nazi Deathcamp |
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/maidanek.htm |
| Cybrary of the Holocaust |
http://remember.org/ |
| Ghetto Fighters' Museum |
http://gfh.org.il/eng/ |
| A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust |
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm |
| Nuremberg War CrimesTrials Collection |
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/imt.asp |
| The Aftermath: Liberators, On Trial, and The Perpetrators |
http://www.remember.org/Facts.root.aftermath.html |
| Japanese American National Museum |
http://www.janm.org/helptoday/?next=/nrc/ |
| Manzanar National Historic Site |
http://www.nps.gov/manz/ |
| Children of the Camps |
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/ |
| Civil War Battles |
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war-battles.htm |
| Battles by State |
http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/battles/states/index.cfm |
| Digital History |
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/ children_civilwar/child_soldiers.cfm |
| Alice Williamson Diary |
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/Williamson |
| Civil War Photos |
http://www.wildwest.net/cwphotos.html |
| Music of War Between the States |
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/music/index.html |
| Maps of War |
http://www.mapsofwar.com |
| World War II: A Digital Library |
http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/hgp/indexRedirect.html |
| Online Searchable Military Records and Veterans Database |
http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/military.html |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall |
http://thewall-usa.com/ |
| WW II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas |
http://www.familymilitaryrecords.com/db.asp?dbid=4283 |
| The Holocaust: Crimes, Heroes, and Villains |
http://www.auschwitz.dk/ |
| The Holocaust Chronicle |
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/ |
| The Holocaust/Shoah Page (MANY great links: be sure to scroll down to the Holocaust Website Resources) |
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holo.html |
| Web Genocide Documentation Centre |
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide.htm |
| Anne Frank Online |
http://annefrank.com/ |
| Interactive Map of Auschwitz |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/ launch_ani_auschwitz_map.shtml |
| An Auschwitz Alphabet |
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html |
| Treblinka Deathcamp |
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Treblinka.htm |
| Bergen-Belsen Death Camp (scroll down below photos for information links) |
http://isurvived.org/Bergen-Belsen_liberation.html |
| Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps |
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/sala/ |
| To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue |
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/synopses.html#top |
| German Propaganda Archive |
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ |
| Holocaust Research Guide |
http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/humanities/history/Holocnet.html |
| NOVA Online: Holocaust on Trial |
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/ |
| Eva Braun: The Wife of Hitler |
http://www.evabraun.dk/index.htm |
| Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive |
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ |
| War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona |
http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/wracamps/index.html |
| Country Studies / Geography |
| Portals to the World from the Library of Congress |
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html |
| Outreach World |
http://www.outreachworld.org |
| World History Matters: Online Map Resources |
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/unpacking/mapsonline.php |
| US State Department - Services - Background Notes |
http://www.state.gov/www/background_notes/ |
| My Wonderful Wolrd: Global Geographic Knowledge |
http://www.mywonderfulworld.org/index.html |
| America's 385 National Parks |
http://www.nps.gov/ |
| Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series |
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html |
| Country Reports (weather, flags, anthems, country info,online discussions, student exchange) |
http://www.countryreports.org/ |
| Home @ nationalgeographic.com |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ |
| Nationalatlas.gov |
http://nationalatlas.gov/ |
| University of Pennsylvania Links to African Studies |
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.html |
| National Geographic's Maps |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/ |
| Maps On Us |
http://www.mapsonus.com/mapsonus/ |
| Maps That Teach: U.S. and World Maps and Puzzles |
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/geography.htm |
| Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe |
http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm |
| Africa Hotlist |
http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/africa.php |
| The Africa Guide |
http://www.africaguide.com/ |
| China: From Silk to Oil |
http://www.chinainstitute.org/index.cfm?fuseaction= Page.ViewPage&PageID=577 |
| National Geographic’s My Wonderful World Campaign |
http://mywondefulworld.org |
| Panoramas: Interactive panoramas (virtual reality photographs) from around the world |
http://www.panoramas.dk/ |
| Historic Maps for the K-12 Classroom |
http://www.newberry.org/k12maps/ |
| US State Department - Services - Consular Affairs |
http://travel.state.gov/ |
| China's Journey |
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/05/table-of-contents |
| The Electronic Embassy |
http://www.embassy.org/ |
| CIA World Fact Book |
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html |
| Welcome to the United Nations CyberSchoolBus |
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/ |
| Franklin Institute Geography Hotlist |
http://www.fi.edu/learn/hotlists/geography.php |
| AskAsia Homepage |
http://www.askasia.org/ |
| Amnesty International |
http://www.amnesty.org/ |
| MapQuest |
http://www.mapquest.com/ |
| Atlas of Political, Historic, and Physical Maps by Houghton Mifflin |
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/ |
| Mapping Lessons |
http://www.maphistory.info/teachers.html#lesson |
| Geocaching With Kids |
http://www.eduscapes.com/geocaching/kids.htm |
| Africa: Country-Specific Pages |
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/Country.html |
| Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent |
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/AfricaFocus/ |
| Jewish Women Encyclopedia |
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia |
| World & Ancient History |
| World Digital Library |
http://www.wdl.org/en |
| Ancient Civilizations |
http://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk/home_set.html |
| Finding World History |
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmfinding.php |
| History Link 101 |
http://www.historylink101.com/ |
| Philosophy Research Base |
http://www.erraticimpact.com/ |
| ORB--Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies |
http://www.the-orb.net/ |
| Medieval Women - An Interactive Exploration |
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmfinding.php |
| The Costume Page - Costume History |
http://www.costumepage.org/tcpinfo2.html |
| Duke Papyrus Archive |
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/homepage.html |
| Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives |
http://www.etana.org/coretexts.shtml |
| Ancient History Sourcebook |
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pgc.asp?page=ancient/asbook.html |
| Odyssey Online: Ancient World Studies |
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/index.html |
| A Hotlist on Ancient Egypt |
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listancientmr123.html |
| HyperHistory Online |
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/ History_n2/a.html |
| NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources |
http://www.netserf.org/ |
| Medieval History |
http://historymedren.about.com/ |
| Britannia |
http://www.britannia.com/wonder/wonder.html |
| Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative |
http://www.cdli.ucla.edu/index.html |
| Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature |
http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/ |
| Europeana Museum |
http://europeana.ed/porta |
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