Favorite Websites:

Blockbuster sites for doing social studies in American history:

American Memory:
http://memory.loc.gov

Best of History Website:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml

Civil War:
http://www.civilwar.com

Ellis Island:
http://www.ellisisland.org

ERIC Database:
http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Federal Resources for Education:
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html

History Central:
http://www.multied.com

History Learning Site, UK:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/

History Matters:
http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu

History Place:
http://www.historyplace.com/

National Archives and Records Administration:
http://www.nara.gov

NEH's Edsitement:
http://edsitement.neh.gov

New York Public Library Digital Gallery:
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

NYCDOE's recommended websites for doing social studies:
http://www.nycenet.edu/Offices/TeachLearn/OfficeCurriculumProfessionalDevelopment/DepartmentofSocialStudies/Links/sscurric.htm

SCORE (California History/Social Science):
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/

Social Studies Organizations:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/orgs.htm

U.S. Civil War site:
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war

US Government Gateway to Education:
http://www.thegateway.org/

US Historical Data Census Browser:
http://fisher.lib.Virginia.edu/census

Virginia Center for Digital History:
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu

Civics:

Center for American Woman and Politics at Rutgers University:
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/

Justice Learning:
http://www.justicelearning.org/

UCLA’s National Center for History in the Schools:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/

The U.S. Census
http://www.census.gov

The White House site
http://www.whitehouse.gov

Economics:

National Council for Economic Education:
http://www.econedlink.org

Geography:

National Geographic Society:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com

The US Geological Society:
http://mapping.usgs.gov

Media-Related Websites:

Accuracy in Media:
http://www.aim.org/

Center for Democracy and Technology:
http://www.cdt.org/

Education Writers Association:
http://www.ewa.org/

Media Literacy and Social Studies:
http://www.mediaed.org/studyguides/StrategiesForIntegratingMediaLiteracy/html

NewzCrews:
http://www.newzcrew.org/webx?98@50.dxLbaAb3dl3.0@sgd_about.html

Public Education Network:
http://www.ozline.com/writings/index.htm

The Week:
http://www.theweekmagazine.com/

Technology and Education:

Bernie Dodge’s WebQuest Site:
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

George Lucas Educational Foundation Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia.org/

International Society for Technology in Education:
http://www.iste.org/

Ozline:
http://www.ozline.com/writings/index.htm

TechKNOW Associates Corporation - Projects and Lesson Plans page:
http://www.techknowassociates.com/projects/index.htm

US History:

The EASE Project
http://www.easehistory.org/

Freedom School Curriculum:
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/

The Gilder Lehrman Institute
http://www.gilderlehrman.org

Harper’s Weekly:
http://www.harpweek.com/Default.asp

History Now:
http://www.historynow.org/12_2004/index.html

Immigration History:
http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/index.htm

Jim Crow:
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/gateway/gw_marshall.htm

National Park Service Lowell (MA) site:
http://www.nps.gov/lowe/

New York State History:
http://www.rny.nysed.gov/r/otherpeople/otherpeople_inclassroom.shtml

Our Documents Site:
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/index.php?flash=true&

Popular Culture Primary Sources:
http://www.authentichistory.com/

Teaching American History Discussion Group:
http://www.h-net.org/~tah/

Women's History:

The American Antiquarian Society's online exhibition. A Woman's Work is Never Done:
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/
The site brings together a selection of images from the Society's collections that illustrate many facets of American Women's work, from the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution.

American Women: A Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml

Center for History and New Media (CHNM): Women in World History
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/index.html

Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU):
http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUAbout/about.html
The Union grew out of the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement and other social movements of the time.

DoHistory, Martha Ballard's Diary:
http://dohistory.org
An interactive website that invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past.

Enterprising Women:250 Years of American Business:
http://www.enterprisingwomenexhibit.org/
Bringing to life the stories of some 40 intriguing women who helped shape the landscape of American business.

The Emma Goldman Papers:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman

Feminist Majority Foundation:
http://www.feminist.org/education/

Godey's Lady Book:
http://www.history.rochester.edu/godeys

HEARTH. Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History:
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html
From Cornell University, HEARTH contains more than 800 books and journals in home economics and related subjects including applied arts, child care, clothing, food and nutrition, homemaking, and hygiene.

Jo Sanders:
http://www.josanders.com/flash.html

The National Collaborative for Women's History:
http://ncwhs.oah.org/

The National Women's History Project:
http://www.nwhp.org

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, (NWLD):
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/NWLDLive/index.html
The site contains some 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries of individuals writing from colonial times to 1950.

Sophia Smith Collection:
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/curriculum/index.html

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment:
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/woman_suffrage/woman_suffrage.html

The Triangle Factory Fire:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
Site provides a selection of primary source documents, and useful context, on the fire at the Triangle Waist company in New York City in 1911, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, mostly female.

U.S. Women's History Workshop:
http://www.assumption.edu/WHW

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000:
http://www.womhist.binghamton.edu

Women’s Studies Reading Room:
http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/

Women Working, 1870-1930:
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Focuses on women's participation in the U.S. economy from 1870 to 1930 and is the first project inin the Harvard Libraries Open Collections Program, begun in November 2002 with a grant from the William and Flora hewlett Foundation.

World History and Global Studies:

Ancient World Cultures:
http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

Asia for Educators:
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/

Asia Society:
http://www.asiasociety.org

French Revolution:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/

One World, Our World:
http://www.members.cox.net/1wow_program/index.html

UN CyberSchoolBus site:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus

U.S. Holocaust Museum:
http://www.ushmm.org

U.S. Islamic Networks Group:
http://www.ing.org

World History for Us All:
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/default.htm

World History/Hyper History:
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

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