Stafford
High School Library
Social Studies Resources
African American History | American
History | Civil War
| Current
Events | General
| Government: Connecticut
|
Government:
U. S. | Psychology
|
Scottish Highland Festival/Middle Ages |
Women
in History |
World Cultures
African American History:
50th
Anniversary, Brown v. Board of Education (NEA)
http://www.nea.org/brownvboard/index.html
African American World
(PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/
African
American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html
Black History Month:
Soul of a Culture (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/bhm/
Guide to Black History
(Encyclopedia Britannica)
http://www.search.eb.com/blackhistory
Harriet Tubman
(PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html
The History of Jim Crow
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
(PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Rosa Parks
Library and Museum
http://montgomery.troy.edu/rosaparks/museum/
Slavery in America
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/
We Shall
Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/
American
History:
The American
Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
American Labor Studies Center
http://labor-studies.org/
American Memory
(Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
The
American Presidency (National Museum of American History)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5b_frame.html
American
President, an Online Reference Resource
http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/
American
Presidents: Life Portraits
http://www.americanpresidents.org/classroom/
American
Women's History
http://www.mtsu.edu/%7ekmiddlet/history/women/wh-digcoll.html
Archiving Early America
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
National Museum of
American History (Smithsonian)
http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/
Civil
War:
The American
Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
Civil
War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html
Current Events:
Google News
http://news.google.com/
General:
Biography
Resource Center (iConn)
Over 400,00 biographies
Connecticut Council
for the Social Studies
http://www.ctsocialstudies.org/links.htm
Discovering Collection (iCONN)
Science
resources
Docuticker
http://www.docuticker.com/
Offers a hand-picked
selection of resources, reports and publications
from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest
organizations
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
Encyclopedia
of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security, 2004
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
Encyclopedia
of Population (Macmillan), 2003
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
Fashion,
Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and
Footwear Through the Ages, 2004
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
Gale
Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, 2000
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
Gale
Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, 1999
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
Renaissance:
An Encyclopedia for Students, 2004
E-Reference Books (iCONN)
St.
James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 2000
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/
Google News Archive
Search
http://news.google.com/archivesearch
History.com Video Gallery
http://www.history.com/media.do
History Reference Center (iCONN)
Articles from magazines, journals,
and reference
books; biographies,
documents and speeches; maps, photographs, film and video clips
My Brochure Maker
http://www.mybrochuremaker.com/
National Geographic Publications
Index
http://publicationsindex.nationalgeographic.com/
What
is Race? (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm
Government: Connecticut:
Connecticut General Assembly
http://www.cga.ct.gov/
Government
(Google Directory)
http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/Connecticut/Government/
GovSpot
http://www.govspot.com/state/ct.htm
State Civics
Toolbox
http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/civics/toolbox.asp
State of Connecticut
Districts (Connecticut General Assembly)
http://www.cga.ct.gov/maps/Townlist.asp
State of Connecticut: Online Access to
Government
http://www.ct.gov/
Government: U.S.:
The
American Presidency (National Museum of American History)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/5b_frame.html
Campaign
Finance: A Short Simulation Game
http://www.ctn.state.ct.us/civics/campaign_finance/Sim%20Game/Sim_Game_Rules.htm
Center for American Women
and Politics (Rutgers)
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/
Congressional
Directory
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html
Government
(Google Directory)
http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/Government/
Index to the
Anti-Federalist Papers
http://www.wepin.com/articles/afp/
Pentagon Channel
http://www.pentagonchannel.mil/
United States House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/
United States Senate
http://www.senate.gov/
USA.gov: Government Made Easy
http://www.usa.gov/
The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Psychology:
Treating
and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders (ebook)
http://amhi-treatingpreventing.oup.com/anbrg/public/index.html
Offered free of charge by The
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
and Oxford University Press, this fully-searchable, updated electronic
edition of Treating
and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
provides quick and easy access to a groundbreaking, evidence-based
survey of treatments and preventions for adolescents with mental health
disorders.
Scottish Highland
Festival/Middle Ages:
Castle Links
http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castle39.htm
Castles of Wales
http://www.castlewales.com/home.html
Gode Cookery
http://www.godecookery.com/
The
Grey Company Trebuchet Page
http://www.members.iinet.net.au/%7Ermine/seemore.html#Fullsize
Internet Medieval
Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
NetSERF (The Internet Connection
for Medieval Resources)
http://www.netserf.org/
Non-Gunpowder
Artillery (Medieval Mechanical Artillery)
http://www.xenophongroup.com/montjoie/ngp_arty.htm
Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://omacl.org/
ScotCLANS
http://www.scotclans.com/
Tartans of Scotland
http://www.tartans.scotland.net/
Women
in History:
300 Women Who Changed the World
http://search.eb.com/women
All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League
http://www.aagpbl.org/
American
Indian Women
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-indn.html
American Women
(Library of Congress)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/
American
Women's History
http://www.mtsu.edu/%7ekmiddlet/history/women/wh-digcoll.html
American
Women's History: A Research Guide
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
Biography
Resource Center (iConn)
Over 400,00 biographies
Center for American Women
and Politics (Rutgers)
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cawp/
Civil
War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (Duke University
Libraries)
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/bingham/guides/cwdocs.html
Internet
Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
National Women's History Museum
http://www.nwhm.org/
National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/
Places Where Women Made History
(National Park Service)
http://www.nwhp.org/
Primary Sources for Women's Movements in the U.S. (Indiana
University Bloomington Libraries)
http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/history/courses/women.html
Votes for Women
(Selections from the National Woman Suffrage Association Collection,
1848-1921)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html
Women in Congress
http://womenincongress.house.gov/
Women Working, 1800-1930
(Harvard University Library)
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/
Women's History
Month (History.com)
http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist/
Women's
History: Primary Sources (Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/Humanities/History/womenprimary.html
World
Cultures:
The Ancient Greek World
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html
CIA
World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
CultureGrams
http://online.culturegrams.com/
User ID
and password required (please see library
staff)
Mythography
http://www.loggia.com/myth/myth.html
Exploring Greek, Roman, and Celtic myth and art
National
Geographic Publication Index
http://publicationsindex.nationalgeographic.com/
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