History and Social Studies
Last update:  May 13, 2008 C. Borri

Cornell Notes Instructions
Cornell Notes: Directions for Students. The Learning Toolbox Home, James Madison University Special Education Program.
Cornell Notetaking System. Cornell University, 2007.
Cornell Notes PowerPoint. Syracuse City School District.

Cornell Notes Templates

Cornell Notes Ruled Template.  Jim Burke, Webzoom, 2000.
Cornell Notes Ruled Template.  Jim Burke, Englishcompanion. (suitable for SS)
Cornell Notetaking Method Generator.  Eleven21.
Notemaking. Englishcompanion.com (lots of notemaking formats here!)
 

IMPERIALISM IN CHINA The Boxer Rebellion. China.

ABC-CLIO World History:  1500s to present day. ABC-CLIO, 2007.

CNN Special Report:  MidEast land of conflict

American History:  18th & 19th centuries
American History:  19th Century Westward Expansion, "Trail of Tears" and Custer
American History:  1912 Election
American History:  1920s
American History:  Great Depression and the New Deal
American History:  1950s
American History:  1960s
American History:  1970s
American History:  African American  History (Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights)

World History:  Egypt, Greece, Rome
World History:  The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
World  History:  World War I and World War II 
World History:  Modern

Economics
Government
Primary Sources
Psychology/Sociology


General History and Social Studies
ABC-CLIO World History:  1500s to present day.
ABC-CLIO, 2007.
American Memory. (Historical collections for the
National Digital Library.) Library of Congress.

Best of History Web Sites. 
Biographical Dictionary
Boom Towns.  Paul Kaihla, Business 2.0, March 2004,
Offiice of New Haven, Yale University, 2005.

Discoveries Across the Atlantic. The Mariners' Museum, 1997.
Drug Sense. Information on the War on Drugs. DrugSense, 2004.
Election 2004
Eyewitness to History. (History through the eyes of those
who lived it.  Ancient world through the 20th century.)
Ibis Communications, Inc., 2004.

Facing History and Ourselves:  Examining history and
human behavior.
 
Facinghistory.org.
Federal Research Division. Library of Congress, 2006.
Gale Group Databases: 
History Resource Center:
Modern & U.S. and Literature Resource Center, Gale Group.

Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum.
National Archives and Records Administration.

Hearst Castle. California State Parks, 2004.
Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument.
California State Parks, 2004.

History of board games
    Hasbro. Hasbro, 2004.
    Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games.
     University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2003.

 

Hyper History Online.
The Living Room Candidate:  Presidential campaign commercials, 1952-2004American Museum of the Moving Image.
MarcoPolo.  (
MarcoPolo is a collection of standards-based, discipline-specific educational Web sites for K-12 teachers.) MCI Foundation, 2004.
Michigan History
Michigan Teacher Network
NewspaperArchive.com (Free Special Archive collection of American History.)  Heritage Microfilm, 2008.
NYPL DigitalGallery New York Public Library.
Oddens' Bookmarks:  the Fascinating world of maps and mapping. University of Utrecht.
Our Atlases. (Maps of major wars and conflicts.)  History department at the United States Military Academy.
Pre-Social Security Period:  Traditional sources of Economic Security. Larry DeWitt, Social Security Online, 2003.
Spartacus Educational.  
(All periods of Western History located at this portal.)  Spartacus History, 2004.
Stock.Xchang.
(Extensive photo library.) Dream Interactive, 2004.
Wall Street Journal Online. (username: kenowa/pswd: media)
WashLaw:  Guide to State
Legal information on the Internet. 
Washburn University School of Law Library, 2003.

Timeline of Costume History.  (All time periods of western dress: Ancient Assyria, Greece, Rome, and Europe.) The Costumer's Manifesto, 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAPS

Map Collection, American Memory. Library of Congress, 2006 (historical maps).
Maps of the United States.  USGS, 2006 (scientific maps).
MapStats of the United States. FedStats, 2006.
National Atlas.gov. National Atlas of the United States, 2006 (general maps).
National Geographic. 2006 (general maps).
TopoZone.  TopoZone.com, 2006 (general and scientific maps).
World Atlas and Map Library. Infoplease.com, 2006 (general maps).
World Book Fact Book. Major source of information about countries gathered and compiled by the CIA.  CIA, 2004.
World Geography. ABC-CLIO, 2006 (general maps).

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portraits and information about the United States Presidents and First Ladies.


Adam Smith.  Questia Media America, Inc. 2005.
American Memory.  By Popular Demand:  Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789 - Present. Library of Congress. 1998.
AmericanPresident.org. Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 2003.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, The Human Rights Years,
1945-1962. Washington University, 2004.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Digital Archives

LBJ Library and Museum.  The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
and Museum in Austin, Texas, houses papers from LBJ's political career.

National First Ladies' Library. The Hoover company, 2002.
Presidential Libraries. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 2004.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA
**Great place for history and photos and primary documents.***

The White House.  The Presidents of the United States.
The White House.  The First Ladies' gallery.

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American History
General resources
ABC-CLIO American History. ABC-CLIO, 2006.

American History from 1865
University of Washington Libraries, 2004
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American Memory. Historical collections for the
National Digital Library. Library of Congress.

An Outline of U.S. History.  USINFO.STATE.GOV.

An American Christmas: Decade by Decade.  
How We Came to Celebrate Christmas as a National Holiday.

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum

Digital History.
 Digital History, University of Houston, 2005.

Geography in The News. Detroit News, 2008.

Great Chicago Fire Chicago Historical Society and the
Trustees of Northwestern University, 1996.

History Resource Center:  U.S. Gale Group, 2006.

Our Atlases. (Maps of major wars and conflicts.)  History department at the United States Military Academy.

Native Americans Internet Resources. Inez Ramsey,
James Madison University.
John F. Kennedy
The Academic JFK Assassination Site.
Kenneth A. Rahn, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry Studies, 2005.

The Kennedy Assassination. John McAdams, 2004.