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Social Studies & History Class Links
Social Studies
- Issues and Controversies in American History
- New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards: Social Studies
- Social Studies Inquiry Method
- MCI Marcopolo: Discovering a World of Educational Information on the Internet
- National Council on Social Studies Lesson Plans (6-12)
- Center for History and News Media
- Annenberg Media: Multimedia resources including streaming video
- Women's History Hotlist
- Any Day in History
- Boondocks (photos, political cartoons and cartoonists)
- Social Issues (multiple perspectives on social issues)
- NOVA: World in the Balance
- Reporting America at War
- Online Searchable Military Records and Veterans Database
- World War II Veterans Information Center
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
- Gulf War Veterans Resources Pages
- WW II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Educators for Social Responsibility
- Civil War Animated
American History
- Ellis Island
- American Memory Collection from the Library of Congress
- American History & Government Hotlist
- Biography of America
- Freedom: A History of Us
- First Amendment Resources
- Center for Civic Education
- Archiving Early America
- The New Jersey African American History Curriculum Guide: Grades 9 to 12
- Slavery in America
- Slavery: Flight to Freedom: an interactive simulation
- The West: Episode Three: Speck of the Future
- Archives of the American West:1806-1914
- American Founding: A users guide to the Declaration of Independence
- Presidents of the United States
- Thomas Jefferson
- The American Presidency: Teacher Materials
- National First Ladies' Library
- The White House
- Thomas (U.S. Congress)
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Our Documents
- USA: Outline of American History (1990)
- Historical United States Census Data Browse
- Mock Election Lesson Plans
- The Center for Civics Education
- First Amendment Schools: Lesson Plans (5-12)
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- Black History, Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
- New Jersey Women's History
- Digital History
- Virtual Jamestown
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
- FactCheck.org: Organization monitors the factual accuracy of statements made by major U.S. political figures
- FactCheckED.org (teacher interest)
Country Studies/Geography
- Portals to the World from the Library of Congress
- Panoramas: Interactive panoramas (virtual reality photographs) from around the world
- World History Matters: Online Map Resources
- Historic Maps for the K-12 Classroom
- US State Department - Services - Background Notes
- US State Department - Services - Consular Affairs
- United States: 50 States
- My Wonderful World: Global Geographic Knowledge
- China's Journey
- America's 385 National Parks
- The Electronic Embassy
- Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series
- Country Reports (weather, flags, anthems, country info,online discussions, student exchange)
- Welcome to the United Nations CyberSchoolBus
- Home @ nationalgeographic.com
- Washingtonpost.com: News Front
- Franklin Institute Geography Hotlist
- Nationalatlas.gov
- AskAsia Homepage
- U of Penn Links to African Studies
- Amnesty International
- National Geographic's Maps
- MapQuest
- Maps On Us
- Atlas of Political, Historic, and Physical Maps by Houghton Mifflin
- Maps That Teach: U.S. and World Maps and Puzzles
- Geocaching With Kids
- Africa Hotlist
- Africa: Country-Specific Pages
- The Africa Guide
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
Jewish and Holocaust Resources
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Anne Frank Online
- Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Maven
- German Propaganda Archive
- Nazi Germany:WWII
- A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- The Holocaust: Crimes, Heroes, and Villains
- America and the Holocaust
- The Holocaust Chronicle
- The Nizkor Holocaust Educational Resource
- The Holocaust/Shoah Page (MANY great links: be sure to scroll down to the Holocaust Website Resources)
- The Holocaust Research Project (info about all of the concentration camps)
- Web Genocide Documentation Centre
- Jewish Virtual Library
- Shamash: The Jewish Internet Consortium Holocaust Home Page
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Auschwitz Memorial & Museum
- Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
- An Auschwitz Alphabet
- C.A.N.D.L.E.S. (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Surviviors) Holocaust Museum
- Treblinka Deathcamp
- The Nazi Deathcamp Sobibor
- Ravensbruck Memorial Site
- Bergen-Belsen Death Camp (scroll down below photos for information links)
- Inside a Nazi Deathcamp
- Letters to Sala: A Young Woman\'s Life in Nazi Labor Camps
- Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Ghetto Fighters' Museum
- German Propaganda Archive
- A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
- Holocaust Research Guide
- Nuremberg War CrimesTrials Collection
- NOVA Online: Holocaust on Trial
- The Aftermath: Liberators, On Trial, and The Perpetrators
- The History of the Gay Male and Lesbian Experience during WWII (The Pink Triangle)
- Eva Braun: The Wife of Hitler
Japanese American Internment Resources
- Japanese American National Museum
- Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
- Manzanar National Historic Site
- Children of the Camps
World History
- Ancient History Sourcebook
- Ancient Civilizations
- Odyssey Online: Ancient World Studies
- Finding World History
- Medieval Women - An Interactive Exploration
- The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
- ABZU: Ancient Near East on the Web
- The History Net
- History Link 101
- HyperHistory Online
- Philosophy Research Base
- NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
- ORB--Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
- The Costume Page - Costume History
- ArchNet
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
- Duke Papyrus Archive
- Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature