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Links
for Social Studies Teachers
Maps
and Geography
- Infoplease Atlas
- MapQuest
- National Geographic Map Machine
- How Far is
it? - Find the distance between cities, latitude,
longitude and elevation,and information about population,
- World
Atlas.com - geography facts and maps
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State Information from the United States Census Bureau
-Detailed maps and other census information on each state
and county.
- United States Overview Maps
-Maps of the United States showing population, race,
ancestry, citizenship, income, poverty, and adult
educational attainment.
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| Middle
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| Age
of Exploration
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| Twentieth
Century
Database:
ABC-Clio-World
History-Modern Era
Username: whgoldingms Password: whgoldingms
- Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg
- World War II
Links -Collection of links to websites that offer information
about World War II.
- Women
Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and
Broadcasters -Spotlights eight women who succeeded in "coming to
the front" during the war, drawn from private papers and
photographs primarily in Library of Congress collections
- Women
at War: Redstone's WWII Female "Production Soldiers"
-The role of women in the manufacture of munitions at the
Redstone Arsenal is documented in text and images.
- Zeppelin
-Information about the German blimps used in WWII.
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online
-A comprehensive
resource on the Holocaust and World War II
- "Final Solution" -"The origin of the "Final Solution," the
Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain.
What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the
culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of
Adolf Hitler. The "Final Solution" was implemented
in stages."
- Cybrary of the
Holocaust -Collection of links to many online websites related to
The Holocaust. From here you can browse many other sites
related to this topic, grouped under a number of subtopics
(e.g., Survivors, Liberators, Victims, etc.) Begins coverage
in the Thirties.
War Propaganda
Civil Rights
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Political
Cartoons
- Thomas Nast
-includes additional links to more web sites
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Primary
Sources
- American
Memory Collections -digital collections of information
based on a wide range of topics and themes in American history. Includes a huge number of
books, documents, photographs, images, music, sounds, and films. The Learning
section includes
exhibitions, curriculum, and learning aids related to primary sources.
- Ad*Access
Database -historical advertisements mostly from U.S.
publications issued between 1911 and 1955, dealing with beauty and
hygiene, radio, television, transportation, and World War II.
- America's Library
at the Library of Congress -The Library of Congress presents "America's Library"....
documents, prints, photographs, maps, recordings and other materials
from the past. Some of these materials reflect viewpoints or
information that may seem insensitive today. Their content is not
meant to offend; it does, however reflect history."
- American
Posters of World War One -A collection of posters in the United States during and just after
the First World War. Approximately 30 are presented here.
- Civil
War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet -From the Duke University Library:
links to primary
sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the
Civil War. "
- The Emergence
of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 -"Presents over 9,000 images, with database information,
relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The
materials, drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library at Duke University, provide a significant and
informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous
feature of modern American business and culture."
- Images
of American Political History -"A collection of over 500 public domain images of American
Political History."
- Mathew
Brady NY Studio: Portraits of Famous People -Photographs of famous people taken by Mathew Brady in the mid-to-late
1800's
- New York Public Library
Digital Library Collection -Images and texts of American life and culture.
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