Social Studies
U.S. History
U.S. HISTORY - READINGS
Digitized Primary American History Sources Digitized primary sources from the University of Northern Iowa.
The National Archives. Teaching with Documents. The National Archives digital classroom.
Primary Sources for United States History Searchable college library and other sources, from Emory University.
Bartleby.com Great books on line.
Nineteenth Century Documents Project. From Furman University, SC.
From Revolution to Reconstruction Primary documents from Magna Charta to G.W. Bush's Inaugural address, 2001.
The American Colonist's Library A collection of literature and documents relevant to the colonists' lives in America, including relevant Medieval sources.
American Studies Sites List of sites for research including links to many journals.
U.S. HISTORY - SITE LIST
GENERAL
Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute Curriculum units for teachers.
TIMELINES
Timelines of History General timelines by century.
AlternaTime Timeline by topic or area.
HyperHistory Online Timelines by topic of interest.
Din Timelines Somewhat hard to navigate at first. Great timelines with links from each time segment of an event to more information.
EARLY PEOPLE
The Native American Yale University course on the early peopling of the Americas.
The Early People: The Clovis Complex Discussion of the Clovis tool tradition and some newer archeological conclusions (need to copy and paste this link).
Center for the Study of the First Americans "Mammoth Trumpet" Publication of the Texas A&M center for research into early Americans available from here.
Athena Review Publication of the "Athena Review" dealing with early North American Archeology.
Who Were the First Americans? University of Minnesota Duluth site discussion of the peopling of the Americas. Slide shows for lectures and good links list.
Discussion of the Biblical versus the scientific explanation of the peopling of North America.
EXPLORATION
Explorers of North America Maps and primary documents pertaining to the exploring of the Americas.
American Journeys Digital archives of eyewitness accounts of early exploration of the Americas.
Passages: A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration Published archives of the Library of Canada.
North American Exploration Full length books and documents relating to the European discovery and exploration of North America.
U.S. Student Resource Center Short readings on the European discovery and settlement of the Americas. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
Discoverers Web A list of links for the history of discovery from the Greeks through the twentieth century.
The European Voyages of Exploration Tutorial on the exploration of North America from the University of Calgary.
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Economics
Economics Simple definitions of concepts with quiz pages.
Some Basic Principles of Marxian Economics University of Toronto intro to Marxian economics.
National Budget Simulation.
Commanding Heights Companion site to PBS special Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy.
EconData.Net Links to regional economic data.
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Geography
United States History: Outline Maps US and world maps, including historyical maps of the US. From Houghton Mifflin.
USA Outline Maps US maps only.
Blank Outline Maps of the Fifty States Outline of each US state.
National Atlas.gov Government maps on diverse topics including Elections from 1789.
World Outline Maps World outline maps, labeled and unlabeled.
World Atlas: Maps and Geography of the World Countries of the world.
World Atlas.comEasy to use geography locator and maps.
InfopleaseLinks to individual state maps and information.
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World History and Cultures II
WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURES II - SUGGESTED READINGS (Some of these are linked below.)
1. Dante, The Inferno
2. The Song of Roland
3. Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
4. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
5. Voltaire, Candide
6. Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, The Federalist Papers Numbers 6,10,and 51.
7. Declaration of Independence
8. U.S. Constitution
9. George Mason, "Objections to the Constitution of the Government formed by the Convention, November, 1787"
10. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
11. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
12. Charles Darwin, selections from The Origin of Species and Descent of Man
13. T.H. Huxley, "Evolution and Ethics"
14. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
15. W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
16. Fyodor Dostoesvsky, Notes From the Underground
17. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols from Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
18. Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
19. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
20. Gerda Klein, All But My Life
21. Hunt, The Making of the West
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WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURES II - ONLINE BOOKS
Alighieri Dante, Inferno
Anonymous, The Song of Roland
Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences
John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government
Voltaire, Candide
The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers Links to additional information.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Thomas Henry Huxley, Collection of works.
Propaganda: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Weird site, good readings.
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
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