HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES   

Links on this page to general history and social science sites. For sites on particular history and social science subjects, click the links to pages below. 

World Civilization        Economic, Legal, & Political Systems
American History          Sociology & Psychology

2009 Webby Awards Official Honoree in Education (along with BBC, CBC, and PBS)
“Best of the Internet” – PC Magazine

“10 Terrific Websites for Teachers” – Mashable

"Shmoop features deep analysis of topics in history and literature, sprinkled with a heavy dose of wry humor." – eSchoolNews

“The language is totally student-friendly. A very cool site.” - School Library Journal

“Shmoop is intentionally about learning, and the joy of learning” – Paul Hamilton, Edu Blogger

“A website you can trust.” – Librarians’ Internet Index

Clamen’s Political Archives - links to online political documents
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/clamen/misc/politics/README.html

Fourth World Documentation Project: Indigenous Peoples’ Information
http://www.cwis.org/fwdp.html

Historical Text Archive - links to selected historical texts chosen for significance
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html

History
http://www.history.org

The History Channel - includes This Day in History, Living History with reenactments and calendars of historical events, and the History Channel Classroom, the materials for which are designed to be printed and used in the classroom. Wide range of subjects, but not comprehensive or overly academic.
http://www.historychannel.com/indexf.html

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers - incredible collection of links
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html

History Links on the Internet - links
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/history/internet/

Horus’ Web Links to History Resources
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html

Map Machine Atlas from National Geographic - maps of and information about all areas of the world
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/maps/cartographic.html

National Geographic
http://tectonic.nationalgeographic.com/

Links to Government Servers and Information
http://www.eff.org/govt.html