23rd Annual Workshop for Teachers of Social Studies
Internet Resources for Social Studies Instruction
- Searching Tips and Resources:
- Internet Searching Strategies
http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/Netguides/strategies.html
- How to Search the Web: A Guide to Search Tools
http://daphne.palomar.edu/TGSEARCH/
- Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/
- Search Engine Showdown
http://searchengineshowdown.com/
- Sink or Swim: Internet Search
Tools & Techniques
http://www.ouc.bc.ca/libr/connect96/search.htm
- Boolean Searching on the Internet
http://www.eaglesnest.net/boolean.html
- Another Boolean Searching on
the
Internet
http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html
- Evaluating Quality of Information:
- Milton's Web, Johns Hopkins Library (Part I)
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/net.html
- Milton's Web, Johns Hopkins Library (Part II)
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/education/practical.html
- The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly:, or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/eval.html
- Criteria for the Evaluation of Internet Information Resources
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/index.htm
- Content-Rich History Sites:
- General
- Voice of the Shuttle
- http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/history.html
- H-Net Online
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/
- Teaching Resources
Reviews
Lists
- World Flag Database
http://www.flags.net
- Flag Guessing Game
http://www.radel.com/games/guessing/
- CIA World Fact Book (2000)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- The Map Machine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.htm
- United States-Focus:
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
- American Civil War Homepage
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
- Great American Speeches
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
- Teaching with Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1820-1940
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
- Southeastern
Native American Documents
http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu
- Spy Letters of the American Revolution
http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/
- World Focus:
- LC Classics Page
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/classics/claslink.html
- Camelot Project at University of Rochester
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm
- Galileo Project at Rice
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
- Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe (BYU)
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/
- Victorian Web (Brown)
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html
- Views of the Famine (Irish) (Vassar)
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/
- World War I: Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
- Avalon Project: The Nuremberg War Crime Trials (Yale)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
- Internet African History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
- Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
- Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html
- Internet Medieval Sourebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
- Internet Indian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
- Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
- People With a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/
- Byzantium:Byzantine Studies on the Internet
http://www.bway.net/~halsall/byzantium.html
- Internet History of Science Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
- Some Print Resources:
- Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott A. Merriman. The History Highway 2000: A
Guide to Internet Resources, 2nd. ed. NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.
- Kathleen W. Craver. Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical
Thinking Skills in History. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.
- William G. Thomas and Alice E. Carter. The Civil War on the Web: A Guide
to the Very Best Sites. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
- Some "Oddities"
- John F. Kennedy Assassination Homepage
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/body.html
- Astrocartography: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
http://members.tripod.com/~transcend_astro/e_jfkassn.htm
- Mothership: Aliens on Earth
http://www.ufomind.com/area51/
- Questions? Contact either Anne E. Bridges (abridges@utk.edu) or
George H. Hoemann (hoemann@utk.edu)
This page was created on 27 February
2001 and last revised on 3
March 2001