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Eurodocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe (BYU)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