Social Studies Sites

General History Sites

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Smithsonian Museums	The History Net
U.S. Department of State Background Notes Facts about countries.	Eyewitness to History History through the eyes of those who lived it.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian	National Geographic
How Stuff Works	The History Place
BBC History Sites	Best History Sites
History For Kids	Internet Public Library - History
Making the Modern World	Current Events - Political Cartoons
History by Decade 1650-1990	History Matters
History Today	History World
Cybrary Social Studies Page	World Religions
Almanacs Page for Ms. Plasterer	eHistory @ The Ohio State University
K12Station-History and Social Sciences	MacroHistory
Inventors and Inventions	World Timelines
Global Warming Sites	Online Photo Archives

Maps and Geography

Cultural Maps -Historical and cultural atlas.	Atlapedia
MapMachine Online atlas from National Geographic.	National Atlas of the United States
Mapquest	World Atlas
Lonely Planet WorldGuide	Live Map Search
The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century	CIA World Factbook
Mapping History	Africa Page
GeoNet Quiz	Visual Geography Series
United Nations Country at a Glance and Infonation	My Wonderful World
UN for Kids Flags maps and information	WorldMapper: the World as you have never seen it.

American History

American Memory from the Library of Congress Primary documents from American History.	World War I Websites. Trenches on the Web The Great War World War One.com
America's Story from America's Library	They Made America
Interactive Timeline of American History	America in the 1930s
Freedom - A History of US	Vietnam War Websites
American Memory Timeline	The Hitchhiker's Guide to American History
From the Home Front and the Front Lines	Flashback - History of the 1960s -1990s
PBS American History Sites	A Biography of America
Primary Sources: Workshops in American History	Colonial America Page for Ms. Plasterer
Slavery in America	Picturing Modern America
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the Atomic Bomb	Civil War @ Smithsonian
The Price of Freedom: America at War	Reconstruction: The Second Civil War
Salem Witch Trials	Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West
The Underground Railroad	Remembering Pearl Harbor
How the Other Half Lives Hypertext edition	The Triangle Factory Fire
The New World	Wayback: U.S. History for Kids
Black History Month	Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement
Life in the 1920s	Liberty - The American Revolution
Picturing Modern America 1880-1920	Modules on Major Topics in American History
Inside 9/11	The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
America 1900	The People History
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers	Immigration: The Changing Face of America
Timeline of the Great Depression	Living History Farm
The Cold War: From Yalta to Malta	U.S. History Study Guide from Shmoop.com


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Government

FirstGov The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.	United States Senate
United States House of Representatives	The White House
Thomas.gov	Supreme Court of the United States
Landmark Supreme Court Cases	Ohio State Legislature
Ohio Supreme Court	Governor of Ohio
Project Vote Smart	American President.org
The Electoral College	Internet Public Library - Government
American Experience: The Presidents	Core Documents of U.S. Democracy
The Budget Explorer	Analysis and Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution
Democracy in America	Federal Court Concepts
The Supreme Court Historical Society	Famous Trials
eLECTIONS- Election Simulation	P2008 - Race for the White House
FactCheck.org	VOTE! - The Machinery of Democracy
Explore the Constitution	The Capitol
The Living Room Candidate (Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-Present)

World History

Hyperhistory Online Online timeline of World History	The Irish Potato Famine
World War II	Ancient History
WW2 People's War	The Vikings
PBS World History Sites	Napoleon
World History	The French Revolution
Interactive Timeline of British History	Historylink101
Prehistoric Man	World History Traveller
Odyssey Online	Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution
Ancient Egypt Page	The History Guide
Byzantine Empire Page	The History of Western Civilization
The Middle Ages	From Silk to Oil: Cross Cultural Connections Along the Silk Road
Mesopotamia	Genghis Khan
Judiaism	Millenium -Interactive Timeline 1000-2000 from CNN
The Age of Exploration	Victorian Britain
Ancient China	The French Revolution from ClassZone.com
Ancient Rome	The Worst Jobs in History
The Renaissance	Conflict Map - Interactive Map of 20th Century Wars
The Reformation	Ancient Greece
Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas	Holocaust Web Sites
Ancient India and the Indus Valley	Islam Page
World Timelines	Sacred Contexts: Discover What We Share - World Religions

Local History & Government

Mercer County Government	Van Wert County
Link to Genealogical Societies	Mercer County Historical Society
Ohio Historical Society	Discover Ohio
Shanes Crossing Historical Society	Rockford History and Government
Ohio Memory

Economics

The NASDAQ Stock Market	New York Stock Exchange
Tax History	Bureau of Labor Statistics
Internet Public Library - Economics	The Federal Reserve
Understanding Taxes	The Federal Reserve for Kids
	Young Investor

Historical Research

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