Below are some links that you may find useful as a social studies teacher:
- Evaluating Websites
- Digital Collections of Sources
- Digital Geography
- Economics Education
- Places to find ideas for activities
- Parent and Guardian Communication
- Professional Organizations
- Professional Development
Evaluating WebSites | top
Digital Collections | top
Politics and US 20th century
- Ease History
- Women and Social Movements
- Library of Congress
- National Archives (US)
- National Archives – Educator's Site
- National Archives – Worksheets
- National Archives – Online Exhibits
Presidential Libraries (part of NARA)
- Hoover Library
- FDR Library
- Truman Library
- Eisenhower library
- JFK Library
- Johnson Library
- Nixon Presidential Materials
- Ford Library
- Carter Library
- Reagan Library
- Bush Library
- Clinton Library
Early America
Other
- Avalon Project – Yale (Law, History, and Diplomacy)
- Smithsonian
- Smithsonian for Teachers
- "Our Documents" Site
- Digital Video Collection
- UVA Digital History Projects
- Virtual Jamestown – one of UVA’s projects
- Virtual Plymouth
- CIA Documents
- Woodrow Wilson’s Cold War International History Project
- American Rhetoric (online speeches)
A site with about 5,000 speeches and their text. Most are audio or video and transcribed text. - September 11 Digital Archive
- Documenting the American South
- Digital Media Lab UVA
- New Deal Network
- NY Public Library – Digital Library
- History and Politics Out Loud – Audio recordings
- Douglas Archives of Public Addresses
- Making of America – Digital Library
- Repositories of Primary Sources – University of Idaho
- American Periodicals Archive
- Geospatial and Statistical Center UVA
- National Security Archives – George Washington University
- Voices Across Time - American History through Music
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Historic Pittsburgh
Non-US sources (some non-US sources are in US places but these are more focused on other areas)
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
- National Archives (UK)
- National Archives – Australia
- National Archives – Ireland
- National Archives – New Zealand
- National Archives – India
- Heritage Image Partnership (Digital Images – UK)
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
- Imaging the French Revolution
- French Revolution Digital Site
- World History Archives
- Lewis Beck Center – Emory –
- Hanover Historical Texts
Locations with multiple Digital Collections
- Oxford Digital Libraries
- Cornell University Digital Collections
- Chicago Public Library – Digital Collections
- Duke University Digitization of Rare and Special Collections
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Smithsonian Digital Collections
- Washington State University Digital Collections
- University of Pittsburgh (Look under our projects)
- University of Minnesota Digital Collections
- Listing of some digital library projects
Geography & Maps | top
Two great sources for many interactive maps
- National Atlas
- National Geographic’s Map Machine
Make US maps. Many complex layers
Great Sources for lots of Maps
- Library of Congress - American Memory Collection
- Search for maps or go to Library of Congress – Geography & Maps
- Oddens’ Bookmarks
- Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection UT Austin
Excellent Maps of Many Places – Often has pertinent Topical Links - Cultural Maps in American Studies Courtesy of UVA
US
- Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UGA – Rare Map Collection
Over 1000 historic & rare maps online. They are primarily of Georgia and surrounding southern areas.
Other maps
- USA State Maps
Blanks, multiple types - Animated US map of contiguous 48 states from 1650 – present
- European Maps
- World Maps
- EduPlace - outline maps
- National Archives – ordering maps
Economics Related Items | top
- National Council on Economic Education
- Federal Reserve Education Site
- Federal Reserve – Celveland
They offer professional development often. - The Stock Market Game
- CIA World Factbook
Places to find ideas for activities | top
- Marty Levine's site for social studies teachers
- Schools of California Online Resources for Education
geography sites are rated – search for geography or maps - Ask ERIC activity ideas
A wonderful site that rates other social studies websites – many, many links. - Apple Learning Interchange - Ideas
- PBS Teachersource
- Ideas about teaching about the digital divide (economics & politics)
- Teaching Tolerance
- WebQuests
- Web Inquiry Projects
Meta-sites
- Best of History Web Sites
A site with several thousand links with annotations - American Anthropology Association, “Anthropological Resources
for Teaching Social Studies,
Geography, History, and Science”
The table of contents links to pages with links and annotations.
Parent and Guardian Communication | top
Professional Organizations | top
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
The national organization for our field. You can become a member, see about the annual conference, look for profesional development opportunities, and, if a member, read old issues of Social Education, the flagshiip journal for NCSS.
Ohio Council for Social Studies
OCSS is the state version of NCSS. It is a great organization to become active in so that you can meet other teachers and teacher educators around the state.
Professional Development | top
C&I masters and doctoral programs at Kent State
