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General Research
A great site to start your research, Teachers Discovering History As Historians is set up by unit, with documents, multimedia, and hundreds of links.
A great site to check on social studies and political vocabulary that might be unfamiliar to you. All are informative, some are really fun - see "astroturf."
A site containing good politcal cartoons from Temple University.
This site gives great tips to student on how to begin research, select a topic, refine the thesis, and use primary documents to support the thesis. Also included is a checklist for students to utilise to make sure they are getting the most of their research.
The History Teacher is a comprehensive site from Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, dedicated to history teachers and students. Highly recommended as the first place to visit for research, instructional materials and recommended web sites related to all levels of American History and Government and Global Studies.
Information, photographs, documents, lesson plans, etc. for various American history topics. EXCEPTIONAL!!
An outstanding site to get information on US presidents, as well as speeches and audio clips.
The place to go to get an American speech from any era.
This online textbook offers excellent research, an a wealth of useful links in the lefthand column. Units are set up in chronological order, so it is quite fun and easy to use.
Great links to research each and every major American conflict from a variety of viewpoints.
Check out literature of the time period without going to the library - the complete texts are online. This site allows you to search by author, subject, and title.
Full texts of many classic works of literature via the University of Pennsylvania.
Excellent site from which to get the full text of some of the United States history's most important works of literature.
This site is simple to use and is set up in chronological order for any time period in US history. It will lead to primary documents, maps, journals, photos, biographies, and much more.
This is our online textbook and associated review excercises. You will need your User ID and password.
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