Social Studies

Social Studies Research Links

Social Studies CBAs

Primary Sources:

• History - Pacific Northwest - Primary Sources, Washington
• Library of Congress Primary Sources
• National Archives Primary Sources

Google Cultural Institute - The Cultural Institute includes the Google Art Project, which features high-resolution images of artworks from museums in over 40 countries (request copyright permission from each individual gallery); the World Wonders Project, which presents three-dimensional recreations of world heritage sites; and archival exhibitions, many in partnership with museums around the world.

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Social Studies Links

World History

• Ancient Civilizations
• Greece and Rome
• Renaissance
• World War 1

American History

• Revolutionary War
• Civil War
• Indian Education

Special History Topics

• Washington State History
• Mideast 2001 AP Euro Hist
• Terrorism & the Middle East
• American Foreign Policy
• Imperialism
• World Revolutions
  

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Ancient Civilization Links

Ancient World Cultures Worldwide

• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

Ancient Egypt

• Discovering Egypt: Great starting point for Ancient Egyptian! http://discoveringegypt.com/
• The British Museum: http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.htm
• Egypt Web Search: http://touregypt.net/egyptantiquities/
• Egyptology Resources (Univ of Cambridge, UK): http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/er/
• Pyramids: The Inside Story(PBS): http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
• The Tomb of Tut (Nat Geog): http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/egypt-guide/

Mesopotamia

• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.htm
• Mesopotamia (The British Museum): http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.html

China

• Chinese Culture: http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/index.html
• History of China: http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/welcome.html
• Silk Road Foundation: http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/toc/index.html

India

• History of India: http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/itihas/history.htm
• Government Museum Chennai: http://www.chennaimuseum.org/draft/gallery/02/07/indus.htm
• Images and info on Harappa: http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html

Mesoamerica

• Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations: http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/index.html
• El Centro's Pre-Columbian Peoples of the Americas: http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/ecc/early.html
• Mayan History: http://www.jaguar-sun.com/timeline.html

Greece

• Ancient Greece, British Museum: http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/
• Ancient Greece: Awesome site! http://www.ancientgreece.com/

Rome

• History of Plumbing (Rome): http://theplumber.com/roman-english-legacy/
• Ancient Olympic Games: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/
• Roman Art and Architecture:
• Alexander the Great: http://www.hackneys.com/alex_web/alexfram.htm

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Renaissance Web Links

General Renaissance Links

• Renaissance History: http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/renaissance101.htm
• EuroDocs: Primary Historical Docs. from W. Europe. Contains links to selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations of Western European historical documents. http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html

Renaissance Art

• Artchive: http://www.artchive.com/
• Art History on the Web: http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html
• Google Cultural Institute, Art Project: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collections?projectId=art-project
• Web Gallery of Art: images usable for educational purposes http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
• Web Museum of Art: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/
• Art and Architecture from the Mediterranean Basin: Lots of digital images of art and architecture from ancient Greece and Italy. http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
• Uffizi Gallery: Website of the Uffizi Gallery, founded in Florence in 1581, by the De Medici family. Contains dozens of high resolution color pictures, comments, biographies and a glossary of artistic movements & techniques. http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/
• Extended Tour of the Sistine Chapel: 325 images of the Cappella Sistina http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html
• Albrecht Durer: http://www.boglewood.com/cornaro/xdurer.html
• Raphael Sanzio: From the Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi virtual art museum comes this page devoted to Rapahel's work. Great number of images. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/stanzas/0-Raphael.html

Renaissance Architecture

• Metropolitan Museum of Art:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/itar/hd_itar.htm

Renaissance Science

• The Art of Renaissance Science: http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/arstoc.html
• Leonardo da Vinci: http://www.mos.org/leonardo/
• Leonardo DaVinci Museum: http://www.mostredileonardo.com/
• IMSS - History of Science Museum - Florence Italy: Includes a multimedia catalogue of its Galileo room, a biography of Galileo, and short biographical texts of personalities connect to Galileo. Also contains Renaissance Engineers section. http://www.museogalileo.it/en/index.html
• Scientific Community 16th and 17th Centuries: 631 detailed biographies on members of the scientific community during the 16th and 17th centuries. http://galileo.rice.edu/lib/catalog.html

Renaissance Writers/Personalities:

• Description of Thomas More by Erasmus: http://pw2.netcom.com/~rjs474/thomasmore/1519lett.html
• Thomas More: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/tmore.htm
• St. Thomas More: http://www.apostles.com/thomasmore.html
• Medici Family: http://galileo.rice.edu/gal/medici.html

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World War 1 Web Links

General Index Sites

• World War 1: Trenches on the Web (History Channel) AWESOME! http://www.worldwar1.com/
• WW1 Reference Library: http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm
• Doughboy Center: American Expeditionary Forces: http://www.worldwar1.com/
• Selected Tours of WW1 Site: http://www.worldwar1.com/sfguide.htm#hist
• Special Feature Stories Index: http://www.worldwar1.com/sfguide.htm#hist
• Canada in World War 1: http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ww1/index.html
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20^thCentury: (From the PBS Documentary): http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
• The Great War Society:(Index of a variety of info): http://www.worldwar1.com/

Primary Source Materials

• World War 1 Document Archive: http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi
• World War 1 Propaganda Postcards: http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/index.html
• Letters from a WW1 Soldier: http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/warletters_2.html

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American History Link

American Civil War

• The Civil War Homepage: http://www.civil-war.net/
• Civil War. Com: http://www.civilwar.com
• Civil War: An Illinois Soldier: http://www.ioweb.com/civilwar/

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Special History Topics

Washington State History

• WA St- Official Tourism Page: http://www.experiencewa.com/
• Travel in WA: www.travel-in-wa.com/
• Washington State: www.washingtonstate.worldweb.com/
• History Link: http://www.historylink.org/
• WA St History Museum: http://www.washingtonhistory.org/text/exhibits2.htm/

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Terrorism & Middle East Research Links

Terrorism Links

• Terrorism Links (Information Services Network): http://www.isn.ethz.ch/?service=linkslib&Parent=57
• The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism: Good resource but it has an Israeli slant. http://www.ict.org.il/
• UN Responds to Terrorism: The official UN page on terrorism http://www.un.org/en/counterterrorism/index.shtml
• Terrorism (How Stuff Works): http://www.howstuffworks.com/terrorism.htm

Middle East

• PBS - U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/uspolicy/
• Middle East Research & Information Project: http://www.merip.org/
• BBC News-Middle East: http://www.bbc.com/news/world/middle_east
• Middle East and Jewish Studies (Columbia Univ): http://library.columbia.edu/locations/global/mideast.html
• Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs: http://www.wrmea.com/
• Foundation for Middle East Peace: http://www.fmep.org/
• Middle East-Global Issues.Org: http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast.asp
• Imperialist Oil War in Middle East: Strong left wing slant but some challenging ideas about America’s role in Mid East Politics. https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/mideastwar.html

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American Foreign Policy

Primary Source Documents

• Foreign Policy Primary Docs: WWI-1991: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm
• Foreign Policy Primary Docs: 1689-2013: http://www.cfr.org/publication/by_type/primary_sources.html
• Foreign Policy Primary Docs: 1941-1949: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/decade.asp
• 20th Century Primary Docs: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/20th.asp
• 21st Century Primary Docs: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/21st.asp

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Imperialism

• Crucible of Empire - PBS: http://www.pbs.org/crucible
• Library of Congress - Hispanic Reading Room - (Search Spanish American War) http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/
• "The Spanish American War Centennial Website: http://www.spanamwar.com/
• U S History.com: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3617.html
• Library of Congress - Chronology: http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/chronology.html
• HistoryWorld.com: http://history-world.org/Spanish%20America%20War.htm
• National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/spanish-american-war/
• Smithsonian - Nat History Museum http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=7
• "The Age of Imperialism": http://www.smplanet.com/teaching/imperialism/
• New York Public Library, "A War in Perspective, 1898-1998: Public Appeals, Memory, and the Spanish-American Conflict": http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/spanexhib/index.html
• Lincoln Cushing, "1898-1998: Centennial of the Spanish American War" www.zpub.com/cpp/saw.html
• "The Spanish American War Centennial Website: USS MAINE: http://www.spanamwar.com/MaineNYTimes.htm