Where on the Web? A List of Websites for Social Studies Education Charles S. White (Adapted from the March, 1997 issue of Social Education)

General Education

	AskERIC: ERIC Document Retrieval Service (EDRS)	http://edrs.com/cgi-bin/askERIC (or try http://ericir.syr.edu/)
	Brittanica's Lives (brief historical biographies)	http://www.eb.com/cgi-bin/bio.pl
	Brittanica On-line	http://www.eb.com
	Scholastic Network	http://scholastic.com/Network/index.html
	Global SchoolNet Foundation	http://www.gsn.org/
	Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connection	http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc
	Mining the Internet	http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/Mining/Overview.html
	Web66 (lists K-12 schools with homepages)	http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html

	Electronic Democracy
	CITIZEN: Net Vote 96	http://democracyplace.org/~listserv/citizen/0078.html
	CNN/Time AllPolitics	http://www.allpolitics.com/
	Democracy Forum	http://democracyplace.org/~democracy/forum.html
	Democracy Place: USA	http://democracyplace.org/
	Kids Voting USA	http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/
	The Netizen	http://www.hotwired.com/netizen/
	The PBS Democracy Project	http://www.pbs.org/democracy/
	Publius	http://www.publius.com/
	Slate (political commentary)	http://www.slate.com/cover/current/cover.asp
	Vote Smart Web	http://www.vote-smart.org/

Government Agencies The Federal Web Locator http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-agency/fedweb.new.html GPO (Goverment Printing Office) Access http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/index.html Library of Congress/Congressional Server http://thomas.loc.gov/ The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Libraries and Museums Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page http://lcweb.loc.gov/ Library of Congress Exhibits http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits Prints and Photographs: An Illustrated Guide http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/print/guide/ American Memory from the Library of Congress http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html Galleria degli Uffizi http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/ Gallery of the Open Frontier http://www.unl.edu/UP/gof/home.html Louvre Museum http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/ Movietone News Online http://www.iguide.com/movies/movitone/ Museums, World Wide Arts Resources http://wwar.com/museums.html National Museum of the American Indian http://www.si.edu/nmai/ Museum of Fine Arts http://www.mfa.org/ National Archives and Records Administration http://www.nara.gov/ Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/ US Holocaust Museum http://www.ushmm.org/

Software Products Educational Software Institute http://maxthink.com/esi/ Children1s Software Reviews http://qv3pluto.leidenuniv.nl/steve/reviews/welcome.htm Multimedia Bibliography http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/mmbiblio.html

Television Discovery Channel Online http://www.discovery.com/ The History Channel's Today in History http://www.historychannel.com/today PBS Online http://www.pbs.org/ WGBH Educational Foundation http://www.boston.com/wgbh/

Professional Organizations NCSS Online http://www.ncss.org/ NCGE Home Page http://multimedia2.freac.fsu.edu/ncge/index.html Phi Delta Kappa Home Page http://www.pdkintl.org/

Social Studies History/Social Studies Site for K-12 Teachers http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html Internet Resources for Social Studies Education http://www.indiana.edu/~ssdc/internet.html Social Studies Newsgroups http://www.coe.uh.edu/~asoucek/newsgroup/social.html Social Studies http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/socialstudies.html Social Studies Sources http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/

Current Events Bosnia Home Page http://www.nytimes.com/bosnia/ Nothing But Netport http://www.nut-n-but.net/hotspots.html/

Culture Australian Aboriginal People http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/COUNTRY/Aborig.html Egyptian Educational Site http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt Embassy of Vietnam http://www.vietnamembassy-usa.org The Viking Network Web http://odin.nls.no/viking/

Economics Economics Resources for K-12 Teachers http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/teach.htm U.S. National Debt Clock http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ U.S. Balanced Budget Simulator http://garnet.berkeley.edu/budget/budget.html/

History Archiving Early America http://earlyamerica.com/ Declaration of Independence Exhibit http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/declara1.html Electronic Ellis Island http://wwwald.bham.wednet.edu/museum/museum.htm Explore the West from Monticello (Lewis & Clark Exhibit) http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html From American Revolution to Reconstruction http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/usa/revolution.html The Federalist Papers http://www.law.uoknor.edu/hist/federalist.html Gateway to World History http://neal.ctstate.edu/history/world_history The Historical Text Archive http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html Historic documents http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/docs_us.html Mayflower Home Pages http://members.aol.com/calebj/mayflower.html Medieval Server http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/ Teaching with Historic Places http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp US Historical Documents http://www.law.uoknor.edu/ushist.html

Geography City Lookup http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo City.Net (Go exploring--virtually--courtesy of Excite) http://www.city.net/ Color Landform Atlas of the United States http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html GlobaLearn (gr. 4-6) http://www.globalearn.org/ How Far Is It? http://www.indo.com/distance/ MapQuest Atlas http://www.mapquest.com/ Standard U.S. Postal Service Abbreviations http://www.princeton.edu/Main/postal.html U.S. Census Info   Vicinity Corp. MapBlast  http://www.mapblast.com

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