Social Studies Links

Late 19th and 20th Century American History Websites

Third Person, First Person Slave Voices http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/

Lincoln’s Speeches and Writings

http://www.netins.net/showcase/creative/lincoln/speeches.htm

Real Audio Recordings of Supreme Court http://oyez.at.nwu.edu/oyez.html

Dating Back to 1961

Supreme Court http://www.usatoday.com/news/court/nscot000.htm

Supreme Court Decisions http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Articles on Liberty (The Freeman Index)

http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/freeman.htm

American Civil War Society and Culture

http://www.concentric.net/~teaswell/cw/

Civil War Letters

http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/amer_studies/leon.html

Civil War Poetry and Music http://www.erols.com/kfraser/index.html

Civil War Resources on the Internet

http://scils.rutgers.edu/~wgv/civwar-2.html#menu1

Selected Civil War Photographs http://rs6.loc.gov/cwphome.html

Great Chicago Fire http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

Inside a Factory at the Turn of the Century http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westhome.html

Cities of Today, Cities of Tomorrow

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/special/habitat/

Biographies of Inventors http://web.mit.edu/invent/

To Fly is Everything (invention of airplane)

http://hawaii.cogsci.uiuc.edu/invent/airplanes.html

Thomas RobertMalthus (Theory on Population Growth)

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/

Immigration at the Turn of the 20th Century

http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/history/projects/immigration/

Immigration Photos http://emp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html

African Americans and the Spanish American War

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/murray:@field(FLD001+91898126+):@@@$REF$

Spanish American War Photos http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/phcoll.new.html

Mark Twain on the War in the Phillipines

http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fizwick/twain/

Cartoons and statements regarding US imperialism

U.S. Intervention (military interventions by the US into Latin America 1806-1876)

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/Latin_America/Mexico/USinterventions

U.S. Racism and Intervention in the Third World, Past and Present

http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fjzwick/ail/raceint.html

The Nation’s Forum http://rs6.loc.gov./ammem/nfhome.html

(59 sound recordings of speeches by American leaders at the turn of the century.)

WWI Document Archive http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/index.html

Eyewitness Accounts on WWI http://www.ibiscom.com/w1frm.htm

African American Music & Culture http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/websites.html

Women In American History http://women.eb.com/women/crossroads01.html

New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/index.htm

Life History Manuscripts http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/wpahome.html

A-Bomb WWW Museum http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html

Cybrary of the Holocaust http://remember.org/

Eyewitness World War II (includes accounts on the attack on Pearl Harbor,

Nazi occupation of Poland, and censorship requirements on soldiers writing home) http://www.ibiscom.com/w2frm.htm

Nuremberg Doctor Trials http://www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/index.html

The Big Push http://www.nbm.com/home/rareybird/vol1.html

The Drop Zone http://www.thedropzone.org/new.html

Dawn of the Atomic Age http://pathfinder.com/@@ZygL6wYAJuwHuD6y/pathfinder/features/hiroshima/

Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality and the Atomic Bomb

http://www.brown.edu/Research/Choices/bombpage.html

European American Internment http://www.netzone.com/~adjacobs/

FDR Cartoon Archive http://www.wizvax.net/nisk_hs/department/social/fdr_html/FDRmain.html

Japanese Internment http://wwwgeocities.com/Athens/8420

Library of Congress http://lcweb2loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

Life in the Relocation Camps http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD//SJ/Nikkei/RelocationCamps.html

The Holocaust Memorial http://wahoo.netrunner.net/~holomem/

Tuskegee Airmen http://www.thehistorynet.com/advertise/tuskegee/airmen.htm

Voice of Hibakusha (voices of experience with the first atomic bomb)

http://129.171.129.67/mf/hibakusha/index.html

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946

http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/wraintro.html

Women Came to the Front http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

World War II – Keeping the Memory Alive (daily column where you can find out what happened on a given date during the war)

http://www.webbuild.com/~jbdavis/ww2.html

World War II Propaganda Posters http://www.openstore.com/posters/

Holocaust: 37 posters (disturbing!) http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/holo.htm

CNN series on the Cold War http://learning.turner.com/coldwar/

Strategic Assessment 1995: Nationalism –

http://www.ndu.edu/ndu/inss/sa95/sach15co.html

U.S. History – The Cold War

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/history.learn-teach/coldwar.htm

Memories of the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/classes/mc166k/missile_crisis_34.html

U.S. Choices After WWII http://www.brown.edu/Research/Choices/WWIIpage.html

Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 http://www.multied.com/Sixties/Cuban.html

Eisenhower Center http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/abilene/ikectr.html

Korean War http://violet.berkeley.edu/~korea/koreanwar.html

Korean War Maps http://www.koreanwar.org/html/maps.html

Korean War Photos http://www.dnaco.net/~csmartin/kwar.html

NATO Directory http://www.e-hawk.com/milcat/mc_nato.html

Russian/East Euro. Hy, Geog., and Soc.

http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/Hist/histruss.html

The Berlin Wall Falls

http://192.253.114.31/Berlin/Introduction/Berlin_contents.html

The Cold War http://history.hanover.edu/20th/coldwar.htm

The Caribbean and Central America

http://www.brown.edu/Research/Choices/cubapage.html

Maquiladoras http://cs.utep.edu/juarez/maquila.html

Mock Organization of American States Conference (activity)

http://ladb.unm.edu/retanet/plans/soc/oas.html

The Historical Text Archive (comprehensive look at the Civil Rights Movement)

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html

National Civil Rights Museum

http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html

National Civil Rights Museum http://www.mecca.org/~crights/

Women’s Rights Movement 1848–1998 http://www.Legacy98.org/move-hist.html

Welsh’s Denunciation of McCarthy http://www.mnsinc.com/richp/mccarthy.html

McCarthy Era: Excerpts from Letters http://www.crocker.com:80/~blklist/tkwrit.html

Timeline of the 1950’s – 1970’s

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Eisenhower: Inaugural Addresses http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/pres54.html

John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/inaugural/pres56.html

Limits of Power: The U.S. in Vietnam http://www.brown.edu/Research/Choices/vietnampage.html

Richard Nixon Audio Archive

http://www.webcorp.com/sounds/nixon.htm

Richard Nixon Video Archive

http://www.webcorp.com/video/nixon.Welcome.html

Vietnam War Pictures Archive http://sunsite.unc.edu/vietnam/vnpic.html

Vietnam War History Page

http://www.bev.net/computer/htmlhelp/vietnam.html

The Vietnam Experience (pictorial) http://www.shore.net/~vietnam/