Social Studies

Rock the Vote - nonpartisan site dedicated to increasing the youth vote by engaging young people in "creating positive social and political change in their lives and communities"

Politics1.com - "non-partisan public service designed to promote fully informed decision-making by the American electorate"

Welcome to the White House - all about the current President, the people of his administration, current news, and current issues

The OYEZ Project - "access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio"

Human Rights Watch - "conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world...up-to-the-minute information about conflicts"

Adventure Learning Foundation: Online Learning Expeditions - "an
educational non-profit organization that seeks to promote greater understanding of and between people of different cultures around the world"

New Milford, NJ 2000 Census Data - latest Census data about New Milford

Geostat Center: US Presidential Election Maps 1860-1996 - shows popular vote and electoral college vote

U.S. National Archives - the U.S. Government’s collection of documents that records important events in American history

Smithsonian Institution - outstanding resource - "Explore & Learn" section gives a wealth of info about Art & Design; History & Culture; Science & Technology

Historical Voices - "Hearing the actual voices of the past can bring history alive in a way that reading a transcribed text never can...one of the first fully functional, multi-media, interoperable digital libraries available online"

Biography of America - companion to Annenberg Media's video series

Archiving Early America - "a wealth of resources -- a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America"

Making of America - Cornell University's digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction

World War I Document Archive - international primary sources from WWI

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - comprehensive site for education about the Holocaust and the threats still posed today to people of the world by ongoing prejudice, racism, and stereotyping

JazzAge Culture - wonderful site with much information on the Flapper Era and the Harlem Renaissance 

Andy Chemistruck's Wonderful Introduction to the Roaring '20s - worthwhile, very brief, introduction to various topics of the decade; good slang guide

Ad Access - "advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955"

History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web - "highly regarded gateway to web resources; a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence" 

Studs Terkel: Conversations with America - oral histories collected for various works by the author

Ancient Egypt: The British Museum - extensive site

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - interesting

Welcome to the Middle Ages - many links to explore

Renaissance: Exhibits Collection - from Annenberg Media

American Rhetoric: Power of Oratory in the United States - significant speeches, debates, interviews, etc. provided in full-text versions

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - "An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature"; includes suggestions for class activities