For KSU faculty, students, and alumni, visit our Social Studies Links Wiki. Once you log in you can view and edit the links.
Below are some links that you may find useful as a social studies teacher:
- Evaluating Websites
- Digital Collections of Sources
- Digital Geography
- Economics Education
- Places to find ideas for activities
- Parent and Guardian Communication
- Professional Organizations
- Professional Development
Evaluating WebSites | top
Digital Collections | top
Politics and US 20th century
- Ease History
- Women and Social Movements
- Library of Congress
- National Archives (US)
- National Archives – Educator's Site
- National Archives – Worksheets
- National Archives – Online Exhibits
Presidential Libraries (part of NARA)
- Hoover Library
- FDR Library
- Truman Library
- Eisenhower library
- JFK Library
- Johnson Library
- Nixon Presidential Materials
- Ford Library
- Carter Library
- Reagan Library
- Bush Library
- Clinton Library
Early America
Other
- Avalon Project – Yale (Law, History, and Diplomacy)
- Smithsonian
- Smithsonian for Teachers
- "Our Documents" Site
- Digital Video Collection
- UVA Digital History Projects
- Virtual Jamestown – one of UVA’s projects
- Virtual Plymouth
- CIA Documents
- Woodrow Wilson’s Cold War International History Project
- American Rhetoric (online speeches)
A site with about 5,000 speeches and their text. Most are audio or video and transcribed text. - September 11 Digital Archive
- Documenting the American South
- Digital Media Lab UVA
- New Deal Network
- NY Public Library – Digital Library
- History and Politics Out Loud – Audio recordings
- Douglas Archives of Public Addresses
- Making of America – Digital Library
- Repositories of Primary Sources – University of Idaho
- American Periodicals Archive
- Geospatial and Statistical Center UVA
- National Security Archives – George Washington University
- Voices Across Time - American History through Music
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Historic Pittsburgh
Non-US sources (some non-US sources are in US places but these are more focused on other areas)
- EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History
- National Archives (UK)
- National Archives – Australia
- National Archives – Ireland
- National Archives – New Zealand
- National Archives – India
- Heritage Image Partnership (Digital Images – UK)
- Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
- Imaging the French Revolution
- French Revolution Digital Site
- World History Archives
- Lewis Beck Center – Emory –
- Hanover Historical Texts
Locations with multiple Digital Collections
- Oxford Digital Libraries
- Cornell University Digital Collections
- Chicago Public Library – Digital Collections
- Duke University Digitization of Rare and Special Collections
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Smithsonian Digital Collections
- Washington State University Digital Collections
- University of Pittsburgh (Look under our projects)
- University of Minnesota Digital Collections
- Listing of some digital library projects
Geography & Maps | top
Two great sources for many interactive maps
- National Atlas
- National Geographic’s Map Machine
Make US maps. Many complex layers
Great Sources for lots of Maps
- Library of Congress - American Memory Collection
- Search for maps or go to Library of Congress – Geography & Maps
- Oddens’ Bookmarks
- Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection UT Austin
Excellent Maps of Many Places – Often has pertinent Topical Links - Cultural Maps in American Studies Courtesy of UVA
US
- Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at UGA – Rare Map Collection
Over 1000 historic & rare maps online. They are primarily of Georgia and surrounding southern areas.
Other maps
- USA State Maps
Blanks, multiple types - Animated US map of contiguous 48 states from 1650 – present
- European Maps
- World Maps
- EduPlace - outline maps
- National Archives – ordering maps
Economics Related Items | top
- National Council on Economic Education
- Federal Reserve Education Site
- Federal Reserve – Celveland
They offer professional development often. - The Stock Market Game
- CIA World Factbook
Places to find ideas for activities | top
- Marty Levine's site for social studies teachers
- Schools of California Online Resources for Education
geography sites are rated – search for geography or maps - Ask ERIC activity ideas
A wonderful site that rates other social studies websites – many, many links. - Apple Learning Interchange - Ideas
- PBS Teachersource
- Ideas about teaching about the digital divide (economics & politics)
- Teaching Tolerance
- WebQuests
- Web Inquiry Projects
Meta-sites
- Best of History Web Sites
A site with several thousand links with annotations - American Anthropology Association, “Anthropological Resources
for Teaching Social Studies,
Geography, History, and Science”
The table of contents links to pages with links and annotations.
Parent and Guardian Communication | top
Professional Organizations | top
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
The national organization for our field. You can become a member, see about the annual conference, look for profesional development opportunities, and, if a member, read old issues of Social Education, the flagshiip journal for NCSS.
Ohio Council for Social Studies
OCSS is the state version of NCSS. It is a great organization to become active in so that you can meet other teachers and teacher educators around the state.
Professional Development | top
C&I masters and doctoral programs at Kent State
