Social Studies

Colleges with Social Studies Programs

Collegeboard.com - Use this site to find colleges that fit your criteria. It allows you to search for colleges by major, location, SAT scores, scholarships, etc. You can combine as many factors as you want in order to narrow down your search. Once you've clicked on a school you can link to its web site from there.

This site has great links to web sites about a variety of careers. The career guides contain job descriptions, educational requirements, and salary ranges.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - Occupational Outlook Handbook

The U.S. Department of Labor hosts this site that contains many job overviews with salary information.

Not sure what you want to do yet? Try this site. http://www.bls.gov/k12/students.htm

     Educational Technology ClearingHouse

            http://etc.usf.edu/ss/index.htm 

Historical Maps

  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/maps/maps.cfm 

Library of Congress

   http://www.loc.gov/index.html 

National Geographic

   http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Create a Timeline

           http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline/

National Museum of American History

    http://americanhistory.si.edu/index.cfm

American Memory Home

             http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html 

    Chronicling American: America's Historic Newspapers

         http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

    The Veteran's Project 

          http://www.loc.gov/vets/

       The CIA World Fact Book - Great source for current facts!

         https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ 

       The CIA Map Database - Need a map? 

         https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/cia-maps-publications/ 

       Newsla - Current Events

        http://newsela.com/ 

The following books can be found in the library:

1920's

338.542 The Great Depression

363.4 Reb Prohabition

305.42 WOM The Women's Rights Movement

For more books on the 1920's click here.

Civil War

973.7 CIV The Civil War

973.7 M The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

For more books on the Civil War click here.

Middle Ages

940.1 BAR The Late Middle Ages

940.1 L Medieval Ages

940.1 Ren The Renaissance

For more books on the middle ages click here.

World War I

940.3 A World War I

940.53 Wes World War I Day by Day

REF 940.3 HIS V.1 History of World War I

For more books on World War I click here.

World War II

623.74 Dor U.S Bombers of World War II

920 GIT The Great Depression & World War II

920 H Holocaust Memories: Speaking the Truth

For more books on World War II click here.

For books on mass media click here.

For books on explorers click here.

Don't forget the library databases, your Social Studies teachers love those!  Click here to go there now!

From the Library of Congress a helpful tool for analyzing Primary Source Documents

Online Exhibitions

Abraham Lincoln http://americanhistory.si.edu/lincoln/introduction 

The American Presidency http://americanhistory.si.edu/presidency/

The First Ladies http://americanhistory.si.edu/first-ladies/introduction#

The Morgan Library and Museum Online Exhibits http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/defaultExhibOnline.asp