Social+studies+links

http://www.economicadventure.org/teachers/timevalue.cfm How much is money worth across history?

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Really excellent time-line and resource for lots of historical information.

http://showcase.netins.net/web/ankh/ Ancient Egyptian temple

http://www.historicaldocuments.com/index.htm Historical documents--United States history

http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=460&phpMyAdmin=af0f6b4465fe3f904426eaeb3dc0e3fa Historical sounds--speeches and so forth that have been recorded. Hear Spiro Agnew in all his glory!!

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ Pictures from old books--a lot of primary source material here for teaching history.

http://www.roman-empire.net/ The Roman Empire. Everything you could possibly want to know!!

http://www.localhistories.org/timeline.html Timeline of English history.

http://www.colonialct.uconn.edu/ Colonial Connecticut records

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ The Making of America--social history information

http://www.americanjourneys.org/ North American exploration

[|http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/texts.html] Texts for ancient history. Primary source material.

[|http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm] Renaissance books--texts.

http://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk/home_set.html British Museum website on ancient civilizations

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/ National Archives of Britain

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html Medieval texts.

http://www.pepysdiary.com/ Samuel Pepys' diary. Great primary source of information about his age and time (17th century England).

http://www.leavesofgold.org/ Illuminated manuscripts--primary sources

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/american-ballads-and%20folk-songs/american-ballads-folk-songs.html The songs people sang often have historical and cultural information in them. They can help students to better understand an era or group of people.

http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/index.htm Children's books can also be a source of information or a cultural artifact (teachers do need to review these books to make sure they are appropriate and not insulting to one or more groups of people).

http://www.netlibrary.net/ Another source of books

http://www.songsforteaching.com/socialstudiessongs.htm Songs for teaching social studies

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm Multimedia educational resource. Covers a lot of the curriculum.