HS Social Studies

Browse the Past and some Futures... a collection of Timelines on the Web

A gathering place of primary-source information. Sources held in archives, which document so much important first-hand information, are often not searchable by popular search engines. One needs to search within those institutional sites directly, using specific search phrases not readily discernible to non-scholars. The experience can be frustrating, resulting in researchers leaving sites without finding needed information. AwesomeStories is about primary sources. The stories exist as a way to place original materials in context and to hold those links together in an interesting, cohesive way (thereby encouraging people to look at them). It is a totally different kind of web site in that its purpose is to place primary sources at the forefront - not the opinions of a writer. Its objective is to take a site's users to places where those primary sources are found, and to which the site's users may otherwise not go. The author of each story is listed on the "chapters" page of the story. A link to the author provides more detailed information.

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator

Look at Web sites as they appeared in the past. Enter the URL in the field located in the top center of the page entitled "The Wayback Machine." Hit enter and then select the date.

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator

Information about each of the states