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Free resources for social studies teachers provided by the federal government. Good resource if you are trying to meet standards.

This site gives different music that will help teach American History and Government.

This is one of the most comprehensive search engines and websites in the world on the Vietnam War. It has over 3.2 million pages scanned materials from government and military documents, newspaper articles, photographs, maps, artifacts, sound/audio recordings, etc. Great for finding material, resources, and primary sources.

An interesting video that would be a good way to get students thinking about what happens to the electronic waste from all the technology in their lives. It would be a good starting for a project similar to the one we did in HIST100 and could work well with modern U.S. or world history as well as a political science/government classes.

Has a lot of good online and techonological resources related to US government education.

A website full of the records of the British Parliament. A potentially useful tool for comparative government.

Welcome to the tour of World War I and World War II Propaganda posters. The posters displayed here were commissioned during World War II by branches of the U.S. Government such as the armed forces, recruiting bureaus, the Office of War Information, and the United States Treasury, to name a few.

This site is a reference for teachers, parents, and students in Illinois on the educational policies, goals, and structure of the educational system in the state. It also contains many references on numerous educational topics.

This is the web version of the New York Times, which gives up to date information on stories and events in the education field happeneing in the world today.

This is a great site for recent information on the state of Education on the national level. It shows policies, recent activity, and a massive amount of information on all topics in education.

The Library of Congress provides a search engine that makes it possible to track every proposed piece of federal legislation.  This is a valuable teaching tool because it allows students to take a specific bill and see exactly what committees, sponsors, votes, and other information pertains to it. 

A resource providing documents in US History from the 1600s to present day. The overwhelming majority of these primary sources are presidential speeches/inaugural adresses and famous supreme court cases.

These is a website that provides quality educational resources. This website directs you to primary source documents that can be used for various activities or lessons. You can also buy various materials for teaching which are categorized by subjects.

This site has dozens of history timelines detailing world events since the Big Bang.

This website hosts thousands of videos by guest speakers. They reference education, the humanities, education, motivation, etc. My favorite is by Sir Ken Robinson. He has spoken twice and suggests some new ideas about where our education system should go in the future. here is the link to his videos http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution.html http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

This website contains the official information about Illinois' laws and policies on education.

This website has the transcripts to most presidential speeches, as well as the audio/video of many of the more recent ones.

This is a really neat image of what people identify as the left and the right.

Government website that contains pictures and other primary sources on the Civil War. Useful in making PowerPoint and other presentations.

Government website that contains pictures and other primary sources on WWII. Useful in making PowerPoint and other presentations.