Historical Political Cartoons - 0 views
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Megan Courtney on 16 Nov 10A site linking to many cartoons from different periods of history. Cartoons range and can provide new images and voices to the classroom.
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Democrats, Republicans Question Obama's Layoff Package - 1 views
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Layoff package to keep teachers in the classroom
SocialistWorker.org - 0 views
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A political and historical website with a very clear left-leaning bias. Provides an interesting insight into the logic and reasoning of a growing political minority.
Daryl Cagle's Politcal Cartoon Index - 0 views
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This is a link to Daryl Cagle's cartoon index from MSNBC. The site includes a number of political, historical and socially-relevant cartoons. -
Large collection of political editorial cartoons.
Borderland: Designed for the Dump - 0 views
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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.
marriage in Heian time period - 0 views
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about marriage in the interesting times of Heian time period in Japan
Illinois State Board of Education - 0 views
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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.
New York Times Education Page - 0 views
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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.
U.S. Department of Education - 0 views
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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.
1,000 years of history in 5 minutes - 0 views
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This is a video about the changing political boarders of Europe. I believe it is a good way to shake students of their views on the current boarders that follow when talking about history.
National Council for History Education - 0 views
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This site is dedicated to providing resources for Social Studies teachers as well as pushing for the advancement of the teaching of history in schools. It provides information on state councils, conferences, and recent news and events in regards to history education
Legislative Information from the Library of Congress - 2 views
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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.
The Vietnam Center and Archive - 0 views
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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.
Primary Source Documents in US History - 1 views
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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.
Documents for World History: Primary Sources & the Internet - 0 views
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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.
Timelines of History - 0 views
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This site has dozens of history timelines detailing world events since the Big Bang.
Presidential Speeches - 1 views
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This website has the transcripts to most presidential speeches, as well as the audio/video of many of the more recent ones.
Left vs. Right - 1 views
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This is a really neat image of what people identify as the left and the right.
Historyteacher.net - 0 views
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This site has a number of links for helpful information pertaining to history. It is a useful site for teachers when creating a lesson plan.
Chicago History Museum - 0 views
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This site has resources for Chicago history. Also, it is a great place to have a field trip.