The author of a book I'm currently enjoying. His website is also giving updates on his latest research on towns that are completely white. I feel these are books worth reading.
This site is dedicated to showing educational brief clips about some of America's most influential individuals of the early 18th century. It provides background information and interesting facts about people such as Benjamin Franklin, Molly Pitcher, and George Washington, which is a good way to engage the students' attention.
This website has a few fun videos that teach brief lessons about different topics in history including the XYZ Affair, the Greeks, and the Grimke sisters.
Adding fiction into our social studies classrooms may be a valuable tool. Here is a website that has thousands of free online books available. Internet e-readers will be booming soon...free online books will be useful
Resource for supreme court cases that have 3 different reading levels for the various levels of education. It gives a description of the case and questions to consider after reading and strategies for teaching case studies
Here is a website many of you may be familiar with. For those of you who are not, this contains many different videos, documents and blogs about education. This is very helpful and engaging.