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Search Tools:  

  BestSearchTools Page
http://www.infopeople.org/search/tools.html
This page, from InFoPeople, has a search box for each of these great sites: Librarians’ Index to the Internet, Yahoo, Google, Fast Search, AltaVista, Northern Light, HotBot, Excite, MetaCrawler, and Ixquick.

How to Present Information Orally:  

Oral Presentation Skills
http://bio.com/hr/search/f-oral.html
Oral Presentation Skills—this is written for technical workers, but much of this applies to any speaker.

Virtual Presentation Assistant
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vpa/vpa.htm
The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills. Topics include selecting and researching your topic, analyzing your audience, supporting your points, using visual aids, public speaking Web links, and more.

General History Resources:   

Blue Web’n Learning Sites Library
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Blue Web'n is a searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).  Select Subject Area and then History and Social Studies.  Here one will find many history and social studies sites.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.  It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new sites.  Under Subject Access select History and Social Studies.

The Library of Congress Learning Page
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
The Library of Congress (LOC) has organized its digitized American Memory collection for educators. An "Educator's Page" helps teachers incorporate the LOC online collections into curriculum. Materials include photographs and recorded interviews and illustrate various political, social, and economic themes in the American experience. The electronic collections are arranged alphabetically by keyword and media type, and the entire site is searchable.

The History Net
http://www.TheHistoryNet.com/
The National Historical Society maintains the History Net.  This site contains a huge archive of articles from U.S. and world history to personality profiles and eyewitness accounts. Read the Welcome Page to get an easy introduction to what's available.

The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/
The History Place is a private, independent, Internet-only publication based in the Boston area that is not affiliated with any political group or organization.   The History Place™ has a lot of information. Its featured exhibits change frequently and highlight specific eras, events, or people in history. Topics are examined in depth and are generally divided into units for easier studying. The site has other features such as a photo and a speech of the week, essays on history from historians, and a tourism guide to historic places in America.

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Government
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School is an incredible resource.  Major historical documents dating back to the 12th Century are presented in entirety, with links to supporting documents, glossaries and indexes for each one. Major documents relevant to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government can be found here.

National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
The Museum has a great timeline that explores the American heritage through objects in the Museum’s collections and exhibitions.  More information can be found by clicking on any image.

K-12  History on the Internet Resource Guide
http://www.xs4all.nl/~swanson/history/index.html
This site has links to many K-12 history resources.

Time and Place Web Ring
http://www.sccss.org/webring/ring.htm
The Time and Place Web Ring is a voluntary association of social  studies oriented web sites. They may be index sites, collections of  lesson plans or other sites useful to social studies educators and/or students.

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Note: Please keep in mind that the Internet is a fluid medium and sites are constantly being added, moved and deleted.  If you find a dead or redirected link or you would like me to add a new resource please contact me at morsilka@shenet.org . Please give me the name of the task, the title of the link and link address.  Thank you.