Useful   Social   Studies  Links

Regents Exams

Researching Tools

www.regentsprep.org:  Old regents exams and practice questions.

www.loc.gov:  Library of Congress

Especially useful for US History

New York State Education Department Regents Page:

http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/hsregents.html

Shen HS Library Online Databases:

http://www.shenet.org/high/HS_Library/hslibdatabases.html

http://usny.nysed.gov/parents/

http://www.shenet.org/high/HS_Library/hslibcitation.html

http://www.shenet.org/high/HS_Library/hslibmedia.html

African Resources (University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center) - http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/WWW_Links.html

American Association for State and Local History - http://www.aaslh.org/

American Historical Association - http://www.theaha.org/

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

The Asia Society - http://www.asiasociety.org/

Bill of Rights Institute - http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/

Blue Webn (a library of Blue Ribbon web sites)- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Center for History and New Media (The History Matters Project) - http://chnm.gmu.edu/index1.html

Center for Civic Education - http://www.civiced.org/

Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/

Cold War International History Project - http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

Discovery Channel for Educators (Kathy Schrock’s Guide) - http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

EcEdWeb (University of Nebraska) - http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/econinfo.htm

Maryland Council on Economic Education - http://www.econed.org/

Edsitement/Marco Polo - http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - http://www.eric.ed.gov/

ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies Information - http://www.indiana.edu/%7Essdc/about.htm#ericsys

Eternal Egypt - http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.home&language_id=1

Eyewitness to History - http://www.ibiscom.com/eyindx.htm

Exploring Ancient World Cultures (University of Evansville) - http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm

Federal Reserve Bank of New York - http://www.ny.frb.org/

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - http://www.bos.frb.org/

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - http://www.rich.frb.org/

The Fed Challenge - http://www.rich.frb.org/econed/fedchallenge/

Foundation for Teaching Economics - www.fte.org

Global History and Geography: Historical images showing people and places as they appeared in the early twentieth century - http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/nysaservices/ns_edu_global.shtml

History Cooperative (searchable index of abstracts of articles from Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Law and History Review, The History Teacher, William and Mary Quarterly, Western Historical Quarterly) - http://www.historycooperative.org/

History Detectives (PBS Show) - http://www.mpt.org/programsinterests/webmarkers/history_detectives.cfm

Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line - http://www.h-net.org/

ICONS Project - www.icons.umd.edu

Junior Achievement - www.ja.org

Latin American Network Information Center - http://lanic.utexas.edu/

National Archives - www.nara.gov

National Council on Economic Education - http://www.ncee.net/

National Geographic -http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

For Teachers - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/

National Council for History Education - http://www.history.org/nche/

National Council for the Social Studies - www.ncss.org

New Deal Network - http://newdeal.feri.org/

Organization of American Historians Teaching Resources - http://www.oah.org/teaching/

PBS web site - http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

PBS - www.pbs.org

Smithsonian - www.si.org

Social Studies Sources (from Indiana University) http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/

Stock Market Game - http://www.econed.org/html/stock_market_game.html and http://www.smgww.org/

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/

Women and Social Movements in the United States - http://womhist.binghamton.edu/