Media Center: Social Studies - Class Projects

U.S. History

                         
                          The Travels of Ibn 
                          Battuta - A Virtual Tour with the 14th Century 
                          Traveler --http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html

• Life in Ming China -- http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/ninvest/ming/ming2.htm
• Lower Eastside Tenement Museum --  http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html
• Millionaire's Row -- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gallery/index.html

1920s

• The Radio  --  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/radio_1

•  Baseball   --  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/cobb_1

•  Consumerism  --  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/coolidge_1

•  Charles Lindbergh  --  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/lindbergh_1

•  Bowling  --  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/dcarter_1

•  Harlem  -- http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/

•  Langston Hughes --  http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1552

•  Harlem Renaissance --  http://www.ket.org/elliswilson/renaissance.htm

•  Letters from the Great Migration  --  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5332

•  Library of Congress  --  http://catalog.loc.gov/

• Jazz Age Culture -- http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html
• Temperance and Prohibition -- http://prohibition.osu.edu/
• The 1920s Experience -- http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/index.html
• The Age of Imperialism (An Online History of the United States) - http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html

• Maps that Teach: U.S. and World Geography -- http://www.yourchildlearns.com/geography.htm

• Lower East Side Tenement Museum -- http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html 

• Millionaires Row (PBS) -- http://pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/gallery/index.html

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Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Renaissance (Fatherryan.org)
• African American Odyssey (Library of Congress)
• Online Newshour forum: Harlem Renaissance
• NYPL Schomburg Center for Black Culture
• Langston Hughes: A Renaissance Man (Library of Congress)
• Harlem Renaissance
• African American music and culture
• Marcus Garvey
• Afro-American Almanac
• Cora Unashamed – the Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem: an African American Experience
• Harlem History
• Harlem Renaissance
• Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
• Literature & Life: the Harlem Renaissance (includes audio & video clips)
• Online Newshour Forum: Harlem Renaissance
• PBS: Harlem Renaissance
• Rhapsodies in Black
• Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: Stories (links to personal narratives)
• A walk through Harlem: Interactive Map

 

• Online Services [passwords available in Media Center]:
  • Student Resource Center: Gold (Gale) (U.S. History)
  • SIRS Decades: 20^th Century Sources
• Ebooks [Passwords available in the Media Center]:
  • American Decades
  • Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America
    
     

19 50's Project

 

• Culture of the 1950s:
• 1950s Rock'n'roll:
• The Authentic History Center: The 1950s - Features primary resources including audio, images, and more.
• Fifties Boulevard - A Graphic Portrait of the Fifties in America
• Fifties Web - Web site devoted to the 1950s.
• Film History of the 1950s
• The Literature and Culture of the American 1950s
• Rewind the 50s - Cars, idols, pictures and more.
• Top Ten Films of the 1950's
• http://www.magnetplace.com/RETRO/
• http://paperpast-archives.com/fifties/50kidstuff/PAGE_2/page_2.html 1959 Ward’s Christmas catalog –toys
• http://paperpast-archives.com/fifties/50music/

• History Matters -- http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

• Boomer's Fifties Teen Idol Magazine -- http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/  

EBOOKS: get password from Media Center Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-bottoms:  Pop Culture of 20th Century American American Decades

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AP World History

Please check Edline for assigments!

Art of Buddhism  (Smithsonian)

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World History

Art of Buddhism  (Smithsonian)

Honors World History Research Paper Outline (posted 3/23/05)

Leo Africanus: a 16th Century Exploration of Morocco

Smithsonian

Latin American Template

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NSL Government

International Information Programs

FEMA: Terrorism

U.S. State Dept.: Counterterrorism Office

CIA: The War on Terrorism

FBI

http://www.fbi.gov or

http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorism.htm *look under FBI Priorities/counter-terrorism

U.S. Dept. of Defense: Countering Terrorism and Protecting Our Forces

http://www.defenselink.mil/other_info/terrorism.html

Defend America

http://www.defendamerica.mil/

The White House: National Security

www.whitehouse.gov/response/

Homeland Security

http://www.dhs.gov/

Political Resources on the Net

http://www.politicalresources.net/

Related Resources (Political Resources on the Net)

http://www.politicalresources.net/index2.htm

Githersbury High School Foreign Policy Links:

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/gaithsbghs/depts/mediacenter/nslunit6.htm

Also try these RHS online services (passwords available from the Media Center): ABC-CLIO: World History

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U.S. History Resource Center

A Citizen's Guide to the Federal Budget

Media Center Activity on European Colonization in the America's

1492: An Ongoing Voyage, an exhibit at the Library of Congress (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html)

Europe Claims America:  The Atlantic Joined (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/e-Eur.claims.Amer/eur.claims.amer.html)

The Caribbean (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/e-Eur.claims.Amer/carib.html)

Middle America (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/e-Eur.claims.Amer/midamer.html)

Conquest in the Andes (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/e-Eur.claims.Amer/andesconq.html)

Europeans Along the South Atlantic (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/e-Eur.claims.Amer/soAtlant.html)

Incursions in North America  (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/e-Eur.claims.Amer/incNoAmer.html)

Epilogue  (www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/f-Epilogue/epilogue.html)

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Jane Hartman
Last Updated Nov. 6, 2008