Social Studies Online Resources

Geography Resources – General

• National Geographic: Geography

• Geography.com (ESRI)

• Sporcle.com: geography games –  (I tried one out! Fun!)

• Brainpop.com: geography games

• Enchantedlearning.com: geography games

• Census.gov: geography

• USGS.gov

• British Museum: Mesopotamia

• British Museum: Ancient Egypt

• British Museum: Ancient China

• British Museum: Ancient Greece

• British Museum: Ancient Civilizations

• Reddit.com: geography  (a reddit feed, so it’s a bit of a grab bag.)

• Coolmath-games.com: geography games

• BBC.co.uk: Bitesize: Geography

• ScienceDaily.com: Geography News

• Infoplease.com: Homework Center: Geography

• Theguardian.com: Geography

• NCES.ed.gov: NAEP: Geography Assessment

• GeoOlympiad.org

 

History -- General guides, indexes, lists, and links for history resources

• H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online)

  • Home page

  • Review Project

  • Voice of the Shuttle –  U of California-Santa Barbara

  • World Wide Web-Virtual Library:  History

  • World Wide Web –Virtual Library History Central Catalogue

  • History Guide [Gottingen State and University Library]

  • History listings at Internet Public Library

  • Scholars’ Guide to WWW – Richard Jensen

  • Best of History Web Sites

 

History -- Organizations

• American Historical Association

  • Home page

  • Perspectives on History – electronic newsmagazine

  • The Art of History – compilation of articles from “Art of History” column in Perspectives on History since December 2009

  • National Coalition for History

  • National History Center

• Organization of American Historians

• National Center for History in the Schools

• Oral History Association

• American Studies Association

• Southern Historical Association

• American Association for State and Local History

• Center for Southern Folklore

• Phi Alpha Theta (history honor society)

  • National office

 

History JSTOR

Full-text back issues of many scholarly historical journals (and those in many other scholarly disciplines as well) are available through JSTOR. JSTOR’s agreement with the journals generally allows the service to provide full-text articles except for the five most recent years.

 

History -- Other resources

• Encyclopedia of World History, 6th edition. [Peter Stearns and others]

• Digital Librarian links for history [Margaret Vail Anderson]

• History Guide [Göttingen State and University Library]

• The History Guide [Steven Kreis]

• Directory of History Journals [American Historical Association]

• The History Channel

• The History Net

• History News Service [H-Net]

• History News Network [Center for History and New Media]

• Mapping History [University of Oregon]

• Archives [World Wide Web-Virtual Library]

• World Wide Web Virtual Library in History: Electronic Texts

• Internet Archive of Texts and Documents [Hanover College History Department]

• Internet History Sourcebooks Project [Paul Halsall/Fordham University]

• Historical Text Archive [Don Mabry]

• Popular songs in American history [Lesley Nelson-Burns]

• National History Day

 

History -- What happened today in history?

• A long list of today’s historical events [Scope Systems]

• On this Day [New York Times]

• This Day in History [History Channel]

• Those Were the Days [440 International]

• This Day in History [InfoPlease]

• This Day in History [Excite]

• A short list of today’s historical events [Craig Copi]

• Can’t wait? Get tomorrow’s historical events today [Craig Copi]

 

History – Local and Arkansas

• Faulkner County Museum

• Faulkner County History

• Faulkner County Historical Society

• Geneology Trails: Faulkner County

• Encyclopedia of Arkansas

• UCA Archives: Faulkner County

• Crestlawn Memorial Park Census

• Faulkner County historical record

• UCA Archives: FCHS Photograph Collection –

• Have Roots Will Travel Pinterest Boards (geneology)

• Arkansas Encyclopedia of History and Culture

• FranaWiki: Little Rock Renaissance (UCA Honors College project)

• Coalition of Historical Trekkers

• FranaWiki: Faulkner County

• Arkansas.com History & Heritage

• Arkansas History Commission

• Infoplease.com: Arkansas

• Arkansas SOS: Arkansas History

• FamilySearch.org: Arkansas History

• Historic Arkansas Museum

• Arkansas Digital Ark-ives

• Fayetteville History

• Department of Arkansas Heritage

• LittleRock.com: History

• EurekaSprings.com: History

• HotSprings.com: History

• UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture

• MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History

• Arkansas Records Catalog

• Arkansas Historical Association

• Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: History of

• Arkansas Studies Institute

• Arkansas Heritage: Trail of Tears

• Walton Arts Center: Arkansas History through the Arts

 

History -- Citing electronic information in history papers

• A Bluebook Guide for Law Students [Suffolk University Law School]

 

Political Science Resources – General

• Atlantic article

• Science mag article

• Political science fiction movies

• American Political Science Association

• Study.com: What is political science?

• National Science Foundation (NSF): Political Science program

• The Guardian: Political Science section

• NYU.edu: “Dialectical Marxism, What is political science? What should it be?” by Bertell Ollman

• ScienceDaily: Political Science news (can be set up as RSS Feed)

• International Political Science Association

• Winthrop University, Political Science (excellent description of poli sci)

• Encyclopedia Britannica: political science entry (not sure if this entry will be full-text for you or not)

• European Political Science Association

• British Journal of Political Science (current journal articles can be accessed; back issue articles may or may not be available)

• Southern Political Science Association