Samoset Middle School

Social Studies Bookmarks

Age of Imperialism

• Age of Imperialism
• Crucible of Empire - PBS Online
• Featured Document: The Treaty of Kanagawa
• The First World War
• The Monroe Doctrine
• The Panama Canal
• Spanish American War
  
  

American Decades

• 100 Years of New York City
  
• In the 80s
• In the 90s
  
• Year by Year

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• American Revolution
•  Battles of the American Revolution
•  Biography: American Revolution
•  Biographies: Revolutionary War
•  Ducksters - American Revolution
•  Liberty! Chronicle of the Revolution
•  People of the American Revolution
•  Revolutionary War
  

ANCIENT CHINESE DYNASTIES

• Ancient China for Kids - Mr. Donn
• Ancient Chinese Dynasties

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS

• Ancient Egypt Online
• The Ancient Egypt Site
• Egypt's Golden Empire
• Egyptians

Ancient Rome

• A History of Ancient Rome
• Ancient Rome for Kids and Teachers
  
• History: Ancient Rome for Kids
• Odyssey Online: Rome
• Roman Clothing
• Social Studies for Kids: Ancient Rome

Civil Rights Movement (1954-1975)

• A New Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Digital Library
  
• Civil Rights Era
• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Timeline
  
• Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement
  

Cold War

• American History
• Cold War History
• Digital History
• Office of the Historian

Colonial America

• 13 Original US Colonies
• 13 Originals: Founding the American Colonies
• 18th-Century Trades Sampler
• Amusements in Colonial New England
• Colonial America
• Colonial Hall: Biographies of America's Founding Fathers
• The Original 13 Colonies
• An Outline of American History - The Colonial Period
• Social Studies for Kids: Colonial Times
• Social Studies for Kids: The Thirteen American Colonies
  

Countries of the World

• Countries of the World
  
• World Atlas
• The World Factbook

CULTURE OF THE 1960s

• The 1960s: American Pop Culture History
• 5 Surprising Things that 1960s TV Changed
• Art Cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
• Biography.com
• IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities
• Mexico 1968 Summer Olympics
• MLB.com: The Official Site of Major League Baseball
• MTV: Music, TV Shows, Celebrity News
• NBA.com: The Official Site of the National Basketball Association
• NFL.com: The Official Site of the National Football League
• What Happened in the 1960s
• Year by Year

EXPLORATION

• Age of Exploration
  
• Digital History: Exploration and Discovery
  

Great Depression

• America in the 1930s: EyeWitness to History.com
• An American Exodus: Displacement in the 1930s
• The Great Depression
  
• The Great Depression
  
• Great Depression - Digital History
  
• Looking Back at the Crash of '29

Greek Mythology

• Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology
• Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece
• Greek Mythology - Ancient History Encyclopedia
• Greek Mythology - History
• Theoi Project Guide to Gods, Spirits and Monsters of Greek Mythology

History

• Digital History
  
• The History Place
  
• The History Place - The Declaration of Independence
  
• U.S. History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium

Immigration

• Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
• Ellis Island: Interactive Tour
  
• Tenement Museum
• The Peopling of America
  
• The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

 LONG ISLAND

• Long Island Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sports Commission
• Long Island New York
• Long Island Travel Guide
  
• Top Things To Do in Long Island

MEDIEVAL EUROPE - MIDDLE AGES 500-1500 A.D.

• Fact Monster - Medieval Europe
  
• Middle Ages - History.com
• The Middle Ages - Social Studies for Kids

NOBEL PRIZE

• Nobel Prize: The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

OLYMPICS

• The Ancient Olympics
• The Olympics
• The Olympic Games
• Research Starters: the Olympics

 POMPEII

• Pompeii
• Pompeii: Portents of Disaster

Primary Source Information

• Authentic History Center
• American Rhetoric
• Our Documents - A National Initiative on American History, Civics, and Service

 Roaring Twenties

• Digital History: Overview of the 1920s
• Eyewitness to History: America in the 1920s
• Featured Document: The 19th Amendment
• Film History of the 1920s 
• History of Jazz: Black History in America
•  Life in the 1920s
• PBS: Jazz Biographies 
• The Roaring Twenties: A Historical Snapshot of Life in the 1920s
• What is Jazz: National Museum of American History
• Year by Year: 1900-2010

SPRING AND SUMMER HOLIDAYS

• American Holidays
  
• Arbor Day Foundation
  
• Cinco de Mayo
  
• Holi - Holi Day, Holi 2013, Holi Festival India
  
• July 4th - History.com
  
• Maslenitsa
  
• Maslenitsa: Encyclopedia of Russian History
  
• May Day - Infoplease.com
  
• Obon Festival - Bon
  

Supreme Court Cases

• Landmark Cases
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Supreme Court Landmarks 

TRUMAN - HERO OR VILLAIN?

• National Archives - Heroes & Villains - Truman & the Atomic Bomb

United States of America

• 50 States
  
• Stately Knowledge
• U.S. States

 Westward Expansion

     Westward Expansion General Information Web Sites

• Eyewitness to the Old West
  

     The California Gold Rush Web Sites

• Eyewitness Accounts of the Gold Rush
  
• Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
  
• Gold Rush Timeline

     The Texas Revolution Web Sites

• Sam Houston
  
• Texas Revolution 

     The Alamo Web Sites

• PBS Remember the Alamo
  
• How Stuff Works - The Alamo

     The Mexican Cession Web Sites

• The Mexican War
  
• Social Studies for Kids - The Mexican American War

World War I

• EyeWitness to World War I
  
• The Great War
• The History Place: World War I
• The World War I Document Archive
• World War I: Fact Monster.com
• World War I: Trenches on the Web

World War II

• EyeWitness to World War Two
• The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
• The History Place
  
• The War: A Ken Burns Film
• World War II
• World War II - History.com
• World War II Photos