Samoset Middle School

Social Studies Bookmarks

2008 Year in Review

• 2008 Year in Review - MSNBC
  
• Year in Review 2008 - CNN
  
• Year in Review, 2008 - Infoplease

Age of Imperialism

• Age of Imperialism
• American Imperialism and Spanish-American War
• Crucible of Empire - PBS Online
• Featured Document: The Treaty of Kanagawa
• The First World War
• The Monroe Doctrine
• The Panama Canal
• Spanish American War
• "The White Man's Burden": Kipling's Hymn to U.S. Imperialism

American Decades

• 100 Years of New York City
• American Cultural History: The 19th Century
• A Biography of America
• CNN Video Almanac: the 1980s and 1990s
• Fifties Boulevard
• The History Channel
• In the 80s
• In the 90s
• Media History Timeline
• Seventies Almanac
• Year by Year

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

American Revolution
The American Revolution - Important People
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
Women in the American Revolution

ANCIENT CHINESE DYNASTIES

• Ancient China for Kids
• 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

Black History Month Resources

• A Black History Month Celebration - Lii.org
• Audio and Video Black History Clips
• Black History Month - Infoplease
• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• Kids Domain Black History Links
• King Celebration 2005

Civil Rights Movement (1954-1975)

• A New Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Digital Library
  
• Civil Rights Era
• Civil Rights Movement
• Civil Rights Timeline
• Greensboro Sit-Ins
• Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement
• USINFO Photo Gallery

Cold War

• American History
• Digital History
• 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
• A Visual Dictionary of Early American Clothing

Countries of the World

• Countries of the World
• National Geographic Kids: Explore Countries of the World
• Time for Kids: Faraway Places at Your Fingertips
• 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

ELECTION 2016

• 2016 Presidential Election: The Candidates and Where They Stand on the Issues
  
• The Big Issues of the 2016 Presidential Election and Where the Candidates Stand
  
• Election 2016 - TIME For Kids
  
• New York Times: Where the Candidates Stand on 2016's Biggest Issues
  
• PBS NEWSHOUR: What the Candidates Believe
  
• Scholastic News Election 2016

EXPLORATION

• Age of Exploration
  
• Digital History: Exploration and Discovery
  
• Digital History: Exploration: Spanish Discovery of the New World
  
• Why Explorers Explored the World

Great Depression

America in the 1930s: EyeWitness to History.com

An American Exodus: Displacement in the 1930s

The Great Depression

The Great Depression

The Great Depression

Great Depression - Digital History

Looking Back at the Crash of '29

Greek Gods and Goddesses

• Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology
• Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece
• 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

Holidays Around The World

• Chanukah on the Net
  
• Christmas Around the World
  
• Christmas: The Global Celebration
  
• Everything About Kwanzaa
  
• History of the Holidays
  
• Holidays Around the World
  
• Holidays on the Net
  
• Holiday Traditions

Immigration

• Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
• Ellis Island: Interactive Tour
• Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Ethnic and Religious Organizations
• Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Major Ports of Exit and Entry
• History Channel: Ellis Island
• Tenement Museum
• The Peopling of America
• Spartacus Encyclopedia: Immigration
• The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Saccullo's History Page

LONG ISLAND

• Long Island Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sports Commission
• Long Island New York
• Long Island Travel Guide
• Nassau County, Long Island, New York
• Suffolk County Government Long Island New York
• Top Things To Do in Long Island

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

• Fact Monster - Medieval Europe
• Medieval Europe Timeline - Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• Middle Ages for Kids - Medieval Europe - Kidipede
• 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

Reform Movements In American History

• American Cultural History: The 19th Century
• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
• Authentic History Center
• Digital History

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 
• The Impact of the Automobile on the 20th Century
• Life in the 1920s
• PBS: Jazz Biographies 
• The Roaring Twenties: A Historical Snapshot of Life in the 1920s
• Year by Year: 1900-2010

SPRING AND SUMMER HOLIDAYS

• American Holidays
  
• Arbor Day Foundation
  
• Cinco de Mayo
  
• Earth Day: The History of a Movement
  
• 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
  
• O-Bon (Lantern Festival)
  
• Songkran Festival: Thaiways

Supreme Court Cases

• CaseBriefs
  
• Digital Constitution, Amendments and Cases
• FindLaw LawCrawler
• FindLaw for Legal Professionals
• Laws.com - Kids
• LII: Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court Collection
• Marbury v. Madison
• OYEZ U.S. Supreme Court Cases Multimedia
• Streetlaw, Inc. & Supreme Court Historical Society - Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Touro College Law Center

TRUMAN - HERO OR VILLAIN?

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

United States of America

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

United States Currency "Money"

• Bureau of Engraving and Printing
  
• Historical American Currency Exhibit at FRBSF
  
• Know Your Money
  
• The Symbolism of the One Dollar Bill
  
• United States Treasury-Education
  
• United States Treasury-FAQs-Portraits and Designs of Currency

Westward Expansion

     Westward Expansion General Information Web Sites

• The American West
  
• Digital History: Westward Expansion
  
• Eyewitness to the Old West
  
• The Museum of Westward Expansion

     The California Gold Rush Web Sites

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

     The Texas Revolution Web Sites

• Digital History - Texas Revolution
  
• Sam Houston
  
• Texas Revolution
  
• Texas Revolution

     Pioneer Life on the Trails/Life Out West Web Sites

• Library/Thinkquest - The Pioneers
  
• Pioneer Life

     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

• Digital History: World War I
• EyeWitness to World War I
• The First World War
• 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
• Second World War
• The War: A Ken Burns Film
• World War II
• World War II - History.com
• World War II Photos