Tools and Resources

Tools

  • Kit software: ABC-CLIO’s American History Online; TimeLiner; World Book Encyclopedia


  • Other: Computers; the Internet; AppleWorks; EdView


  • Optional: A digital camcorder; iMovie; Inspiration; The Writing Trek

Resources

Internet

American Cultural History: The 20th Century
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

American History Archive Project
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/history/aha.html

ABC-CLIO's American History Online
http://www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com
(Activate your subscription at www.abc-clio.com/apple/)

Britannica
http://Britannica.com

Documents for the Study of American History
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

EdView
http://edview.apple.com

Google (search engine)
http://www.google.com

History Matters (for teachers)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

Hitchhiker's Guide to American History
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/guide/guide.html

Internet History Source Book for United States in the Twentieth Century
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook48.html

Internet Women's History Source Book
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html

The Library of Congress: American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html

Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/

Top 100 20th-Century News Stories
http://www.freedomforum.org/newseumnews/1999/2/24topstories.asp

United States History Index
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/