Internet Resources by Subject - Social Sciences
- Criminal Justice
- Education
- History
- General History
- Ancient History
- American History
- African American History
- European History
- History of the Holocaust
- Women's History/Women's Studies
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
Criminal Justice:
American Society of Criminology
BJS Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Handgun Control: Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
National Criminal Justice Association
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Partnerships Against Violence Network
Violent Criminal Apprehension Program
American Association of Community Colleges
Annenberg Media Learner.org
From this website, you can view a number of videostreamed telecourses on African history, statistics, American cinema, art of the western world, American history, ESL, the Constitution, biology, Spanish, French, psychology, economics, and many other subjects. Click on the "View Programs" tab, then click on "program" in the first paragraph. You will be asked to register. Then you can go to the alphabetical list of programs for viewing. Click on the brief record for more information about the series. If you see a "VoD" symbol (meaning "video on demand"), you can view the parts of the series online for free.The Educator's Reference Desk
Educational Resources Information Center, a federally-funded national information system on education-related issues.FREE: Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
Hundreds of links to education resources by U.S. government agencies in the areas of
the arts, educational technology, foreign languages, health and safety, language arts,
mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and vocational education.Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Lesson Plans Library (Discovery School.Com)
Hundreds of original lesson plans written by teachers for K-12. Searching is by subject, grade, or both.National Archives Video
This site offers streaming video selections from the National Archives collection. Includes: NASA History of Space Flight Motion Pictures; United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942 - 1945); and Department of the Interior Motion Pictures.New York Times: College Times
Offers access to recent news stories by subject categories as well as presenting articles of particular interest to students and to faculty. Includes classroom guides aimed at faculty who wish to use The Times in the college classroom.U.S. Department of Education: Topics from A to Z
USA Today: Collegiate Program
Developed for the educator, the site presents a "dynamic learning environment with a variety of resources to support newspapers in college classrooms." Offers articles, case studies, and interactive features to encourage students to become involved with the news.Video Placement Worldwide: Free Educational Videos, DVDs, CD-ROMS
Free educational material for high school and college level students for use by classroom teachers and group leaders. Topics include: community service; the Netherlands and Switzerland; Shakespeare (National Endowment for the Arts); and three Smithsonian topics, the invention of the bicycle, the Nobel Prize, and the electric guitar.
General History
The Avalon Project: Yale Law School
Historically important documents dating from the 13th century to the 1990's, including
the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Contract, George Washington's papers, and
major World War II documents.Eyewitness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
First-hand accounts of events in the Ancient World, Medieval times, the American Civil
War, the 18th,19th and 20th centuries, the Old West, and World Wars I & II.Internet Resources in History
Links from the homepage of the History Department of Tennessee Technological University.The Library of Congress: Country Studies
WWW-VL (Virtual Library) History: Central Catalogue
Thousands of links arranged alphabetically by subject and by geographic area.
Ancient History
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: An Introduction to Ancient World Cultures on
the World Wide WebPerseus Project
Digital library on ancient Greece.
American History
American Memory
Primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history from the NationalDigital Library, Library of Congress.American Studies Web: A Guide to American Studies Resources on the Internet
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
A digitized documentary record of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first 20 Congresses of the United States (1774-1829). Materials are from the Law Library of Congress and the site is part of the American Memory Project.ExplorePAhistory.com
Uses the state's extensive historical markers program as a basis to present the rich history of Pennsylvania. You may explore the state's history by region, keyword, or time period.From Revolution to Reconstruction: An HTML-Hypertext on American History
Links to texts of primary documents concerning U.S. history, the majority of which originate from the Colonial era through 1800, though there are a number regarding the Civil War. Also offers essays on topics within American history, biographies of important figures, and an index by president to texts within the website.National Archives Video
This site offers streaming video selections from the National Archives collection. Includes: NASA History of Space Flight Motion Pictures; United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942 - 1945); and Department of the Interior Motion Pictures.NYPL Digital Gallery
A free, online, searchable database of 275,000 photographs and manuscripts from the primary sources and printed rareties in the collections of the NY Public Library. Includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.Presidents of the United States
The Valley of the Shadow Project
Civil War documents for two communities, one in the North and one in the South. Includes newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church records, census documents, and military records.
African American History
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
(special presentation of the Library of Congress exhibition which showcases LC"s incomparable African American collections)Africans in America (PBS)
(companion website to the PBS video series of the same title [in our AV collection at Video 2936] which offers further information and teacher's guide material to enhance the use of the series and website in the classroom)AFRO-American Almanac: Your Internet Resource for African American History
(features biographies, key historical documents, and information on historical events)Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University
(materials related to films by and about African Americans)
European History
History of the Holocaust
The Holocaust History Project
An archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust denial. Documents, such as a Nazi letter referring to "gassing devices," are displayed as photographic images, transcriptions of the German, translations into English, and background information is given. A search engine indexes the entire site.The Jewish Student Online Research Center: The Holocaust
Presents a table of contents for information on numerous topics on the Holocaust. Includes topics such as "Chronology of Jewish Persecution," "Concentration Camps," "Ghettos," "Kristallnacht," and "Resisters, Rescuers, and Bystanders," among many others.Remember.org
Covers the Holocaust in extensive detail. Provides images, eye-witness records and interviews, educational material, a book list, discussion forum, and various articles.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Museum, in Washington, D.C., supports documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. The site includes a range of excellent online exhibitions, such as "The Holocaust in Greece," "Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto," "The Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936," "Dietrich Bonhoeffer," and "The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings," as well as information about the museum and its programs.Women and the Holocaust: New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this site is a scholarly examination of women's experiences during the Holocaust. Lesson plans for middle and high school students, assessment tools, and links to related sources are given for each of 8 topic areas. Also, an essay by Dr. Ellen Friedman, director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, provides an overview of the web project and the examines the importance of women's experiences during the Holocaust.
Women's History/Women's Studies
A Celebration of Women Writers
Provides a comprehensive listing of links to biographical and bibliographical information about women writers, and complete published books written by women. Search by author, time period, country, or ethnicity.Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project Online
(site for the project of the Department of History, Rutgers, to provide online the
papers of women's suffrage leader, Stanton, and reformer, Anthony)Internet Women's History Sourcebook (Internet History Sourcebooks Project)
National Women's History Project
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (offers articles, essays, historic documents, biographies, and web links to accompany the documentary television program, "Not for Ourselves Alone," about these two important pioneers for women's rights. The video of the program in in the AV Library at Video 3182).
Rutgers University Library: Subject Research Guides: Women's Studies
Susan B. Anthony, Defendant
(online image of the personal copy of the proceedings of the trial of American reformer, Anthony, who in 1872 was arrested for voting without the legal right to vote. Part of the online exhibit, "American Treasures of the Library of Congress.")Victorian Women Writers Project
Women's History (Library of Congress: American Memory)
(links to important documents in women's history in the Library's collection)Women's International Center Biography Index
The Women's Resource Project: University of North Carolina
(no longer being updated, but is maintained for archival purposes)
Political Science:
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
A digitized documentary record of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first 20 Congresses of the United States (1774-1829). Materials are from the Law Library of Congress and the site is part of the American Memory Project.Decisions of the Supreme Court
FindLaw
U.S. case law, law codes, law review articles, legal news, links to state and international law.
Psychology:
Sociology:
The Alan Guttmacher Institute
The Institute is a non-profit organization which focuses on reproductive health research,
policy analysis, and public education. The site offers statistics, policy papers, and
publications on the topics of abortion, law and public policy, pregnancy and birth,
prevention and contraception, sexual behavior, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV,
and youth. Also offers online the periodicals: Family Planning Perspectives, The
Guttmacher Report on Public Policy, and International Family Planning Perspectives.Institute of Gerontology (Wayne State University)
