Jericho Middle School Library Social Studies Web Site

General Topics

 General Resources

• Picturing America and Picturing America Award Recipients
• The National Archives Experience: Digital Vaults
• History Channel
• Nationalgeographic.com (Adventure, Maps, Travel)
• Discoverers Web
• The History Net: Where History Lives on the Web
• The History Place: The Past into the Future
• eHistory
• Encyclopedia Smithsonian
• HyperHistory Online
• American and British History Resources on the Net
• American Memory from the Library of Congress
• Welcome to the White House
• Information Please: On - Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, Atlas, & Almanac Reference
• Getty Images (you can search for over 40 million images in history from this site)
• Place the State - Geography Game (Do you know where all the states are?)
• Presidential Libraries Podcast (from the National Archives)

Dates and Time

• This Day in History (The History Channel's Time Machine)
• Any Day Today - in - History Page (of Scope Systems)
• The National Archive

Biographies

• Biographical Dictionary (includes over 18,000 people from ancient times to present)
• Biographies of U.S. Presidents
• Congressional Biographical Directory: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present

News and Periodicals Pages (recommended links from from JMS Website)

• Suffolk Historic Newspapers
• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 Online (full text articles searchable by key word, date, or subject).
• Hudson River Valley Heritage
• CNN Interactive
• CNN World News
• USA Toda

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Questions? E-mail your librarians Mrs. Minikel and/or Mrs. Kearon.