Additional Resources

AP European History

World Civilizations

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a great resource to further explore the people we learn about in class. Not simple reading, but you can trust its accuracy.

A collection of World History teaching links from Sara Tucker of Washington State University. If you need it, it's probably linked here.

U.S. History

General:

• Could you pass the naturalization exam? I can. Try out the naturalization self test at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.

Primary Documents:

• Our Documents includes the 100 most important "milestone" documents from teh history of the United States, and an explanation of why they chose these particular documents.
• The University of Michigan has almost anything a historian could need. This link takes you straight to their government index.
• The Library of Congress has a huge number of resources, especially primary documents. Note that this link is to their teacher portal.

Maps & Stats:

• Historic Maps in the K-12 Classroom. Includes a large number of maps intended for classroom use. Includes some world maps, but emphasis on U.S. historical maps.
  The U.S. Census has an excellent page for education.

U.S. Government Information:

General/Local/Involvement

• iCivics has almost everything you need to know about the government. This website was created and is maintained by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (or at least someone who works for her). Play games to learn about your rights!
• The Center for Civic Education, homepage for Representative Democracy in America and Project Citizen.
• DemocracyKids.org - sure, it's for kids that are smaller than you, but so are popsicles, and you like those, right? This site explains the impct of the government. It includes a great interactive cartoon that explains how government influences many different aspects of our lives. Requires the Shockwave player (it's already installed on your computer for most of you).
• The Utah Elections Office. Includes everything you need to know to be a responsible voter (or even a registered voter, for that matter).

  Congress/Legislatures

• The Center on Congress website, by the Center of Congress at Indiana University, includes just about everything you could ever want to know about Congress. It even includes an online game about Congress (take your avatar through the halls of Congress), and a googolplex of video.
• The National Conference of State Legislators website is where state legislators go for information on state politics. Great way to know what's going on across the country.

  Supreme Court

• The U.S. Supreme Court's official web page. Includes recent decisions.
• Exploring Constitutional Conflicts. Short sheets escribing things like Supreme Court cases (many have study guides included).
• The Supreme Court PBS series homepage. Includes activities, information, and video.

  Executive Branch

• The official web page of the President of the United States.

Indigenous Resources (American Indians; Native Americans):

• Native American Ethnobotany - Describes the ways Indigenous Americans used various plants. From the University of Michigan - Dearborn.
• An article on Bear Hunter, Shoshone leader.

General Historical Information

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• Oral Tradition, the journal that focuses on, you guessed it, oral history. Even their archives are online.

Tours:

• The information for the self-guided tour of Brigham City.
  

Music:

• What could be better than calm, peaceful Classical music? Free classical music! From Classic Cat.
• Historical, Traditional Sheet Music for Piano - Free
• Recordings of various works on classical guitar, by Jon Sayles. He's not a professional, but I really enjoy listening to him. Check him out to hear some of the songs we talk about in class.

Timelines:

• Timelines.tv is a great resource for documentary video, organized by timeline.
• The Timeline Index gives a timeline with links to short, great descriptions.  Go to their main page or visit the European history section directly.

Surname Origins/Meanings:

• The best sites are these:  Behind the Name (for first names, but since many first names derive from last names, it still works for surnames), The Internet Surname Database, and House of Names.  If you can't find it there, try doing a search for yourlastname +"surname meaning".

General Guides

• The Utah Education Network's portal for their various/sundry resources. Naturally, I have the social studies page selected.
• It's not important to you, and I wish it wasn't important to me. The substitute web page.