General:

The Virtual Blackboard

Fun Brain

CARTS: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students

Directory of Internet Resources for Social Studies

Social Studies Resources for K-12 Teachers

Social Studies Lesson Plans and Links

Awesome Library - Social Studies Lesson Plans

Social Studies Sources

Maps

Children's Literature in Social Studies

Time Zones

Population

Distance

Travel

Pirates

National Geographic Pirates

American History: Mostly information sites with some lesson plans

1492-1600 Encounters:

Discoverers Web

1492: On Ongoing Voyage

Christopher Columbus

1600-1775 Colonial Period:

Jamestown Dig

Virtual Tour of Plymouth Plantation

Colonial USA

William Penn

Salem Witch Trials
 
1775-1783 American Revolution:

Revolutionary War: A Journey Toward Freedom

King George III

1776-1789 Creating the Government:

Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia

Articles of Confederation

1789-1824 Early Republic:

War of 1812

Lewis and Clark

George Washington's Mount Vernon

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

1824-1861 Manifest Destiny, Expansion, and Slavery:

The Donner Party

The Oregon Trail

Underground Railroad

1861-1877 Civil War and Reconstruction:

American Civil War Page

Civil War Archive

Civil War Page

Civil War Medicine

Civil War Naval History

Civil War Women Internet Resources

Opposing Views on Reconstruction

1850 - 1890 Wild Wild West

The American West: Legends

Gunfight at the OK Corral

1877-1900 Populists, Gilded Age and America as a World Power:

The Wizard of Oz - full text of L. Frank Baum's original

Andrew Carnegie

Gilded Page at the College of William and Mary

Anarchy Archives - good stuff on Emma Goldman and others

The Spanish-American War

The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Home Page

1900-1914 Progressive Era:

The U.S. in the Progressive Era

The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

Ellis Island

1914-1919 World War I and the Treaty of Versailles:

World War I - Timeline

World War I - gas warfare

RMS Lusitania

British Propaganda from 1914 - 1915

Lost Poets of the Great War

The Versailles Treaty

1919-1929 The Roaring Twenties:

Prohibition

Women's Suffrage

1929-1939 The Great Depression and the New Deal:

Franklin D Roosevelt Library and Museum

Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats

New Deal Agencies

1939-1945 World War II:

Hyperwar: A Hypertext History of World War II

World War II Timeline 1918 - 1938

World War II Timeline 1918 - 1946

World War II - day by day account from all fronts

World at War 1939 - 1945

Juggernauts of the Second World War

Watch WWII Pilot Training Videos with RealPlayer

Tuskegee Airmen

Soviet Women Pilots in the Great Patriotic War

Women in World War II

The Holocaust

The Bombing of Hiroshima

The Enola Gay & the Atom Bomb - the exhibit that never opened

Japanese Internment - Manzanar

The Afro-American - Baltimore weekly's wartime coverage

Women Come to the Front - coverage from the front

Nuke Pop: post a-bomb pop culture

1945-1991 The Cold War:

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Korean War

Cuban Missile Crisis

1960-1973 The Sixties, Civil Rights, and Vietnam:

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

The Vietnam War

Vietnam War Bibliography

Black Panther Party

Woodstock

1974-1989 The Late 1970s and the 1980s:

Watergate

Camp David Accords

The Space Shuttle Challenger

1990-Present America in the 1990s:

Persian Gulf War

U.S. Involvement in Bosnia
 

World History: This section is still under construction

Internet Resources on World Civilizations

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia

History of Plumbing - Babylonia

ABZU: Regional Index - Mesopotamia

Old Persian Texts Online

Assyro-Babylonian Mythology

Code of Hammurabi

Epic of Gilgamesh (Outline with Bibliography and Links)