Social Science Resources

Illinois Consumer Education Proficiency Test (ICEPT)

Illinois Civic Mission of Schools

Laws pertaining to Youth

• Illinois State Bar Association: Becoming an Adult (for 17 and over)
• Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago: Youth and Society: Rights and Responsibilities (for 17 and under)
  • English
  • Spanish

Genocide Links

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• Yale University - The Cambodian Genocide Program
• Library of Congress; American Memory Project – African American
• Library of Congress – Black History and Slavery
• Black History
• National Council for the Social Studies
• World History – Black History
• National Council for the Social Studies – Genocide
• Discoveryschool.Com – Genocide
• History Channel – Genocide: Various
• WorldHistory.Com – Genocide: Various
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
• National Geographic
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Committee on Conscience

Civics/Government

• Center for Civic Education
• Civics Online
• CNN All Politics
• Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
• Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
• Illinois Issues – Public Affairs
• Our Documents
• United Nations Association
• Voter Turnout: A Global Study
• Voting and Registration

Economics/Financial Literacy

• Economics America EconEdLink
• It All Adds Up
• Jump Start Coalition
• National Council on Economic Education
• National Economics Standards
• Office of Banks and Real Estate “Financial Literary 101”
• The Mint

General Social Studies

• Africans in America
• California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
• CIA World Fact Book
• Documents from the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
• EarthWorks: Digital Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley
• Effigy Mounds National Monument
• Eisenhower Home Virtual Tour
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Great War (World War I)
• Grants-Kohrs Ranch
• The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association
• Journeys to Alaska
• LIBERTY! The American Revolution
• A Midwife's Tale, The American Experience
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, & Wisconsin
• R. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
• Richard Wright: Black Boy
• Ships/Piera, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
• The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
• This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics
• TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, The American Experience
• The U.S.-Mexican War
• The West

Geography

• Geography Lessons and Activities
• Johnson Space Center
• National Council for Geographic Education
• National Geography Standards
• National Geographic
• Project GeoSim
• World Watch Institute
• Population Connection

History

• American History Time Periods
  • Encounter (1492-1600)
    • 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
  • Colonial Period
    • Colonial America
    • Plimouth Plantation
    • Salem Witch Trials
    • William Penn
  • The American Revolution (1775-1783)
    • Battles of the Revolution
    • Cowpens National Battlefield
    • King George III
    • Revolutionary War: A Journey Toward Freedom
    • Revolutionary War Timeline
  • Creating the Government
    • Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia
  • Early Republic Period (1789-1824)
    • George Washington's Mount Vernon
    • Lewis and Clark
    • Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
    • War of 1812
  • Manifest Destiny, Expansion, and Slavery (1824-1861)
    • The Oregon Trail
    • John O’Sullivan
    • Underground Railroad
  • Civil War and Reconstruction
    • Civil War Archive
    • Civil War Medicine
    • Civil War Naval History
    • Civil War Women Internet Resources
    • Lesson Plan: The Civil War
    • Opposing Views on Reconstruction
    • Rise & Fall of Jim Crow
    • The American Civil War Homepage
  • Gilded Age and America as a World Power
    • Andrew Carnegie
    • Grant Kohrs Ranch
    • The Spanish-American War and Theodore Rosevelt
    • The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Home Page
  • Progressive Era
    • Ellis Island
    • The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
  • World War I and the Treaty of Versailles (1914-1919)
    • The World War I Document Archive
  • The Roaring Twenties
    • Biographies of Suffragists
  • The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats
  • World War II (1939-1945)
    • The Bombing of Hiroshima
    • Women in World War II
    • World War II
  • The Cold War (1945-1991)
    • Eisenhower Home Virtual Tower
    • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  • The Sixties, Civil Rights, and Vietnam (1960-1973)
    • History, Learning & Leadership through the Lens of the Vietnam War
    • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • The Vietnam War
    • The Virtual Wall
    • Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
    • Vietnam War Bibliography
  • The Late 1970s and the 1980s (1974-1989)
    • Camp David Accords
    • Cultural History of the 1970’s
    • The Space Shuttle Challenger
    • Timeline of the 1970’s
    • Timeline of the 1980’s
    • Watergate
    • 80’s Big Events
  • America in the 1990s (1990-Present)
    • Cultural History of the 1990’s
    • John Glenn's Return to Space
    • Persian Gulf War
• History
  • An Outline of American History
  • American Historical Association
  • Effigy Mounds National Monument
  • From Revolution to Reconstruction
  • History Central
  • Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
  • Illinois History Resource Page
  • Illinois State Museum
  • Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
  • National Baseball Hall of Fame (Education Program)
  • National Standards for History
  • The History Channel
  • The History Net
  • The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  • The United Nations
  • United States History
  • United States Presidents
  • University of Texas U.S. History Maps
  • University of Virginia History Resources
  • Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)

U.S. Department of Education sets requirement for Constitution Day and Citizenship Day

Government Websites

• Kids in the House
• Illinois Government
• Illinois Legislative Research Unit
• Library of Congress
• National Archives NASA History Home Page
• National Park Service Links to the Past
• Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
• The White House
• United States Army Center of Military History
• United States Census Bureau
• United States House of Representatives
• United States House Clerk
• United States Naval Historical Center
• United States Senate

National Council for the Social Studies

Illinois Council for the Social Studies