Social Studies
Social
Studies
[U.
S. -- Immigration- -Civil
Rights Movement- -Labor Studies- -Cesar
Chavez- -California] [World]
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General
Current
Event Resources for Teaching, Teachers
History/Social
Studies Website for K-12 Teachers
Houghton Mifflin's Social Studies Links
National
Council of Social Studies Site Links
National Geographic's Xpeditions
Social
Studies School Service's Links List
Social Studies Lessons
Teachers' Guide for the Professional Cartoonists' Index
Teaching Tolerance
United
States
"Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance."
Online documentary includes educator's manual
The American
Century
Civil War - Selected Photographs
Photos, timelines, links to resources
Congress Link
Information about Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders and the public policies it produces.
Fifty States
Great resource for starting those state reports
Of Kin
and Kith:
The Trials and Triumphs of an African-American Family
Japanese American
National Museum
Living the Legacy 1848-1998 (women)
National Museum of American History: Home
Native American Homepages
The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
Immigration
Angel
Island Home Page
Ellis
Island
Immigration: Stories of Yesterday and Today
Civil Rights Movement
The
Civil Rights Movement
U.S. history lessons from Discovery School
Hidden in Plain Sight: Martin Luther King Junior's Radical Vision
This unit by an Oakland Unified teacher goes beyond
what is most commonly known by the public today.
KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers at Stanford University
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching
Service Learning Projects - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seattle Times: Martin Luther King, Jr.
SNCC 1960-1966
Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sojourn
to the Past: Taking History Into the Future
...we have found some of the best lessons available
on the Civil Rights Movement. You can print these lessons for use in your
classroom now!
We Shall Overcome
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Labor Studies
AFL-CIO
Labor History Links
American Labor History
American Labor Studies Center
...offers a free guide to teaching labor history
and issues for grades K-12
California Labor History
Child Labor: Stolen Dreams
Curriculum of Labor History for Teachers
Illinois Labor History Society shows how to integrate
labor history into effective teaching of U.S. history.
International Labor and Working Class History (ILWCH)
ILWCH is a semiannual publication of Cambridge University
Press affiliated with the Graduate Faculty's Committee on Historical Studies
at the New School University in New York City.
Labor
Arts
Labor Day
Background, curriculum, digital exhibits and more
Labor History Articles
Articles and lesson plans from Illinois Labor History
Society.
Labor in the Schools Committee
The CFT Labor In The Schools Committee was formed
to help educators teach students about the history and current place of
the labor movement in American democracy.
Origins of Labor Day
A PBS News Hour with Jim Leher transcript
Organization of American Historians: Special Issue on Labor History
Samuel
Gompers Papers: Labor History Links
Links to Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Lewis
Hine child labor photos, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn/IWW and more.
UESF Labor Resources
The Labor Resources page on this site has many links
to information on unions, workers' rights, workplace issues and more.
U.S. Labor History Lesson Plans
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Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
California Department of Education: Curriculum And Resources
Chavez
and Farmworker
Online curriculum and resources from San Bernardino
County Office of Education
The
Fight in the Fields -- Behind the Scenes
Audio clips and description of behind-the-scenes
production of PBS' Fight in the Fields
United Farmworkers
UFW's official website
United
Farm Workers: 1965 Grape Boycott
Viva Cesar E. Chavez
News articles, interviews, photos and more from
Cesar E. Chavez Institute for Public Policy
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California
The
Califorinia Gold Rush
California's
Gold Rush Country
California
Gold Rush at Oakland Museum
California
Historical Society
California Labor History
World
Anne Frank Homepage
Ask Asia
Asian educational resource center
Living Africa
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
WORLD magazine: January 1999 @ nationalgeographic.com
Xpeditions @ nationalgeographic.com
