EDWARD LITTLE HIGH SCHOOL
AUBURN, MAINE


LIBRARY-MEDIA CENTER

Social Studies






Ancient History
Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization  (Governments, religions, & writings of the Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, & Aztec Civilizations.)
Ancient Greek World Index  (Culture and history of Ancient Greece with detailed looks at daily life, economy, and religion.)
Collapse: Why do Civilizations Fall?  (Theories on what caused Mesopotamia, Teotihuacan, and Chaco Canyon to collapse.) 


Black History
Harlem, 1900-1940  (Photographs from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.)
Martin Luther King Jr.
National Civil Rights Museum  (A virtual tour of blacks' fight for civil rights.)
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture  (Tour of the historic South, detailed information on the Underground Railroad, and profiles of historical sites and landmarks dedicated to African American leaders.)


Cultures
About Japan  (Japan's culture.)
Ask Asia
The U.S. Census Bureau
Discovering China
Encyclopedia Mythica  (Encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend.)
Kwanzaa  (Holiday celebrated by African-Americans from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1.)
Lonely Planet Online  (Comprehensive cultural and facutal information about countries of the world.)
The Pyramids


Economics
CNN Money  (The latest economic news and stock quotes.)
Econoday  (An economic calendar with links to the most recent market reports.)
Economic Ed Website  (Support & links for teaching economics.)
NASDAQ  (Up-to-date news headlines and get stock quotes.)
New York Stock Exchange  (Real-time stock information, trading day video reports, NYSE overviews, and market articles.)
Quote.com  (Look up stock symbols and quotes.)
Trillion Dollar Bet  (Companion web site to the PBS Nova program that introduces the stock market to newcomers.)
YoungBiz.com   (Business, investing and entrepreneurial ideas for young people.)


Psychology
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association
CG Jung Home Page  (Jung's analytical psychology and culture.)
PsychCrawler  (American Psychological Association search engine.) 


US History
Authentic History Center  (Primary sources from American popular culture.)
19th Century  (Search 19th century cultural history by decade!)
20th Century  (Information about the decades of the 1900's)
American Memory  (A searchable historical collection from the National Digital Library provided by the Library of Congress.)
An Ongoing Voyage: Columbus 1492  (The Library of Congress exhibit about Columbus and the first encounters of American aborigines with European discoverers, conquerors, and colonizers between 1492 to 1600.)
Archiving Early America  (A searchable website into early American history with vast references and links.)
Civil War  (Time line, list of battles, archive of historic places, photographs, and the people involved.)
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Digital History  (Valuable resource on U.S. history: includes textbooks, visual histories, primary sources, audio-visual archives, and reference help.)
The 50 States of the United States  (Concise information about each state.)
Myths of Pearl Harbor
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Native Americans  (Synopsis of Native American history.)
New Deal Network  (Educational guide to the New Deal.)
Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Americans at War   (Exhibit examines how wars have shaped the nation's history and transformed American society.)
U.S. Army Center for Military History
The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral history of 1968  (Interviews and recollections of 1968 with references to the Vietnam War, civil rights, assassinations, and personal experiences.)


Women's History
Distinguished Women of Past and Present  (Brief biographies of women from different time periods, professions, and walks of life who have made positive contributions to society.)
National Women's History Project  (The role of women in the making of historywith links to contemptory women's organizations.)
Places Where Women Made History: A National Register of Historic Places  (Historic places in Massachusetts and New York associated with various aspects of women's history.)
Women & Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000  (Primary source documents related to women and social movements in the U.S. between 1830 & 1930.)
Women Studies/ Women's Issues Resource Sites  (Websites containing resources and information about women's studies and issues.)


World History
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies  (Traveling exhibition of 63 works of contemporary art which "explores the linkages between the Holocaust and creativity." Some of the artists are Holocaust survivors or their descendants.)
The Drop Zone  (WW II intelligence gatherers: oral histories of paratroopers, glidermen, and infantry units.)
Eyewitness to History  (History through the eyes of those who lived it; accounts of events from ancient times to the present.)
The Food Timeline   (Historical period recipes.).
Frontline: Osama Bin Laden  (Investigating Osama Bin Laden, his network and his role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.)
The Great War   (World War I website features a timeline, a recap of the main facts, photographs, and interviews with scholars.)
The History Net  ( "The place where history lives on the Web." Historical information from American & World history.)
The History Place  (Comprehensive historical resource which provides point of view, homework help, and monthly features.)
The History of Costumes  (Paintings and drawings of historical dress from Ancient Egypt through the late 19th century.)
HyperHistory  (3,000 years of world history.)
The Media History Project  (Oral history to print media to computers.)
Middle Ages   (What was it like to live in the Middle Ages?)
World War I Document Archive  (Documentation on the first World War. Categorized by year, memorials, personal reminiscences, biographical, dictionary, and image archive.)
WWI: Trenches on the Web