Social Studies Links

Jefferson High School Library; 901 Wildcat Lane; Delphos, Ohio

General History

• Citizenship Proficiency
• American Memory Collection
• Census Data, 1790-1860
• Historical Detective
• History Central (NEW)
• United States History
• Women's History

Nineteenth Century History

A New Nation...1781-1815

• U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873
• The Constitution of the United States
• Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Documents from the Constitutional Convention
• Magna Carta and Its American Legacy
• Search Historic Documents
  

National Growth and Changes...1815-1850

• Archives of THE WEST
• Donner Online
• Electoral College
• Inventions
• Manifest Destiny
• Pioneering Women in American Memory

Tragic Times...1850-1876

• Abraham Lincoln Online
• American Slave Narratives
• Amistad Case
• Autobiography of Frederick Douglas
• Civil War Center
• Civil War Pictures from the Library of Congress
• Civil War Place
• Exploring Amistad
• Testimony of Fugitive Slaves
• Underground Railroad Interactive Site by National Geographic

Industrial Revolution/Gilded Age...1876-1900

• Alexander Graham Bell's Notebook
• Andrew Carnegie
• Illinois Labor Society (History of American Labor)
• Tenement Living
• Thomas Edison

Twentieth Century History

• Facts and History by Decade (1910, 1920, 1930, etc.)  
• The 1920's
• The Twenties
• The Great Depression
• The Forties : War and Peace
• The Holocaust
• The Fifties : Glory Days
• The Fifties (Pop Culture)
• Welcome to the Fifties (Pop Culture)
• The Sixties (Pop Culture)
• The Seventies (Pop Culture)
• The Presidents (T. Roosevelt thru Reagan)

  Current Events

  • American Journalism Review
  • Cleveland Plain Dealer
  • CNN Interactive
  • Lima News
  • Political Cartoons
  • Time Magazine Daily News Summary
  • USA Today
  • Washington Post

  Economics

• Economic Statistics Briefing Room

  Government and Politics

  • GovSpot
  • Living Ohio Government Series
  • Ohio Government
  • Thomas (Legislative Information)
  • United States House of Representatives
  • The White House

    Sociology

  • Personality Test
  • Social Statistics Briefing Room
  • World Religions

    World History

    • Historical Text Archives