Web Sites on Civics and History

 

Friedman Home

 

 

American Centuries                                                              http://www.americancenturies.mass.edu

American Federation of Teachers                         http://www.aft.org

American Memory at the Library of Congress     http://memory.loc.gov

American Political Science Association                               http://www.apsanet.org/CENnet/thisconstitution

Bill of Rights Institute                                                          http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org

Center for Civic Education                                                 http://www.civiced.org

Civitas International                                                   http://www.civnet.org

Common Sense by Thomas Paine                                        http://www.ushistory.org/paine/commonsense/index.htm

Dialogue on Freedom                                                         http://www.dialogueonfreedom.com

Discovering Justice                                                            http://www.discoveringjustice.org

“Four Freedoms,” Franklin D. Roosevelt’s speech to Congress, January 6, 1941       http://www.libertynet.org/~edcivic/fdr.html

EDSITEment from the National Endowment for the Humanities         http://edsitement.neh.gov

Foreign Policy Research Institute                                       http://fpri.org

Gettysburg Address                                                             http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/4403.html

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History                  http://www.gilderlehrman.org

History Matters                                                                  http://historymatters.gmu.edu/

The Historical Society                                                       http://www.bu.edu/historic/

John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government                 http://www.liberty1.org/2dtreat.htm

Kids in the House of Representatives                               http://clerkkids.house.gov

K12’s Patriotism Curriculum                                          http://patriot.k12.com/index.html

League of Women Voters                                                 http://lwv.org

Liberty Fund, Inc                                                            http://www.libertyfund.org

Library of Congress                                                       http://www.loc.gov

Massachusetts Council on Economic Education           http://www.economiced.org

Massachusetts Geographic Alliance                http://www.massgeo.org

Massachusetts Studies Project                                       http:// www.msp.umB.edu

Meru Education Foundation                                           http://www.merufoundation.org

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave     http:// www.history.rochester.edu/class/douglass/duglas11.txt

National Archives’ Digital Classroom                                    http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html

National Association of Scholars                                            http://www.nas.org/index.html

National Council for History Education                                 http://www.history.org/nche

National Council for the Social Studies                                  http://www.ncss.org

National Geographic                                                              http://nationalgeographic.com

National History Day                                                               http:// www.nationalhistoryday.org

Restoring America Project                                       http:// www.4america.com

Ronald Reagan’s speech on the Challenger Disaster, January 28, 1986          

                                                                                                  http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/challenger.asp

“Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation”      http://gwpapers.virginiA.edu/civility/transcript.html

Smithsonian Institutions                                                          http://www.si.edu

Teaching American History                                                    http://www.ed.gov/offices/OII/portfolio/history.html

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization         http://www.unesco.org

U.S. History                                                                              http://www.ushistory.org

Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom                                   http://lcweB.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/f0510s.jpg

Virtual Reference Room                                         http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/vrroom

White House Historical Association                      http://www.whitehousehistory.org

We the People from the National Endowment for the Humanities         http://www.wethepeople.gov

World Bank                                                                           http:// www.worldbank.com

 

Appendix E: Massachusetts Museums, Historic Sites, Archives, and Libraries

 

For information about historical museums and sites in Massachusetts, please see the Bay State Historical League’s website at http://www.masshistory.org and its list of members at  http://www.museumsusA.org/sma/MA/default_.asp. The League’s office is located at 185 Lyman Street, Waltham, MA 02452; (781) 899-3920.

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