GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY

A Book In Time
Educators can easily find good books at www.abookintime.com to coordinate with any historical time period.  It is easy to find your desired era and choose your books with this chronological booklist.

Atlapedia Online
Atlapedia Online contains full color physical maps, political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world.

Canada resources
Canada related news, books and regional resources

Geographic.org

Geography Matters
Committed to help you find fun & effective ways to teach
Geography, History and Science.

Geography World

Geology.com
We recently completed (2006)  two collections of online reference maps and Landsat images.  The first is a collection of 250 U.S. state maps which include a raised relief map, elevation map, rivers map, political map and roads/cities map.  These link to our state and city satellite images, waterfalls map, state high points map and more.
http://geology.com/state-map/. The second is a growing collection of over 160 country maps paired with Landsat images.   These have been very popular reference maps for our visitors. http://geology.com/world/

Heroes Of History
Basic facts, vignettes, links and extensive reading lists
promote diverse Heroes of History (including Mother Teresa, George Washington Carver, Florence Nightingale and Black Elk) who all personified worthy values:courage, commitment, learning, perseverance and humility.

History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful
materials for teaching U.S. history.

History/Social Studies For K-12 Teachers

History's Women
A magazine highlighting the extraordinary achievements of women throughout history and recognizing the obstacles they have had to overcome in order to reach their goals.

HyperHistory Online
Over 2000 files covering 3000 years of world history.

Maps That Teach
Interactive and fun, Maps that Teach help students learn basic aspects of geography, so that the information on reference maps becomes useful.

Test your Geography Knowledge
Click on an area of the map to select a quiz

Today in History
Each day, an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress.

US Historical Documents
A Chronology of US Historical Documents from pre-Colonial to present day

World History Archives
Documents to support the study of world history from a working-class and non-Eurocentric perspective.

WWW-VL The World Wide Virtual Library: History