General Hyperlinks
The following websites have information you might find useful. Due to the ever-changing nature of the Internet, Clairmont Press does not guarantee the reliability of these sources.
General Kentucky Websites:
www.kentucky.gov/
Kentucky state government
http://history.ky.gov/
Kentucky Historical Society home page
http://history.ky.gov/Museums/Kentucky_History_Center.htm
Kentucky History Center
http://parks.ky.gov/
Home page for the Kentucky state parks and historic sites
http://tourism.ky.gov/
Kentucky Department of Tourism
www.education.ky.gov/KDE/
Kentucky Department of Education
www.english.eku.edu/SERVICES/KYLIT/
Home page for KYLIT, a site devoted to Kentucky writers
www.kidskonnect.com/Louisiana/LouisianaHome.html
The Kentucky page at the KidsKonnect.com web site, a safe Internet site for kids
www.kycourts.net/Counties/kcoj_Counties.shtm
This Kentucky Court of Justice site provides information on the history of the counties.
www.lrc.state.ky.us/home.htm
Kentucky legislature
www.thinkkentucky.com/kyedc/pdfs/kyfactsbk.pdf
The online Kentucky Facts booklet contains basic information about the state.
Curriculum Resources:
http://rubistar.4teachers.org
This site helps teachers develop and use rubrics.
www.awesomelibrary.org/
An Internet library database sponsored by Evaluation and Development Institute, which includes lesson plans dealing with social studies.
www.marcopolo-education.org/
The web site for Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom Program
Economics Resources:
www.econedlink.org
This web site of the National Council on Economic Education has lesson plans on current events. The Weblinks tab has links to such sites as the Federal Reserve Banks and the Stock Market Game
www.e-connections.org
This web site has a number of economics-related lesson plans.
www.italladdsup.org
This web site helps young people with personal finance. There are five interactive modules – on getting and using a credit card, buying a car, handling a budget, saving and investing, and going to college.
www.themint.org
This web site emphasizes personal financial literacy with an emphasis on “earning, saving, spending, investing, and borrowing.”
General Resources:
http://lcweb.loc.gov
The Library of Congress
http://lii.org
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet
www.biography.com
Web site for the popular PBS series.
www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
The superintendent of documents and the Government Printing Office
www.cnn.com
The CNN site. Other news sites include www.reuters.com, www.msnbc.com/news, www.abcnews.com, www.cbsnews.com, and www.foxnews.com.
www.cr.nps.gov
The National Park Service’s Links to the Past page
www.distinguishedwomen.com
Includes biographies of distinguished women past and present
www.envirolink.org
The Envirolink Network
www.interest.com/top100.html
Links to the one hundred most popular newspapers in the country
www.ipl.org
The Internet Public Library, an online public library of the Internet.
www.pbs.org
Home page for the Public Broadcasting Service.
www.puzzlemaker.com
Allows users to create various types of puzzles.
www.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Institution
www.vote-smart.org
The Vote Smart site
www.zillions.org
The Zillions Education Center is sponsored by Consumer Reports. Its purpose is to teach kids how to evaluate ads and see through the hype. There are lesson plans.
Geography Resources:
members.aol.com/bowermanb/101.html
Geography World website
nationalatlas.gov/about.html
The National Atlas of the United States
www.indo.com/distance
The Distance Calculator gives the distance between two cities and exact latitude and longitude measurements of the two cities.
www.lib.utexas.edu/maps
University of Texas’s huge collection of maps
www.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic
This link will take you out of our website. It will be necessary to retype our domain name to return to our site.
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
The CIA's World Factbook
www.usgs.gov
The U.S. Geological Survey
Government Resources:
bensguide.gpo.gov
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids
thomas.loc.gov
Legislative information on the Internet
www.fedstats.gov
The federal government’s statistical information site.
www.firstgov.gov
A good place to start looking for information on or from the federal government.
www.house.gov
Home page for the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm
Links to current state and local government information.
www.senate.gov
Home page for the U.S. Senate.
www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Links to current state and local government information
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www.whitehouse.gov
Home page for the White House.
History Resources:
docsouth.unc.edu/
Documenting the American South website.
fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
The Historical U.S. Census Data Browser; provides census data for states and counties for the period 1790-1960.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
Home page for the Library of Congress's "American Memory" section
www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
The Best of History Web Sites features sites for prehistory, world history, U.S. history, art history, maps, and general resources.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp
The “Teaching with Historic Places” page of the National Park Service.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
An online U.S. history website. Contains resource guides, an online textbook, encyclopedia, biographies, essays, timelines, and primary sources.
www.earlyamerica.com/
Archiving Early America.
www.historychannel.com
The History Channel
This link will take you out of our website. It will be necessary to retype our domain name to return to our site.
www.ourdocuments.gov/
Contains a list of 100 milestone documents, compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration.
www.sbrowning.com/whowhatwhen/
Provides graphic timelines of periods in history, as well as timelines of the lives of individuals.
www.sohp.org
The Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
www.tntech.edu/history/edocs.html
Contains information on using electronic documents and has links to many historical documents, collections, radio broadcasts, online history books, and more.
www.toptags.com/aama
The Afro-American Almanac, from the slave trade through the civil rights movement to the present.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The Avalon Project at Yale University, documents in law, history, and diplomacy
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