Illinois Learning Standards

Social Science Resources

• Illinois Consumer Education Proficiency Test (ICEPT)
• Illinois Civic Mission of Schools

• Laws pertaining to Youth

  Illinois State Bar Association: Becoming an Adult (for 17 and over)
  Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago: Youth and Society: Rights and Responsibilities (for 17 and under)

  English

  Spanish

• Genocide Links

  The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
  Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
  Yale University - The Cambodian Genocide Program
  Library of Congress – African American History
  Black History
  National Council for the Social Studies
  World History – Genocide
  National Council for the Social Studies – Genocide
  Discoveryschool.Com – Genocide
  History Channel – Genocide: Various
  WorldHistory.Com – Genocide: Various
  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  Committee on Conscience

• Civics/Government

  Center for Civic Education
  Civics Online
  CNN All Politics
  Exploring Humanitarian Law
  Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
  Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
  Illinois Issues – Public Affairs
  Our Documents
  United Nations Association
  Voter Turnout: A Global Study
  Voting and Registration

• Economics/Financial Literacy

  Economics America EconEdLink
  Illinois Department of Professional and Financial Regulation -“Financial Literary 101”
  It All Adds Up
  Jump Start Coalition
  National Council on Economic Education
  National Economics Standards
  The Mint

• General Social Studies

  Africans in America
  California As I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900
  CIA World Fact Book
  Documents from the Continental Congress & the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
  EarthWorks: Digital Explorations of the Ancient Ohio Valley
  Effigy Mounds National Monument
  Eisenhower Home Virtual Tour
  Frank Lloyd Wright
  The Great War (World War I)
  Grants-Kohrs Ranch
  The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association
  LIBERTY! The American Revolution
  A Midwife's Tale, The American Experience
  Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, & Wisconsin
  R. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
  Richard Wright: Black Boy
  Ships and Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
  The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
  This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics
  TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt, The American Experience
  The U.S.-Mexican War
  The West

• Geography

  Geography Lessons and Activities
  Johnson Space Center
  National Council for Geographic Education
  National Geography Standards
  National Geographic
  Project GeoSim
  World Watch Institute
  Population Connection

• History

  American History Time Periods

  Encounter (1492-1600)

  1492: An Ongoing Voyage

  Colonial Period

  Colonial America

  Plimouth Plantation

  Salem Witch Trials

  William Penn

  The American Revolution (1775-1783)

  Battles of the Revolution

  Cowpens National Battlefield

  King George III

  Revolutionary War: A Journey Toward Freedom

  Revolutionary War Timeline

  Creating the Government

  Independence National Historic Park, Philadelphia

  Early Republic Period (1789-1824)

  George Washington's Mount Vernon

  Lewis and Clark

  Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

  War of 1812

  Manifest Destiny, Expansion, and Slavery (1824-1861)

  The Oregon Trail

  John O’Sullivan

  Underground Railroad

  Civil War and Reconstruction

  Civil War Archive

  Civil War Medicine

  Civil War Naval History

  Civil War Women Internet Resources

  Lesson Plan: The Civil War

  Opposing Views on Reconstruction

  Rise & Fall of Jim Crow

  The American Civil War Homepage

  Gilded Age and America as a World Power

  Andrew Carnegie

  Grant Kohrs Ranch

  The Spanish-American War and Theodore Roosevelt

  The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War Home Page

  Progressive Era

  Ellis Island

  The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk

  World War I and the Treaty of Versailles (1914-1919)

  The World War I Document Archive

  The Roaring Twenties

  Biographies of Suffragists

  The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929-1939)

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats

  World War II (1939-1945)

  The Bombing of Hiroshima

  Women in World War II

  World War II

  The Cold War (1945-1991)

  Eisenhower Home Virtual Tower

  The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  The Sixties, Civil Rights, and Vietnam (1960-1973)

  History, Learning & Leadership through the Lens of the Vietnam War

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  The Vietnam War

  The Virtual Wall

  Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

  Vietnam War Bibliography

  The Late 1970s and the 1980s (1974-1989)

  Camp David Accords

  Cultural History of the 1970s

  Cultural History of the 1980s

  The Space Shuttle Challenger

  Timeline of the 1970s

  Timeline of the 1980s

  Watergate

  80’s Big Events

  America in the 1990s (1990-1999)

  Cultural History of the 1990s

  John Glenn's Return to Space

  Persian Gulf War

  America in the 2000s (2000-present)

  American History for 21st Century Citizens

  History of the United States > The 21st Century

  Timeline 21st Century

  21st Century Fact Index

  History

  An Outline of US History

  American Historical Association

  Effigy Mounds National Monument

  From Revolution to Reconstruction

  History Central

  Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

  Illinois History Resource Page

  Illinois State Museum

  Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents

  National Baseball Hall of Fame (Education Program)

  National Standards for History

  The History Channel

  The History Net

  The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

  The United Nations

  United States History

  United States Presidents

  University of Texas U.S. History Maps

  University of Virginia History Resources

  Words and Deeds in American History (Library of Congress)

• U.S. Department of Education sets requirement for Constitution Day and Citizenship Day

• Government Websites

  Kids in the House
  Illinois Government
  Illinois Legislative Research Unit
  Library of Congress
  National Archives NASA History Home Page
  National Park Service Links to the Past
  Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  The White House
  United States Army Center of Military History
  United States Census Bureau
  United States House of Representatives
  United States House Clerk
  United States Naval Historical Center
  United States Senate

• National Council for the Social Studies

• Illinois Council for the Social Studies

Agency General Information
100 N. 1st Street • Springfield, IL 62777 • 866/262-6663 • 217/782-4321 • Directions
100 W. Randolph, Suite 14-300 • Chicago, IL 60601 • 312/814-2220 • Directions
Contact Us | Accessibility | Site Map | Plug-ins Used | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy