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History and Social Science Information on the Web

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General Resources:

• American Experience (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex) – Website for the popular PBS show on American history
• Labor and Business History (http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/index.html)
• American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century (http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html) – This site, which was developed by another college library, includes references to books which may or may not be in the Mission College Library. Please check the Mission library catalog to determine whether we own a particular title.
• Twentieth Century Year-by-Year (http://www.infoplease.com/millennium1.html)

The Great Depression (US in the 1930's):

• Surviving the Dust Bowl (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl) – The American midwest during the Great Depression of the 1930's (from American Experience).
• Riding the Rails (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails) – Teenaged hoboes during the Great Depression. (from American Experience)
• Scottsboro (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro) – Civil rights in the 1930's South. (from American Experience)

Primary Source Materials:

• American Memory (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html) – Library of Congress
• Constitution Day (http://edsitement.neh.gov/ConstitutionDay) – Information from the National Endowment for the Humanities on the Constitution and it's history.
• Core Documents in U.S. Democracy (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html) – Current and historical government documents, including links to presidential proclamations and Supreme Court decisions.
• Documents for the Study of American History (http://www.vlib.us/amdocs) – From Christopher Columbus to George W. Bush, important writings and speeches in our country's history.
• Making of America (http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/index.html) – A digital library of scanned books and journal articles from the early years of the U.S.
• The Sixties Project (http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/)
• U.S. Historial Documents (http://www.law.ou.edu/hist) – Documents are organized by date.

Minorities and Civil Rights>:

• Affirmative Action (http://aad.english.ucsb.edu)
• Gateway to African-American History (http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. (http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/)
• Native Americans (http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/)
• Women's Studies Documents (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/)
• Encyclopedia Britannica Profiles: 300 Women Who Changed the World (http://www.britannica.com/women)
• Women in the United States (http://usinfo.state.gov/scv/history_geography_and_population/population_and_diversity/women_in_the_us.html) – U.S. Department of State
• Human Rights Campaign (http://www.hrc.org) – National campaign for gay, lesbian, and bisexual equal rights.
• Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org) – Independent non-governmenal organization monitoring human rights issues worldwide.

 

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