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LINKS PAGE
The sites on the links pages below have been reviwed by Dr. King and are good, credible starting points for research on the Internet. Please keep in mind that I am constantly adding sites to each category. Please also keep in mind that I do not have time to constantly test the links and checkup on each site. If you discover links that do not work, or that links go to sites that you think are pretty bad, please email me so that I can keep my collections of links updated.
Berkeley Web Tutorial This is an excellent site prepared by the UC Berkeley Library. It contains information about how to do reserach on the web, how to conduct efficient searches on the web, how to evaluate websites, and the proper ways to cite electronic sources (if you are citing something for one of my classes, you should always use the "Humanities" citation style, or that ascribed to the Chicago Manuel of Style).
Bowdoin Writing Guides This is an excellent place to begin when thinking about how to research, assemble, and write a research essay. Professor Patrick Rael has a lot of thought, I think, into preparing this very clear and instructive document.
American History Links
Diplomatic History Links
Geography Links
Globalization and Contemporary World Links
History of Florida Links
Latin American Studies Links
Law Links
News Sites
Philosophy Links
World History Links
A Few General Links:
World Wide Virtual Library: History Just take a look, this is pretty amazing!
NM's Creative Impulse This index, created by Nancy B. Mauntz, is also a pretty amazing collection of web resources. It is organized extremely well, and contains links to site on just about any historical topic one can this of. Give it a look! This website apparently no longer exists, but I am leaving the link up with the hope that it will soon return.
Religious Movements Need to know something about world religions, check out this site at the University of Virginia.
Google Scholar Google is still testing this engine, but it has a lot of potential for doing searches for scholarly materials on-line. It is a little cumbersome right now, and does not have the advanced search function enabled yet (thought you can still construct your own boolean searches), but you should still give it a shot.
Google Earth This is just super cool; satellite imagery for just about any place you can think off.
AP US Textbooks
People and A Nation This is the textbook we use for AP US History at RE. This link is to the 6th Edition website, which is good. Click on Norton, 7th Edition for the book we are using this year for AP US History. The "Student Study Guide" for our book is excellent. It is very thorough, and I encourage you especially to use the charts and tables, rather than the terms, in the study guide.
The Enduring Vision is another excellent American history textbook. Its website has tons of activities you can work on, from maps, to quizzes, to "technology in history" information--a lot of really interactive options here.
The Out of Many site accompanies another college level US History textbook. Although the organization of the book is not exactly like that of People and A Nation, the site is excellent and may be useful to you. Each chapter has a page detailing the objectives for the chapter, a multiple choice quiz, short essays, and links to related websites. This is quite a good site!
Nation of Nations accompanies another textbook. This site also has a lot of good points, particularly the interactive review exercieses (with the exception of the fill in the blank exercise, which is not so good).
American Experiment This is an excellent textbook site, especially for review purposes. You can try out the pratice tests if you are looking for ways to review or for guiding questions for your reading--even your reading of our textbook.
Unfinished Nation This is an excellent textbook by one of my favorite historians, Alan Brinkley, so I like the content and the outlines and highlights on the website. Quiz questions are very good here too.
AP World History Textbooks
Traditions and Encounters This is the companion site fot the world history textbook we are currently using in AP World History. It has review exercises that you might find useful, and some other neat components, such as interactive maps and PowerPoint outlines for each of the chapters in the textbook. The link above is to the companion site for the First Edition; click on Bentley, Second Edition for the companion site for the current edition of the book, which we are using in class.
Earth and Its Peoples This is the website which accompanies the textbook I used the past couple of years in AP World Hsitory. It also contains reveiw exercises and web links for further reading.
World Civilizations: The Global Experience I have a few issues with this textbook itself, but Peter Stearns, the authors, is one of the most influential historians of world history, and he is on the AP Test Committee, at a minimum the questions and exercises here might suggest the topics that Stearns emphasizes in his understanding of world history.
The Heritage of World Civilizations Another companion site, this is good for chapter summaries, interactive maps and exerices, and different kinds of review exercies. The multiple choice questions are a little bit simplistic, but this would still be a good place to review.
College Board
The College Board's AP Website contains a lot of information about the AP Program and the AP courses themselves, including course descriptions, test dates, and the relationship between the AP Program and colleges. This is the best place to get generic questions about how AP "works" answered. Click on "Students and Parents" or "Quick Reference" to get to the subject list. This is also the place to learn about, and register for, the SAT and SAT II tests.
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