Useful+Links

News & Current Events links there are also others on this page if you scroll down a bit...

The most important site for this course, other than this one, is our textbook site. This site has great practice quizzes for each chapter, as well as primary sources documents to read, essay questions, and internet resources to explore. USE IT!

Also, throughout the course of the year, I encourage you to utilize the links provided below.

**Practice Quizzes** AP US Quizzes AP US Quizzes 2 AP US Quizzes 3 AP US Quizzes 4 AP US History Flashcards Test Prep from Spark Notes - practice test Sporcle History Games

Ultimate History Quiz from History Channel.com

Civil War Student Challenge - Scholarship $ available

**Resources** Brinkley AP Text site AP Central US History site Another AP teacher site - teacher site with tons of PPTs, review sheets, etc PBS AP Central College Board site for US history teachers College Board Breakdown of the 2009 DBQ The Media: A Social, Political, and Corporate Institution National History Day - 8 steps of Research Maps of War American Rhetoric.com - speeches database Top 100 Speeches in American History Landmark Supreme Court Cases Most Important Supreme Court Cases

History Research Links - LOTS of GOOD LINKS
Women's History African-American History

History of the Federal Reserve - timeline


 * Technology Links**
 * TimeToast timelines**

Voicethread

Wallwisher

Pirate Pad

Primary Access

Glogster

Wordle

Tagxedo

Sporcle History Games

Bubbl.us Outlining/Brainstorming

Free Tech for Teachers blog
Howard Zinn on American Imperialism - great video

Punctuation Today
 * Grammar**


 * Interesting**


 * News Links**
 * FOX News **
 * a. Glenn Beck - **
 * b. Bill O'Reilly - or http://www.billoreilly.com/ **
 * c. Sean Hannity - or http://www.hannity.com/ **

Rush Limbaugh - http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/ Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com/ The Economist - http://www.economist.com/ NBC Nightly News - [] Military footage, propaganda films, etc - [] British Broadcasting Corporation - http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - (a favorite of Mr. Green's) Cable Network News - http://www.cnn.com/ Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network - http://cspan.org/ National Public Radio - http://www.npr.org/


 * Basic info on the American Govt & Economy**

White House - [|www.whitehouse.gov] Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov Congress.org - http://congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt (good information about members, demographics, etc.) Presidential Libraries - http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/ CIA Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
 * Government Sites and Information**

**Primary Source Documents** Declaration of Independence - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/ US Constitution - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html Bill of Rights - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html Supreme Court Rulings - http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/

**Presentation Websites** Glogster - http://www.glogster.com/ VoiceThread - http://voicethread.com/#home

**Other Interesting Links** ** Presidential Speeches analyzed for word choice - http://chir.ag/projects/preztag ** ** The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - http://www.thedailyshow.com/ ** ** The Colbert Report- http://www.colbertnation.com/home ** ** The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/ ** ** Cool Song - http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html **

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Another AP teacher site

US History teaching blog

Cool Tools for Schools

Good links for reviewing, practice quizzes, writing tips, etc

Histnotes.com - student created site with outlines of Brinkley's book