Government

The Living Room Candidate. http://www.ammi.org/livingroomcandidate

From the American Museum of the Movie Image. A history of presidential campaign television commercials from 1952 to 200. Election results are available.

Famous Trials. http://www.umkc.edu/famoustrials

Background information, chronology, names of participants, transcripts, and decisions from the world's most famous trails.

Find Law. http://www.findlaw.com

This is a great site for researching codes and cases, including Supreme Court decisions.

FirstGov. http://www.firstgov.gov

The United States government official web portal. Citizens can use this site to find out a wealth of information about the government, including links to all agencies pages, online forms, statistics, and more. This should be the first stop for any research concerning the US government.

Oyez U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia .http://www.oyez.org

Searchers can access much valuable information about the Supreme Court, including multimedia items, from this site. Over 2000 hours of audio is available, along with information in the categories of “On this Day” and “On the Docket.”

Humanities

Fleet Gazelle. http://www.ojo.com

Site dedicated to Greek mythology, Mesoamerican civilizations, and world cultures.

Ancient History and Culture. http://www.fofweb.com  (userid: region11 password: "see librarian for password")

Subscription online database. Covers history of man through 1522 A.D. in the six regions of Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia. Contains biographies, primary sources, images, maps, reference articles, and timelines.

Economics

Ms Teens Invest. http://www.msfinancialsavvy.com/kids_teens_investing/index.html

A site designed specifically to help teens learn about investments, by choosing and tracking stock performance.

Teens and Their Money. http://www.fool.com/teens/teens.htm

A site designed to provide teens with information about investing. Students can learn what it takes to become a millionaire, how to begin investing, and what to expect. Students can also communicate with other teens on matters of investing.

Chemistry

Web Elements. http://www.webelements.com

Students can click on any of the elements in this online periodic table and see a page devoted to each element. Information about each element includes: symbol, atomic number and weight, description, and other information about the element.

ChemiCool Periodic Table. http://www.chemicool.com

Students can click on the elements in the periodic table and get the following information on each element: general, states, energies, oxidation & electrons, appearance and characteristics, reactions, other forms, radius, conductivity and abundance.

Information and resources about chemistry, environment and harzardous materials.

Health

Teens Health. http://www.kidshealth.org

This site, created and maintained by the Nemour Foundation, is a safe, private place for teens to get answers to questions about health. Numerous topics are covered.

Healthfinder. http://www.healthfinder.gov

Sponsored by the US government, this is a site designed to be “your guide to reliable health information.” Provides a wealth of information on numerous topics of interest to teens.

English

The Gutenberg Project. http://promo.net/gp

This site, named after the printer Gutenberg, is the oldest and most complete site on the web for complete texts of works in the public domain (no copyright restrictions). You can search by author, title or browse a list of authors or titles. All texts are downloadable and printable.

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet. http://shakespeare.palomar.edu

This site is an excellent annotated guide to scholarly information about Shakespeare and is the most complete Shakespeare site on the Internet. Students can find texts of plays, criticism, time period history, and more. Numerous links to other Shakespeare sites are included.

Poets’ Corner. www.poets-corner.org

This site contains the text of over 6,700 poems by 780 poets. It is searchable as well as indexed by author, subject and title/first line. It is intended to be the largest and most user-friendly library of poetry.

Internet Public Library Literary Criticism. http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit

Thousands of works of literary criticism are available online (mostly free) from this site. Users can search by keyword, or browse by author, title, or literary time period. For an explanation of literary criticism, see the Pathfinder:http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48496

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. www.bartleby.com/cambridge

This sixteen volume, 11,000 page work is reproduced here completely. Search articles on poetry, drama, fiction and essays.

Literature Resource Center. http://access.gale.com/tlc (Enter Carroll, choose CSH, choose High School, choose Literature Resource Center.)

Subscription online database. Covers more than 122,000 authors. Find overviews, plot summaries, biographies, images, timelines and more.

American History

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. http://loc.gov

The Library of Congress presents this site, “a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.” Collections are organized under broad topics including agriculture, education, geography, performing arts, recreation and sports, among others.

American Women’s History. www.fofweb.com (See librarian for password.)

Subscription online database. Contains biographies, primary source documents, reference articles, images, speeches and maps pertaining to the history of women in the United States.

Subscription online database. Covers more than 500 years of African-American history. Collection contains biographies, timelines, maps, charts and links to excellent related web sites.

Landmark Documents in American History. www.fofweb.com (See librarian for password.)

Subscription online database. Contains a large collection of more than 1,300 primary source documents, each with an explanatory preface.

American Indian History and Culture. www.fofweb.com (See librarian for password.)

Subscription online database. Provides indepth information on Native American history and culture. Contains biographies, maps, timelines, images,

World History

Ancient History and Culture. www.fofweb.com (See librarian for password.)

Subscription online database. Covers history of man through 1522 A.D. in the six regions of Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia. Contains biographies, primary sources, images, maps, reference articles, and timelines.