Textbooks

The Making of the West
This web page is specifically designed to support your textbook and should be your first stop online. Be sure that you take advantage of the chapter summaries and the practice tests. Become very familiar with this site. Registration is free.

Chambers Student Guide
This is the textbook site for another book that is often used for APEH. The site has maps, interactive quizzes, and more.

Mosaic
This web site was designed for use with a school book, but it is useful even if you do not have the text. It gives brief but helpful summaries of most important historical time periods and wars. It also has maps, exercises, and links. Be sure to check out the timeline feature at the bottom of each summary page -- it will give you a list of events that occurred in that year, including many that they did not mention in the summaries themselves.

The College Board

The College Board
This is the place to find answers about the AP program. The APEH course description, samples of free- response questions and answers, the core scoring rubric and an overview of the themes in APEH may be found on the APEH home page

Review Pages

There are a number of teacher sites that have a tremendous amount of useful information. I am only listing my favorites. Many of these pages have additional links you might want to check out. If you find a terrific site please e-mail me the url and I will list it. I consider it "smart studying" to take advantage of work that has already been done and offered to us.

The Absolute Best review page is treasure from Ms. Pojer. Check out every link. This site is a MUST for APEH exam review.
Don't miss the "Giant Review Sheet" that is flagged on the center of the page. Don't forget to take the practice quizzes.

direct link to review pages
Centuries
Economic
Social

Lecture notes for specific eras can be downloaded from Mr. Mercado's site. These are very good.

Dr. Sanderson's web page is great for review. He now has podcasts for most units. Download and listen on your ipods.

Timelines of Modern European History has important dates by event, by country and other goodies.

Europa is a supermarket of interesting links and images.

Geography Quiz is a great interactive map. Test yourself!

General History Resources

The Modern History Sourcebook is the major warehouse for primary documents for modern European history. Many of the primary doc assignments I give you will be found on this site. Bookmark it now.

Eyewitness to History
The god of online primary source sites. This site is easy to navigate and extremely interesting. Each primary source is presented along with an explanation of its historical context, useful images, and a bibliography. You can either browse all of the sources in order of date by using the Index, or you can jump to listings specific to a certain century.

European Union on Line
This is the home page for the EU. There is lots of useful information here. Here is a list of current members.

NATO This site has a wealth of information about NATO including updates on NATO involvement and position of issue. Here is a list of current members including information about their governments.

CIA World Factbook
This is am excellent site for information about specific countries. The map section is very good. You can print out maps in pdf or jpeg format. The best current European map is on this site.

Art History Resources Online
This site is enormous and occasionally confusing, but if you stick with it you will find the entire world of art at your fingertips. The site is a massive database of online resources for the various artistic movements throughout history. Even if you do not venture into the links it has catalogued, take a look at the main page. The table in the center of the page is a marvelous summary of the major art styles and the centuries in which they were popular.

Artchive is my favorite site to find specific works of art.

Famous Trials
Many major historical court trials are covered on this extensive web site. The focus of the site is on American trials, but there are a number of trials listed that are relevant to our course of study, including the trial of Galileo and the Nuremberg Trials.

Current Value of Old Money
If economics is your thing this will be an interesting site for you to explore. There are numerous resources available here. Need to know the exchange rate between Italy and the US in 1913? Curious about the purchasing power of a late medieval artisan? Ever wondered how much a dollar in 1910 would be worth in today's money? Have a burning desire to find out what cheese cost in 1625 in Britain? No problem!

The Best of History Web Sites reviews and rates history sites on the www. This is a great place to start the search for specific topics and concentrate on the best. The junk has already been weeded out for you.

Resources for Specific Time Periods

Lady Jane Grey: Queen for a Day...well really 9 days. Here is an excellent account of the life and short reign of Queen Jane, who is often left off the lists of England's Kings and Queens.

The Holy Roman Empire: Neither Holy nor Roman. This site takes a thorough and comprehensive look at the HRE.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
A great web site about the French Revolution. Essays, images, primary sources, and even music await you here. We can't spend a long time on the French Revolution in class, but you could easily spend days exploring it at this web site. This is an especially good resource for the diary research project I assign in December.

World War I Link Database
This site is simple but incredibly useful. Here you will find an extensive list of links related to World War I,organized by category and clearly labeled. If you are doing research on World War I, start here.

Nite Sheigo WWII diaries of my father-in-law, David A. Bramlett

Writing and Citation Resources

Research and Documentation Online. This is the online edition of the new SPS documentation book for all classes.
You can find the answers to your citation questions here.
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/

Here is a good summary of how to cite sources from the internet such as images, sounds, video clips, etc.
Use this for your citation of images for your web page project.
http://www.tnte.com/mmc/ClassroomCCitations.html#Online%20images

 

 

 

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