300 - Social sciences

Minority Issues

• National Geographics interactive site on the Underground Railroad
• National Geographics interactive Underground Railroad site.
• The Smithsonian site for Black History.
• Take a quiz on African-American history
• World African Network and CNN timeline with links.
• The Library of Congress searchable collection of pamphlets on African American History with links to their own timeline and other sources. A good primary source site.
• This well organized site from KRON TV begins with important individuals and events then links to more information.
• Western Michigan University student have created an interesting timeline on the Civil Rights movement.
• Biography list from the Yahoo site
• The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change is a good place to start for many areas of research.

  Immigration

• American Familty Immigration History - mostly for genealogists
  www.ellisisland.org
• Statistical Yearbook from the Immigration and Naturalization Service
  www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/ybpage.htm
• Could you pass the test to become an American citizen

310 - Collections of statistics

• All kinds of statistics from the Federal Government
  http://www.fedstats.gov/

320 - Political Science

• Nova site on bioterrorism
  http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ag1.htm
• The Great American Website is a good guide to the U.S. government
  http://www.uncle-sam.com/
• The official site of the Federal Government
  http://www.firstgov.gov/

330 - Economics

340 - Law

• Information about the United Nations

Constitutional Law

• Although maintained by some unidentified individual in Vermont, this site contains a vast array of information pertaining to the Constitution including related individuals and documents.
• a typed copy of the Constitution and the Amendments
• The Avalon Project from Yale University contains the Constitution and links to legal documents from the 18th to the 21st centuries
• This Constitution site, maintained by the Library of Congress, links to information about the constitution and current legislation before Congress
• The interesting thing about this copy of the Constitution is that it indicates in the text of the original document those sections that were altered by the Amendments and links to that amendment
• This Q & A site from About.com contains a few interesting opinions.
• Here are all the U.S. Constitution links from the Yahoo directory.
• FINDLAW is a search engine designed for lawyers and others interested in the law. This page contains links to various historical legal documents including the Constitution. You can search this site but remember it is designed for lawyers so be prepared for some heavy duty reading.
• A lengthy but interesting history of the creation of the Constitution from the National Archives and Records Administration and a shorter article on the Bill of Rights

Ancient Law

• Hammurabi's code from the ancient history notebook
• Hammurabi's Code of Laws - read the text of this ancient document.
• Early Laws, Law givers, and the Judicial System of Early Athens .
• Ancient History Sourcebook: Roman Law: The Twelve Tables, c. 450 BCE
• For the serious reader, Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 Document is designed to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, and to point out the relation of those ideas to modern thought.

350 - Public Administration and Military Science

• Department of Defense dictionary of military terms

360 - Social Problems

• Tidepool is an online environmental newspaper.
• Homepage of the FBI

370 - Education

• "Blue web'n" guide to all kinds of lessons for teachers
• the busy teachers website at Georgia Tech has lots of useful lesson plans on the web

380 - Commerce & transportation

• Consumer Reports online version
• Use this Postal Service link to find any zip code

390 - Customs & Folklore

• Holidays on the net is a searchable site with many links
• Aesop's Fables
• Modern and traditional versions of Aesop's fables from the UMass art classes