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The American Pageant (AP US History) The Americans (US History CP) American Government (American Government)
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General Reference |
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online Webster's Dictionary/Thesaurus
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General Social Science Sites |
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Schools of California Online Resources for Education, a project of the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. Over 5000 websites aligned to California's History/Social Science Curriculum Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - History and Social Studies Social Sciences Virtual Library
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US History Sites |
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National Humanities Center - Toolbox Library: Primary Resources in US History and Literature Compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration and drawn primarily from its nationwide holdings, these documents chronicle United States history from 1776 to 1965. Documents for the Study of American History
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World History Sites |
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Scholiast.org History Index Page
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Geography Sites |
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The National Council for Geographic Education
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Economics Sites |
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The National Council on Economic Education
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Image links |
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Images of American Political History The Commons - Images from the Library of Congress on Flickr
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Advanced Placement links |
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Historyteacher.net - Susan Pojer's Mega APUSH Site
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Free Stuff |
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This is the free program for reading Portable Document Files (PDFs). This free alternative to Adobe Reader opens PDF files, but does so without launching a huge memory-hogging program that constantly triggers updates and downloads. It's better than Adobe Reader. A free suite of Office Programs originally from Sun Microsystems and comparable to Microsoft Office. The suite is comprised of fully functional programs including a word processor, spreadsheet, database, slide presentation, web editor, and a math calculation program. While it may not have every single bell and whistle of the Microsoft program suite, this is no stripped-down version, either. Programs feature much of the look and feel of MS Office products, with interfaces and menus that fairly approximate the more expensive competition, making for a pretty low learning curve requirement. Microsoft Office files can be opened, viewed, and edited in Open Office and saved in Open Office format or back to Microsoft Office format. The ability to save as a PDF file is included free. This is a very good alternative to Microsoft if you're on a budget or you just want to make a statement against corporate price gouging. An award-winning and popular alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Mozilla's answer to Microsoft Outlook email client. And if you want to avoid expensive operating systems altogether, why not try Linux? Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. Free downloads and information at Linux online.
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Free inquiry, skepticism, and rational thinking for the reality-based community |
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On November 13, 2007, the PBS series NOVA presented the documentary "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" about the 2004-2005 controversy over the attempt to introduce "intelligent design theory" into science classrooms in Dover, Pennsylvania. This conflict resulted in the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision by Federal District Court Judge John E. Jones III. After six weeks of testimony Judge Jones ruled that "intelligent design" was not a science and the attempt to introduce it into Dover schools was simply "a pretext... to promote religion in the public school classroom, in violation of the Establishment Clause [of the First Amendment]." For more information about this outstanding documentary, click here.
The full Dover decision by Federal District Court Judge Jones. Predictably, "intelligent design" proponents offered knee-jerk criticism of the ruling, such as that from "Dr." John West of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute, an ID thinktank: "The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea." Judge Jones was appointed by President George W. Bush with a recommendation by conservative ex-Senator Rick Santorum. Jones is a Republican and regular church-goer.
Now the Creationists will have to go back to the drawing board. It appears that their new mantra will be "teach the controversy."
An Index of Creationist Claims with Responses James Randi Educational Foundation The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science Urban Legends references at Snopes.com
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