The Internet: Fact or Fiction:  Website Evaluation Strategies

 

Sites for Discussion and Exploration

 

I.  Sites for Discussion:

  1. THOMAS - http://thomas.loc.gov/ or http://www.congress.gov/
  2. The Congressional Network - www.congress.net
  3. GOV. - www.congress.com
  4. Congress.org by Capitol Advantage - www.congress.org
  5. The Center on Congress at Indiana University - http://www.centeroncongress.org/

 

II.  Sites for Exploration:

A.  Civil War

1.      Gettysburg National Military Park - http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/index.htm

2.      CivilWar.com – http://www.civilwar.com/

3.      Shotgun’s Home of the American Civil War - http://www.civilwarhome.com/

4.      American Civil War - http://americancivilwar.com/

5.      United States Civil War - http://www.us-civilwar.com/

6.      The Civil War Preservation Trust - http://www.civilwar.org/

7.      American Civil War from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

8.      Selected Civil War Photographs, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

9.      The Valley of the Shadow:  Two Communities in the American Civil War - http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

10.  The Civil War Home Page - http://www.civil-war.net/

11.  Crisis at Fort Sumter - http://www.tulane.edu/~sumter/

 

B.  Dinosaurs

1.      Barney at PBS - http://pbskids.org/barney/index.htm

2.      The Dinosauria - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html

3.      Dinosauria On-line - http://www.dinosauria.com/

4.      Dinosaur! National Monument - http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/dino/overview.html

5.      Jason’s Dinosaur Site - http://members.aol.com/Ermine/index.html

 

III.  Take a Second Look:

  1. Dihydrogen Monoxide - http://www.dhmo.org/
  2. The ecoEnquirer - http://www.ecoenquirer.com
  3. ConSource - http://www.consource.org
  4. the Onion - http://www.theonion.com/
  5. Global Warming - http://www.globalwarming.org/
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  A True Historical Examination - http://www.martinlutherking.org
  7. Urban Legend Reference Pages - http://www.snopes.com/
  8. Easy Whois - http://www.easywhois.com/ or http://www.easy-whois.com/