IB Information

Unfortunately, the IB website doesn't seem to have much to help students, but you can try! http://www.ibo.org

American Pageant Help

Chapter outlines and notes:

http://apusnotes.nfshost.com/outline/

http://www.course-notes.org/ - This site has some accuracy and clarity problems. Overall, though, it's well done and directly connected to The American Pageant, for which it has detailed chapter outlines.

http://www.apnotes.net/ - This site uses a more recent edition of the text, so the chapter numbers don't match, you have to look at the title.

Online interactive chapter quizzes:

http://college.hmco.com/history/us/bailey/american_pageant/11e/students/ace/index.html

U.S. History

http://www.besthistorysites.net/ - Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. BOHWS contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more throughout its pages.

http://www.polytechnic.org/faculty/gfeldmeth/ushistory.html - An AP teacher's resource for his students. conatinas some very informative charts and outlines.

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_nash_ap_6/0,7361,590973-,00.html - The sutdent website for "The American People" textbook. Contains quizzes on U.S. History, although you'll have to figure out the right chapter.

http://www.u-s-history.com - Presented by an online travel service, it has brief articles explaining a wide variety of U.S. history terms. Though it is a commerical website and not comprehensive, the accuracy of the articles I have looked at indicate that the information is reliable.

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/history/toc.htm - A nice topical outline of U.S. history provided by the U.S. Department of State. Always be wary of your sources - this one, as an official government source, is "sanitized". In other words, it fails to mention controversy over events that might cast the government or its agencies in a bad light.

http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/ - Historical statistics, 1790-1960 from the census bureau.

Writing

http://hist.ucalgary.ca/essay/Handbook.htm - "A Short Guide to Writing History Essays" - a very good source for help with the Historical Investigation and Extended Essay.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html - How to write a thesis statement. Check out the other topics in the left column

http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/research_essays.htm#question - The basics of selecting and narrowing a topic and writing a RESEARCH QUESTION.

www.nutsandboltsguide.com - Very informative site - check out the Top Ten Mistakes.

owl.english.purdue.edu - Purdue University's online writing lab for its students.

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/ - A guide to writing papers in MLA format. It also has very good sections on the process of doing research (but skip the "Getting Started" page.) LINK FIXED 10/28/05

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/legacylib/mlahcc.html - MLA examples from Honolulu Community College.

http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html - In-depth - an EXCELLENT resource by the University of Richmond. (Wasn't connecting on 9/6/2002.)