ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This article from the U.S. Department of Labor is a well written article titled Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource contains a wealth of information regarding Aunt Molly Jackson and Harry Sims. By using both biographies and songs, the site provides information on how unions and communities reacted to changing economies, with regards to coal mining....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Strange Fruit, presented by PBS, explores the history and legacy of a song unique in the annals of American music. Best-known from Billie Holiday's haunting 1939 rendition, the song "Strange Fruit" is a harrowing portrayal of the lynching of a black man in the American South....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource is for both teachers and students to help them learn about the experiences of the Great Depression through the lives of diverse peoples of California using primary source images. Although the images are from California all photos were taken by Dorothea Lange and can give students visual thoughts to supplement images for the vivid...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Voice of America News provides a resource entitled African American Soldiers in World War II Helped Pave Way for Integration of US Military. This resource has both a text version and a mini-documentary version of the information about how WWII heroes proved that integrating the military would be effective....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource is part of an extensive website that focuses on the history of Germany. There are a lot of "textfiles" and maps on this site, starting with the Napoleonic period, and continuing through the Nazi period, the Cold War, and into Modern Germany....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Serving as an encyclopedic entry provided by the History Channel, this source provides a concise entry for the League of Nations. Describing the League of Nations as an 'International organization formed after World War I to solve international disputes by arbitration', students could use this source as a tool to gain important background knowledge on the...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The site, The German Weimar Republic: Why Did Democracy Fail?, is an e-product of the Constitutional Rights Foundation. The site is directly correlated to those benchmarks and indicators that deal with the transition from World War I to World War II....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: From Social Explorer, the voluminous data of the 2000 U.S Census (back to 1940) is creatively made accessible in a very user-friendly format. The home-page is easy to navigate as an easy-to-read data map of the USA emerges....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The site is a useful one for students and clearly labels the case into sections and keeps each one brief. Enough content and factual information is given to the reader to make an informed decision....