These reviewed Web sites grouped by subject reflect library research topics derived from pre-research collaboration between teachers and librarians.  If you would like sites added to this collection,  please contact the librarian.

Every effort is taken to assure that sites listed here are reliable sources of information useful to secondary educators and students. However, the content of any third-party site is not the responsibility of the McNeil High Library or its staff. If you notice a link that is no longer active or that takes you to a location other than what it should, please contact the librarian.

America's Career InfoNet
Career Voyages
High School Graduate
Make a Decision
Vocational Information Center

Colleges & Scholarships

Get-Recruited.com
Guaranteed Scholarships
College Board
College Net
College Sports Connect
Go College
High School Graduate
Make a Decision
Next Student: Student Loans and Federal Loan Consolidation

Economics
Consumer Price Index
FedStats
http://govbudget.com/front/
http://epi.org/
http://www.faireconomy.org/
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#Econ

Engineering
"Amusement Park Physics" from Annenberg/CPB
"Building Big" from PBS
"Engineers" from the Occupational Outlook Handbook
National Engineers Week
Sightseer's Guide to Engineering

Geography
Atlapedia Online's Country Index
CIA World Factbook
CountryWatch
The Economist.com
Infoplease Countries of the World
Middle East & Jewish Studies at Columbia University
Nation Master
UT’s  Perry-CastaÃneda Library Map Collection
VisitEurope.com

Government

Atlapedia Online's Country Index
CIA World Fact Book
Contacting the US Congress
Electoral Vote Predictor
GPO Access
GovBudget.com
Infoplease Countries of the World
Legislative information from the Library of Congress
The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
The US House of Representatives
The US Senate
The White House
Track the 110th US Congress
U.S. Government RSS Library

270 to Win

Government Contacts

Center for American Women in Politics
Elected Officials from Yahoo News
GovEngine.com: the Premiere Federal, State & Local Government Site on the Internet
U.S. Senate
http://lib.utexas.edu/maps/
The Official Homepage of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
United States House of Representatives - 107th Congress
Legislative information from the Library of Congress
Contacting Lloyd Doggett
Texas State Senate: Information, News, and Events
The Texas State Senate: Members
Texas House of Representatives
Williamson County Government
City of Austin

US Census Bureau

Health

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp
NIDA for Teens: The Science Behind Drug Abuse
NutritionData's Nutrition Facts Calorie Counter
How Dieting Works

History

American Journeys
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
Ellis Island
Eyewitness to History
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
History of China
The Encyclopedia of World History
Illustrated History of the Roman Empire
The Library of Congress American Memory:
Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Ansel Adam's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Over the Top - An Interactive Adventure of the First World War
Presidents of the United States
http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/
Primary Research.Org
Teaching With Documents from the National Archives

United Nations Country at a Glance

Literature

American History Timeline
American Memory from the Library of Congress
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
C-SPAN American Writers II
Fact Monster's More Timelines
Famous Poets
Fullbooks

Nobel Prize for Literature

The Elements of Style
HistoryChannel.com
History Timelines . . . The History Beat
HyperHistory Online
100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English
Timeline of British History
http://wiredforbooks.org/

Poetry Archive

Poetry Foundation

Representative Poetry Online

Bibliomania

American Rhetoric

Library Thing

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Medical References

Aging
Alternative Health News Online
ClinicalTrials.gov
Consumer Drug Info
HealthAtoZ : The source for health and medicine
Healthcare Research and Quality
Healthfinder® - guide to reliable health information
Medical Dictionary
MedlinePlus
Mental Help Net
National Cancer Institute: Patients, Public and Mass Media
National Library of Medicine-PubMed
National Women's Health Information Center
Office of Minority Health Resource Center
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration 
Travelers' Health from the CDC

Music

Essentials of Music

Mythology
Godchecker: Your Guide to the Gods!
Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Greek Mythology Today
Mythography

Encyclopedia Mythica

Reference

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
College Opportunities On-Line
Conversions
Farmer's Almanac
Galaxy: Reference
Google Scholar
Information Please: Homework Center
Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac Reference
IPL Ready Reference Collection
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Puzzlemaker - Discovery Channel School
Refdesk.com
This day in history
U.S. Financial Literacy and Educational Commission
Yahoo! Reference
District recommended websites

Create a graph

Science

BioEd Online
The Book of Phyz:
Community Science Action Guide
Earth Image of the Day
Exploratorium for the origins of the universe, matter, and life itself.
FirstScience.com
Franklin Institute's Educational Hotlists
Hyperphysics at Georgia State
Science Learning Network

Encyclopedia of Life

US Geological Survey

Science.gov

Back to Top of Page

Search
411.com / people-places-phones
answers.com
About.com - Human Guides. Human Interests. Expert guidance from hundreds of Guides
Ask Jeeves!
Clusty *NEW*
Dogpile
Exploring Google's Hidden Features
FAST Search: All the Web, All the Time
Infomine
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Lycos: Your Personal Internet Guide
MetaCrawler
WebCrawler

Shakespeare

Shakespeare in Quarto: View the British Library's Digital Copies On Line

Speech

Online Speech Bank from American Rhetoric

Supreme Court

Cornell University (U. S. Supreme Court Cases)
FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions
Library of Congress' Legislative Site
Oyez - Supreme Court Multimedia
PBS Supreme Court site
Supreme Court (U. S.) on the Web
Supreme Court Decisions -- 1937-1975 (from the GPO)
Supreme Court of the United States (opinions)
Supreme Court of the United States (very recent cases)
Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research

Media/Theatre

Encyclopedia Britannica Presents Shakespeare and The Globe: Then and Now
Renaissance Town
Shakespeare's Globe
The Encyclopedia of Television
TheatreHistory.com
Broadway 101: The History of the Great White Way
Playbill
Theatre History on the Web
Oscar G. Brockett's History of the Theatre
Performing Arts Links from the Burcardo Library and Theatre Collection
Theatre History from the Tupelo Community Theatre
The History of the Globe Theatre
Wild Wonderful World of Theatre History
Musicals101.com
History of the Theatre from Tapestry of Grace (.pdf)
Theatre Resources from Artslynx International Arts Resources
History of Theatre from Toni Sant
Theatre History from Cezar Del Valle

Weather

The Weather Channel
National Weather Service
AccuWeather
Tornado Project Online
Lightning & Atmospheric Electricity Research at the GHCC
National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center
SpaceWeather

Women in History

Flapper Fashion
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Love, Marriage, Romance & Women In Medieval & Celtic Culture
The 1920s: Postwar Society and Culture - Change and Adjustment
Phenomenal Women - Women of the Century
Rosie the Riveter and other Women World War II Heroes
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: Women and World War II
What Happened to Rosie?
Women in History from Killeen Harker Heights
Women in History from Maurice River Township School
Women in the Middle Ages
Women in the 1920s: Not a Person?
Women in the Renaissance
Women's History in America Presented by Women's International Center
Women's History Then & Now - Women in Education
Women's Liberation in the 1920s
Women's Rights in America

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