History (or Herstory, whichever you choose)
& Biography. Our cats will help you find fascinating sites.  Just click on the topic of your choice. 

History Sites

The History Place
The History Place provides links to sites about every period in history. Here you will find detailed treatments of historical topics such as, the American Revolution, World War II, Apollo 11, Nazi Germany, and a Holocaust timeline.

 
Ancient World Cultures
This site is actually an essay on why we should study ancient cultures from the University of Evansville.  It has many excellent graphics,so the page takes a long time to load.
The Ancient World Web
The Ancient World Web is anawesome link to tons of sites dealing with history, archaeology, and the ancient world in general.

Anthropology in the News
This site has links to various articles and sites dealing with anthropological news items.
Human Prehistory: An Exhibition
A virtual tour through the search for the origins of humans provides an introduction for young people to both anthropology and archaeology.
Center for Study of Chinese Prehistory
This site provides the evidence found for human evolution in China. It is also a forum to promote research in China.
Early Man
This site indexes human fossil finds by the type of fossil, the location, and alphabetically.
The American Memory Page
The American Memory Page from the Library of Congress contains a number of exhibits pertaining to American history.
Archiving Early America
Look at eighteenth century American through primary sources such as newspapers, maps, magazines, and writings. This web site is searchable, and includes digitized images of black-and-white engravings made from original oil paintings as well as text.
The Revolutionary War: Journey Towards Freedom
Students might understand how it was to be a soldier at the time of the Revolutions after taking an illustrated tour of Valley Forge.  Find this virtual tour in the Infopedia section, along with links to historical documents, biographical profiles, maps, major battles, and colonial-period recipes. A bibliography of resources is available
and links are provided to related sites on the Internet.
Biographies of Historical Persons Related to American History
'From Revolution to Reconstruction,' a WWW project of collective writing, provides more than 80 online biographies of historical persons related to American history, including extensive biographies on John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass, and Geronimo.
National Civil Rights Museum Tour
A chronological look at the history of civil rights in the United States.
Salem Witch Museum--1692
Facts and myths regarding the Salem Witch Trials.
The History Channel Online
This site helps the past come alive.
Holocaust Camps
This site is provided by the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum.  In contains information about the history of the Holocaust (the genocide which the Nazi regime carried out against the Jewish people during World War II) for students, teachers, and the general public.
Japanese American Internment Camps in WWII
This site from the University of Utah presents pictures from Tule and Topaz internment camps.
Japanese American Internment During WWII
The City of San Francisco Museum's page on the Japanese Internment in California presents information on the Manzanar camp.
The Manhattan Project
This site provides a webquest that shows students how and why the Manhattan Project developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
Hiroshima
This site is sponsored by the city of Hiroshima and endeavors to provide accurate information about what the effects of the atomic bomb were on the city during World War II, and to provide a context for worldwide discussion on why such weapons should not be used in the future.
World War II
This site commemorates the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II by putting together links to the best sites on the WWW which cover the history of the war.

Current Events

CNN Interactive
The television news network's online offering of the national and international news of the day.
San Jose Mercury News
The local newspaper's online offering of local, state, national, and international news.  The Mercury Center also allows searching of back issues for a fee.
USA Today
The online version of the national newspaper from the Gannett news syndicate.
New York Times
The online version of the largest U.S. newspaper.

Biography Sites


Biographical Dictionary
This is an impressive online biographical dictionary. It can be searched by name, date, or keyword.
Biographies of Mathematicians
This site contains the short biographies of more than 1,000 mathematicians which can be searched by name or date.

The American Presidency
Grolier's look at American presidents and the presidency is very complete, well-organized, and contains lots of good information.
 Stamp on Black History
Stamp on Black History is a good site for all ages.  It gives the biographies of famous black Americans who appear on postage stamps.
 


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Middle Ages - Europe

Links to Europe in the Middle Ages


Middle Ages Daily Life by History Link 101 
 http://www.historylink101.com/middle_ages_europe/middle_ages_daily_life.htm

Middle Ages  
http://www.teacheroz.com/Middle_Ages.htm

Middle Ages Web Links
http://edtech.suhsd.k12.ca.us/actnow/act/dfickett/medieval/homepage.html

Middle Ages
http://www.tms.riverview.wednet.edu/lrc/middle_ages.htm

Mr. Dowling's Middle Ages Page 
http://www.mrdowling.com/703middleages.html

Middle Ages
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/immanuel/htm/middleages.htm

Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends
http://www.odinscastle.org/odin5.html

THE CAMELOT PROJECT at the UNIVERSITY OF ROCH...
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

The Middle Ages for Kids
http://www.kathimitchell.com/middleages.htm

EAWC: Medieval Europe
http://eawc.evansville.edu/mepage.htm

EyeWitness To The Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/mefrm.htm

The Middle Ages in Europe
http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/middle_ages.html

Enter the Middle Ages
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/middleages/