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along with links to historical documents, biographical profiles, maps,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.