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Infoplease: This Date in History
ScopeSystems:
Any Day in History
Famous
Birthdays
History Channel: This Day in History
HyperHistory Online -
Over 2000 files covering 3000 years of world history.
EyeWitness to
History -
Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present.
History through the eyes of those who lived it
Historical
Text Archive -
High quality articles, books, essays,
documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a
broad range of historical subjects.
The History
Net -
World history, American history, and information on major wars. Features
Picture of the Day and Today in History.
The History
Place -
This site has historical information on many topics, including photos
and audio clips.
Kidipede:
History for Kids -
Europe, Asia and Africa before 1500 AD.
Newsmuseum -
From the world's first interactive museum of news, keep up with events
through front pages from throughout the U.S. and 47 countries and
discover the history of the newspaper as you explore this virtual
museum.
PBS History
-
Features American history, world history, history on TV and biographies.
Those
were the Days, Today in History -
A look back at what happened on selected days in history.
Today in History
-
Archival film and photos as well as a different historical fact
everyday.
Holocaust
top
Anne Frank
-
Information on the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, her
diaries, and images.
Remember the
Holocaust -
Images, resources, and interviews with Holocaust
survivors.
The Simon
Wiesenthal Center Online -
Provides access the photographs, documents and artifacts of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance Archives about the Holocaust.
United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum -
Information on the Holocaust presented by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, DC.
Holocaust
Survivor Oral History Archive -
University of Michigan's Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
American History
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The
American Civil War Homepage -
Maps, photos, graphics, and essays
about battles, campaigns, people and states before, during, and after
the Civil War, compiled by Dr. George Hoemann of the University of
Tennessee-Nashville.
American Memory from the Library of Congress -
The Historical
Collections of the National Digital Library.
Birth of a New Nation and Formation of a New Government
Civil
War: United States Colored Troops -
Links and research information
about African-American soldiers during the Civil War.
Civil War
Women: Primary Sources on the Internet -
Actual diaries, letters,
and other first-person materials covering women during the Civil War.
From Duke University Special Collections Librarian Ginny Daley.
Historic Jamestown -
Investigate the first English settlement on North America, Jamestown.
History
Matters -
From the American Social History Project/Center for Media
and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for
History and New Media at George Mason University with a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Industrial Revolution
The
Making of America -
From U of M, this is a digital collection of
over 8,000 books and 50,000 articles dealing with American Social
History from the 1850s through 1870s.
Native Americans
Our Nation
Begins to Grow and Expand
Pioneers and Westward Expansion
Today in History -
Profiles a different
historical event each day.
Twentieth Century
U.S. Government and Governmental Agencies
Maps/Countries/States/Cities
top
American Fact Finder -
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau is displayed
on various thematic maps.
American
Memory Library of Congress Maps: 1544-1996 -
Maps held by the Library
of Congress - divided into categories such as discovery & exploration,
military battles, transportation and communication.
CIA
World Factbook -
2005 edition has printable politacal and physical
maps for each country.
Cities and
Countries Around the World
Country Reports
-
This site pulls information about countries from sources such as the CIA
Factbook
and presents them in a concise, easily readable format.
Earth from Space
-
Site with NASA photos of the earth taken by astronauts in space.
Flags of
the USA and World
Maps
Map Skills
Merriam-Webster's Atlas -
Maps of U.S. states and foreign countries
National
Geographic's Map Machine -
Find many kinds of maps as well as country
profiles.
Perry-Casteneda Map Collection -
5000 on-line maps of historic and
current places. From the University of Texas