World and U.S. History

AFRO-Americ@'s Black History Museum This site contains information about the Tuskegee Airman, Jackie Robinson, the Black Panther Party, to the Million Man March.

America Dreams Through the Decades "The United States Congress and Librarian of Congress, Dr. Billington, challenge you to create an exhibit, America Dreams. To create your exhibit you will work in teams assuming a variety of roles to look at the dreams of Americans through a number of perspectives."

American Civil War Homepage "The American Civil War Homepage began as a class project for Information Science 560 at the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences during the Fall 1994 semester. The page is maintained by Dr. George H. Hoemann who, with Mary Myers, is one of the original co-authors. Hoemann is currently the School of Information Sciences' coordinator for distance and continuing education."

American Historical Association : The Professional Organization for All Historians "We've recently redesigned our site to make it more useful to both members and nonmembers alike. Inside you'll find membership information, selected articles from our newsletter Perspectives, information on how the AHA relates to K-12 teaching, a catalog of our publications, and many other items."

American Revolutionary War Web Site "This site is an attempt to comprise a listing of the organizations involved in the hobby of re-enacting the American Revolutionary War within the United States. This site is maintained at Northeastern University's College of Computer Science, Boston, MA."

American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology "From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves."

American Memory: Library of Congress A collection of tens of thousands of photographs, maps, recordings, and documents all relating to the history of the United States.

Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Sites on the World-Wide Web This site contains a large number of links to the authors, culture, arts, and geography of ancient Greece.

Archiving Early America "Our main focus is primary source material from 18th Century America-- all displayed digitally. A unique array of original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to our forebears more than 200 years ago."

ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education (ERIC/ChESS) "One of 16 ERIC Clearinghouses across the United States. Our offices are located at the Social Studies Development Center (SSDC) of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. We serve K-12 teachers, students, parents, administrators, educators, policy makers, researchers, and anyone else interested in the latest information on social studies and the social sciences as they relate to education."

EyeWitness: History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It "EyeWitness recounts history through the words of those who lived it.   It uses diaries, interviews, newspaper reports and other first-hand sources to illuminate some of history's great and some of its more mundane events." 

Historical Text Archive "The HTA provides original material , links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books and is organized by geography/nations and topics. The directories contain subdirectories, so it may be necessary to explore the site to find what one wants. Users are encouraged to supply a URL for a significant site which has not been linked."

History & Social Studies for K-12 Teachers "The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom."

History Channel "Find out just what is playing today on The History Channel, or plan ahead with the weekly listings of The History Channel's programs. Both views can be customized for your time zone. History Channel Classroom provides television programs that middle school, junior high and high school teachers can videotape and keep for up to a year -- along with support materials to help with lesson plans and class activities."

Holocaust Memorial Museum "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust."

HyperHistory Online "HyperHistory presents 3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps."

Internet Medieval Sourcebook "The goal here then is to construct a Internet Medieval Sourcebook from available public domain and copy-permitted texts. [A few short extracts -abiding by the standard 300 word "fair use" rule may be posted.]" A large collection of Medieval texts available on the Internet for teaching medieval history.

Lewis and Clark - PBS Online "On February 28, 1803, President Thomas Jefferson won approval from Congress for a visionary project, an endeavor that would become one of America’s greatest stories of adventure. Twenty-five hundred dollars were appropriated to fund a small expeditionary group, whose mission was to explore the uncharted West. Jefferson called the group the Corps of Discovery." An outstanding site based on the film by Ken Burns.

Look Who's Footing the Bill! This introductory WebQuest challenges student groups to explore the issue of the national debt and then contact their congressional representatives. Part of the process has students using a Budget Simulator and a Debt Clock on the Web.

Martin Luther King, Jr presented by the Seattle Times "Few have had as much impact upon the American consciousness as the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." A very interesting site full of thought provoking information.

National Civil Rights Museum "The National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was tragically assassinated April 4, 1968, is the world's first and only comprehensive overview of the civil rights movement in exhibit form."

Negro Baseball League Online Archive Negro league baseball history with a information of many of the famous players of the league such as Leon Day, "Cool Papa" Bell, Larry Brown, Ray Dandridge, Josh Gibson and many more.

Project Apollo This NASA site provides a large amount of information and links about all the Apollo Missions.

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World "Although most people know that a list exists of the Seven World Wonders, only few can name them." This site lists the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as was originally compiled around the second century BC.

TheHistoryNet--Where History Lives on the Web This site "record well over one million hits from people visiting the site, which now offers nearly 450 feature articles originating from 14 Cowles History Group publications. More than 17,000 are registered to play TheHistoryNet Daily Quiz. TheHistoryNet is linked to by several hundred other Web sites and has been rated among the best sites on the Web by many. We have received more than 6,000 e-mail messages, letters and comments from visitors and, I'm happy to say, the vast majority have been complimentary."

Vietnam War History Page "This page is a link to resources from all perspectives on the Vietnam Conflicts 1945-1975. It is hoped that it will be useful to students in seeing the Conflict from various points of view. The page will attempt to link to all pertinent sites that house information on the war."

World War I: Trenches on the Web "These pages contain information on the people, places, and events that comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history. Entire kingdoms were to vanish in the clash. This is an evolving project. New material is being added on a constant basis."

World and U.S. History Internet Directories

Cultural Studies

African-American Mosaic A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. "This exhibit marks the publication of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. A noteworthy and singular publication, the Mosaic is the first Library-wide resource guide to the institution's African- American collections, covering the nearly 500 years of the black experience in the Western hemisphere."

American Indian Studies Research Institute "Founded in 1985 at Indiana University, the American Indian Studies Research Institute is an interdisciplinary center for research projects relating to American Indians."

Australia's Cultural Network "This website is a public access gateway to Australian cultural organisations, resources, activities and events. It is also an exchange centre for resources, ideas and information where cultural workers and organisations can communicate with each other to improve and develop their use of online services."

Communication Connections "Communication Connections is a menu of web sites dedicated to the study, use, and sheer enjoyment of languages, collected and utilized by faculty and students at Gloucester High School. The Foreign Language Department currently offers French, German, Latin and Spanish at GHS, located in Gloucester County, Virginia, USA."

Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers & Students Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students is "an interactive place for sharing questions and ideas about strengthening relationships between school and community; an online clearinghouse for national and regional resources related to folklore and traditional arts; and it's a site that hosts online educational events, such as interviews with traditional artists and teacher workshops."

CulturalCenter.com List and Source Directory "Welcome to the CulturalCenter.com list and source directory by Elists.com and Touch of Design®. This web page is your gateway to cultural events, related activities and cultural sources and information." This site provides a large number of links to a wide variety of culture centers and resources on the Internet.

Galaxy: World Communities This site is a large listing of links to a wide variety of communities from all over the world.

GlobaLearn "GlobaLearn is a fast-growing, young, and energetic, start-up non-profit company which has developed an award-winning, on-line, educational program. GlobaLearn mounts live expeditions all over the world. Students interact with GlobaLearn's remote expedition teams via our World Wide Web site and, as explorers themselves, meet the people and discover the riches of communities along the expedition routes. In addition to mounting live expeditions, we seek to build partnerships and create products and new programs which enrich our existing program."

Kids Web Japan "Kids Web Japan is a site that introduces Japan to schoolchildren aged between 10 and 14 who live in other countries. To deepen understanding about Japan, we have tried to furnish information with many photographs and graphics."

NativeWeb "Welcome to NativeWeb, a collective project of many people. Our vision embraces ancient teachings and modern technology. Our purpose: to provide a cyber-community for Earth's indigenous peoples."

Negro Baseball League Online Archive Negro league baseball history with a information of many of the famous players of the league such as Leon Day, "Cool Papa" Bell, Larry Brown, Ray Dandridge, Josh Gibson and many more.

Profiles of Some Important 19th Century African Americans Site includes profiles of Alexander Crummell, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Mary Elizabeth Boswer, Nat Turner, Richard Allen, Sojourner Truth and more. The site also includes an Internet African American History Challenge© which is "an interactive quiz that helps you sharpen your knowledge of African American History."

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture maintained by the New York Public Library "The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world."

This Week in North American Indian History "This site lists over 3000 historical events which happened to or affected the indigenous peoples of North America. It also has Tribal name meanings and alternative names, Indian "moon" names, and links to thousands of other sites."

Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies (VICS) "Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies is an independent, New Jersey (USA) based internet forum which aims to stimulate, coordinate, and disseminate research on various topics relevant to the development of Caribbean peoples at home and abroad."

Virtual Library:Regional Studies This site is a directory of Internet resources for cultural studies.

We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident WebQuest "This 3-part online activity is designed to help educators (i.e. new and experienced teachers, principals, counselors, other school leaders) explore the following questions: How do we ensure that all students are given equitable rights and responsibilities within our school community? What principles of democracy are most critical in decisions about classroom and school-wide subject matter and policies? How does the school environment in which one presently works reflect a strong value of democratic principles?"

Web of Culture "The Web of Culture is primarily designed to educate and entertain you on the topic of cross-cultural communications. We are seeking to provide quality content on this topic."

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Cultural Internet Directories

Geography

50 U.S. States and Capitals This site provides an almanac describing many important highlights of each state.

Atlapedia Online "Atlapedia Online contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world."

CIA World Factbook Provides a large amount of information about countries from all over the world. "The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specific requirements."

Color Landform Atlas of the United States This site contains topographical and political maps of all fifty states. There are shaded relief maps, county maps, satellite images, and black and white maps for quicker download.

CoVis GeoSciences Web Site "Participating students study atmospheric and environmental sciences through inquiry-based activities. Using state of the art scientific visualization software, specially modified to be appropriate to a learning environment, students have access to the same research tools and data sets used by leading-edge scientists in the field."

Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers & Students Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students is "an interactive place for sharing questions and ideas about strengthening relationships between school and community; an online clearinghouse for national and regional resources related to folklore and traditional arts; and it's a site that hosts online educational events, such as interviews with traditional artists and teacher workshops."

Flags of the World A comprehensive and well-organized collection of flags from all over the world.

Geographic Learning Site "You'll learn all about the U.S. Department of State: the interesting countries where U.S. Diplomats work; places where the Secretary of State travels; geographic Hot Spots; international affairs and important international issues; and more." To view this site, though, you'll need a special software called "Flash." If you already have "Flash," you can download the software at the site.

Great Globe Gallery This site contains numerous examples of maps and globes of the earth.

How Far Is It? Type in the name of two different cities and this web site will calculate the distance between the two cities, "as the crow flies". You can even have a map created using the Xerox PARC Map Server.

Library of Congress: Maps and Geography "Maps and atlases have been an important part of the collections of the Library of Congress since its beginning in 1800 when a joint congressional committee purchased three maps and an atlas from a London dealer. From this modest beginning, the Library's cartographic holdings have grown during the past two centuries to more than 4,250,000 map sheets, 53,000 atlases, 700,000 microfilm images, 300 globes, 2,000 terrain models, 1,600,000 aerial photographs and remote sensing images, and 1,820 computer files."

MapBlast! "MapBlast! is a free mapping service available from Vicinity Corporation. Using Vicinity's dynamic GeoEnabledtm technology, MapBlast! allows you to create, customize, and save easy-to-read digital maps pinpointing almost any location within the United States."

NationalGeographic.com This site is the Homepage of the National Geographic Society. Provides many great articles and photographs as well as section where you can have your geography questions answered by National Geographic Society experts.

Project GeoSim "Project GeoSim is a joint research project of the Departments of Computer Science and Geography at Virginia Tech. We are creating education modules for introductory geography courses. These modules typically have two parts: A tutorial program to introduce terms and concepts of the module and a simulation program with which to carry out lab exercises."

U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies "A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently contains studies of 85 countries."

U.S. Census Bureau Data Maps This site contains many maps of Census information mapped by region.

U.S. Geological Survey Home Page The U.S. Geological Survey web site contains educational resources for teachers and students interested in geography and cartography.

VolcanoWorld: The Web's Premier Source of Volcano Info This site is supported by NASA and provides a large quantity of educational resources for the study of volcanoes, including a section called "The Volcano of the Week".

What Do You Maps Show? This site contains four lessons created by the U.S. Geological Survey to assist in teaching the concepts of reading maps that are suitable for students in grades 5-8. There are links to other materials appropriate for elementary age students.

Xerox PARC Map Viewer "The Xerox PARC Map Viewer is a World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a geographic database. Selecting on the map image requests a new map zoomed in on the selected point."

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Geography Internet Directories

Online Atlases

American Stock Exchange Find which companies are listed on the AMEX and which are most actively traded each day. Includes a large searchable database of information concerning AMEX.

AmosWorld "We are also proud to announce the opening of the recently constructed AmosWorld Reading Room highlighting growing number of on-line economic books available in AmosWorld. These are full length books, presented in a user-friendly HTML format." Also provides a large dictionary of economic terms.

Biz/ed "Biz/ed is an Internet service catering for the needs of students, teachers and lecturers working in the broad fields of economics and business. Supported by education and industry, Biz/ed draws on a wide range of expertise to not only point to quality educational sites but to host primary materials, most notably case studies, work sheets and substantial datasets not found elsewhere on the Internet."

Currency Converter "Ok, this is easy. Just put the amount of dollars/dineros/marks/whatever you have in the box at the left. Then, choose the currencies you want to convert in the other two boxes: the one you have in the middle box, and the one you want on the right. Then, just hit the "Perform" button, and...voila! Instant currency conversion!"

Department of the Treasury: The Learning Vault "Where you can learn all about the history of the Treasury Department, its role in the Federal government, and its mission to serve you."

Dismal Scientist A large collection of macro and regional economic data and articles.

EcEdWeb "The purpose of EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website, is to provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels. In EcEdWeb, you will find teaching resources for economics teachers from the K-12 level to the college/university level, plus links to particularly useful web sites for economics information and data for teachers and students."

Federal Reserve of Minneapolis: Economic Education Offers educational and lesson resources, online economic quiz, links to other sites, and much more.

FINWeb "FINWeb is a financial economics web site managed by James R. Garven, Ph.D. The primary objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics."

Foundation for Teaching Economics "The Foundation for Teaching Economics (FTE) is a nonprofit organization providing leadership in economic education to educators and to young people selected for their leadership potential. The mission of FTE is to introduce young individuals, selected for their leadership potential, to an economic way of thinking about national and international issues, and to promote excellence in economic education by helping economics teachers become more effective educators."

History of Money from Ancient Times to Present Day "This site contains a chronology, written by Glyn and Roy Davies, and a collection of essays written by Roy Davies on various themes using information based on the book on monetary history with the same title."

Mining Co. Guide to Economics The goal of this site is to "help to clarify the "hot" economic topics and policy questions, as well as to provide links to helpful data and analysis resources on the web."

Mortgage Calculator by Money Magazine

National Budget Simulation "This simple simulation should give you a better feel of the trade-offs which citizens and policy makers will need to make to balance the budget. The National Budget Simulation is a project of UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research and was created by Anders Schneiderman and Nathan Newman."

National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) "The premier source of teacher training and materials used to instill an understanding of economic principles for grades kindergarten through twelve."

SBA Comprehensive Business Links "Our aim is to give you the best and most comprehensive gateway to the rest of the world with business related information. There are many out there on the net who claim to have the most and the best. We don't claim that; we just try to keep adding to the point that there will be at least one item on this Hotlist that will be of interest or assistance to any person that visits us."

U.S. Census Bureau Data Maps This site contains many maps of Census information mapped by region.

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Economic Internet Directories

 U.S. Government and Washington D.C. Resources

Congress.org "This site allows Internet users to access a complete and reliable directory of information about the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate."

Federal Web Locator "The Federal Web Locator is a service provided by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy and is intended to be the one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web. This list is maintained to bring the cyber citizen to the federal government's doorstep."

FedWorld "The goal of NTIS FedWorld is to provide a one-stop location for the public to locate, order and have delivered to them, U.S. Government information." This site allows you to search for documents related to U.S. Customs, Recent U.S. Government Scientific and Technical Information, Supreme Court Decisions, EPA, U.S. Army Publications, Tax Forms, and much more.

GovBot: Database of Government Websites The CIIR GovBot has gathered over 625,000 web pages from U.S. Government and Military sites around the country.

Library of Congress An outstanding and extensive historical resource of the United States for all ages.

Mr. Smith E-Mails Washington and The Media "Let lawmakers know what is on your mind by sending e-mail to members of the current United States Congress as well as the President and Vice President. This site also provides a graphical interface to let you send a "Letter to the Editor" to a variety of publications."

National Archives and Records Administration "The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records. The Digital Classroom provides ideas, programs, and publications for the teacher."

National Park Service: The Learning Place "The Learning Place, your one place for finding all the education and interpretation related materials on ParkNet. We hope that the tools and resources we provide below are useful and exciting for all our visitors, especially those interested in teaching about America's natural and cultural heritage through the National Parks."

State and Local Government on the Net "The State and Local Government on the Net pages offer a frequently updated directory of links to government sponsored and controlled resources on the Internet."

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet  This site provides up to date information on bills before Congress. "Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World-Wide-Web-based system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress."

US Superintendent of Documents: GPO Access "GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government."

Indexes and Directories for Government Internet Resources

Current Events

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