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Current Events

  • CNNfyi.com - Age appropriate news stories from CNN. Thematic organization of feature stories, quick quizzes and trivia questions, and daily updates to student and teacher materials are just a few of the site's convenient features.
  • 1st Headlines - This site includes links to individual stories in most major newspapers and network news webistes.  You can also browse by topic.
  • Then New York Times Learning Connection - News Summaries, Weblinks, "On This Day in History, "Talk to a Reporter," etc. Be sure to play the crossword puzzle!
  • Homework Center-Social Issues - This is the site to find both sides of important social issues. It includes links to more than 190 sites, grouped by topic--usually identifying the side taken on the issue. The topics are as diverse as assisted suicide, animal rights, prayer in schools, and school violence. Part of the Multnomah County (Oregon) Library Homework Center website.
  • CNN Election Watch - Select a region of the world, and then pick the country--this site will give you everything you need to know: the type of government, the candidates, the population, and the election results. Information provided by the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
  • USA Today - Daily news, weather, and sports.
  • Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War:  (It's Hobson-Approved, folks.) A very interactive website that gives you a "passport" to experience the real-life stories of 15 teenagers, now living in the U.S., who have survived war in seven war zones. These stories tell of loss, hope, fear, strength and despair—and most of all, resilience. (Requires the latest Flash Player)

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Geography

 

Countries and Regions
  • GeoSense - Just for fun, sign on to this terrific geography game site.  No ads. No fees. Test your knowledge of world geography alone--or against another online player.
  • Lonely Planet - A terrific site maintained by a company that publishes travel guides. Country Profiles include up-to-date clickable maps, lots of photographs and statistics, and current information on History, Economy, Culture, Events, Attractions, Activities, etc.
  • The CIA World Factbook - Lots of information on countries of the world.
  • Aneki.com: Country Information - Regional and World Rankings - Looking for ranked lists of the "richest" countries, the "most populous" countries, the "cleanest" counties, etc?  This site gives you rankings galore, with one click--as well as basic information on each country.
  • World Facts, Population & Statistics - If you want world population information, start here.
  • GeoHive: Global Statistics - Population statistics sorted according to regions, countries, provinces and cities--as well as economic factors and historic data. Don't miss the section called Global Data.
  • CensusScope - If you want United States population information, start here. Easy-to-use, detailed information with lots of charts, graphs, and maps.
  • Energy Information Administration - Information on all forms of energy--you'll find statistics on reserves, usage, and future trends.
  • CNN Election Watch - Select a region of the world, and then pick the country--this site will give you everything you need to know: the type of government, the candidates, the population, and the election results. Information provided by the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
  • Country Studies/Area Handbooks - Published by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, the country studies describe a foreign country or group of countries, with information on history, geography, and economic, social, and national security systems. Searchable and browsable. Seventy-one volumes in the series now online.
  • The World Bank Group Countries and Regions - This site provides a clickable map or a searchable list which lead you to information fact sheets on all the developing countries of the world.
  • AsianNet - Good site for information on the countries of Asia.
  • Glacier - Take a virtual visit to the continent of Antarctica.
  • RiverResource - Links to information about rivers in general and about specific rivers and canals.
States
Cities
  • USA City Link -  A comprehensive listing of states and cities offering information on travel, tourism, and relocation. Detailed city guides as well as official and independent city and state websites.
  • Online City Guide: Your Link to America - Current information for over 1700 cities throughout the United States.
Maps
  • MSN Maps & Directions - This site works like MapQuest, but creates a slightly different map format.  (It used to be MapBlast, but now it's part of the Microsoft Empire.)
  • GeoSense - Just for fun, sign on to this terrific geography game site.  No ads. No fees. Test your knowledge of world geography alone--or against another online player.
  • Distance Calculator - If you need to how far it is from any two major locations in the world, just fill in the blanks on this website, and you'll get an immediate answer--in miles as the crows flies.
  • Surface Distance Between Two Points of Latitude and Longitude - Enter two global coordinates and this website will give you the crow's-flight distance between the two. You can also find the distances between most large cities in the world--quickly.
  • Topozone - Over 60,000 USGS topographic maps, searchable by place name
  • Outline Maps - If what you need is a blank map, ready for labeling, this is the site for you.
  • National Geographic Map Machine - Political and physical maps of the countries of the world. There are also photographs of the earth from weather satellites.
  • National Geographic Society - This web site was developed by the National Geograhic Society, and contains stories from both past and present magazine issues. Other valuable items at this site are different cultural studies maps, physical terrain maps and aWorld Atlas.
  • Historic Atlas of the Twentieth Century - Collection of interactive and static maps on themes such as war, cities, infant mortality, systems of government, and other topics.
  • OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource - Includes interactive and static maps on topics in European, North African, Middle Eastern, and North American history. The interactive maps require the Shockwave plugin. (The site includes links to and instructions for configuring Shockwave.) It's worth the effort of configuring Shockwave to view interactive maps on topics such as the spread of slavery in North America and the journeys of Lewis and Clark.
  • Color Landform Atlas of the United States - Atlas of the United States that highlights different landforms. Invaluable for the study of region. Be patient. Because they have such rich graphics, the maps take a while to load.
  • Maps and References - Maps of countries, states, and cities plus interactive maps and java enhanced maps.
  • USGS Web Site - This site was developed and is maintained by the United States Geological Survey.  The site includes a variety of resources including maps, natural disaster information, population charts, and information on environmental concerns.
  • Perry - Castenada (PCL) Map Collection - Big collection of state and country maps from the University of Texas.
  • City Maps - Maps of the cities of the world.
Flags
  • World Flag Database - Good flag collection, and it shows those little details of flags that are so hard to see.
  • Flags of All Countries - This seems to be the most complete collection flags. These images cannot be downloaded with Netscape.
Natural Disasters
Development
  • 6 Billion Human Beings - It's Nucci-approved, folks.  An interactive exhibit from the Natural History Museum in Paris, France.  Discover what the term "Population Explosion" really means.
  • The World Bank Group Countries and Regions - This site provides a clickable map or a searchable list which lead you to information fact sheets on all the developing countries of the world.
  • Geography World (Population)- A high school teacher in Pennsylvania gives you links to every imaginable source of information regarding the impact of population on developing countries, including animated maps, interactive games, etc. (Just part of the HUGE Geography World site)
  • U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) - It's Nucci-approved, folks.  Search by country or by issue.
  • The Spire Project: Country Profiles - This site pulls together reports from various other agency websites. Choose from general headings such as Health Reports, Travel, War and Justice, or Economic Profiles.  Then select your country of interest from the alphabetical list.

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  • Findlaw - ability to search by topic or case; offers outstanding annotations of the Constitution.
  • Cornell University Law School – Cornell site can be searched by cases, both current and historic, and topic; includes federal and state case law.
  • United States Supreme Court Site
  • The Washington Post– great source for international and national news, On Politics page offers superb federal page in which you can view current Supreme Court docket and happenings federal government.
  • The Los Angeles Times – Offers nation international news; politics page has good political sites link.
  • The New York Times – Political pages also offers coverage of campaigns and polls
  • The USA Today - News page has coverage of world, states, and Washington DC ; with link to local and state newspapers.
  • Library of Congress site offers legislative information including current legislation and committees.
  • American Civil Liberties Union site for constitutional issues and current events.
  • National Review – Conservative site for current issues.
  • Common Cause – Government watchdog site for current issues.
  • First Amendment Center - First Amendment website offers news, articles and commentary.
  • First Amendment Cyber Tribune intended as resource for anyone concerned with First Amendment issues.
  • Close Up Foundations link to documents and civic sites.
  • Constitution Society site for research of constitutional principals.
  • Constitutional Rights Foundation links page for current events and constitutional issues.
  • The U.S. Constitution Online – Covers current as well as historical events and documents, including the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and Philadelphia Convention.
  • Government


            (from theUniversity of Virginia Center for Politics)
    • A Guide to Campaign Ad Types - It's de Lemos-approved, folks.  Part of  the University of Virginia Center for Politics, this website gives samples of eight typical campaign ads, using Quicktime Movies of actual advertisements--from "Mudslinging" to "Cardstacking," and "Plain Folks" to "Bandwagon."
    • EASE History Campaign Ads - An interactive website created by Michigan State University where video clips of historical presidential campaign ads are entry points to learn about campaign issues and their historical context, as well as the persuasive techniques and strategies that are part of political campaigns.
    • AOL Presidential Match 2004 - Can't decide which candidate to vote for?  Answer a step-by-step questionnaire which matches your views on the issues with the positions taken by all the presidential candidates.  This site will then give you the best match for your vote, and rank the remaining candidates accordingly.

    We the People

    United States Government
    The President
    • National Portrait Gallery Hall of Presidents - Includes online portraits, brief bios, and information about the individual portraits.
    • The American Presidency - Do you have to do a report on a president? This is the place to go. Information from three different Grolier Encyclopedias, sound bites from presidential speeches, and results from all presidential elections.
    • The Hall of Presidents - A picture of each president, and a short biography. If you click on the small picture of the president, you can see a much larger version of the picture.
    • The White House - Take a tour of the President's home.
    • The Presidential Elections: 1860-1912 - It's Dumas-Approved, folks.  Created by Harper's Weekly magazine, this website features poticial cartoons, historical context, campaign overviews, biographical sketches, and a review of each era's major issues
    Heads of State in all Countries of the World
    • Rulers - listing of current and past rulers of all the countries of the world.
    • CNN Election Watch - Select a region of the world, and then pick the country--this site will give you everything you need to know: the type of government, the candidates, the population, and the election results. Information provided by the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
    Other Government Information

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    Economics

    • The Stock Market Game - Here's the login site if your Economics Class is playing the Stock Market Game!
    • New York Stock Exchange - Keep an eye on your portfolio with their Quick Quote Lookup, plus regular news releases on the Market.
    • The NASDAQ Stock Market - It's the world's largest electronic stock market, heavy on technology-related companies. Check up on your portfolio here.
    • Hoovers Online: The Business Information Authority - A user-friendly database of 12 million companies, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises. This is the place to scout out the competition for your favorite company.
    • MyStocks Stock Market Game - It's Coolman-Approved, folks.  An interactive game that uses real stock and mutual fund delayed quotes.
    • The Lemonade Stand - Learn supply and demand by playing an online game.
    • Consumer Financial Literacy - A personal finance curriculum developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta that links to the best tools and resources on the web. Don't miss the calculators in the Instructor Tools section. The units include Goal Setting, Budgeting, Spending & Credit, and Saving & Investing. Online quizzes, a print midterm and final test are included.
    • Edustock - An educational web page designed to teach what the stock market is, and how it can work for you. It includes tutorials on the stock market and how to pick good stocks. It also provides information on a select group of companies to help you start your research into what stock is going to make your fortune. Last of all, it provides a free 20-minute-delayed Stock Market simulation on the World Wide Web.
    • National Council on Economic Education - American students know very little about economics and money management. The NCEE provides materials for K-12 educators.
    • Current Value of Old Money - A hotlist created by a science librarian at the University of Exeter shows you where to find sources to compare inflation and  costs of living for various periods in history.  Ancient Rome, Spain, and Colonial America are some of the periods featured.
    • World Bank - "PovertyNet provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction".
    • Salvation Army - a national mission organization that helped over 33 million people in 2004
    • Habitat for Humanity International - "seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action".
    • Denver Rescue Mission - local mission to help the poor in our area
    • US Census - link to information about poverty in the U.S.

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    United States History

     

    Online Timeline Creators
    • Time Line Tool - Although the interface is a little clunky, this site lets you include an unlimited number of events.
    • Time Line Maker - It's clean and it's simple, but it limits you to six (6) events on a horizontal time line, or nine (9) events on a vertical time line.
    General Information
    • Best of History Web Sites - A user-friendly link list that you help you find a good web site for any period in world history, from the beginning of time to the present.
    • Essays in History - Online version of the journal from the history department at the University of Virginia.
    • History Channel - Features online exhibits, hundreds of famous speeches (using Real Audio),  history hot links, games and other information, including This Day in History.
    • Eyewitness - Provides short, illustrated essays on historical events with perspectives from folks who were actually there.
    • OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource - Includes interactive and static maps on topics in European, North African, Middle Eastern, and North American history. Using the Shockwave plugin, you'll be able to view interactive maps on topics such as the spread of slavery in North America and the journeys of Lewis and Clark.
    • Historic Atlas of the Twentieth Century - Collection of interactive and static maps on themes such as war, cities, infant mortality, systems of government, and other topics.
    • The Presidential Elections: 1860-1912 - It's Dumas-Approved, folks.  Created by Harper's Weekly magazine, this website features poticial cartoons, historical context, campaign overviews, biographical sketches, and a review of each era's major issues.
    • The American Presidency - Do you have to do a report on a president? This is the place to go. Information from three different Grolier Encyclopedias, sound bites from presidential speeches, and results from all presidential elections.
    • POTUS : Presidents of the United States - Lots of information here including members of the cabinet, presidential highlights and links to other biographical sites.
    • The Presidents of the United States - Biographies, and inaugural addresses. This is a good site to visit if you need information on the presidents' wives. From the White House.
    • The Hall of Presidents - A picture of each president, and a short biography. If you click on the small picture of the president, you can see a much larger version of the picture.
    • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships includes extracts and images from the multi volume print work arranged by ship type and numeric designation or name. An image archive of ships from several countries is also available online.
    • Political Graveyard - Includes indexes by name or cemetery to burial locations of U.S. politicians. Features trivia: number of politicians named "George Washington", killed in duels, and other useless but interesting facts.
    • American Immigration - This work of a 10th grade American history class includes information about: Who were/are the immigrants to the U.S.?; Peaks/waves of immigration; Methods of transportation and ports of arrival; Process of entering the U.S.; and Destination/places where they settled.
    • American Memory - Consists of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. The collections include photographs, sound recordings, documents and movies. Searchable. The WPA Life Histories collection includes life histories of people who lived in Colorado.--- although the material was not collected in Colorado. The Detroit Publishing Company photographic archive includes photographs taken from 1880-1920---with many Colorado locations pictured. Watch for frequent updates to the American Memory Collections.
    • Treasures at the Library of Congress - An online exhibit of some of the most significant materials in the collections of the Library. Rare drawings, manuscripts, and other materials. Includes descriptive text.
    • Douglass: Archives of American Address - Archive of significant speeches arranged by speaker, time, or topic. Searchable.
    Native Americans
    Colonization to Revolution
    • 1492 : An Ongoing Voyage - A Library of Congress site on fifteenth century European navigation, the myths and facts surrounding the figure of Columbus and the differences and similarities between European and American world views at the time of contact.
    • Discoverers Web: Columbus Links - If you need information about Christopher Columbus, start with this huge list of links. To focus on The Columbian Exchange, try this site:  Columbian Exchange
    • The Mayflower Web Page - The Mayflower Compact, the Mayflower passenger list, and lots more information on the first permanent settlement in New England.
    • Archiving Early America - Tons of historical documents: facsimiles of newspapers, maps, and writings from America in the 1700's
    • Colonial House (PBS) - Indentured servitude. No baths or showers. Public punishments. Welcome to daily life in the year 1628! Think colonial life was all about pious Pilgrims, powdered wigs and freedom for all? Think again! Two dozen modern-day time travelers find out the hard way what early American colonial life was really like.
    • Charters of Freedom - From the National Archives and Records Administration includes information about the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
    • Colonial Williamsburg - Visit a colonial town.
    From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War
    • If Westward Expansion is your topic, you might start by looking at these link-listing sites:
    • The War of 1812 - Links to web sites related to the War of 1812.
    • The American West - Includes sections on the development and history of the West --- westward expansion, pioneer towns and ghost towns, Native Americans, and other topics.
    • Colorado Digitization Program - It's McGraw-Approved, folks. A collaboration of archives, historical societies, libraries and museums of the West, which gives you access to historic documents and photos, including Heritage Colorado, Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection, Colorado's Main Streets, and Western Trails.  Check out the lesson plans in the Educator Resources section.
    • History of the American West (American Memory, Library of Congress) - It's McGraw-Approved, folks.  Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library, illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in the history of Colorado and the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the Mississippi River. Also included are World War II photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado who saw action in Italy.
    • Women of the West Museum - A virtual museum whose exhibits change on a regular basis. Women of the West include "range wives, ranch hands and rabble-rousers. But they're also pilots, painters, priests and politicians. Immigrants and exiles; tycoons and tenant farmers. Comics, soldiers, athletes, and advocates. Matriarchs, flirts, and media darlings." Coverage is detailed, and beautifully illustrated.
    • Mountain Men and the Fur Trade - Includes Library of Fur Trade Historical Documents. Primary and secondary historical documents, such as Life in the Rocky Mountains, by W. A. Ferris, which provides a detailed account of the fur trade in the Central Rocky Mountains during the years 1830 to 1835. Site also includes illustrations, maps, and facsimile business records of the trade in furs.
    • Personalities of the West - Part of the Overland Trail Website. Provides links to biographical information on Mountain Men, Trail Blazers, Women of the West, and Cowboys and Gunslingers
    • Multicultural American West - Links to information on the West from different perspectives.
    • The Photography Collection - Over 50,000 photographs documenting the history of Colorado and the American West from the Denver Public Library's Western History Department collection.
    • Overland Trail - Thorough and easy to follow, this site covers the stops along the trail, and the colorful people who traveled on it.
    • Oregon Trail - Includes overview, stops along the trail, weird facts.
    • Born in Slavery Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project - Another terrific Library of Congress American Memory website that describes slavery in the words of those who lived it.  Includes original transcripts and hundreds of photographs.
    • The American Civil War Homepage - An excellent starting point for research on the Civil War. Lots of links to other Civil War pages on the web.
    • Home of the American Civil War - Alphabetical lists of battles and biographies link to illustrated overviews.
    • Civil War Battlefield Summaries Includes summaries of 384 Civil War battlefields. Access is by state or campaign. Interestingly enough, the tragic Sand Creek Massacre is counted as a "Union victory", even though the brief history acknowledges that two-thirds of the Native Americans slaughtered were women and children.
    • Civil War Virtual Archive WebRing -  A virtual library of resources for Civil War researchers, containing lots of primary sources.
    • Civil War Artillery - Illustrated description of the weapons used in the war.
    • The Battle of Gettysburg - Day by day account of the famous battle.
    From Reconstruction to 1900
    • The Presidential Elections: 1860-1912 - It's Dumas-Approved, folks.  Created by Harper's Weekly magazine, this website features poticial cartoons, historical context, campaign overviews, biographical sketches, and a review of each era's major issues.
    • The American West - This site covers just about everything related to the west - Native Americans, cowboys, trails, immigration, outlaws and ghost towns.
    • American on the Move - Based on an exhibit at the National Museum of American History, this website covers 1876 thru 2000, and explores the role of transportation in American history. See the changes that new transportation networks brought -- cities change, suburbs expand, and farms and factories become part of regional, national and international economies. Meet people as they travel for work and pleasure.. Short descriptive paragraphs accompany signs, postcards, and photos.
    • The Photography Collection - Over 50,000 photographs documenting the history of Colorado and the American West from the Denver Public Library's Western History Department collection.
    • Overland Trail - Thorough and easy to follow, this site covers all the stops along the trail, and the colorful people who traveled on it.
    • The Oregon Trail - Read about the history of the trail and the pioneers who traveled along it. Visit important sites along the trail.
    • Personalities of the West - Part of the Overland TrailWebsite. Provides links to biographical information on Mountain Men, Trail Blazers, Women of the West, and Cowboys and Gunslingers
    • The Age of Imperialism - The history of the US during the late 19th and early 20th century. Expansion of the US interests to Pacific and Latin America.
    • American History: Civil War to the Present - This is the "Student Web Notes" section of an online course at the University of Wisconsin. Understandable overviews, primary sources, and lots of photographs.
    • The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 - Browse the exhibits from this Duke University website, or search for a specific term such as auto or soap.  Find out more about the products used in America's past.
    • Pastimes and Paradigms: Games We Played - This well-illustrated site from Cornell University gives a broad overview of the evolution of American games from 1800 to the present.
    The Twentieth Century
    • Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century - Collection of interactive and static maps on themes such as war, cities, infant mortality, systems of government, and other topics.
    • Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine - An amazing Real Audio collection of music from the early decades of the 20th Century--Bessie Smith, Caruso, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. Download the file you want, and insert it in your Power Point presentation.
    • When Work is Done - Use historic photographs to analyze the way that Americans spent their leisure time at the turn of the century. Part of the Library of Congress American Memory website.
    • World War I: THE GREAT WAR-THE WESTERN FRONT - A huge site that lists website links year-by-year with descriptions.
    • World War I: Trenches on the Web - Start your visit at the Reference Library page where you will find links to timelines, photos, biographies, and maps. Much of the material is contributed by students.
    • The Great War - Interactive page based on the PBS series. Includes time line, topical interviews with historians, illustrations, and other information.
    • World War I Document Archive - International in scope. This archive can be accessed by year, country, includes links to images and biography. Features treaties, newspaper articles, personal narrative and other types of information
    • The Scopes "Monkey" Trial - A detailed overview, including lots of illustrations from newspaper articles of the day, and excerpts from the trial transcripts. For a totally different viewpoint on the subject, look at Inherently Wind: A Hollywood History of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
    • The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti - The crime, the trial, and the debate that still rages over it. Photographs, headline stories from the times, cartoons, folk songs, trial transcripts, and links to other references.
    • Voices of the Dust Bowl - Part of the American Memories Website at the Library of Congress. Lots of recordings and photographs documenting the everyday life in migrant work camps in 1940 and 1941.
    • America from the Depression to WWII - It's Dumas-Approved, folks. Another terrific virtual museum of photos from the American Memories Website at the Library of Congress.
    • American Life Histories: 1936 - 1940 - It's Dumas-Approved, folks. Another segment of the Library of Congress American Memories Website, containing thousands of manuscripts produced by the Federal Writers Project. A good place to start is the Voices from the Thirties section.
    • New Deal Network - If your topic concerns the New Deal, start here.  A mammoth website with over 20,000 photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period).
    • The 1920s - A well-organized page of links, arranged by topics that make it easy to find just the information you need.
    • National Archives: A New Deal for the Arts - During the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s and into the early years of World War II, the Federal government supported the arts in unprecedented ways. For 11 years, between 1933 and 1943, federal tax dollars employed artists, musicians, actors, writers, photographers, and dancers.  This site explains the program--and portrays the era--through countless works of art.
    • A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution - An online exhibit from the Smithsonian that explores the period during WWII when Japanese Americans were placed in detention camps.
    • FDR Cartoon Archive - A history project created by the students at Niskayuna High School in New York which includes thousands of political cartoons.
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Includes online documents, educational materials, a searchable photographic database, records from Auschwitz, excerpts from the Nuremberg trials, and links to related sites. Try a search of the photographic database with a word such as "women" or "children." Each photograph includes a caption.
    • CNN - Cold War - The web version of CNN's documentary series. Navigate interactive maps • See rare archival footage online • Learn more about the key players • Read recently declassified documents • Tour Cold War capitals through 3-D images
    African-American History

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    World History

    Online Timeline Creators
      • Our Timelines.com - This site allows you to scan a range of years anywhere from 1000 AD to the present, giving you all important historical events, and then allows you to insert 10 events of your own.
      • Time Line Tool - Although the interface is a little clunky, this site lets you include an unlimited number of events.
      • Time Line Maker - It's clean and it's simple, but it limits you to six (6) events on a horizontal time line, or nine (9) events on a vertical time line.
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    • Today in History! - It's fast.  It's huge. And it's fully searchable for events, births, and deaths.
    • Best of History Web Sites - A user-friendly link list that you help you find a good web site for any period in world history, from the beginning of time to the present.
    Ancient History Sites
    • Ancient Greece - Save yourself some time and start here.  This site from the Multnomah County Library in Oregon has links to all the best sites on Ancient Greece, up-to-date and clearly explained.
    • Ancient Rome - Save yourself some time and start here.  The folks at Multnomah County Library in Oregon already found all the best sites on Ancient Rome, up-to-date and clearly explained.
    • A Comparative Chronology of Money - from ancient to modern times. Brief descriptions of the uses of
    • Exploring Ancient World Cultures - A well-organized site focusing on eight ancient cultures: The Near East, India, China, Greece, Rome, The Early Islamic World, and Medieval Europe.
    • Ancient Greece: History, Mythology, Art, Culture and Architecture - An extensive, well-organized site that covers just about everything except daily life. (see below)
    • Daily Life in Ancient Greece - A short and simple site that covers it all:  families, clothing, hairstyles, school, toys, pets, weddings, houses, dance, and food.
    • The Last Days of Socrates - A site from the Clarke University Philosophy Department which includes terrific maps describing the typical places in ancient Athens. Don't miss The Agora, Athens - 5th Century BCE, and The Acropolis.
    • Women's Life in Greece and Rome - Primary source material derived from the writings of Aristotle and others which documents the legal, private and public lives of women in classical civilizations.
    • Perseus Project - A database of information about Ancient Greece. Consists of texts, encyclopedia, images, lexicons, information on teaching with Perseus, links to related sites, and other information. The project plans to add information on Ancient Rome.
    • Akhet Internet: The Horizon to the Past - Ancient Egypt in all its glory: the Art of the Afterlife, Grave Goods, Mythology, Monuments, and Tombs.  Don't forget to explore the clickable mummy!
    • Life in Ancient Egypt - An illustrated introduction to ancient Egypt.
    • Alexandria - A great city of the ancient world.
    • Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Includes information on and illustrations of each of the ancient wonders, and information on other wonders, forgotten, modern, and natural. Of the original seven, only the Great Pyramid at Giza survives. The "forgotten" wonders include pictures, links, and information about world-renowned antiquities in the Middle East, Central and South America, and Asia
    • Mediterranean Archaeology - Exhibits, Web Documents and Images - An exhaustive (and exhausting) list of links to anything and everything dealing with ancient history.
    Mesoamerican History Sites
    Roman History Sites
    • Ancient Rome - Save yourself some time and start here.  The folks at Multnomah County Library in Oregon already found all the best sites on Ancient Rome, up-to-date and clearly explained.
    • The Roman Empire Page - An well-organized, student-produced page that covers eleven basic topic areas. The army, the baths, the emperors, the clothes, the politics--this is a good place to start your Roman Research.
    • Roma: The History and Civilization of the Eternal City - Created by Boys' Town of Rome, this site provides a solid overview of Roman culture, religion, economy, politics, and the army.
    Medieval History Sites
    • NetSERF - An alphabetically-arranged Hot List of links to everything Medieval
    • Luminarium - The focus here is on literature:  Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century
    • Bloodaxe's History Links - A medieval and Anglo-Saxon resources page.
    • Medieval Technology Pages - The Subject Index for this site alphabetically lists technology developed and used between 500 and 1600 AD in Western Europe. Or, view the timeline that shows the approximate year certain technologies were introduced in Europe. From Agricultural Tools to the Wine Press, learn how inventions and adaptations made a difference in how people lived their lives.
    • Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Includes links to biographies of saints, online texts, and related resources. A part of the ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies. ORB includes primary texts, essays, and other materials.
    • The Labyrinth - A World Wide Web server for Medieval Studies.
    • The Armoury - Lots of pictures of armor and weapons used in the ancient and medieval world.
    Renaissance Art and History Sites
    • Mark Harden's ARTCHIVE - For Renaissance works of art, start here. Over 2,000 scans from more than 200 artists. By clicking on an artist's name, you get a collection of his work.
    • Virtual Renaissance - For information on daily life during the Renaissance, start here. A time travel site that lets you meet and listen to a cast of interesting characters who will demonstrate the live and times, technology and medicine, in a variety of places. Includes a chronology and a terrific list of links.
    • Sixteenth Century English Renaissance - A huge list of links, covering all of these headings: History and Politics, Royalty, Images, Religion, Women in the Renaissance, Renaissance Science and Medicine, The Plague, Renaissance Music, Renaissance Theatre, Renaissance Dance, Renaissance Art, Renaissance Architecture, Renaissance Costume, Renaissance Printing, Renaissance Food and Drink,
    • SCA (Renaissance Faire) Arts and Sciences Homepage - Part of the massive website maintained by the Society for Creative Anachronism. Includes easy links to food, brewing, weddings, games, music, dance, and costuming.
    • Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage - This site will show you "How to Pig Out With 130 of Your Friends." Provides recipes for specific dishes, instructions on how to plan a feast, and pictures of dishes and utensils.
    • Welcome to Tudor England, 1485-1603 - Provides information on Henry VII, Henry VIII, (and all those wives), Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth--and a good of overview of what life was like.
    • A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments - Descriptions, photographs, and sample recordings of over 30 ancient instrument, compiled by the Musica Antiqua at Iowa State University.
    • Labyrinth - Links up with just about every Medieval and Renaissance site on the Web. Take a trip to Florence and check out amazingly detailed Botticelli images.
    • Galileo Project - A "hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time." Includes time lines, documents, illustrations, and a searchable database of over 600 of Galileo's scientific contemporaries.
    • Luminarium - The focus here is on literature:  Medieval, Renaissance, and 17th Century

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    AP European History Sites

    • Best of History Web Sites - A user-friendly link list that you help you find a good web site for any period in world history, from the beginning of time to the present.
    • A.P. European History - This is a good AP Euro website with links to assignments, quizzes and other web links.
    • Advanced Placement European History - This is a general AP Euro website with links to schools teaching the course. Lots of good study guide and review information.
    • Internet Modern History Sourcebook - Thousands of primary sources, including include contemporary narrative accounts, personal memoirs, songs, newspaper reports, as well as cultural, philosophical, religious and scientific documents.
    • EuroDocs: Western European Primary Historical Documents - Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations, organized by historical period, and by country.
    • The Victorian Web - A clean, user-friendly site on the Victorian Era, organized around these areas: Political History, Social History, Gender Matters, Philosophy, Religion, Science, and Technology
    • Mark Harden's ARTCHIVE - For European works of art, start here. Over 2,000 scans from more than 200 artists. By clicking on an artist's name, you get a collection of his work.

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    Technology
    • CIAC Internet Hoaxes - A site maintained by the Department of Energy that provides up-to-date information virus hoaxes, as well as actual email viruses, chain letters, and other potential web problems
    • Search Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Comm. Terms - This dictionary provides complete descriptions of complex terms dealing with personal computers and networks. It contains up-to-date information about everything from a common item like "batteries" to an obscure font technology called "Speedo."
    • Totally Drivers - Help is here for those of you always looking for the right drivers.  In just two clicks, you can be on the website for the brand of driver you need. Includes browser update links and plugin links, too.
    • Xenu - Visit this site to download a free program called Xenu Link Sleuth.  It checks all the links on your web pages and generates a nice clean report of which links have coasted off down Interstate 404.
    • Search Engine Watch - Overviews of the major search engines, reviews, tutorials, and insights into search engine technology, trivia and interesting facts.
    • CoolText.com -  A free online service which will create graphics customized exactly the way you want them.

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    Weather

    • Rain or Shine Weather - Five day weather forecasts for 800 cities worldwide plus weather maps for the United States.
    • AMS The DataStreme Project - Updated every two hours by the American Meteorological Society, this site gives you all the data you need to make accurate weather predictions.  You can see the current maps of  fronts, water vapor, upper air currents, and infrared imaging that the TV stations use.
    • El Nino Theme Page - Includes basic information, frequently asked questions, links to Spanish and Portuguese sites, forecasts, data, reports on the economic impacts of El Nino and more.
    • Bibliography of the Effects of El Niño on the United States -This site provides an extensive list of books and articles which deal with El Nino's impact on agriculture, climate, drought, fire, flood, natural gas, precipitation, tornadoes, snow, streamflow, etc.
    • The 1997 El Nino Southern Oscillation - This site contains direct links to articles from various sources and reports from many locations throughout the world.
    • Online Guides - Richly illustrated instructional materials on meteorology, climate, remote sensing and global change provided by the University of Illinois Weather Machine. With projects and activities. Features both text-based and graphic interfaces.
    • The Weather Channel - Current weather forecasts.
    • The Tornado Project Online - Lots of information about tornados.
    • Weather Science Hotlist - Links to many weather web sites.

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