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900
- History and Geography
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The following electronic sites can supplement the resources you find on our library shelves. The number in each category identifies the general area where these materials would be located on the library shelves.
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950 History of Asia |
980 History of South America |
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990 History of other Parts of the World |
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900 - General Geography and History
Background notes on many countries around the world from the US State department
http://www.state.gov/countries.cfm
Country studies from the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Events of the 1990's and other decades
http://www.1990sFlashback.com/1990/Economy.asp
Discover events of the day from Today in History at the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
Maps
Begin here for printable maps including blackline outline maps
http://geography.about.com/science/geography/library/blank/blxindex.htm#c
This is Houghton Mifflin's outline map site with no place names.
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/ssmaps/index.html
This site will allow you to create and view (but probably not print) maps
by various themes (resources, vegetation, etc)
http://www.esri.com/data/online/esri/wothphysic.html
The CIA has a great collection of maps but they take a while to download.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/mapspub/index.html
National Geographics Map Machine is a place to start for all manner of
maps
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html
This geneology site is a great source for historical maps.
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/reference/maps/main.asp
Biography Page
../biography/biography.html
Biography Channel site where you can search over 20,000 biographies but
you need to wade through lots of advertising
http://www.biography.com/search/index.html
930 - History of Ancient World
For some fun, try studying your culture through its cats.
Hammurabi's code from the ancient history notebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
Hammurabi's Code of Laws - read the text of this ancient document.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
Early Laws, Law givers, and the Judicial System of Early Athens .
http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm
Ancient History Sourcebook: Roman Law: The Twelve Tables, c. 450 BCE
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/12tables.html
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and its links
http://www.tourism.egnet.net/culture/egy_mus.htm
The Ancient Egyptian collection from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/egypt/index.html
This Ancient Egypt site created by Mark Millmore in the UK has lots of
links and activities.
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts Ancient Egypt site has lots of links.
http://www.mfa.org/egypt/explore_ancient_egypt/learn_time.html
The NOVA site for hieroglyphics
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/hieroglyph/hieroglyph4.html
The lever theory of how the Egyptians were able to build their obelisks
from NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/obelisk/
The NOVA site for pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/
Pictures but no text of the step pyramid at Zozer.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/zoser.html
This well-organized page on King Tut was created by the Canadian Museum
of Civilization.
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/civiliz/egypt/egtut01e.html
Egyptian calendars and clocks
http://www.muohio.edu/dragonfly/time/egypt.htmlx
Information on the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum where it is preserved.
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/writing/home.html
If you have the right plug-ins, you can watch the process of papyrus being
made.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/gi45/egypt/papyrus.htm
This National Geographic site contains the 1923 article that covered the
actual opening of King Tut's tomb. You can also maneauver to a site that
will allow you to enter a word or phrase and have it translated into hieroglyphics.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/
Mummies from the Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmnh/mummies.htm
Seven steps of mummification
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7837/mummy.html
This easy to understand University of Michigan site contains information
about mummies, hieroglyphics, a dateline and a glossary.
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/
This teacher created site covers much of Greek life
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.htm
The access to the information on this PBS site is through a timeline
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/index.html
This site from the British BBC is designed for young people
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/landmarks/ancientgreece/main_menu.shtml
The commercial banners on this site make you crazy but the information
is useful
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/index.htm
This site from WSU was created by a world civilization class for students
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM
Another teacher created site
http://www.mrdowling.com/701greece.html
A great site about the Olympics
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Mediterranean/Olympics/olympicintro.shtml
Great links from the Emuseum
http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/china/
This site is maintained by a teacher/webmaster and contains many links
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/china.html
Another teacher created site
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Chinalife.html
Chronological outline with links
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html
An all text summary of Chinese history
http://www.asterius.com/china/
Nova site on China's mummies
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/
From a 6th grade class in Urbana Illinois
http://www.cmi.k12.il.us/Urbana/projects/AncientCiv/china.html
Amazing 6th grade project on daily life
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Chinalife.html#CHOU
This site maintained by the History Place has lots of good information but
not many pictures
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/
This Canadian site is really about potatoes but this is the section about the
famine.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/potato/history/ireland.asp
960 - General History of Africa
970 - General History of North America
United States History 
Take a virtual visit to Plimoth Plantation
Short bits of information for both students and teachers
http://www.multied.com/Revolt/index.html
from this page you can link to a timeline that begins before 1700 and ends
at 1790
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/
interesting information beyond the battles
http://www.state.de.us/facts/ushist/revfacts.htm
Underground Railroad starting point by Annette Lamb with links galor
Menare Foundation website dedicated to preserving the stops on the underground railroad - includes a journal of a trip along the route.
National Geographics interactive Underground Railroad site
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/index.html
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The Smithsonian site for Black History.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm
Take a quiz on African-American history
http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/
World African Network and CNN timeline with links.
http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/
The Library of Congress searchable collection of pamphlets on African American
History with links to their own timeline and other sources. A good primary
source site.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
This well organized site from KRON TV begins with important individuals
and events then links to more information.
http://www.kron.com/specials/blackhistory/
Western Michigan University student have created an interesting timeline
on the Civil Rights movement.
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
Biography list from the Yahoo site
The American Civil War Homepage -- A collection of links to files about
the Civil War is maintained by the University of Tennessee.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/
The United States Civil War Center -- This site maintained by Louisiana
State University indexes more than 2700 links about the Civil War
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/ .
The American Civil War -- A comprehensive list of Civil War links maintained
by Dakota State University.
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System -- A database of resources about
the Civil War organized by the National Park Service.
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
Valley of the Shadow -- Project designed by the University of Virginia
that explores the histories of two communities living along the Mason-Dixon
Line.
http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/
The is much to learn about the Civil War by studying the life of Abraham
Lincoln. This is a site maintained by an individual but credible all the
same.
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
980 - General History of South America
990 - General History of other areas