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.

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

• Choose your time period and follow the links
  http://www.historylink101.com/
  
• History Channel site has lots of links, the ability to search and lots of advertising
  http://www.historychannel.com/
  
• This Historical Atlas of the 20th Century uses maps and graphics to share lots of information including disasters and medal winners.
  http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm
  
• This is a great source of informational maps from all times and places.
  http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/maplinks.htm#world

• 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

• Another listing of the day's events from the History Channel
  http://www.HistoryChannel.com/tdih/

910 - Geography and Travel

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

920 / 921 - Biography

• 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.

Ancient Mesopotamia

• 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

• For the serious reader, Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 Document is designed to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, and to point out the relation of those ideas to modern thought.
  http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maine/anclaw/
  

Ancient Egypt

• 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/

Ancient Greece

• 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

• An impressive site for Greek antiquties and their explanation but requires a very new browser http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/x_gods.html

Ancient China

• 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

940 - History of Europe

Middle Ages

• One of the most complete sites on the Middle Ages maintained by the Corporation of Public Braodcasting
  http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/
  
• Information about MEDIEVAL GUILDS
  http://ancientquest.com/embark/guilds.html
  
• This class created site is good for project ideas as well as information
  http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/index.html
  
• This site by a 5th grade class in Arizona is easy to read.
  http://ancientquest.com/embark/guilds.html
  
• The Internet Medieval Sourcebook contains many links but many are written at the college level.
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1u.html
  
• This student site is easy to read, accurate and contains good pictures.
  http://www.scotttrees.com/middleages/
  
• 11th century life as recorded in the Domesday Book
  http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/life.html
  
• This medieval site from Pine River Michigan is loaded with links.
  http://www.pineriver.k12.mi.us/ms/medieval/medieval.htm#church
  
• This student created site looks wonderful (and is noisy!) but contains some questionable information so be careful and make sure you know enough to tell the good information from the misinformation.
  http://www.mcatmaster.com/guilds/
  
• Medieval Life created by Cal Young staff with lots of links
  http://www.lane.k12.or.us/~lague/
  
• a list of possible cathedrals to explore
  http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/cathedral.html
  
• Everything you wanted to know about castles from the Castles of Britain site
  http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medindex.html
  
• This teacher created site briefly but clearly explains castle parts and weapons
  http://kevin.lps.org/Middle_ages/castles/default.html
  http://kevin.lps.org/Middle_ages/castles/weapons/knight.html
  
• ideas for making and building medieval board games
  http://www.tarahill.com/instruct.html
  
• Cariadoc's Miscellany: Recipes from the Middle Ages
  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/recipe_index.html
  
• Click on the "Landmark" link from this page to get a list of strange phenomenon that occured during the Middle Ages.
  http://www.phenomena.org.uk/home.htm
  
• About.com page on the middle ages contains both information and links
  http://historymedren.about.com/mbody.htm

Renaissance

• This page of links was created to assist people in getting into character for Elizabethan reinactments
  http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/
  
• This teacher created site contains links to many Renaissance topics
  http://renaissance.dm.net/compendium/

Holocaust

• History Project page
  http://www.holocaust-history.org/
  
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  http://www.ushmm.org
  
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
  http://www.wiesenthal.com/
  
• "Remember" Links
  http://remember.org/cylinks.html
  
• Holocaust/Shoah Page
  http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holo.html
  
• The Holocaust: A tragic Legacy from Thinkquest; an outstanding student designed site
  http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/index.html
  

Irish Potato Famine

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

950 - General History of Asia

• Everything you want to know about China
  http://www.chinapage.com/china.html

960 - General History of Africa

• Links to ancient and contemporary Africa
  http://schools.4j.lane.edu/calyoung/library/classsupport/ancientafrica.html
  

970 - General History of North America

United States History

• National Museum of American History maintained by the Smithsonian has many links
  http://americanhistory.si.edu/
  
• A collection of photographs from the American memory collection
  http://www.edc.org/CCT/NDL/1999/lessons/teams/24/resource.html
  
• Much historical information from "America's Story" created by the Library of Congress
  http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
  
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
  http://schools.4j.lane.edu/calyoung/library/hotspot/lewisandclark.html
  
• An index of important historical documents in American history
  http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/
  
• A good chrohological list of links
  http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/
  
• This chronological outline of American history links is maintained by the United States Infromation Agency
  http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/index.htm
  

Native Americans

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History connects information on various native people with their art
  http://www.clpgh.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/ .
• Native groups from Canada
  http://collections.ic.gc.ca/heirloom_series/volume2/volume2.htm
• This Native American historical site will eventually contain 240 native groups but for now is primarily links Northeast groups
  http://www.dickshovel.com/up.html
• This teacher created site selects 5 representative tribes:Dine, Muscogee, Tinglit, Lakota, and Iroquois
  http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/amer1.htm
• This site focuses on the art of the Eastern tribes
  http://www.nativetech.org/
• The Wampanoag people from the Plymouth Plantation site
  http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Wampanoag/wamp.htm
• This Pacific Northwest Indian site from the University of Washington is fairly high level reading but contains an amazing photograph collection
  http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
  

Colonial America

• Colonial America

• Take a virtual visit to Plimoth Plantation

Revolutionary War

• A virtual marching tour of the battles of the Revolutionary War
  http://www.ushistory.org/march/
• A companion to the PBS series on the Revolutionary War but a good resource itself
  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

• 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

• another timeline from 1764 - 1789 from the Morris's Encyclopedia of American History
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/timeline.html

• 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 .

• 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 Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change is a good place to start for many areas of research.
  http://www.thekingcenter.com/
  
• Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Projects is a good source of primary source documents connected to MLK and the civil rights movement.
  http://www.stanford.edu/group/king/

• 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