General history from an Eyewitness perspective, provides all kinds of resources for history throughout time, from the people who lived through it

930 - History of Ancient World
Ancient China

• Chronological outline with links
• Amazing 6th grade project on daily life
• Nova site on China's mummies
• ThinkQuest site with rich graphics and links
• A chronological list of rulers but no links
• Pictures and stories about Dragons
• Great links from the Emuseum
  
  

  Ancient Rome	Famous Romans from About.com list
  Roman Empire links	42Xplore Roman links
  Roman History from History Net

• This Native American historical site will eventually contain 240 native groups but for now primarily links Northeast groups.
  • Check out Eduscapes Natives topic lists for tribes in alphabetical order, along with other links.
• This teacher created site selects 5 representative tribes:Dine, Muscogee, Tinglit, Lakota, and Iroquois
• The First American's site history site has many resources
• List of Native American resources from Multnomah County Public Library.
• The Wampanoag people from the Plymouth Plantation site.
• This Pacific Northwest Indian site from the University of Washington is fairly high level reading but contains an amazing photograph collection.
  • Carnegie Museum of Natural History connects information on various native people with their art.
  • Native groups from Canada
  • Native Tech

Ancient Egypt

• The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and its links
• The Ancient Egyptian collection from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• This Ancient Egypt site created by Mark Millmore in the UK has lots of links and activities.
• The Boston Museum of Fine Arts Ancient Egypt site has lots of links.
• The NOVA site for hieroglyphics

• The lever theory of how the Egyptians were able to build their obelisks from NOVA.
• The NOVA site for pyramids
• Pictures but no text of the step pyramid at Zozer.
• This well-organized page on King Tut was created by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
• Egyptian calendars and clocks
• Information on the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum where it is preserved.
• Photographs of the entire process of papyrus production.

• This National Geographic site contains the 1923 article that covered the actual opening of King Tut's tomb. You can also maneuver to a site that will allow you to enter a word or phrase and have it translated into hieroglyphics.
• Mummies from the Smithsonian.
• Seven steps of mummification
• This easy to understand University of Michigan site contains information about mummies, hieroglyphics, a dateline and a glossary

Colonial America

• Colonial America
• Take a virtual visit to Plimoth Plantation
• Do a Johnny Tremain WebQuest

Constitutional Convention--American Revolution

• National Constitution Center
  National Archives Experience (NARA)
  Colonial Hall-biographies of the Founding Fathers
  NARA--Founding Fathers
  Avalon Project from Yale Law School--Madison Debates
  Teaching American History--Constitutional Convention
  

United States History

• National Museum of American History maintained by the Smithsonian has many links of interest.
• A collection of photographs from the American Memory collection
• Much historical information from "America's Story" created by the Library of Congress.
  List presenting historic Supreme Court Cases throughout time
  

Ancient Law

• Hammurabi's code from the ancient history notebook
• Hammurabi's Code of Laws - read the text of this ancient document.
• Early Laws, Law givers, and the Judicial System of Early Athens .
• Ancient History Sourcebook: Roman Law: The Twelve Tables, c. 450 BCE
• 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.

African American History

• Take a quiz on African-American history.
• The Library of Congress searchable collection of pamphlets on African American History with links to their own timeline and other sources.
• The Smithsonian site for Black History.
• This well organized site from KRON TV begins with important individuals and events then links to more information.
• World African Network and CNN timeline with links.
• Underground Railroad starting point by Annette Lamb with links galore.
• Menare Foundation website dedicated to preserving the stops on the Underground Railroad - includes a journal of a trip along the route.
• National Geographic's interactive Underground Railroad site.
• Smithsonian's "Separate Is Not Equal" exhibit regarding Brown v. Board of Education
• Brown v. Board of Education's Digital archive from University of Michigan
• Background on Brown vs. Board of Education from Thinkquest
• Brown vs. Board of Education articles from Teaching Tolerance
• Landmark Supreme Court cases overview of Brown vs. Bd. Education
• The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change is a good place to start for many areas of research.
• 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.

Middle Ages

• One of the most complete sites on the Middle Ages maintained by the Corporation of Public Braodcasting.
• This class created site contains both information and links for the Middle Ages.
• Medieval Life created by Cal Young staff with lots of useful links.
• Knights Templar (links to other sites )
• Castle terminology
• Ideas for making and building medieval board games
• This medieval site from Pine River Michigan is loaded with links.

The Civil War

• Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project
• The American Civil War Homepage -- A collection of links to files about the Civil War is maintained by the University of Tennessee.
• The United States Civil War Center -- This site maintained by Louisiana State University indexes more than 2700 links about the Civil War.
• The American Civil War -- A comprehensive list of Civil War links maintained by Dakota State University.
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System -- A database of resources about the Civil War organized by the National Park Service.
• Valley of the Shadow -- Project designed by the University of Virginia that explores the histories of two communities living along the Mason-Dixon Line.
• Learn about the Civil War by studying the life of Abraham Lincoln.

World War II

• World War Two in Europe Timeline from the History Place
  World War Two from the BBC
  Battles, Campaigns and Events et al from Eduscapes
  World War II sites from Eduscapes
  Warplanes World War II...fighters, bombers and aircraft
  Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941
  Battle of Iwo Jima
  The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Documents

940 - History of Europe
Holocaust

• History Project page
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• "Remember" Links
• Holocaust/Shoah Page
• The Holocaust: A tragic Legacy from Thinkquest; an outstanding student designed site.

980 - General History of South America

• Check out these Latin American Resources from Emory University.

Argentine's Dirty War links:

• The Vanished
• List of people
• Wall of Memory
• Lyrics en Espanol
• They Dance Alone lyrics
• Plaza del Mayos

950 - General History of Asia

• Everything you want to know about China

990 - General History of other areas

 

960 - General History of Africa

• Global Issues--Africa