930 - History of Ancient World

For some fun, try studying your culture through its cats.
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

970 - General History of North America
Native Americans

• Carnegie Museum of Natural History connects information on various native people with their art.
• Native groups from Canada
• This Native American historical site will eventually contain 240 native groups but for now is primarily links Northeast groups
• This teacher created site selects 5 representative tribes:Dine, Muscogee, Tinglit, Lakota, and Iroquois
• This site focuses on the art of the Eastern tribes
• 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

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 maneauver 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

United States History

• National Museum of American History maintained by the Smithsonian has many links
• A collection of photographs from the American memory collection
• Much historical information from "America's Story" created by the Library of Congress
  

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

• 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.
• The Smithsonian site for Black History.
• Take a quiz on African-American history
• World African Network and CNN timeline with links.
• The Library of Congress searchable collection of pamphlets on African American History with links to their own timeline and other sources.
• This well organized site from KRON TV begins with important individuals and events then links to more information.
• Western Michigan University student have created an interesting timeline on the Civil Rights movement.
• 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.
• 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 Middles Ages maintained by the Corporation of Public Braodcasting
• This class created site contains both information and links
• Medieval Life created by Cal Young staff with lots of 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

• 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.
• 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.

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 desogned site

980 - General History of South America

• Check out these Latin American References from the Latin American Alliance

950 - General History of Asia

• Everything you want to know about China

990 - General History of other areas

 

960 - General History of Africa