History

Comprehensive History | Encyclopedias | Black History | This Day in History | Biographies | Women's History | Africa | Ancient Civilizations | Asia | The Middle Ages | The Renaissance and Reformation | World Religions

Comprehensive History
Best of History Web Sites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
An award-winning site created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites are rated (one to five stars) for accuracy and usefulness.

HyperHistory
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Over 2,000 files covering 3000 years of world history. Contains an excellent timeline.

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
The largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.

Encyclopedias
Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Free encyclopedia that provides more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - provided by HighBeam Research.

InfoPlease
http://www.infoplease.com/
The world’s largest free reference site where you can find facts on thousands of subjects including sports, entertainment, technology, business, education, and health.

 

Black History
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This excellent site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. It includes images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries. This is the companion site to the PBS series of the same name.

Afro-American Almanac Historical Documents
http://www.toptags.com/aama/docs/docs.htm
Black codes, court cases, Lincoln's inaugural addresses, and other documents pertaining to black history.

Biography.com Black History
http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/
Biographies of famous African Americans of the past and present.

Black History: Black History Hotlist
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
Links to many issues and topics in black history.

Education First: Black History Activities: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
Includes an excellent list of sites related to African-American events and issues; a subject Sampler, an interactive Treasure Hunt, and two WebQuests, the Little Rock Nine and one on the Tuskegee Tragedy.

Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/
An excellent site! Click on Eras in Black History to explore five centuries of black heritage. Includes biographies, events, photographs, film clips and audio, study guide, and related links.

Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html
Search by name or scientific subtopic for a biography of African American scientists of all eras.

 

This Day in History
Today in History
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
Find out what happened on a particular day.

Biographies
Biography.com
http://www.biography.com/
Features a searchable biographical database of 25,000 famous names, Born On This Day, Top 10 lists, TV listings, Biography Magazine features and crossword puzzle, discussion boards, trivia quizzes; and the Who Am I? game.

Women's History
The Learning Place (National Women's History Project)
http://www.nwhp.org/tlp/main/main.html
Use the biography center and dozens of links to sites related to women's history to learn more about women's contributions throughout time.

Encyclopedia Britannica's Women in American History
http://search.eb.com/women/
In the last three decades, the field of women's history has begun to transform the way the overall history of the United States has been told. This great resource explores women’s history from the 1600’s to present.

American Women's History: A Research Guide
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
American Women's History provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.

Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
This sourcebook attempts to present online documents and secondary discussions that reflect the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas.

Women of the Century
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/womenofthecentury/
Meet some of the extraordinary women who have defined a woman’s place in our nation. Then explore a visual timeline of the century, highlighting important events in the march to equality, female celebrities of the day, and the changing roles of everyday women.

 

Africa
The Story of Africa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/
This comprehensive site from the BBC relates the history of Africa and its people from the earliest times to the end of apartheid in South Africa. Includes timelines, reading lists, and numerous links. Rich in photos and sound recordings.

Internet African History SourceBook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
A guide to educational web resources on African history, with links to many primary source documents and maps, from a professor at Fordham University in NYC.

Ancient Civilizations
ABZU
http://www.etana.org/abzu
A guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East on the Web.

Ancient Egypt - The British Museum
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html
Explore many aspects of Ancient Egyptian culture at this site created by staff of the British Museum.

Ancient Egyptian Culture
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/egypt/
Daily life, architecture, religion, government, history, and more. Part of the e-museum at Minnesota State University.

Ancient Greek Civilizations
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/aegean/index.shtml
From the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. Part of the e-museum at Minnesota State University.

The British Museum: Ancient India
http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/
This site allows you to learn about many aspects of Ancient Indian culture. There are sections on : Buddha, Geography, Hinduism, Indus Valley, Time, and Writing. Note: the site requires Macromedia Flash Reader.

The Classics Pages
http://www.classicspage.com/
900 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, art, and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece and Rome.

Ancient Chinese History
http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/china/
Learn about Chinese dynasties from 1200 B.C. to the early 20th century.

Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/indexlife.html
Learn about life in Ancient China, India, Egypt, Greece.

Hellenic Culture
http://www.culture.gr/welcome.html
This site depicts the millennia of artistry, the centuries of outstanding art, the achievements of the human spirit, the routes on which the western civilization strode in order to reach its current form.

Homework Center - Ancient and Classical Cultures
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/anchsthc.html
From Multnomah County Library (Oregon), links to information on many ancient civilizations, from the Ice Age and Early Man to the North and South American native cultures.

 

Asia
AskAsia
http://www.askasia.org/
Information on countries of Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim; Asian news. From the Asia Society.

Perseus Digital Library
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Online collections of documents regarding the study of human culture.

The Middle Ages
Enter the Middle Ages
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/history/middleages/index.shtml
Examine the world of a medieval knight, nun, merchant, or peasant to discover what life was like in the Middle Ages. Part of the e-museum at Minnesota State University.

The Middle Ages
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/
Explore all aspects of life in the Middle Ages. An Annenberg/CPB site.

The Renaissance and Reformation
The Renaissance
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html
Explore how Europe was transformed during the 14th to 16th centuries. An Annenberg/CPB site.

 

World Religions
Adherents.com
http://www.adherents.com/
Statistical text and charts about the world religions and members of numerous denominations.

Religions of the World
http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/cultural/religion/index.shtml
An introduction to the study of world religions.

World Belief Systems
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/beliefsystems/index.cfm
Site designed to review world's major belief systems for the NY State Regents Exam. Also contains practice questions from past exams.

Your Guide to the Religions of the World
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_religions/index.shtml
Brief introduction to world religions and their beliefs and customs. From the BBC World Service.