A
Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: An
overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through
photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and
literature
Alexander
Palace Time Machine: everyday life in a
Romanov palace. Palace biographies,The Boy Who Dreamed of a
Palace, a Romanov photo album, The Grave of Anna Vyrubova and much
more...
Biography
A searchable and browsable online collection of cross-referenced
biographies with information on personalities from antiquity to
the present. There are also biography games, message boards, top
biography book reviews, and Behind-the-Scenes TV info.
the British
Columbia Archives (BC Archives),
located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The BC Archives is
the central archives service for the government of British
Columbia, and provides research access to records of enduring
value to the province for both the provincial government and
public clientele.
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Deathrate
wordpopulation: 65 million per year; birth
rate: 72 million per year. We grow with
16 million each year 2006.
De
Nederlands(ch)e Leeuw De
Nederlands(ch)e Leeuw is a bibliographical database of the
University of Amsterdam devoted to biographical information of
Dutchman. The references are principally concerning sources from
the 20th century. The database is arranged according to the
Nationale Basisclassificatie (Dutch Basic
Classification).
° Din
Timelines World history
timeline from 5000 bc to 1929 with reference information and 100s
of research links.
°Discoverers
Web: linkpage of
information found on the web about voyages of discovery and
exploration.
Egyptian
antiquity information The
Egyptian Ministry of Tourism provides a collection of resources
useful to both student and scholar. A number of sections covers
topics such as monuments (pharaonic, Islamic, and early
Christian), Egyptian mythology, a virtual museum, rulers of
ancient Egypt, a glossary of terms. The highlight is an extensive
history of Egypt, from the lower paleolithic age to 1942. The
history is divided into dynasties/historical periods and contains
numerous hyperlinks. There is a section on historical astrology in
Egypt, and the complete text of the Egyptian book of the
dead.
Eighteenth-century
resources These pages
cover all the Internet resources Jack Lynch has been able to
discover that focus on the (very long) eighteenth century - Milton
and Keats are his usual endpoints. The collection includes
information on literature, history, art, music, religion,
economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world in the
eighteenth century, as well as the home pages of societies and
people who work on eighteenth-century topics.
Essays
in History This refereed
journal is a publication of the Corcoran Department of History,
University of Virginia. It is available in electronic format from
vol. 33 (1990-1991) on. Volume 36 is the first issue to appear
only in electronic form.
°
Fernand Braudel Center :
for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations,
Binghamton University, State University of New York , "to engage
in the analysis of large-scale social change over long periods of
historical time".
Friends
and partners The site
offers information of interest on history, art, music, literature,
religion, education, science, geography, natural resources, and
language, all related to the United States and Russia.
German
Studies Web: History
Resources on the history of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from
the WESSWEB [Western European Specialists
Section-Web].
German
Studies Web The German
Studies Web, maintained at the University of California, San
Diego, provides access to scholarly resources in German Studies,
including all German-speaking countries. It contains contributions
from German Studies bibliographers nationwide.
(Dutch) Geschiedenis
Online ; een site van de
rijks archiefdienst met vaderlandse geschiedenis in thema's en een
overzicht van geschiedenis-sites
GHETA
: Groningen Historical Electronic Text
Archive (pronounced as
cheetah), was set up in 1993 with the purpose to make machine
readable historical text available on the internet. Gheta also
offers a number of datasets, that were produced in historical
research at the University of Groningen and a collection of
graphics in GIF and JPEG format.
Glass
bead game = Das
Glasperlenspiel. Short biographies from many disciplines among
which antropology, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology.
Also important writers.
History
channels.com: listen to
historic speeches of the great politicians and study the meaning
of the present date in history relating to the histories of the
civil war, the cold war, the vietnam war and of crime,
enterteinment, literary and technology.
°The Historical
Text Archive
(HTA)
originated in 1991 as an anonymous FTP site in response to the
need of historians to have an electronic storage and retrieval
site and to demonstrate the advantages of such sites for the study
and teaching of history.
History
of Japan: Short online
introduction to the history of Japan .
° History
of Science The WWW Virtual
Library for the history of science, technology and medicine was
established to keep track of information facilities in the field
of the history of science, technology and medicine.
History
Resources Resources on
history compiled by Kansas University. The resources are
subdivided chronologically (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern
Times, Contemporary History). A subdivision as to geographical
aereas has also been made. A further subdivision comprises related
disciplines, such as law, politics, government, archaeology,
economics, social history and so on.
°History/Social
studies website:The major
purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World
Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some
help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the
resources of the Internet in the classroom.
H-Russia
WWW site Discussionlist on
the historiography of Russia and SSSR, a database with relevant
bookreviews and links to related WWW sites.
Horus'
web links to history resources
Horus' purpose in collecting history sites is to introduce the
diversity of educational and research resources available on the
web not ordinarily consulted by historians and history students.
The sites include antique and decorator catalogues, real estate
ads for historical properties, post cards, genealogy resources,
local historical societies, museums outside the U.S., travel
agency and tourism information, and nonprofessional and
avocational historical organizations. Sites listed in Horus can be
found in three ways: using the alphabetical index, browsing by
category, and/or using the search engine. The links are collected
by the University of California, Riverside Department of
History.
° Hyperhistory
covers 3000 years of history people, history, events maps.
(home).
Imperatoribus
romanis. An online
encyclopedia of Roman emperors. A web site with short biographical
essays of all roman emperors from Augustus onwards, including the
rulers of Byzantium up to 1453. It includes photographs of roman
coins and statuary of roman emperors , and photographs of
Byzantine coinage.
Internet
Scout The Internet Scout
Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, provides
timely information to the education community about valuable
Internet resources. Every day sources are selected and summarized
by librarians, educators and content specialists. It includes the
weekly Scout report, daily updated 'Net-happenings' and a
searchable archive, browsable by the subject headings of the
Library of Congress classification. The project is located in the
Computer science department at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Imperium
Romanorum Tables of
Censors of the Roman Republic (280-28 BC), of Ordinary Consuls of
the Roman Republic and Empire (300 BC - AD 68) and of Roman
Emperors (27 BC - AD 1453), plus a genealogical guide to the Julio
Claudians. Prepared by Clifton R. Fox.
The
European enlightenment: is
designed as a learning module in the form of a "research
textbook." The module provides more information and in more detail
than the average freshman level world
cultures/history/civilizations textbook. It is meant to be a
resource for students to extract overall background but with
enough detail so that students can approach sophisticated and
creative assignments on the culture or history of American urban
cultures.
The
Germanic World. Links to
sites dealing with the geography, history, and culture of Germany,
Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the low countries, and England.
Theban
Mapping Project; discover
each tomb in the Valleyof Thebe in this interactive version of
their Atlas. Investigate a database of information about each
tomb, view a compilation of nearly 2,000 images, interact with
models of each tomb, and measure, pan, and zoom over 250 detailed
maps, elevations, and sections. Experience sixty-five narrated
tours by Dr. Weeks and explore a 3D recreation of tomb KV
14.
(Dutch) Kleioscoop:
Kleioscoop is een historisch naslagwerk, bedoeld als een
eerste oriëntatie op het chronologisch verloop van de
geschiedenis en als een zeer beknopte be-(om)schrijving van
de belangrijkste historische begrippen, namen en
termen.
Making
of America Making of
America (MOA)is a digital library of primary sources in American
social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of
education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and
science and technology. The collection contains approximately
1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century
imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in
preservation and electronic access to historical
texts.
Medieval
History
and Melissa
Snell your Guide at About.com to one of hundreds of
sites
keywords: history (general), literature,
medieval studies
Middle
East-North Africa Internet Resource
Guide Guide compiled by
Joseph W. Roberts of the Department of Political Science, Middle
East Center of the University of Utah. In this document the Middle
East is defined as broadly as possible as the region between
Mauritania in te west, Pakistan in the east, Somalia in the south
and the Central Asian republics in the north.
°"Renaissance,"
French for "rebirth," perfectly describes the intellectual and
economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth
through the sixteenth centuries. Genral infopages and
resources.
RomanSites
: a catalog of 1252 websites on Roman antiquity An exhaustive and
frequently updated guide to WWW services which pertain to the
history, culture, art & archaeology, religion, and other
aspects of Roman antiquity. Includes also a very extensive
collection of links to information dealing specifically with Roman
remains in all parts of the Empire (Europe, the Near East, North
Africa), according to a detailed geographical scheme.
Romantic
Chronology : links to
sites and etexts . A hypertext chronology of the Romantic era.
Politics (as well as arts and literature) if it occurred or was
written sometime between the 17th century and 1851. The Romantic
Chronology is edited by the University of California, Santa
Barbara. mirror.
The
Historical Text Archive
Site for Historians, supported by the College of Arts and Sciences
and Computing Center of Mississippi State University. Contains
materials concerning all historical subjects from all parts of the
world.
Notable
Citizens of Planet Earth :
biographical dictionary Biographical dictionary with information
on over 18,000 people from all times and places.
The
literature & culture of the American
1950's. A list of articles
and materials on literature, politics, sociology, and the arts for
a course on American literature and culture of the 1950s. Subjects
include the Cold war and communism, feminism, Freud and
psychoanalysis, sport and film. Most of the items are articles and
extracts from books, but visual materials like photographs and
posters are also included.
Webpages
Brigham Young University (Utah), maintains this page, containing
sites - including primary sources - dealing with European history,
languages and literatures.
World
History archives: recent
history of all nations described as: 'documents for learning and
teaching from a working-class and non-eurocentric
perspective.'
4000
years of women in science
A listing of 125 women, who contributed to the field of science
during the last 4000 years, except the 20th century. Biographic
and bibliographic reports. Listing by century or
alphabetically.
Go to the Linking Library
Selection
for selected resources on this subject.