General History Sites

History resources from The Institute of Historical Research

Edsitement Humanities on the web. A collection of online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. EDSITEment is a joint project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities.

Teachers Resources from the Australian Archives, the official repository for Australian government records.

The History/Social Studies Web Site This web site, created by Dennis Boals, offers tons of topics of choices, links, resources, lesson plans and other informations for k-12 social studies teachers.

YOUTH and HISTORY is the name of an empirical research project on historical consciousness and political attitudes among teenagers in 27 countries in Europe and some bordering territories. The project group consists of more than 30 researchers from all participating countries and different academic disciplines.

AMIS The Australian Museums Information System

AUMIS Australian University Museums Information System

Classroom Connect: History- Global Resources and Directory of educational sites.

Distinguished Women of Past and Present

Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations

Ethnic World Survey- Information on ethnic, native and nationistic affairs all over the world.

The History Channel- Includes from on this day in history to classroom materials.

History - General - Part of K-12 Web site.

The History Home Page- An Internet Directory for Social Studies Teachers by Bob Steel.

History Resources on the Internet- List of resources from Virginia Tech.

History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers

Mississippi State University History Archives

Skills: Teaching and learning History

Today in History -From a US perspective.

State Library of NSW

WWW Virtual Library: History Resources

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Ancient History

Giza Plateau computer model Sophisticated computer models and graphic images of archaeological sites in ancient Near East by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.

The Internet Classics Archive ...a searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary. Also a list of other classics and electronic text resources.

Guardian's Egypt - Ancient Egypt on the Web provide many links to Egyptology and Egypt resources on the WWW, and more.

Justin Paola's Collection of Roman Emperors - A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors. An illustrated list of Roman Emperors.

Link to Ancient History-This page from Joe Shetler, contains links to many ancient history resources on the Internet, grouped by geographical location and time period. Includes Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Rome and Greece.

Pompeii ForumProject The Pompeii Forum Project focuses on the urban center of Pompeii: documentation of standing remains; archaeological analysis; and urban study. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World This site includes a list, geographic map, other wonders, related links, and, answers to frequently-asked questions.

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Australian History/Studies

Parliament on the Web

Australian Historical Association's Home Page

Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia

Parliamentary Education Office provides resources and teaching strategies about Australian parliamentary government and active citizenship. Conducts teacher professional development courses in all states in conjunction with education department regional offices and local curriculum development offices.

Parliament of N.S.W.

Local Government N.S.W.

Australian Government-Great for civics - how the government works.

Australian History

Australian Museum Home Page

Australia's Indigenous People-History, culture, land rights, assimilation etc.

BOS Aboriginal History Kit

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Asian History

5000 years of Chinese History

Faculty of Asian Studies ANU

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Vietnam

ANU Vietnam documents

ANU Virtual Library - Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964

Miami State University's Vietnam War Archives

Paris Peace Accord 1973 documents

Robert McNamara's `In retrospect: The tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam'

Tonkin Gulf incident documents

US 1965 State White Paper

US Presidents' letters to Ngo Dinh Diem

Vietnam war documents and photographs

The Vietnam War Page

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European History

Alexander Palace Time Machine - Take a private tour of the Alexander Palace, just outside St Petersburg, Russia, in 1916.

Anglo Saxon Culture Resources

The Berlin Wall Falls - Berlin High School Project.

Key Western European Documents

Medieval and Anglo Saxon Recipes - More history banquet material!

Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage - Great for a history banquet

Rosa Luxemburg's Junius pamphlet, 1916

Treasures of the Czars - Florida International Museum.

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World War I

World War I Documents

World War II/Holocaust

Hitler's early anti-semitic writings

Hitler's Mein Kampf - Excerpts of anti-semitic writings.

Holocaust Archives

Nazi Documents

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Middle East and Mediterranean

Focus Multimedia - The history, culture and tourism of countries in the Mediterranean.

Israeli independence documents

Quran - Quran in English.

Scrolls from the Dead Sea

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American History

From Revolution to Reconstruction A hypertext on American history from the colonial period to modern times. This site is a collaborative writing project and contains links to documents, essays and biographies.

American Memory from the Library of Congress - Primary and archival material relating to American history and culture.

American revolution to modern times

The Federalist Papers Online

History of the US at Mississippi State University

The Lend Lease Act

Sources of Civil War Information

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