Geologic Time: Story of a Changing Earth 
An interactive geologic timeline from the Smithsonian:
http://paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/main/
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The Victorian Web
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American Institute of Physics online exhibits
Exhibits and other online resources for history of physics and allied fields http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits.html
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American Journeys
American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. http://www.americanjourneys.org/
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American Local History Network 
Welcome to the American Local History Network, a central point of entry into independent, genealogical and historical web sites. If you are interested in hosting an American Local History state or a topic, we welcome your participation. If you are interested in hosting a county please email the state coordinator. Thank you for stopping by ALHN we hope you enjoyed your visit and look forward to seeing you again.http://www.alhn.org/_sgt/f10000.htm
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American Rhetoric
The American Rhetoric Web site is dedicated to Public
Communication of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Rhetorical Figures in
Sound, Movie Speeches and more. It feature "The
Top 100 Speeches," considered "the most significant speeches in
American history" according to leading scholars and compiled by two
researchers in the field. Users can view speeches by rank or decade, as well as
by categories.A full-text transcript is available for each speech and an MP3
audio file is available for most.http://www.americanrhetoric.com
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American Women's History - A Research Guide
American Women's History is designed to assist serious researchers, such as history professors, independent scholars, graduate students, and possibly upper-division undergraduates. Many of the Digital Collections of Primary Sources are appropriate for high school and perhaps middle school students. Librarians who assist these researchers and students may also want to become familiar with the guide. http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html |
Ancient Mesopotamia
See also related Teacher Resource Center ( http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/TRC/MESO/mesohome.html): Ancient Mesopotamia: This History, Our History is made possible from funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This online resource will feature significant artifacts from the Mesopotamian collection of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute is partnering with Chicago Web Docent and eCUIP, The Digital Library to develop curriculum based interactives, a learning collection of digitized artifacts, and an online professional development course for K—12 educators nationwide. Educators from diverse neighborhoods of the city of Chicago will assist us with varied aspects of the development, evaluation and testing of the project. We anticipate that This History, Our History will become a model teaching and learning tool for use in classrooms across the nation. http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu /
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Ancient Web 
Ancient Web includes the Art, Culture and History of Ancient Patagonia, Ancient Gaul, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Romania, and Spain: http://www.ancientweb.org/
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Archive of Americana
Since 1948, the Readex name has been synonymous with the nation's most renowned historical collections. Now Readex has embarked on a series of projects to create a digital Archive of Americana by combining searchable text and digital images with Internet delivery. From the formative years of the American nation to its more recent history, this robust resource provides students and scholars with a treasure trove of primary source material. http://www.readex.com/
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Authentic History Center
The Authentic
History Center
is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was
created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical
value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them.
Additionally, a large audio archive of speeches
and news broadcasts are presented for students to experience a level of
historical authenticity distinct from written sources. The Authentic History
Center is an ambitious
work-in-progress and always will be.
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Best of History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories. BOHWS has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students, but general history enthusiasts will benefit from the site as well. Best of History Web Sites is ranked #1 by Google for "history web sites" and receives upwards of 65,000 visitors and 125,000 page views per month. Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Included are links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages. However, useful general resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well. http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml
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British History Online
British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the world in their learning, teaching and research http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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Center for History and New Media
Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has used digital media and computer technology to change the ways that people—scholars, students, and the general public—learn about and use the past. We do that by bringing together the most exciting and innovative digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship. We believe that serious scholarship and cutting edge multimedia can be combined to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad historical literacy that fosters deep understanding of the most complex issues about the past and present. http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php
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Digital History
Using new technologies to enhance teaching and research - An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
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Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research. http://docsouth.unc.edu/
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EDSITEment
The Best of the Humanities on the Web - from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom. http://edsitement.neh.gov/
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eHistory
Ohio State Univeristy’s extensive collection of historical
media presentations and primary sources http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Art to Zoology - a huge compendium of resources, primary and secondary: http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/
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Founding.com
A project of The Claremont Institute, Founding.com is dedicated to making the documents and principles of the American Founding accessible to educators and students of all ages. The site includes the "Founders Library", an extensive collection of writings and documents by the American Founders and statesmen of the early republic. Founding.com is a remarkable and valuable primary source library. http://www.founding.com/
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From Revolution to Reconstruction
A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands The main body of this hypertext project, which was started in 1994, comes from a number of USIA-publications: An Outline of American History, An Outline of the American Economy, An Outline of American Government, and An Outline of American Literature. The text of these Outlines has not been changed, but they have been enriched with hypertext-links to relevant documents, original essays, other Internet sites, and to other Outlines http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/index.htm
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Institute maintains this website to serve as a portal for American history on the Web; to offer high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public; and to provide up-to-the-minute information about the Institute's programs and activities http://www.gilderlehrman.org/index.html
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History Matters
Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
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History of Nations
Welcome to History of Nations! This site has a history of every nation in the world. Each country is covered by a brief essay which gives the highlights of each nation's history. All information is based on content from the US State Department with new material added. http://www.historyofnations.net/
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Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Immigration to the United
States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of selected
historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that
documents voluntary immigration to the US from the signing of the
Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/
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Interactive Geological Time Scale
Select multiple time periods from a list and display them on
an Interactive Geological Time Scale. http://www.earthscienceworld.org/timescale/index.html
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International World History Project
World History From The Pre-Sumerian Period To The Present - A Collection Of World History Related Essays, Documents, Maps and Music
This world history site contains a collection of world history related essays, documents, maps, music and video outlining human history and progress from the Neolithic era to the present including the history of the ancient world, Africa, Europe, Asia, India, the Middle East, Australia and the Americas. There is a section containing historical documents such as the Magna Carta and the American Declaration of Independence and, as science, philosophy and religion have played major roles in the accent of humankind and the development of civilization, we have included sections relating to world religions, philosophies and scientific discoveries and ideas. http://history-world.org
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Library of Congress Flickr pilot
The Library of Congress invites you to explore history visually by looking at interesting photos from our collections. The Library’s Prints and Photographs Division houses some 14 million items, ranging from historical photographs and architectural drawings to advertising labels and posters from all over the world. You can find more than one million pictures among the digitized collections in the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog at the Library of Congress Web site. You might also enjoy the special presentations of photos also appear in American Memory and Exhibitions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/collections/72157601355524315/
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Museum of Underwater Archaeology
The online Museum of Underwater Archaeology was created to help
underwater archaeologists and maritime historians present their
research to the public via the Internet. http://www.uri.edu/mua/
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NYPL Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 450,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
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Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends
"A heartfelt good morrow and welcome to Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends. The pages that follow are dedicated to those of you who have dreamed, as I have dreamed, or longed for the days of long, long ago." An award winning history site covering "The Dawn of Man" through the 20th Century. Very comprehensive. http://www.odinscastle.org/
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Picture History
Picture History is an on-line archive of images and film footage illuminating more than 200 years of American history. Included in its holdings is the acclaimed Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 19th century photography as well as thousands of images that have been researched and acquired by Kunhardt Productions for use in historical documentaries over the past fifteen years. Picture History is intended for the personal use of students, educators, scholars, and the general public curious about the past. High resolution images and film footage are available for professional and personal licensing. http://www.picturehistory.com/ |
Sacred Destinations
Welcome to Sacred Destinations - a catalogue and travel guide to more than 1,500 (and counting!) sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, historical sites, religious buildings and religious artifacts around the world. Our hope is that this information on sacred sites will be useful to spiritual travelers as well as anyone interested in religion, history, archaeology, architecture or travel. Start your exploration with one of the links below or the search box above or browse our fancy new interactive world map. http://www.sacred-destinations.com/
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Museum on the Web is the online experience of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. With the help of a $1 million grant of technology and expertise from IBM, the NMAAHC Museum on the Web represents a unique partnership to use innovative IBM expertise and services to bring the stories of African American History to a global audience. Conceived from the very beginning as a fully virtual precursor to the museum to be built on the Washington Mall, this is the first time a major museum is opening its doors on the Web prior to its physical existence. http://nmaahc.si.edu/
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Talking History
Talking History, based at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is a production, distribution, and instructional center for all forms of "aural" history. Our mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources as is available anywhere.
http://www.albany.edu/talkinghistory/index.html
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The Avalon Project
The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to
the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We
do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by
linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/
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The Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas, edited by Philip P. Wiener, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1973-74. The Dictionary of the History of Ideas also appeared in Chinese- and Japanese-language editions. However, the DHI has been out of print for many years. Aware of the new potential offered by electronic access to texts, the Directors and Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas authorized a grant to support digitization of the DHI. Substantial support has also been provided by the University of Virginia Library through its Electronic Text Center. The project has been undertaken with the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons and of The Gale Group, of which Scribner's is a part. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html
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The Food Timeline
Ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Welcome to the Food Timeline. Food history is full of fascinating lore and contradictory facts. Historians will tell you it is not possible to express this topic in exact timeline format. They are quite right. Everything we eat is the product of culinary evolution. On the other hand? It is possible to place both foods and recipes on a timeline based on print evidence and historic context. This is what we're all about. http://www.foodtimeline.org/
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The Internet History Sourcebooks
The Internet History Sourcebooks are (extraordinarily comprehensive!) collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
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Women in World History Curriculum's Site
This unique site is full of information and resources to help you learn about women’s history in a global, non- U.S., context. http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/ |
Women Working, 1800 - 1930
Women Working, 1800 - 1930 focuses on women's role in the United States economy and provides access to digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library and museum collections. The collection features approximately 500,000 digitized pages and images http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/ |
World Lecture Hall
World Lecture Hall publishes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language. Some courses are delivered entirely over the Internet. Others are designed for students in residence. Many fall somewhere in between. In all cases, they can be visited by anyone interested in courseware on the Internet - faculty, developers, and curious students alike. http://web.austin.utexas.edu/wlh/browse.cfm
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