Bishop Ireton Library/Media Information Commons

 

School Subjects   History 

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"People who take no pride in the noble achievement of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. "   Thomas Macaulay  

General

• Best of History Sites provides links to more than 1000 of the best history sites on the Web, plus links to hundreds of quality links for history teachers.
• Castles on the web
• Eyewitness-history through the eyes of those Who lived it   Options start with the Ancient World and continue through the 20th Century and World War II.
• Globalization 101.org  Globalization101.org is dedicated to providing students with information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities on this complex phenomenon. Our goal is to challenge you to think about many of the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers.
• History Channel  Web site of the educational and entertaining TV station; check out Today in History
• The History Net  Where history lives on the net; the picture of the day is a highlight
• March is Women's History Month
• Multicultural Calendar Information about holidays by Month, holiday, or country. 
• Histor eSearch.com  Your online history research resource. This site is intended for use by students, educators and history buffs. All resources and links to this site have been previewed for quality of academic content. 
  Ms. Melanson's History Homepage
• Mr. Rauer's History Homepage
• Repository of Primary Sources
• The September 11 Digital Archive
• This Day in History
• History Website
• The Western Civilization Webography  Each website in the Project database has been reviewed by one or more students, and has a rating attached to it, based upon a series of criteria, including the site's accuracy, currency, and objectivity. In addition, each record includes a brief word annotation, describing the contents of the site and its strengths and weaknesses. All records are fully searchable, either by keyword or according to a pre-determined scheme.

United States History

• African American Mosaic
• American Memory

• American History Franklin Institute

  1. Lewis and Clark: The Journey of The Corps of Discovery
  2. The Salem Witchcraft Trials
  3. America's Revolutionary War
  4. American Revolution
  5. George Washington

  6. Papers of George Washington

  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. William Henry Jackson: Frontier Photographer & Artsist Archive
  9. Sitting Bull
  10. Lakota Sioux
  11. Tatanka Yotanka - Better Known as Sitting Bull
  12. Oregon Trail
  13. The Donner Party
  14. Little Big Horn History
  15. Civil War - An Illinois Soldier
  16. Civil War Photos
  17. The Civil War Home Page
  18. The Abraham Lincoln Bibliophile
  19. The Underground Railroad
  20. Douglass: Archive of American Public Addresses
  21. Voices from The Dust Bowl
  22. World War One, The Great War
  23. American Involvement in WWII
  24. Normandy: 1944
  25. Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
  26. The Atomic Age
  27. Civil Rights
  28. The Vietnam War
  29. Battlefield: Vietnam
  30. The Great Seal of the United States
  31. Documents in Law, History, and Government
  32. A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
  33. The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
  34. dMarie Time Capsule
  35. You Be The Historian
  36. American Women's History: A Research Guide
  37. National First Ladies Library American Experience: The Presidents
  38. A Great Day in Harlem
  39. The American Immigrant Wall of Honor
  40. Hyper History Online
  41. Presidential Portrait Collection
  42. American Treasures from The Library of Congress
  43. Making of America Art Page
  44. Today in History
  45. Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape
  46. American Variety Stage 1870 - 1920
  47. Cultural US History Maps
  48. Historic Philadelphia
  49. Historic Valley Forge
  50. Betsy Ross Homepage
  51. National Archives and Record Administration
  52. K-12 History Internet Resources Guide
  53. Stories from American History in Music Video
  54. Happy Birthday, America
  55. Inaugural Adresses of Presidents of the United States
  56. American Memory
  57. Growth of a Nation
  58. EASE History
   
• Archiving Early America  This site features discussion groups, maps, writings, famous documents, photographs, an online journal and other information related to early America.Black History
• The Underground Railroad
• The African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
• African-American Mosaic Exhibition
• Black History Facts
• Black History Pages from Education First
• The Faces of Science: African-Americans in The Sciences
• University of Pennsylvania's African Studies Directory
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• National Civil Rights Museum
• Today in Black History
• The Two Nations of Black America
• Civil Rights Oral History Documentation Project
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
• Culture and Change: Black History in America
• African-American History & Culture
• Martin Luther King: The Time 100

 

• Civil War Women  Primary Sources on the Internet
• GovSpot State Information
• How Our Laws are Made
• Images of American Political History  Over 500 public domain pictures
• Postcards from America
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States
• Spy letters of the American Revolution  Here are stories of spy networks, Benedict Arnold, female spies, maps of spy letter routes, digitized pictures of the actual letters and the text.
• WWII Resources  Primary Source material
• The 50 states of the United States Capital Cities and Information Links
• American History 102
  

   

Countries of the World

• CIA World Fact Book
• Country Studies  This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. 
• Country Watch
• The Department of State Background Notes

World History

• Castles of the World
• Castles of Britain
• Castles of Wales
• Castles on the Web
• Chateau de Versailles
• Greek Medicine
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook  The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history.
• Korean History Online
• Labyrinth
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity -Exploring the French Revolution
• Medieval World  some information on castles
• Medieval World  History Web Sites
• Ms. Melanson's Modern European History Page
• Rome Resources
• Russian History Documents
• Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• Yahoo's Pages on Roman History

 Biography

• A&E Biography
• Biography Center
• Biographical Dictionary
• Distinguished Women of the Past & Present
• Famous Hispanics in the World & History
• Inventors
• Start Your Genealogy Research  from the National Archives
• The Time 100  A site dedicated to profiling the 100 people whom Time Magazine has named the most influential of the century
• Who 2  Find famous people fast
• Academy of Achievement
• American National Biography (NTHS Database)
• AmericanPresident.org
• Dead People Server
• James Madison Papers
• Nobel Laureates
• The Presidents of the United States
• Philosophers
• Who's Who in American History: Civil War to the Present
• Yahoo - Society and Culture: People