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History

Best of History Web Sites
"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."

Historical Text Archive
"Dr. Donald J. Mabry's Historical Text Archive, the first Internet-based file storage and retrieval site for historians, has won over forty Awards. The Archive has published 61 books in electronic form."

History Guide
Developed in 1995 at the Goettingen State and University Library, one of the five largest in Germany, this site allows browsing and searching of world history sites from ancient times to the present.

History Matters
"A project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Visible Knowledge Project. Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence."

History Net
"Brought to you by the Primedia History Group, the world's largest publisher of history magazines."

Hyper History Online
"HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic seeing at the same time, or more accurately Parallel Views, lifelines, timelines, and maps."

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
A project of Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "this site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."

The 1911 Encyclopedia
A free online transcription of the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, it "contains over 40,000 articles written by over 1,500 authors within their various fields of expertise and was considered to represent the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th Century."

Making of America
"Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."

PBS History
In addition to featured sites tying in with PBS programming and a topical index, there are links for kids and educators.

Picture History: the Primary Source for History Online
"Find the pictures you need in this easy to use digital library of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history."

Timelines of History
Words of wisdom from the Read Me file: "Timelines of World History contains numerous files arranged first in universal \ files by date, then by country, then by assorted subjects as listed on the main page. Also included are Today in History files. The local search engines are powerful tools but spelling needs to be precise."

Virtual Library History Central Catalogue
Begun in 1993 by the University of Kansas, it has evolved into a network of gateways maintained by volunteers.