Internet Information Sources

History & Social Sciences

Calendars and Dates

• 440 International - Those Were the Days - The folks at TWtD spend hours every day scouring the Web for vital, entertaining links to the events and birthdays in TWtD.
  www.440.com/twtd/today.html
• History Channel - This site features a column on "This Dayin History" which lists significant events on the current date. It also provides additional events by category.
  www.historychannel.com
• Library of Congress - Today in History - Today in History is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
  lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
• On This Day in North American Indian History - Based on the book This Day in North American Indian History. Links to the current months and events which have occurred on those dates.
  americanindian.net
• Scope Systems - Today in History - Birthdays and historical events listed by year for the current date. Ability to search other dates. World holidays and religious observances are also listed.
  www.scopesys.com/today

United States History

• African American Pamphlets Homepage - A review of African-American history and culture, spanning almost one hundred years from the early nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
  lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
• American Civil War Homepage - The American Civil War Homepage gathers together in one place hypertext links to the most useful identified electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865).
  sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war
• Colonial Williamsburg - The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation official web site for the history of Colonial Williamsburg.
  www.history.org/History/index.cfm
• Library of Congress - The African-American Mosaic - This is the online exhibit of The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
  lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
• Library of Congress Learning Page - This page is especially aimed at teachers, providing resources and links to over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films and audio recordings.
  lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu
• Salem Witch Museum Education - Salem, Mass. - Official web site of the Salem Witch Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
  www.salemwitchmuseum.com/
• The US Civil War Center - Official web site of the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University.
  www.cwc.lsu.edu
• US Historical Documents - The University of Oklahoma, College of Law, index of US Historical documents. A chronology of documents from the Pre-colonial period to the present.
  www.law.ou.edu/hist

World History

• Hyperhistory - HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
  www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project - The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historicaltexts presented for educational use.
  www.fordham.edu/halsall/
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of the Holocaust, and memorial to the people murdered.
  www.ushmm.org/museum
• The Virtual Library Index of Resources for History - The World Wide Virtual Library Central Catalogue of history resources on the web.
  vlib.iue.it/history/

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