History
[Decades
and Days in History] [General History] [New
York History] [US History] [World History]
RFA's AP
History Class Assignment Help Sheet
Decades
and Days in History
- Any
Day in History from Scopes Systems allows you to enter any date and view
the important events in history
- The
History Channel's This Day in History provides the events of the date
in many different areas. You may also look up a particular date such as your
birthdate.
- Resources
Covering Many Decades (a research guide prepared at Jervis Public Library)
March 2005
- The
Sixties (a research guide prepared at Jervis Public Library)
- Those
Were the Days is provided by a radio related web site, so it includes
many popular culture events in addition to news that happened on a particular
date. Choose a day form the calendar.
General
History Resources
- Current
Value of Old Money provides sources for comparing inflation in history
and around the world.
- History
Buff's Homepage
- The
History Guide is "an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly
relevant information in history." It comes highly recommended in the
fields of history and librarianship.
- Oral
History Webquest provides information on how to collect an oral history
and transform it into a script. The focus is on war veterans. When you finsih
teh script, submit it for filming consideration!
New York
History
United
States History
- AMDOCS
- Documents for the study of American History.
- American
Civil War Homepage
- American
Currency Exhibit provides pictures of currency through the ages by era.
- American
Presidents Life Portraits from C-Span offers biographical facts, key events,
presidential places, and a wealth of reference material.
- American
Memory Site
- The
American West features information on many issues concerning the American
West including images in film, the expansion west as a reult of immigration,
and outlaws and other people of the West. The content begins about three screens
below the first page--so scroll down.
- Appalachian
History at Bland County History Archives is a site that explores the history
of people in the Appalachian Mountains.
- Archiving
Early America includes historic documents from 18th century America and
crossword puzzles!
- Avalon
Project at the Yale Law School is a document based historical archive
of legal, economic, and executive material including the executive order regarding
the September 11th attacks on America.
- Best
of History Web Sites is a portal to over 1000 award-winning history websites.
- Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute has numerous permanent, travelling, and special
exhibits available online covering the era of segregation to the birth of
the Civil Rights Movement.
- Born
in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.
- Cases
and Materials on American Federalism is a resource for a course on American
Government at Purdue University. It provides primary source documents and
links to free resources on the web.
- Cesar
Chavez and migrant farm workers (a research guide prepared at Jervis Public
Library)
- Chronicles
of the Pilgrim Fathers is available full text thanks to Bibliomania.
- Chronology
of US Historical Documents provides links to the full text of importnant
North American historical documents from pre-colonial times to the present.
Included are the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, and the Iroquois Constitution
among many others.
- Civil
War Cartoons explores the way the cartoons shaped and reflected the political
and social climate of the times.
- Currency
Gallery provides a history of US paper money with many crisp images.
- DOUGLASS:
Archives of American Public Address
- Emergence
of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 is searchable by product and includes
a timeline of what Americans were using when. Provided by Duke University.
- Emory
Law Library's Electronic Reference Desk
- The
Founding Fathers Info is strong on the lives of early American presidents.
It also contains the text of the Federalist Papers as well as quotes, and
historical information about the American Flag.
- From
Revolution to Reconstruction is an American History textbook provided
by The Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
.
- Gilder-Lehrman
Institue of American History provides primary sources for many topics
in American history including slavery, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans.
There is also a large collection of historical maps and other images.
- The
Haymarket Affair provides original documents, manuscripts, photgraphs,
and artifacts relating to the violent confrontation in Chicago in 1886.
- Hezzie
Goes to War: WWI Through the Eyes of a Mid-Missourian features letters
the soldier wrote home as well as museum type artifacts--uniforms, etc.
- Historical
Text Archive
- History
and Politics Out Loud is searchable and browsable allowing access to voices
in history including FDR, JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Richard Nixon
to name a few.
- History
Central includes primary source documents from American History and encylopedia-like
entries on topics in world history.
- The
History of the Televised Presidential Debates is sponsored by The History
Channel.
- The
Mayflower Web Pages was created by a descendant of Mayflower travellers
and provides access to primary sources as well as other Internet sites. This
is full of great historical perspective articles including articles about
women and girls on the Mayflower, myths surrounding the Mayflower, and Squanto.
- Mount
Rushmore: American Experience celebrates the history and meaning in conjuction
with the PBS series.
- National
Archives and Records Administration
- National
Security Archives provides the full text of previously classified documents.
- Navajo
Code Talkers is the FAQ developed by the US Navy.
- Naval
War Heroes 1780-1815(a research guide prepared at Jervis Public Library)
- On
this Date in North American Indian History
- The
Oregon Trail was developed to accompany a PBS documentary. It includes
information about the trail and the towns through which it passed as well
as full text of diaries of people who journeyed on the Oregon Trail.
- The
Political Graveyard is the "web site that tells where the dead politicians
are buried." For US politicians only
- The
Port Chicago Disaster leads students through "the worst home front
disaster of World War II" using photographs, maps, and quotes both from
the time of the disaster up to 1999 when President Clinton pardoned those
accused of mutiny.
- Presidents
of the United States provides links to comprehensive information about
presidnets of the US.
- The
Race to Build the Atomic Bomb looks at the people and science involved
in the project and provides links to resources for further research.
- Retro
Page featuring the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90's.
- Salem
Witch Trials (a research guide prepared at Jervis Public Library)
- Through
the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection
- What
Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
World
History
- Avalon
Project at the Yale Law School provides documents from the world's history
including the Magna Carta and the Law of Kings from Ancient Rome.
- The
Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb from the Truman Presidential Museum &
Library has scanned documents, photographs, oral histories, and much more
information connected to the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
- Cleopatra:
A Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World provides a timeline, a glossary,
and maps of Cleopatra's world.
- Codes
and Ciphers in the Second World War is a site containing much information
and interactive activities regarding spying and secret codes. Also included
are original documents created during the war.
- British
Monarchy
- BUBL
LINK to British History Resources.
- De
Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
- Documenting
A Democracy: Australia's Story is dedicated to primary source documents
from Australia's history
- Early
Modern Europe: The Witch Hunts includes primary and secondary resources
for European and American witch hunts including Salem.
- EuroDocs:
Western European Primary
- Eyewitness:
History Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It includes primary source materials
for eras and countries from the ancient world through the 20th century.
- Famous
Trials by Doug Lindner, professor at the University of Misouri at Kansas
City, includes information on famous trials in history as well as links to
other quality resources for information on trials.
- Feudalism
Web Quest: Japan and Europe
- German
Unification: A Case Study allows the student to assume the role of a German
citizen who weighs the costs and benefits of reunification.
- Global
Connections: Putting World Events in Context is a public televison companion
website. It provides background information to lay the fround for understanding
events in the Middle East.
- History
Central includes primary source documents from American History and encylopedia-like
entries on topics in world history.
- History!
History! is a professor's site which covers ancient, medival, and modern
history with online "web books.".
- History in the News:
Middle East is a collection of resources maintained by The University at Albany's
History Department.
- The
Holocaust
- International
Joan of Arc Society
- Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
- Internet
Medieval History Sourcebook
- Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
- Japanese
Internment (a research guide prepared at Jervis Public Library)
- Kosovo
(a research guide prepared at Jervis Public Library)
- Last
Expression: Art from Auschwitz
- "Letters
From Iwo Jima" provides primary sources about letters which Japanese
soldiers sent their loved ones while they, and their American opponents, faced
a brutal battle and death on the island of Iwo Jima
- Maps
of War is a multimedia site dedicated to producing diverse, creative visuals
that enhance our understanding of war and its history.
- The
Mary Rose is a site dedicated to the sixteenth century war ship built
by King Henry VIII
- Medieval
Technology Homepage provides information on inventions from 500 to 1600
in western Europe and how the technology changed the way people lived.
- Nineteenth
Century Explorations of Australia includes the routes and names of explorers
in Australia
- Time
Ref contains detailed timelines and biographies for British and Scottish
history from 800 to 1499.
- Victorian
British History
- To
Save a Life: Stories of Jewish Rescue
- Voices
of the Holocaust is a project of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
It includes the text and, in some cases, audio files of interviews with Holocaust
survivors conducted in 1946.
- Women
in World History
- Worst
Jobs in History takes you on a journey through 2,000 years of British
history and the worst jobs of each era.
- Written
in Stone: Inscriptions from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia provides
information on petroglyphs and Arabic writing.
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