American Revolution

• American Revolutionary War Biographies (Yahooligans)
• Archiving Early America (Early American History Documents)
• Articles of Confederation
• Articles of Confederation (primary source)
• Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum
• Crispus Attucks
• Find a Grave (shows graves of famous people & their "claim to fame")
• History Place: American Revolution (Timeline with links)  
• Revolutionary War Biographies
• Sybil Ludington 
• Sybil Ludington (book excerpt)
• Sybil Ludington  (sculpture & text)
• USA: Boston Tea Party
• White House (first ladies)
• White House (Presidents)

 

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Greece:

• Ancient Greece (history, mythology, art, culture...)
• Ancient Greece (Thinkquest)
• Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Sites
• Ancient Olympics

Ancient Egypt:

• Ancient Egypt (Thinkquest)

• Ancient Egypt Site (history, monuments, language...)

• Ancient Egypt Webquest

• Mummy Maker (interactive game; articles on Egypt past & present)

• Mysteries of the Nile

• Pyramids (NOVA online)

• Sahara (PBS)

• Senet Game
   

Black History

• Abraham, Martin, and John (lyrics, Mt. Rushmore)
• Abraham, Martin, and John (music)
• African-American Mosiac
• American Slave Narratives (an online anthology)
• Black Archives of Mid-America
• Black History: The African American Journey
• Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
• Black History Month 2004:  A Civil Rights Resource
• Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (PBS companion to the film)
• Born in Slavery (primary sources from Federal Writer's Project)
• Culture and Change: Black History in America (Scholastic)
• DuSable Museum of African American History
• Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History
• Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
• Hall of Black Americans (Bridgewater State College)
• Harlem Renaissance
• Historical Text Archive: African American History
• Jackie Robinson
• MLK Web (teacher's guide)
• M. L. King
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Directory (papers project at Stanford Univ.)
• National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian)
• Negro Baseball Leagues
• Negro League Baseball
• Our Shared History (National Parks Service)
• Ralph Bunche (An American Odyssey on PBS)
• Reflections on Black History (journalist Thomas Fleming)
• Rosa Parks (her life)
• Rosa Parks (Seattle Times, 4-11-96)
• Schomburg Project (African American images in 19th century America)
• Understanding Slavery (Discovery Channel)
• We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement

Civil War
 

• American Civil War (diaries, letters, memoirs)
• American Civil War.com
• American Civil War Home Page (comprehensive site)
• American Civil War Homepage (comprehensive site)
• Andersonville
• Been Here So Long: American Slave Narratives (primary source material)
• Cavalry 
• Civil War
• Civil War Artillery
• Civil War Interactive (news, biographies, recipes, documents, etc.)
• Civil War Home Page
• Civil War Music
• Civil War Photos/Timeline (Library of Congress)
• Civil War Women (primary source documents)
• Eyewitness (Civil War--history through the eyes of those who lived it)
• Friends of the Hunley (Civil War submarine)
• Illinois in the Civil War
• Iowa Soldier Letters
• Matthew Brady's Portraits (photos & bio sketches)
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Underground Railroad (National Geographic)
• U.S. Civil War 1861-1865 (History Place--timeline, quotes, photos)
• U.S. Civil War Center

Also check Britannica Online (American Civil War)

Colonial America

• Archiving Early America (Early American History Documents)
• Betsy Ross Home Page
• Black Lives in Colonial America
• Biographies of Our Founding Fathers
• Colonial  Boundaries Map (1776)
• Colonial America 1600-1775 K12 Resources
• Colonial Occupations
• Colonial Williamsburg 
• History of the 13 Original Colonies
• Your Teacher Takes You to Colonial Virginia (basic information & good pictures)

Explorers

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• Vasco Nunez de Balboa
• John & Sebastian Cabot (National Maritime Museum, UK)  
• Hernando de Soto (a brief biography) 
• Enchanted Learning Zoom Explorers
• European Explorers
• European Explorers of the New World
• European Exploration and Settlement in the New World
• European Voyages of Exploration (Prince Henry & Columbus) 
• Explorers (Museum of New France) (some explorers)
• Explorers A-Z (an Eduscapes 42eXplore project)
• Hall of Explorers (Virtual Education Project) (includes Queen Elizabeth)
• Henry Hudson
• Henry Hudson
• Henry the Navigator
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Leif Ericson
• Leif Ericsson
• Mariner's Museum (some explorers)
• Marco Polo & His Travels
• Marco Polo Travels in China
• Pathfinders and Passageways (those who explored Canada)
•   Vikings (Smithsonian Institution exhibit)

 

Holidays

 

• Around-the-World Holidays (by country)
• Holidays Around the World 
• National Holidays (by country)

 

Holocaust
 

• Anne Frank Online
• Anne Frank's Amsterdam House
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Timeline
• Last Expression: Art From Auschwicz
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Yad Vashem

Local, State & Federal Government

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
• City of Chicago
• DuPage County
• FedWorld
• FirstGov (U.S. Government Information)
• Firstgov for Kids (links to Federal kid sites as well as some of the best kids sites from other organizations--grouped by subject)
• Illinois Legislators
• Illinois State Government
• President Calling (White House tapes of Kennedy, Johnson, & Nixon)
• Presidents of the United States--POTUS
• Project Vote Smart (a watchdog web site of useful, dependable, factual information about candidates and issues)
• THOMAS: Legislative Information
• Uncle Sam for Kids
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. President's Cabinet
• U.S. Senate
• White House
• White House (Kid's Tour)

Major Religions Study

• Six Major Religions of the World
• Top Ten Organized Religions (chart and world map)
• Buddhism (PBS)
• Christianity:  What's True Christianity?
• Hinduism:  Beliefs & Facts of Hinduism
• Islam (PBS)
• Judaism:  Judaism 101

Middle Ages

• All Things Medieval-Medieval Castles
• Castle Architecture
• Castle Builder
• Castles for Kids
• Castles of Britain Castle Learning Center
• Castles of Wales
• Castles on the Web (ideas for your castle project and heraldry)
• Coat of Arms
• Coat of Arms
• Ghosts in the Castle (National Geographic: explore a castle; basic information about trenchers, battlements, toilets, chainmail, etc.)
• Life in a Medieval Castle
• Medieval Arms Race-NOVA
• Medieval Castles
• Medieval Castles
• Medieval Castle History
• Middle Ages (feudal life, religion, clothing, homes, health, etc.)
• Middle Ages (daily life, art, pictures, etc.)
• Mostly Medieval
• Mystery in the Middle Ages

Middle East

• 100 Questions & Answers About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide
• ABC Interactive World Fact Book
• Ancient Islam
• Arabic Recipes
• ArabNet
• Ahavat Israel
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• CIA World Factbook  
• Discover Turkey
• E-Conflict World Encyclopedia (country info, flags, national anthems)
• Epicurious Food:  (recipes)
• Good Cooking: Middle Eastern Links
• Islamic Virtual School (to help understand Arabic and Islamic practices)
• Lonely Planet Destinations: Middle East (maps and info)
• Middle East and Islamic Studies Collection (Cornell Univ.)
• Palestine

Miscellaneous

 

News:

•     Chicago Tribune

•     CNN

•     Daily Herald

•     MSNBC

•     National Archives

•     National Public Radio

•     New York Times

•     USA Today

•     Washington Post

 

Personal Time Line Project:

• AnyDay -- Today in History

• dMarie Time Capsule (On This Day in History)

• Encyclopedia of Days (brief descriptions of holidays around the world)

• History Channel -- This Day in History

• On This Day (NY Times)

• On-This-Day.com

• Today in History

General:

• 20th Century (words & pictures of the Associated Press)
• 50states.com (blank state outline maps)
• Amelia Earhart' Flight Across America
• America Remembers (stories and images of 9/11)
• Angel Island (U.S. immigration portal for the Pacific 1910-1940)
• Biography.com (A&E biographical sketches)
• CIA World Fact Book
• Calendar (Perpetual calendar w/holidays)
• Chicago Historical Society
• Cold War (part of CNN's Perspective Series on the Cold War)
• Country Information: Regional & World Rankings (statistics, facts, figures, etc.)
• Country Studies (from the Library of Congress) (type in name of country, click on first link, click on Table of Contents)
• Ellis Island (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.)
• Ellis Island (History Channel multimedia site)
• Eyewitness (history through the eyes of those who lived it)
• Field Museum of Natural History -- Chicago
• HarpWeek (past issues of magazine from 1857-1912--some free features)
• History and Politics Out Loud (audio of politically significant speeches)
• History Channel Speech Archive (alphabetical by person)
• History Link 101 (Ancient history, Native Americans, World War II)
• Inside 9/11 (Reveals a clearer picture of the events of that tragic day.)
• Library of Congress -- American Memory primary source collection
• Library of Congress -- Today in History
• Lonely Planet: Destinations
• Map Machine (National Geographic)
• National Archives
• National Archives Online Exhibit Hall
• National Cryptological Museum (Civil War, Code Talkers, etc.)
• National Geographic
• National Women's History Project
• Portals to the World (indepth info about nations & other areas of the world; Library of Congress site)
• Searching for the Roots of 9/11 (how Muslin world views U.S. timeline, Q & A)
• Smithsonian Institution
• Smithsonian: National Museum of American History
• Stately Knowledge (info & links about states)
• This Day in History
• United Nations
• Vietnam Women's Memorial Project
• WW Virtual Library
• War Stories (Newseum: war correspondents on the front lines from the Civil War through Bosnia/Kosovo
• Women's History Museum
• Xpeditions Atlas (Nat'l. Geo. maps for printing & copying)

Native Americans
 

• Apache (Plains)
• Apache
• About the Buffalo
• Arapaho
• Cheyenne
• Chickasaw (Plains)
• Comanche (Plains)
• Comanche
• Daily Life of Native American Women (pictures & short descriptions)
• Hopi (Southwestern)
• Indian Cultures (a teacher project for elementary students)
• Inuit 
• Inuit
• Marilees's Native Americans Resource (multiple tribes)
• Maya for Kids
• Native American Recipes
• Native American Shelters (emuseum at MN State Univ.)
• NativeAmericans.com (many tribes listed toward bottom of home page)
• Native North America (many tribes)
• NativeTech (tribes with pencil illustrations of clothing)
• Navajo (Southwest)
• Sioux  (Plains) (best part is map of Sioux Nation)
• Sioux (Lakota or Teton)
• Southwest Native Americans (includes Apache, Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Zuni)
• WildWest.org (the "society" section is most helpful)
• Zuni (Southwest)

Also check Britannica Online (only available on school computers) and the encyclopedias on CD-ROM

Westward Movement

• Discovering Lewis & Clark
• Go West across America with Lewis & Clark

• Oregon Trail
• Lewis & Clark
• Lewis & Clark (PBS)
• Lewis & Clark Bicentennial
• Lewis & Clark:  Echoes of a Bitter Crossing
• Lewis & Clark's Historic Trail

World War I

• British History 1700-1950 -- World War I
• Doughboy Center (American forces in WWI)
• Eyewitness to World War I (through the eyes of those who lived it)
• First World War.Com
• Great War, the (PBS tie-in)
• Hezzie Goes to War  (WWI through the eyes of a Missourian)
• League of WWI Aviation Historians
• World War I - Trenches on the Web

World War II

• Navajo Code Talkers
• Navajo Code Talkers Fact Sheet (Dept.of Navy)
• Voices of World War II (experiences from the front and at home)
• What Did You Do in the War, Grandma? (project w/links to glossary terms)
• World War II Links (nicely arranged by catagory)