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History
colonial
to 1860
Civil
War
1870's
to WW I
1920
to WW II
International
Note: These sites are not maintained by Konawaena High School. We do not control their content or availability. (many of the below sources, though reorganized, were copied from Scott's Research Library)
Best of History - Best of History Web Sites contains links to 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. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages; however useful resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well. A special section called Teaching With Technology contains articles about integrating computers in the classroom. A great tool for locating good sites created by Thomas Daccord, history teacher and an instructional technology consultant.
Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern - 20,000 entries with a search engine
EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents from Western Europe, developed by Richard Hacken at Brigham Young University
Galaxy Website: History Resources on the Web
GradLinks Page, from the H-Grad Discussion Forum, an excellent index for scholars and graduate students in history and related fields
High School Hub (World History)
History Channel, including a searchable archive. Note in particular the interactive 20th century timeline
HistoryNet: Assorted Historical Resources
History Place, with documents and pictures from U.S. and global sources
History Webring, a webring of over 1100 websites devoted to various aspects of history and historical research
Institute of Historical Research, an excellent site dedicated to historical research online, sponsored by the University of London's School of Advanced Study.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook, a master directory of college-level educational
Schrock's Guide for Educators: World History Links resources
Mr. Jenkins' History Links, an index for high school and college students who are searching for quality history resources
Nobel Prizes for Economics and Peace
Teaching the Middle East - Scholars from the University of Chicago developed this teacher resource to provide an overview of Middle Eastern cultures and their contributions to the world.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948 by the United Nations
Voice of the Shuttle: History Research Resources on the Web, an excellent starting point for your research
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U.S. History Resources
American Memory: Library of Congress History Resources
Archiving Early America: 18th Century Resources
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School, an excellent directory of historical, legal, and diplomatic documents from the 18th through 20th centuries.
Could You Be President? - Do you think it is hard to be President? Maybe you could do it. Simcountry is a multiplayer Internet game in which you are the president, commander in chief, and industrial leader. You have to make the tough decisions about cutting or raising taxes, how to allocate the federal budget, what kind of infrastructure you want, etc. You also have to decide when to go to war and how to defend your country against attacks. It is very detailed and realistic. If you can beat the other presidents, you can win cash awards. Be warned, playing the game is addictive.
Hypertexts of American Classics at the University of Virginia, with online editions of many classic American work
High School Hub (U.S. History)
MultiEducator Links: Assorted U.S. History Resources
Popular and electoral voting data from all U.S. Presidential elections
Primary Documents in American History
- Declaration of Independence
- U.S. Constitution
- The Bill of Rights
- The Federalist Papers
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
- Guide to American Historical Documents Online
- Charters of Freedom from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
United States Civil War Center: U.S. Civil War-Related Web Links
World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath, by Julie K. Rose
Images, Issues, and Thought of the 20th Century
What were the great lessons and global events of the 20th Century? This collection should aid research and provoke discussion. Note: These sites cover both U.S. and global events and topics of the 20th Century. The links are listed in rough categories that divide the century, but students are urged to examine sites further for exact timelines of events.
20th Century Documents Archive from the Avalon Project, an excellent index of critical documents related to 20th Century events in the U.S., from Yale University's Law School
About.com's 20th Century History Links Page
American Cultural History: A Retrospective Decade by Decade Look, from Kingwood College Library, with detailed glimpses at each decade through the 1980s
American Radicalism Collection, including images and information from Michigan State University's Special Collection
Culture of the 20th Century - the 20th, Century has seen many cultural changes, and many world changing events and technologies. Not only has the map of the world been drastically altered, the mixture of cultures has enabled cultural exchange at an unprecedented level. Further technological advances have made changes in fashion, access to technology, and upward mobility possible that were impossible in times past.
Decades articles (WorldBook) - hundreds of subject specific articles by the year. A wonderful thorough resource! (see librarian for access)
Digital National Security Archive, another collection of key national policy documents, made available by Chadwyck-Healey, a leading electronic publisher in the humanities and social sciences
Facing History and Ourselves, a website for educating others about examining history and human behavior
Internet Modern History Sourcebook: America As World Leader: Internal Change, a broad collection of documents and reports on the transformation of the U.S. during the 20th century
Issues in Depth - these special news packages from The Learning Network take a closer look at some of the historic and current issues that have changed our world. Each includes numerous classroom resources, such as lesson plans, quizzes, questionnaires, slide shows, crosswords and historical Times articles
Lectures on 20th Century Europe, from the History Guide
Let the Bloody Truth Be Told: A Chronology of U.S. Imperialism, including a timeline of U.S. troop interventions, 1890-2001
National Security Archive, a collection of significant documents regarding U.S. international activities, from George Washington University
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Time 100: Time.com's Directory of 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, with online profiles of each of the selected individuals
Time Warp: 1900 vs. Now, a feature that allows comparisons of many aspects of life and critical changes that have swept the world during the 20th century
Balfour Declaration, 1917, a background piece from MidEast Web devoted to explaining the factors leading up to Britain's creation of an independent Jewish settlement (which became Israel in 1948) in the land known as "Palestine"
Gilded Age & Progressive Era Cartoons, (Thomas Nast) from Ohio State University's History department
World War I: Trenches on the Web, including pictures, art, postcards, and maps
The Great Depression and the New Deal
America in the 1930s: An Online Project, from the University of Virginia's online archival research
Black Thursday: October 24, 1929, a look at the New York Times coverage before, during, and after the Stock Market crash of 1929
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940, a collection of nearly 3000 documents of life histories from the Depression years of the 1930s
New Deal Network, with information on the New Deal Era (1930s) of the U.S
Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929, from the Library of Congress American Memory Project
Freedom and Revolution: The Bolshevik Experience, discussing the impact and aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution that brought the Communists to power
Soviet Archives Exhibit and Virtual Tours, from the Library of Congress
A-Bomb Web Museum, from Japan
Cybrary of the Holocaust, an exemplary resource for educators
German Propaganda Archive, containing a wide range of documents of Nazi and East German Propaganda produced before 1933 and between 1933 and 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Gallery, an incredible collection of images of the horrors of the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945
Holocaust Chronicle, an interactive and extensive chronological profile of events leading up to and during the holocaust
Italian Life Under Fascism, a virtual portion of the Fry Collection of research about Italian fascism, from the University of Wisconsin Library Special Collections Division
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46, the official website containing details about the trials
Powers of Persuasion: World War II Posters
Rise of Hitler and the Destruction of the German Left, by Leon Trotsky, from the Trotsky Internet Archive
Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Unknown to Dictator of Germany, a complete historical series in 24 chapters, from The History Place
Survivors of the SHOAH Visual History Foundation, created by Steven Spielberg as an effort to chronicle the firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and witnesses
Weimar Republic (Germany, 1918-1933), a directory of related links to sites covering this turbulent era in Germany during which Hitler rose to power
What is Fascism, 1932, by Benito Mussolini, an essay that lays out the fundamental tenants of fascism as conceived by the head of the Italian Fascist Party
WW II Commemoration Resources, from Grollier Interactive's website
Cold War (CNN
Special Series): Online Resources
In conjunction with this series, the National
Security Archive has made available online these accompanying resources:
Cold War Documents,
Cold War Interviews
Cold War International History Project (CWIHP), an ongoing project from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Cold War Resources - The Cold War was a period of intense political pressure and turmoil that affected a variety of different countries including Germany, Russia and the United States. The name comes about from the fact that it wasn't actually a war in the sense that there wasn't any real fighting between the countries. It continued until well past the 1980s, with all sides using sneaking tactics in terms of espionage.
The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951, from Professor Doug Linder's Famous American Trials directory at the University of Missouri/Kansas City Law School
McCarthyism: A Historical Retrospective, with a detailed index of key events in the life of Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist agenda in the U.S.
The John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, a website accompanying the JFK Museum in Boston, Massachusetts
Civil Rights Movement: A Guide to Web Resources from Lycos
Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography from the Mississippi Humanities Council
Eyes on the Prize: A Viewer's Guide, developed to accompany the award-winning PBS television series later available on video (needs Adobe Acrobat to view)
MalcolmX: A Research Site, a site devoted to expanding understanding of Malcolm's perspective and the Black Liberation Movement in the U.S
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, an archiving project at Stanford University
National Civil Rights Museum Home Page, including a Virtual Tour of major events covered in the museum
Oral History and the Civil Rights Movement
PhotoTour of the Civil Rights Movement, from the Seattle Times Online
Will the Circle be Unbroken?: An Audio History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities, from the Southern Regional Council
1960s: A Guide to Web Resources from Lycos
America's War on Poverty: A Guide, from Blackside Films
Flower Power - When people think of America in the 1960s, they often have a romanticized idea of a decade of great music, liberal idealism, and Flower Power. It was the time when the post war baby boomers were in their adolescence, embracing counter culture ideals, expanding their minds through all kinds of drugs, and truly, living life to the fullest. The Flower Power movement reached its climax at the Woodstock Festival held in upstate New York in 1969 when an estimated 500,000 people lived in peace and harmony for three unforgettable days.
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement of the Late 1960s/Early 1970s, from Duke University Library's Special Collections archive
Free Speech Movement Archives, a guide to the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. Pay special attention to the materials on Mario Savio, who was one of the leaders of the movement at UC Berkeley
Sixties.com, devoted to the art, culture, and music of the times
The Sixties Project, a scholarly review of events and perspectives on the sixties and the Viet Nam War from the University of Virginia. Available also is the SIXTIES-L Discussion List for further online research and discussion
Stew Albert's Yippie Reading Room, devoted to the Yippie Movement and selected work by and about Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Stew Albert, and social activism in the 1960s
The Psychadelic 60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change, a project of the University of Virginia Library. Of special note: the year 1968, a major turning point in modern American (and world) history
Six Day Middle East War, June 1967, a description of Israel's 6 Day War against Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq which led to its territorial expansion
Israel and Arabs: The Myths that Block Peace, commentary on the 1967 6-day war published in 1969
Prague Spring: 1968, a 30-year retrospective of the Soviet invasion of Prague, Czechoslovakia sponsored by Radio Prague
Chicago '68: An Introduction, a profile of the turbulent Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968
Woodstock 69: Images of the Festival
The Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial, 1969-70, by Professor Doug Linder of the University of Missouri/Kansas City
COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War Against Dissent in the United States, an educational website about the FBI's domestic surveillance effort against activists in the U.S. during the 1960s and beyond, maintained by Paul Wolf
The Kent State May 4 Collection Home Page, recognizing the impact of the killings of four students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen in 1970
The Wars for Viet Nam, 1945-1975, from a senior class on the Viet Nam war at Vassar College taught by Robert Brigham
The United States in Viet Nam 1945-1975 Comprehensive timelines with quotes and analysis from the History Place
ProActivist's Links on the Vietnam War, an extensive directory of online resources linked to peace efforts, from sociologist and activist Patrick Carkin
Vietnam War Resisters in Canada: A Guide to Websites, developed by Joseph Jones, reference librarian at the University of British Columbia
30 Year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie (1964) Launched Vietnam War, by Jeff Cohen and Norman Soloman of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
The Viet Nam Pictures Archive at MetaLab, a directory of many graphical images from the University of North Carolina
Vietnam Interactive Portfolio, a collection of 80 photographs of Vietnamese people and life in 1969-70 by E. Kenneth Hoffman
Two major critics of the Viet Nam war who were interviewed for the Conversations with History Project sponsored by UC Berkeley's Institute of International Studies:
The Nixon Links: Now More than Ever, a comprehensive directory of information about Richard Nixon's legacy
Watergate--25 Years, a retrospective look at the legacy of Watergate, sponsored by the Washington Post
Watergate: A Retrospective, from VCE Politics
Chile and the U.S.: Declassified Documents Relating to the 1973 Military Coup, from George Washington University's National Security Archive
The October Surprise (1980), an archive of documents and evidence that Reagan and Bush sabotaged the 1980 reelection campaign of Jimmy Carter
The Iran-Contra Affair: Related Documents, a collection of key items related to the Iran-Contra investigation of the Reagan administration in the 1980s
The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations, an investigation of the uses of drug money to fund the Nicaraguan "Contras" during the Reagan years
A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History, a National Security Archive briefing book from George Washington University
Tiananmen, April-June 1989, a retrospective look at the student uprising in China's Tiananmen Square, 1989, and a 10th anniversary update
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Persian Gulf War: A Guide to Top Web Resources from Lycos
The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda: A National Security Archive Briefing Book, from the National Security Archive at George Washington University
The Impeachment Trial of President Bill Clinton, from the PBS Online NewsHour
The Balkans Conflict Online (1999), a comprehensive news directory with historical documents from Scott's Library Reading Room News Page
Justice Learning - uses audio from the Justice Talking radio show and articles from The New York Times to teach students about reasoned debate and the often-conflicting values inherent in our democracy UN Peace Keeping, Voting Rigths, Women's Rights, Race and Education, Death Penalty, Gun Control, Religion in Schools
Voices of Youth - What can you do to help improve the state of the world's children? (UNICEF) Role play a game about AIDS/HIV Brain teasers about AIDS/HIV
Justice Talking - (program archives) award-winning radio that engages listeners in timely, refreshingly honest debates on the current legal battles that capture our nation’s attention Limiting Lawsuits , Are the Media Biased? , Crime and Punishment: Federal Sentencing Guidelines , Food Safety ,
Redistricting - It is not easy to make the redistricting process understandable -- and near-miraculous to be able to do so in a highly entertaining way. But that is just what The Redistricting Game does, to the gratitude of all who want Americans to understand how this process is working, and why it needs real reform
Our Courts - Our Courts is web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Our Courts is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.
Cybercitizenship - cyber ethics, cyber crime
U. S. Supreme Court Multimedia - the Supreme Court's official site, accessible to all levels of knowledge
