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Events from both political and cultural history, captured and stored on YouTube, including Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City bombing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 1929 stock market crash, Billie Jean King in the "Battle of the Sexes," the first MTV program, the O.J. Simpson trial, the 1960 presidential debate, Woodstock, and the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
Legal information, links and resources about state and federal laws.
This profile features information about key events in the history of the country, details about the government and political situation,and economic, geographic, and political data.
Links to historical sites, many run by universities and government organizations, ranging in scope from pre-history to the present.
As well as reflecting on the history of the civil rights movement and the emancipation of Black Americans, the site highlights some of the many successful Black Americans.
This think tank offers material that covers a variety of topics, including foreign affairs, economic policy, and domestic issues.
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items - including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts.
A large site about all aspects of history.
This resource from the CIA contains information on almost every country in the world.
Country profiles information on geography, maps, flags, history, current rulers, area, population, religion, government, etc.
Links to many country information resources. Profiles on 12 topics including agriculture, poverty, gender, trade, and economics.
Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
A criminal justice directory.
Links to primary sources and other multimedia links about historical resources.
Covers the Civil War, World War I and II, Vietnam, Ancient History, the Middle Ages, and world history.
Each entry frames the eyewitness account with a brief description of the event and of the person recounting it and includes a bibliography and related links. Browse by time period.
Comprehensive set of legal resources.
Country briefings on world conflicts: history, terrorism, war, revolution, nationalism, political violence and conflict resolution.
Highlights global press annually.
Criminal justice links and resources.
Documents related to worldwide countries.
Includes information about geography, culture, history of Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America.
The site aims to provide "a daily account of the key issues before the global community." It includes a new feature article each day, a Book of the Week, a
Quote of the Day, Fact of the Day, and Link of the Day. Past articles are browsable by
countries and regions, and by globalization topics such as children, development, markets, religion, technology, etc.
The official handbook of the Federal Government providing comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
A gateway for teachers and students to over 1000 World Wide Web resources related to the history of psychology.
Many links to sites on ancient history, world history and American history from Fordham's Library.
Web links and primary source documents
Historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that document voluntary immigration to the US including 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscripts.
A collection of country and region websites providing local news and information to a worldwide audience.
A comprehensive guide to library catalog, American Memory, exhibitions, a global gateway and Thomas, sponsored by the Library of Congress.
More history sites from Fordham University.
Country-specific searchable data designed and managed by Michigan State University.
Daily News, Video of the Day, Photo of the Day, Animal News,Ancient  World, Environment News, Cultures News, Space/Tech News, and Weird News.
A virtual tour of the museum in which images can be enlarged and rotated in three dimensions.
Out-of-print pamphlets published by the New Jersey Historical Commission to commemorate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. The pamphlets explore New Jersey history at the time of the Revolution.  Also includes two teacher's guides. From the New Jersey State Library.
Web portals to national and international newspapers.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions for hundreds of different types of jobs.
An alphabetical search engine of famous people in psychology.
The history department at Mount Holyoke College collected thousand of online historical documents on topics ranging from Jammu and Kashmir to the Cold War to pre-1868 US foreign policy
The largest social psychology database on the Internet. In these pages, you'll find more than 13,000 links related to psychology.
Information in the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book covers the following topical areas: age, agriculture, births, business establishments,
communications, construction, cost of living, crime, deaths, education,
elections, employment, energy, finance, government, health, households,
housing, immigration, income, manufactures, marriages and divorces, media,
natural resources, population, poverty, race and Hispanic origin, residence,
retail sales, science and engineering, social services, tourism,
transportation, and veterans
An independent federal government agency receiving foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State.  It supports long-term and equitable economic growth.
Current population databases for demographics of international countries.
This site is a quick and effective way to locate newspapers, arranged by state. Once you have chosen a state, you will also find links to selected local TV and radio stations, magazines and college newspapers.
Provides economic and political information, plus news, on every country and territory in the world.
Facts, geography, economic information, population facts, government data, maps, and flags for hundreds of countries in the world.

Asia


Variety of information pertaining to Asia including food, business, events, news, holidays, maps, and statistics.
Virtual Library from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University.
A database of information from Fordham University.
Lecture outline series focusing on Ancient Dynaties of China 1700BC-221 BC.


Decades


A series of web guides on the decades of the twientieth century.
There are many ways to shape time into meaningful compartments. Photographers talk about the decisive moment. Pop culture tends to think in decades - the Roaring Twenties, the Swinging Sixties. Some historians are satisfied by nothing less than what French thinkers call the longue duree, the centuries-long unfolding of social and even geological change. In a faster-moving world, we find ourselves thinking about days and the way that a single one - think D-day, think 9/11--can have consequences that play out for decades.
Roll the clock back to the 70's in this site that celebrates that 70's era.
Jazz Age Culture        
Many links to site related to the Flapper Era and Harlem Renaissance.
Nostalgia from the past 6 decades. Revisit fads, music, movies, personalities, and events from years past.
From 1900-2003, individual decades, timelines, and a perpetual calendar are included for easy reference.        


Geography/Maps


Full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
Drawing on the holdings of the New York Public Library (in particular the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection), and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this online exhibit is devoted to offering a number of historically significant maps of the Mid-Atlantic region up to 1850.
Good source for tracing maps.
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing more than one million names and other information about places. The       TGN includes all continents and nations of the modern political world, as well as historical places. It includes physical features and administrative entities, such as cities and nations.
An impressive collection of historical maps. Many of these maps are interactive.
From Norway, this site includes thousands of world-wide historical maps categorized by geographic location.
Sponsored by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, this offers maps of continents, world regions, and ocean floor maps in addition to country maps and country facts.
A mega site for geographers, geography teachers, or geography students.
Part of FedStats, this site is very easy to use. You can get a statistical profile of the United States, each individual state and county, and cities with populations of 25,000 or more.
Overview maps are available for the entire World. Street level maps (accessed by entering as little as a city name) are available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemborg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, U.K. and U.S.
This European road and street map device also covers the US. they are faster loading than Mapquest.
Find almost any place with Map Machine and other online National Geographic atlases.
Free black and white maps for printing from the Atlas of the World.
Contains indexing (title, author, subject, date) for major National Geographic Society publications including National Geographic magazine back to 1888.
Topics covered on this site include journals, map databases, newsgroups and mailing lists, and educational resources.
Overview of the world.  



Government


The Congressional Directory is the official directory of the U.S. Congress, prepared by the Joint Comittee on Printing.
The official US Government gateway for citizens, business and government employees. Provides one-click access to federal, state, local, tribal, and international government information.
The premiere federal, state and local directory of official government and court web sites. Includes links to all branches of federal and state government, including counties, municipalities, cities, and townships.
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes political parties.
A nonpartisan research and civic engagement organization helping americans explore and understand critical issues.
Search for public records: National, State, World.
A USDA site that compiles data from the 1980 census forward to allow students the chance to track demographic and economic switches over the last quarter of a century for every state. Data covers population, income, employment and agricultural statistics as well as links to current news.
Daily news from the Council of State Governments. Also includes special topic guides on Health Literacy, Election 2002, policy issues, and an Internet Privacy Clearing House
THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th
Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress
to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.
Do you want to know how our President was occupied this past week? What kinds of official procedures did he have to deal with? Find a weekly compilation here, illustrating and documenting the office of the Chief Executive of the United States of America. Archived documents are also available for        former U.S. presidents. 


Holocaust       


USA website for Anne Frank Center.
United States based project of Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation.
University of Southern California sponsored site.
This section of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum offers resources for teaching and learning about the Holocaust for teachers, students, families and the general public. It includes a teaching guide, chronology, personal histories, lessons, and online learning activities.
Israeli site of the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Rembrance Authority.




Human Rights


The premier NGO in the field. Website includes news, copies of reports and links to other websites
Maintained by the University of Minnesota to give access to over 7,000 human rights documents on subjects ranging from treaties and UN documents to bibliographies and research guides, together with links to 3,600 other sites.
The largest human rights organization based in the United States, with worldwide links and offices in other countries, including London. Its website offers country briefings, specific country reports and the full text of its World Report.
Highlights the history of human rights movement and information about prisoners of conscience. In addition it covers other topics of interest to the peace movement.
The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, is an international human rights law centre established in 1982. It aims to support and promote the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms worldwide.
An innovative, issue-based approach for engaging high school students in informed political discourse.
Current events in human rights are highlighted here. This site posts news articles of what is going on around the world. This site covers many violations of human rights from police brutality to religious freedom. There are live forums, interviews and a photo gallery.    
On their rather full homepage, visitors can look up articles via a search engine, or by theme. For those who would rather look through the complete issue as a whole, the most recent issues are offered on the left-hand side of the homepage.


Latin America


Access to many information resources for Latin American studies.
A key gateway to Latin American economies.
Sites covering all subjects about Latin America.
Compendium of Latin American information from the University of Texas at Austin.
A major source of information on elections, political parties, and constitutions in the Americas sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown and the Secretariat of Poltiical Affairs at the Organization of the American States.


Middle East


Resource from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.


Religion


Religious statistics and geography.
The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and maintains data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups. Statistical maps and reports are available at state, county, and metro levels.
Links to sacred texts in many religions.
Links to many different religion sites from about.com.
Gateway to comprehensive web-based as well as print resources about cults, sedts, new religions, and religious movements both new and established.
Religious Tolerance
Site on religious tolerance and ethics created in Ontario..
All of the major religions represented here as well as the smaller ones but you'll also find other religion related topics like art, archaeology,philosophy, theology, the psychology of religion and others.

US History


Digitization project from Northern Illinois University.
Information about the American lifestyle and culture of the 1930s.
Notable for diaries and letters, and newspapers. Letter collections include searchable transcriptions and digital images of some manuscripts.
Many links assembled by an historian from University of Tennessee.
Directory website on the lives and experiences of women during the American Civil War. This includes diaries, letters, documents, photographs and prints
From the U.S. Census bureau, this site offers tables and maps for states, counties, cities, towns, American Indian reservations, metropolitan areas and zip codes.
Facts on the 22 million people who entered the US through Ellis Island.
The collection has over 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections covering U.S. history from the first settlements to the American Revolution, the New Nation, National Expansion and Reform, Civil War and Reconstruction, Rise of Industrial America, Progressive Era to New Era, Great Depression/World War II, and Postwar United States.
Created by Rick Brainard who is an independent scholar and a member of the American Historical Association. His main historical area of interest is 18th century history with a special emphasis on Colonial America.
Explore the World of Early America through the newspapers, maps, magazines and writings of that time period. Subjects include the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Milestone Events, Maps, Famous Obits, Writings, Portraits, etc. Events covered include the Whiskey Rebellions, George Washington's Journal, Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, and more.
Maintained by the State Department and includes basic documents and writings, famous speeches, and historical materials.
Searchable directory with biographical information on over 13,000 individuals.
Very complete information with pictures and illustrations.
Civil War homepage includes letters, diaries and documents.     
The Civil War News is a current events newspaper produced by a national staff of reporters and photographers. It is published every month but March. The web site includes a calendar where you can find out about reenactments and other events all over the country.
The Civil War Preservation Trust is America's largest non-profit organization devoted to the preservation of our nation's endangered Civil War battlefields.
A portal to a wide variety of information about the Civil War.
Presented by Dinsmore Documentation, Classics of American Colonial History is a research database consisting of scholarly books and articles on American colonial history
Stephen Young provides an historical introduction to Congressional Research Reports (over 1,000 written reports are published yearly), and a variety of avenues online to obtain copies of the small number of  these documents actually made available to the public.
The Indiana University Archives and the Digital Library Program are now offering a site for the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, which features 14,500 color images of life in America between 1938 and 1969.
Southern perspectives on American history and culture including slave narratives, first-person narratives, Southern literature, Confederate imprints, and much more.
Documents for the study of American history (15th century through the present).
An encyclopedia on the USA between 1840-1980. The encyclopedia is being created in sections.
Adapted from The Best and Worst Legal Sites on the Web, the site is a great one-stop resource for those requiring direct access to credible information now.
Dedicated to publicly accessible information, ideas, and images concerning the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Caricaturing twelve American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, editorial cartoonist Herbert Block has chronicled the nation's political history from the stock market crash in 1929 through the millennium.
A way to examine census data back to 1790.  It allows ustomization of tables and/or maps utilizing the historical data.
What history looked like to the people who lived it. See how contemporaneous newspapes reported news events.
An eyewitness to labor history exploring all facets of the labor movement.
U.S. Congressional Documents 1774-1875.
National Archives       
Help and abundance of resources about using primary resources.
Links to documents, photos, literature and art from the 1930's.
The New Jersey Historical Society offers a huge archive of historical papers, photographs, and objects, many of which can be viewed online.
Access to collections of unique and rare materials. Many texts and images are from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
A timetable of women in the United States: The Shadow Story of the Millenium.   
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.         
One hundred years of photography from the National Archives. Based on an exhibition at the National Archives, Washington, DC March 12, 1999-July 4, 2001.
A website that contains the biographies and work of 152 cartoonists who have commented on important political and social issues over the last 300 years.
Everything that you've ever wanted to know about the U.S. Constitution is only a click away
Focus on the experience of individuals who were enslaved.
This collection consists of about one hundred pamphlets and books documenting the experiences of African and African-American slaves in the United States and American colonies. Resources include trial arguments, examinations of cases and decisions, proceeding, and other materials concerning slavery and the slave trade
Access to full documents, including speeches and landmark law cases, from the Declaration of Independence to today
Provides excellent resources to explore US labor history.
Elizabeth Lambert reviews Web sites that provide free current awareness services concerning the Court, as well as links to decisions, dockets, orders, oral arguments, briefs, filing guides and more.
Short list of links to excellent  primary source materials.
Browsable by subject, documents from many countries on many subjects.
This directory website provides links to educational, entertainment, and research material relevant to the study of the Vietnam War.
Comprehensive history of Vietnam.
A timeline of events, information on the causes of the war and information on the assassination of Franz  Ferdinand.
Search by keyword or browse through official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences, an image archive, a biographical dictionary, and more.
Historic government publications from World War II.
A hypertext history of World War II.    


World History


Resources on Ancient, Medieval and Modern European History.
Compiled at the University of Idaho Library this resource is home to a directory of over 5,000 "websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar." The directory contains resources from around the globe and is browsable by geography.
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School has documents of law, history and diplomacy.
Primary texts for use in history and humanities courses.
Primary historical documents from Western European History from Brigham Young University.
Thousands of links to World and US History.
Covers the 14th through 16th Centuries from the Annenberg CPB.
Center for Russian and East European Studies at the Universtity of Pittsburgh.
Browsable by subject, documents from many countries on many subjects.