Historical Websites
http://www.wdl.org/en/ The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available
on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary
materials from countries and cultures around the world.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/
Contains “hard-to-find”
primary source documents from the ancient world through the 20th Century.
http://home.wi.rr.com/rickgardiner/primarysources.htm A
treasury of primary source documents from medieval times through the American
Revolution.
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/specialcollections/Other.Repositories.html This site contains a listing of over
5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical
photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ Avalon project at the Yale law School –
Documents in law, history and diplomacy – arranged by time period, although it
does allow one to search.
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/dvess.shtml World
Civilization Virtual Library
http://historymatters.gmu.edu
Designed for high school and college
teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and
offers other useful materials for learning about and teaching U.S. history
http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/_use.htm Includes
historical images in American history.
http://besthistorysites.net Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning
portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/index.html The Making of
America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the
antebellum period through reconstruction.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall Internet Modern History Sourcebook
http://www.nara.gov
Contains primary documents from the holdings of
the National Archives of the United States. Contains primary sources, activities
and training for educators and students.
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/ U.S. historical documents from pre-Colonial
times to the present day.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html American
Memory from the Library of Congress. The collection finder allows one to serach
by topic and time period.
http://history.hanover.edu/texts.html Internet archive of texts and
documents
http://del.icio.us/sandesn333/primarysources A miscellaneous
collection of primary source documents
http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/Collections.shtml University of
Wisconsin Digital Collection
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/ Women and Social Movements in the
United States
http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts Papers from the
Salem witchcraft trials.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/choosepart.html
Civil War site: Valley of the Shadow
http://www.chicagohs.org/chshome.html Chicago Historical Society
Social Sciences, Economics, and Government Information
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm Features
a Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/index.html Link to the World Fact Book portion of the CIA website
https://www.cia.gov
Your connection to the Central Intelligence Agency
website
http://www.nsa.gov Your connection to the National Security Agency.
One
may follow links or conduct searches using the research tab.
http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/
Media-filled site with a large
collection of video clips from the past 14 presidential campaigns, illustrating the
influence of commercials.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/sayitplain/
index.html Contains audio clips that relate to the progression of the Civil
Rights Movement. Speeches range from Booker T. Washington’s 1895 speech on
race relations to President-elect Barack Obama’s keynote speech at the 2004
Democratic National Convention.
http://www.bl.uk/sacred A multimedia exploration of six of the world’s major
religions, with links to 78 online religious texts with high-resolution images.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/election/home.html
Embedded links to primary documents including speeches, letters, campaign
posters, and more add depth to this comprehensive examination of elections.
http://nytimes.com/learning/ A free service from The New York Times,
created for students and teachers. Contains a daily news quiz with links to
articles. Of particular interest is a daily photograph from the paper along with
questions that challenge students to investigate the story behind the picture.
Math and Science Websites
http://www.doaj.org The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full
text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
http://www.scienceresearch.com/search A free, publicly available
web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science
databases.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/99-winter/internet.html - This
site contains web resources in the history of science.
http://west.camel.math.ca/Kabol/ - Provides links to math websites
with interactive activities and tutorials
http://mathforum.org/
The Math Forum is an online resource for
improving math learning and teaching.
http://www.biozone.co.nz/links.html Provides access to a selection of
useful websites, newsfeeds, and search facilities.
http://www.fearofphysics.com/ See physics in action, get homework
help and use the physics dictionary.
http://www.physlink.com – One stop page to learn all about physics and
astronomy; Contains full text-articles, activities, and a search browser.
http://www.science.gov - Science.gov searches over 38 databases and
1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S.
government science information, including research and development results.
Fine Arts and Music
http://www.si.umich.edu/chico/instrument/ An encyclopedia of
instruments from all around the world.
http://www.rockhall.com/
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website and
museum
http://wwar.com/ A link to World Wide Art Resources.
This site contains
contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery
portfolios.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/ View famous artworks exhibitions.
English and Literature Websites
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
Your complete site to William
Shakespeare. Includes criticisms, links, blogs and more!
http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow
A complete website for American
Literature – includes links to many more literature sites, as well as a wealth of
information of American Literature.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/flackcj/LitIndex.html
Complete site for literary research
Miscellaneous Websites
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/ Eighteenth-century
resources: a collection that includes information on literature, art, history, music,
religion, economics and philosophy from around the world.
http://www.academicinfo.net/ General Academic Websites – Contains
information about degrees in a wide variety of subject areas.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6617/
Global Access
to Educational Sources: A Cybrary for Middle School and Beyond
Newspapers
http://refdesk.com/paper.html - Newspapers from the USA and
worldwide.
http://www.newspapers.com/ - Newspapers from the USA and
worldwide
General Information on Information Resources: Using the
Internet and Citing Sources
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/index.html - An online
reference guide to research strategies, citation information and links for
researching a wide variety of subjects.
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/mla.html The nuts and bolts of
college writing.