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Sub-Categories in History

Academic Departments (262)
Almanacs@ (14)
Bibliography@ (33)
Booksellers@ (38)
By Region (5245)
By Time Period (4544)
By Topic (1663)
Chats and Forums (17)
Conferences (5)
Education (104)
Encyclopedias@ (8)
Historians (169)
Historic Preservation@ (175)

Historical Fiction@ (137)
Historical Personages (25)
Journals (44)
Living History@ (1962)
Magazines and E-zines (11)
Maps, Historical@ (61)
Multimedia (18)
Museums@ (711)
On This Day in History (44)
Organizations (106)
Philosophy of History@ (28)
Timelines (73)

Web Sites in Category History

Internet History Sourcebooks Project - An extensive set of collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts, maps, and articles on a wide variety of historical areas and subjects. Compiled by Prof. Paul Halsall at Fordham University.

A Priori - History Directory - Searchable directory of resources and educational material.

AbsoluteFacts.com - A selection of stories about historic people and events.

Alice's Virtual Restaurant - A collection of links articles on various history subjects from ancient history to modern times.

Allexperts History - Volunteers answer all your one-on-one questions about all aspects of history.

Alliance History Directory - Reviews and directory of history websites catalogued by university experts.

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative - Scholarly initiative to create a comprehensive interactive electronic historical world atlas combining mapping, imagery, and texts. Aims, technology, scope, themes, news, membership, conference.

Historical Criticism - Offers an essay on historical criticism from the 1908 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Historical Text Archive - Articles, books, and links for historical texts from several countries.

History and Historical Information Resources - Resources for professors and students in History, including a database of historical movies.

History Center - Short biographies of famous historical figures, descriptions of historical events, plus this day in history.

History Computerization Project - Aims to create a network for exchanging historical information. Information about computer database program for historical research, writing and cataloging; advice on organizing materials; and links to mostly-US research resources.

History Explained - Examines the background history that is needed to understand the major economic and political problems in the world today.

History Guide - Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history, maintained at the State and University Library at Göttingen, Germany. Searchable by subject and by source type.

History House - History like you should have learned it. Bizarre stories, trivia, and books every week.

History Hub - History and world events; book reviews and links.

History News Network - Aspires to put news in historical context by publishing articles written by historians on current events topics. Published by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

History of Nations - Provides a history of every country in the world. Includes an overview as well as more detailed historical information. Based on content from the US State Department with new material added.

History of the World - Offers an essay giving an overview of world history. Created by history teacher Jeff Coons.

History Quotes - Includes a list of quotes about history from various authors and historians.

History Wiz - Source for history, original content, including multimedia exhibits, as well as links to other sites. Topics include world history, American history, and current events.

History World - Describes world history in interconnecting narratives and illustrated timelines. You can search for events by theme, place and year. Edited by Bamber Gascoigne.

InHeritage - A history Web site development firm specializing in historic preservation and historical documentaries.

LLEK Bookmarks Scientific Search Engines - History - Catalog of journals, catalogs, and other scholarly resources in German and English.

Mr Heitmann's History Page - Comprehensive collection of links to history resources aimed at high school students.

Net's Educational Resource Center - Directory of sites covering American, ancient, world and modern history, social studies, reference sources, study tips and related resources.

Ocean - Indexes the best history content on the net, including material in History World, from which it evolved. Also offers a toolbar with history search and timeline of world history.

Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project - Research on history, geography and logistics of communication, pilgrimage, and trade routes of Eurasia and Africa 10,000 BCE to circa 1820 CE.

Ragz-International - Provides an overview of Western history from ancient Sumeria to World War Two, including profiles of major figures, timelines, photos, and interactive features.

Reportret - Gallery of reconstructed portraits of key figures from world history, without anachronisms, respecting contemporary style, and based on historical sources.

The Historian Underground - This site provides articles, links, and other resources related to historiography and historical methodology, as well as philosophy of history.

The History Net - Expansive site with categorized history articles, weekly features, thumbnailed picture gallery, discussion board, and special events and exhibits.

The History Page - A comprehensive directory of links, organized by period.

The History Ring - A web ring which links over a thousand historical web sites.

Top20WorldHistory.com - List of history links sorted by period, without anotation.

Virtual Quincy Directory - A collection of links to various sites related to historical events and institutions.

Western Civilization Core Course - Available as both a timeline and index. Includes survey of history, culture, and ideas with readings, period introductions, and articles. Created by the History Department at Whitworth College.

Western Culture - Links to websites about Western Culture and an online book on the topic.

What is History? - An essay from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica which deals with what history is as an academic pursuit.

World Civilizations - An online learning resource from Washington State University.

World History Blog - Blog that features all aspects of world history. Sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history.

World History Web Resources: An Annotated Guide - Provides an annotated guide to Web resources for studying world history. Created by a librarian at Central Michigan University.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History - Extensive University of Kansas-maintained directory of history resources, sorted into research methods, topics, eras and epochs, and regions.

Related Categories:

Arts > Humanities
Kids and Teens > School Time > Social Studies > History
Reference > Archives > Arts
Science > Anomalies and Alternative Science > Historical Anomalies and Revisionism
Science > Social Sciences > Archaeology
Science > Social Sciences > Geography
Society > Genealogy

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