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Country Studies Library of Congress
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
Digital History Offers an up-to-date textbook, as well as essays on film, private life, and science and technology and visual histories of Lincoln's America and America's reconstruction. This site also makes use of primary sources and includes reference materials such as audio-visual archive and much more.
WWW Virtual Library History
An index of Web resources appropriate for historians, history scholars, and students. The index is divided into the following categories: Research: Methods and Materials, Eras and Epochs, Historical Topics, and Countries and Regions.
Best of History Web Sites
A portal for students, history educators and general history enthusiasts. This portal has the best sites for Prehistory, Ancient/Biblical, Medieval, U.S. History, Early Modern European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources and Maps. Also has lesson plan, activities and multimedia links.
PBS History
Links to their programs related to history on one web page with categories of Ancient World, Biographies, United States, War & Espionage, and World.
History Channel Historical information and learning activities for all ages
The History Net
About.com
Comprehensive compilation of links accessible by subject, e.g. Medieval history, European history, African-American history, and feature articles.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) An excellent portal to history teaching and learning resources from the Federal Government.
A Guide to the American Revolution, 1763-1783 The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material associated with the American Revolution, including manuscripts, broadsides, government documents, books, and maps.
America's Story
Library of Congress presents this fun way to learn about American History. Meet the inventors, politicians, performers and others who made this country what it is today, take a trip back in time to significant events, learn more about each state, American pastimes and more.
History Matters
Designed for High School and College teachers of U.S. History courses. This site serves as a gateway to web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. History.
American Memory
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Historical Government Documents
Links to key historic government documents, compiled by the University of Utah. They contain the U.s. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873, Core Documents of Democracy, Indian Laws (1871-1970) and Treaties (1778-1883), Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, 1774-present, key American History Documents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln papers and many more.
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights the U.S. Government Printing Office teams up with the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Univ. of Maryland School of Law, to provide the American public a website of authentic Civil Rights historical publications.
American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
This site from the Smithsonian presents background information on the presidency, the campaigns to achieve it, and the men who have been president. Find brief biographical sketches, lists of achievements, images of items in the Smithsonian's collection, classroom aids and more.
Exploring Ancient Cultures
Explore Ancient Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam, Medieval Europe.
Ancient History Includes Egyptians, Greeks, British Prehistory, Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and other cultures.
Medieval Resources from NetSERF
By topic from Archaeology to Women, searchable.
Perseus Digital Library Information on the Ancient World including archaeology, altas, texts and transations as well as Renaissance and the American Civil War.
Civil War Maps
From Library of Congress "American Memory" 1861-1865
Civil War Photographs From Library of Congress, American Memory, selected photographs.
David Rumsey Map Collection A collection of antique atlases and focuses primarily on cartography of the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries, but also has maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Historical map web sites.
Map Collections from Library of Congress American Memory
American Revolution The struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North
America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. A good selection of information other than the commercial aspect of the site. 
American Battle Monuments Commission The Commission administers, operates, and maintains 24 permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil. Their databases only have the records of those casualties that are buried in their cemeteries or listed on the Walls of the Missing -- a total of 176,399 records. The Commission also has listings of war dead and veterans of the Mexican War, Civil War and Spanish-American War who are buried at the ABMC cemeteries in Corozal, Panama, and Mexico City.
Civil War Home Page Large and comprehensive collection of Civil War materials.
Civil War From PBS. The online version of the film by Ken Burns.
Civil War From Wikipedia, the free encylopedia.
A Guide to World War I Materials The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to World War I, including photographs, documents, newspapers, films, sheet music, and sound recordings.
Naval-History.net Information aboout ships and navies, campaigns and battles of World War I, World War II, and the Falklands War.
The Atom Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources From the National Security Archive.
Holocaust History Project The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.
Korea +50: No Longer Forgotten
This page is a joint project between the Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Libraries developed to provide access to Korean War materials related to the two administrations occupying the White House during that period.
Korea: The Unfinished War This site examines the often-overlooked war that helped define global politics and American life for the second half of the 20th century.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Contains declassified documents, audio clips of White House intelligence briefings, photographs taken by U-2 spyplanes, submarines, chronology and analysis. From the National Security Archive, George Washington University.
Cold War From CNN Interactive, an award-winning site with interactive maps, archival footage, key players, declassified documents, 3-D images of Cold War capitals and more.
Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War Learn how subs were used during the cold war, their weapons, construction, the submarine family. A brief but informative site from the Smithsonian.
Avalon Project at Yale Law School Electronic, full text versions of important political documents from the World War II era
Desert Storm An informative resource about the war and the events surrounding it.
Gulf War An in-depth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis, by PBS Frontline.
IRAQSlogger A one-stop source for serious, original, comprehensive Iraq-focused news and insight, with contributions from multiple perspectives.
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