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Best of History Web Sites
"...is a portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History."
Sections include: Prehistory ; Ancient/Biblical ; Medieval ; U.S. History ; Early Modern European ; 20th Century ; World War II ; Art History ; General Resources ; Maps ; Lesson Plans ; Multimedia ; Research ; Teaching with Technology.
H-Net Teaching
"This site is intended to serve as a gateway to H-Net's extensive collection of teaching resources including teaching focused discussion networks, syllabi, links, conference papers on multimedia teaching, and web-based teaching projects."
- Teaching and Technology Essays
"H-Net is commissioning a series of essays on teaching and technology."
- H-Net and September 11
"H-Net's many online communities offered diverse and informed perspectives on the meaning of the events of September 11, 2001."
- Addressing Tragedy in the Classroom
Edited by Steven Mintz, University of Houston
"H-Net's Vice President for Teaching, Prof. Steven Mintz of the University of Houston, has been overseeing the development of essays, annotated links, and online materials related to teaching, research, and education in the history of terrorism."
American Historical Association
Historians Against the War
Statement: "We historians call for a halt to the march towards war against Iraq. We are deeply concerned about the needless destruction of human life, the undermining of constitutional government in the U.S., the egregious curtailment of civil liberties and human rights at home and abroad, and the obstruction of world peace for the indefinite future."
The History Guide
"...has been created for the high school and undergraduate student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major in history in college. The purpose of The History Guide is to better prepare yourself for your history classes and to make your time in class more enjoyable and proficient. The History Guide contains the complete content of three undergraduate courses in European history which will certainly be of use to those of you studying such topics at the college level or in A.P. European history classes. Upon its completion, The History Guide will contain more than seventy lectures in European history from ancient Sumer to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989."
By Steven Kreis
History of Education
Selected Moments of the 20th Century
"This is a non-comprehensive site about education during the 20th century, organized by decades. It includes a short description of a variety of 'educational episodes' that took place in that period...Although its current emphasis is on North American educational developments, there is an ongoing effort to include more international content."
By Daniel Schugurensky, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
of the University of Toronto
History/Social Studies For K-12 Teachers
"The major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom."
By Dennis Boals
Internet History Sourcebooks Projects
"...are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use."
His various sourcebooks include some of the largest collections of subject specific online textual sources.
Edited by Paul Halsall, Fordham University
The Mary Rose
"...the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII. After a long and successful career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology."
- The Learning City
"...is a unique Key Stage 2 History resource. This unit is based on life aboard the Mary Rose. Suitable for ages 7-11."
National Archives Learning Curve
"...is an on-line teaching resource, structured to tie in with the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. The Learning Curve contains a varied range of original sources including documents, photographs, film and sound recordings. There are three different types of resource: Exhibitions, Focus Ons and Snapshots. Each has a distinct approach to suit different styles of learning."
National Center for History in the Schools
National Standards of History
Northeastern University - World History Center
Sections include: Working Papers ; World History Databank ; Demographic Simulations of Migration ; Bibliography ; Faculty Research ; Doctoral Research ; AP World History ; Links.
PBS - Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion to the January-February 2005 TV broadcast.
Sections include: Maps & Plans ; Timeline ; About the Series ; Learning Resources ; Auschwitz 1940-1945 ; Understanding Auschwitz Today ; Dachau 1974.
PBS - Frontline - Ghosts of Rwanda (April 2004)
"How could it happen that America and the West stood aside and did nothing to stop the slaughter of 800,000 human beings over 100 days? On the 10th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the powerful story of those who participated in the world's failure to act, those few who stood up and tried to save lives, and all who are still deeply haunted by what they did."
Sections include: Analysis ; Interviews ; Timeline ; Rwanda Today ; Links & Readings ; Teacher's Guide.
PBS - Guns, Germs, & Steel
Companion web site to the July 2005 series.
"Peeling back the layers of history, Guns, Germs and Steel exposes the great forces that have shaped human history over the last 10,000 years. Based on the multi-million selling book by renowned academic Jared Diamond the television series - and this web site - will take you on a 10,000 year journey through history, and across every continent of our world..."
Sections include: Variables ; The World ; The Show ; Resources ; Educators.
Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students
By Patrick Rael, History Dept., Bowdoin College
SchoolHistory.co.uk
"This site is a collection of resources for secondary school history students and teachers."
Includes: Links ; Quizzes ; Downloadable Worksheets
By Andrew Field, History Teacher, Cambridgeshire, England
Schools History
History Lessons Online
"Schoolhistory.org.uk contains history activities based on all areas of the national curriculum."
Sections include: Teachers Resources ; Historical Backgrounds ; Activities.
By Dan Moorhouse
Spartacus Educational
"...a group of teachers producing free educational content for the Internet."
Teaching Canadian History
Sections include: Indexes to Resources of Use to Teachers ; Course Outlines ; On-line Assignments ; Organizations of Interest to Canadian Teachers ; Reference Tools.
History Department, University of Victoria
Teaching History with Technology
"...is designed to help middle school and high school history and social studies teachers better integrate technology into their classrooms.
Teaching with Historic Places
U.S. National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places & National Trust for Historic Preservation
Lesson Plans for History
Tennessee Tech History Site
The Tom and Nan Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculptures
"The Riley Collection, dating to the period when Rome was at its greatest prosperity--the first century B.C. to the third century A.D.--is especially good at introducing students and those interested in ancient Rome to the diversity of the Roman world. Ranging from patricians to plebeians, the collection includes not only emperors and senators, but also men, women, and children from all walks of life. Finally, the collection provides a unique opportunity for people to get to know Romans as individual human beings who were concerned about many of the same issues that we are: identity, status, leadership, and gender ... The Riley website is designed to be useful to students, grade six through university, their teachers, and anyone interested in the Roman empire ... The site also features Teaching Materials designed to help teachers come up with ideas for integrating the site into their own pre-existing courses."
Maintained by John Gruber-Miller, Prof. of Classics, Cornell College
University History
"University History promotes the development of international standards for e-scholarship. It contains links to hundreds of online sources that are closely examined before inclusion. Only the highest quality sources are included."
- University of Canterbury School of History, New Zealand
University of Calgary - Applied History Research Group - Multimedia History Tutorials
"History students at the senior undergraduate honours level and graduate level make up the project teams and are responsible for the research, the narrative, and the web design for each of these tutorials."
Using Primary Sources on the Web
"This brief guide is designed to provide students and researchers with information to help them evaluate the internet sources and the quality of primary materials that can be found online."
Sections include: What are Primary Sources? ; Finding Primary Sources on the Web ; Evaluating Primary Source Web Sites ; Citing Web Sites.
Written by the American Library Association - Reference and User Services Association - History Section.
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (K12)
"The goal of this 'visual sourcebook' is to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese history."
By Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition
"Voyages of discovery can be of many kinds: a physical journey to an unknown place, a mental exploration of new or familiar territory, or a wholly new episode of creative thought. All three are explored in Voyages, an exhibition spanning five centuries of rare books, manuscripts, art, and artifacts from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries."
World History & Geography
A Guide for High School Teachers
"Materials available on this web site range from a teaching rationale to a textbook - or, more accurately, a concise textbook alternative."
From studentsfriend.com
World History Association
Discussion Lists
H-Net Discussion Networks
"...e-mail lists function as electronic networks, linking professors, teachers and students in an egalitarian exchange of ideas and materials. Every aspect of academic life--research, teaching, controversies new and old--is open for discussion; decorum is maintained by H-Net's dedicated editors."
A listing of over 100 E-mail lists spanning various fields of study.
H-World
"The H-World discussion list serves as a network of communication among practitioners of world history. The list gives emphasis to research, to teaching, and to the connections between research and teaching."
See also U.S. History Teaching Resources.
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