• Anne Frank Online aims to introduce visitors to Anne Frank and the Holocaust and to teach the importance of tolerance. There is information about Anne's life and times, including a timeline, a scrapbook, and excerpts from her famous diary. A virtual tour of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is accessible in the links section.
• Anne Frank the writer: an unfinished story - Established as a joint project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, this is an online exhibit of original writings by the young victim of WWII. Includes links to other resources about Frank's life and work.
• British Literature Index - Includes outlines and links to sources for medieval, Renaissance, Restoration 19th century, romantic, Victorian and modern periods. Also includes an outline of the English novel with resource links.
• Dante home page - Links to everything Dante and everything medieval.
• Victorian Web Overview - George P. Landow, Professor of English and art history at Brown University, designed and edited this web, made many of the links, and is responsible for most of the materials on the individual authors. The site also draws upon several other hypertext webs developed under Professor Landow's direction, and demonstrates the potential of hypertext in literary study. Links to life during Victorian times under Social Context and the Search capabilities make this particularly useful for many projects.

• Academy of American Poets - At the Academy of American Poets, visitors can find hundreds of essays and interviews about poetry, biographies of more than 500 poets, almost 2000 poems, and audio clips of 150 poems read by their authors or other poets. You can also learn all about the Academy and its programs; find local poetry resources on the National Poetry Map and calendar; and much more. The site also provides curriculum and resources materials for educators.
• American Verse Project - This is an electronic archive of volumes of American verse prior to 1920. Most of the archive is made up of 19th century poetry, although a few 18th century texts are included. The full text of each volume is available and searchable.
• Modern American Poetry - Edited by Cary Nelson and hosted by the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, this site provides an online journal and multimedia companion to the Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Study over 150 modern American poets from Sherman Alexie to Louis Zukofkiy. Look for sample poems, biographies, bibliographies, commentaries, and links to resources.
   

• American Authors on the Web - Links to American authors from 1550-1950.
• American Writers II - Continue a journey through history with C-SPAN's series, American Writers II: The 20th Century. From March to July 2002, C-SPAN explored American history through the lives and works of selected twentieth century American writers who have influenced the course of our nation and looked at what their works mean to Americans today.
• Dickinson Electronic Archives - DEA was created by a consortium of scholars seeking to make the life and works of Emily Dickinson available online. The Writings section contains scholarly articles and correspondence with the famed poet. Click Responses for written and audio opinions of Dickinson’s work. Critical Resources offers fascinating close-up views of her actual handwritten manuscripts. Teaching with the Archives features The Classroom Electric, a compilation of links that focus on Dickinson’s and fellow poet Walt Whitman’s impact on American culture.
• Mark Twain in His Times - This interpretive archive by a professor at the University of Virginia puts the writer and his works into a historical context and can, for example, help students decide for themselves whether Twain portrays Jim as "character or caricature." The site is built around five of Twain's full-length works.

• The food timeline – This site offers a food chronology filled with links that cover emmer grain (17,000 BCE), Watergate salad (1981), and lots of courses in between. Whether you’re researching the history of deviled eggs or just a foodie pursing your pastime, you’ll enjoy spending time here.
• History Cooperative - The University of Illinois Press, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the National Academies Press have joined together to create the History Collaborative, an online repository of scholarly history journals. The site currently hosts more than 20 journals, including Environmental History, The History Teacher, and The Western Historical Quarterly.In World History Connected, read the time column, “Engaging Students to Think Deeply about Political Choices.” Peruse the Booker T. Washington Papers, access Historical Maps collections, or visit the e-Library. For all journals, there are registration guidelines.
• The History Net
• HyperHistory Online - This site presents 3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps. The history chart, for example, shows visitors what was happening in each continent during a particular year. It's considered one of the best history sites on the web.
• The Internet History Sourcebooks - This site from Fordham University is a masterwork. The sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. Each sourcebook has period texts, secondary sources, and combined bibliographies/web graphics. The main sourcebooks include:
  • Ancient history
  • Medieval history
  • Modern history

Other sourcebooks include such topics as African, East Asian, and women's history. The site also has help pages for guidance on homework, research, and how people lived/ate/dressed in the past.

• The Costumer's Manifesto - the most useful section is history sorted by period, a massive collection of links to sites about clothes, ranging from barbarian Europe to corporate Goth.
• The Costume Page contains over 2,000 unique links for those interested in studying or making costumes.
• La Couturiere Parisienne - treating period costume from the Middle Ages through the early twentieth century, this site offers a database of over 4,000 images, hundreds of articles, and even some clothing patterns. The site is mostly European.

• Anne Frank Online aims to introduce visitors to Anne Frank and the Holocaust and to teach the importance of tolerance. The site offers information about Anne's life and times, including a timeline, a scrapbook and excerpts from her famous diary. A virtual tour of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is accessible in the links section.
• Auschwitz: Through the Lens of the SS- A recently unearthed photo album date 1944 sheds insight on the everyday lives of the officers stationed at Auschwitz. The photos and captions paint a stark contrast with our postwar perspective of this Nazi death camp. A linked Holocaust survivor album and information about the Frankfurt war criminal trial of the presumed original owner of the scrapbook show the other side of the story. Also included are a podcast interview with the archivist and a short documentary.
• The Holocaust Chronicle site is the internet complement to the book of the same name. It contains dramatic information grounded in rock-solid scholarship, complemented by a wealth of images; generous, fact-filled captions; hundreds of sidebar essays focusing on significant people, events, and issues; dozens of useful maps; and an exclusive timeline of Holocaust-related events spanning the years 1000 BCE through 1999.
• The Jewish Virtual Library is the most comprehensive online Jewish encyclopedia in the world, covering everything from anti-Semitism to Zionism. So far, more than 6,000 articles and 2,000 photographs & maps have been integrated into the site. The Library has 13 wings: History, Women, The Holocaust, Travel, Israel & The States, Maps, Politics, Biography, Israel, Religion, Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, Vital Statistics, and Reference.
• Nuremberg Trials - Includes interviews and transcripts from the actual trials at Nuremberg.

• The Camelot Project - The men, women, and myths surrounding Camelot are all here. Visitors can dive into the exhaustive database of Arthurian texts, images, bibliographies, and research. They will find answers to such questions as was there really an Arthur, where was Camelot, and what is the Holy Grail.
• Castles on the Web - Bibliography, pictures and tours of castles around the world.
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC) is an on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds. It features its own essays and primary texts. Over time it will include chapter-length histories for each of the eight "cultures" represented: The Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe. Chapters on Rome, Greece and Medieval Europe will be appearing soon. In addition, to its own resources, EAWC also includes a substantial index of internet sites, divided into five sub-indices: a chronology, an essay index, an image index, an internet site index and an electronic text index. Each sub-index is divided into sections, including one for each of the cultures represented.
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is a companion to the Internet Medieval Sourcebook and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Ancient History Sourcebook also includes links to visual and aural material, since art and archeology are far more important for the periods in question than for later history. The emphasis remains on access to primary source texts for educational purposes.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook Includes selected sources (excerpted for teaching purposes), full text sources, saints lives, list of all available primary sources, selected secondary sources, medieval legal history, French and Spanish texts, and multimedia.
• The J. Paul Getty Museum - This museum collects and exhibits Greek and Roman antiquities, European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts.
• Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments - A resource library where those interested in medieval tournaments can share and exchange information. Includes a glossary.
• The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies, sponsored by Georgetown University - The Labyrinth provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a Worldwide Web server at Georgetown University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.
• Medieval siege - students can build their own trebuchet and try to knock down a castle wall on this companion site to a Nova -televised program which stands on its own as a resource on life inside a medieval castle.
• The Online Medieval & Classical Library is a collection of some of the most important literary works of classical and medieval civilization, sponsored by the library of the University of California at Berkeley and Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• American Stock Exchange

• CongressLink provides information about the U.S. Congress: how it works, its members & leaders, and the public policies it produces.
• Federal Bulletin Board - Quickly and easily access more than 7,500 files from over 25 agencies representing all three branches of the federal government.
• Firstgov.gov: Your First Click to the US Government - This web site will allow users overwhelmed by the 27 million-plus pages of government information to link to every online resource offered by the federal government. Users can log on without having to know the name of the agency or program that offers the specific service they seek.
• Government Printing Office Access: The Pathway to Federal Information offers timely access to official federal government databases. Most are updated by 6:00a.m. daily, and the Congressional Record is usually available by 11:00 a.m.
• Presidential Election - As the Jan. 2008 primaries draw near, the media becomes saturated with debates and commercials. Use this site to review the history of presidential elections, beginning in 1789 when George Washington ran unopposed. Read articles about campaigns, conventions, nominations, the Electoral College, and disputed elections. Voting results are presented in graph form, so there’s also some great material for a math lesson.                                                                                                                                                         
• World War II Primary Source Documents - To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945), this vast archive of primary source documents from WW II was established. Read the words of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and President Charles de Gaulle as they announced the historic event, or view the official German surrender documents. There are hundreds of fascinating documents covering all aspects of the war, plus several excellent interactive timelines that are useful for research.

• The American Civil War Homepage gathers together hypertext links to the most useful electronic files about the American Civil War (1861-1865). It began as a class project for Information Science 560 at the University of Tennessee's School of Information Sciences. The page has received numerous awards, honors, and favorable comment since its first appearance. It is included in the American Library Association's "Top 700-Plus Web Sites for Children", and has been selected as one of the top 100 educational sites for 1999 by the Education Source.
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than seven million digital items from over 100 historical collections, and includes a search engine which allows users to locate information by collection or via an analytical search.
• American Slave Narratives contains a collection of interviews conducted from 1936 to 1938 with former slaves from across the American south. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves.
• American Women's History: A Research Guide - This site provides citations to print and Internet reference sources as well as to selected large primary source collections, many of them digital. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources.
• The Bill of Rights: Almost an Afterthought? - Includes primary sources, images, documents, contextualizing the Bill of Rights documents, essays, and events.
• Black History: Exploring African-American Issues on the Web - Both teacher- and student-friendly, this collaborative site offers many avenues to explore African-American history. With links that are well organized and access to many diverse resources, this site is ideal for papers and projects.
• Child labor in America, 1908-1912 - Here, the horrendous world of child labor during the early 1900s is captured through the haunting photographs of Lewis W. Hine. “About these photos” contains an account of Hine and his role in helping bring about reform, plus links to his other photographic essays on Ellis Island immigrants and the building of the Empire State Building. It mentions the 250 million children working today in developing countries and links to the UNICEF web page on international child labor.
• Discovering Lewis and Clark  - Produced by Joseph Mussulman, an author specializing in the Lewis and Clark expedition, this site contains text, images, maps, and primary source documents. Materials are meticulously organized by topic.
• Double Victory: Minorities and Women During WW II - Includes video clips, essays, instruction, documents, and images.
• Douglass - Douglass is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents. Named after the famed 19^th -century orator & author Frederick Douglass, the site includes famous speeches and writings from such notable American figures as Jane Adams, W.E.B. DuBois, and Theodore Roosevelt. Visitors can view speeches by speaker, title, or chronology. Be sure to check the "special-delivery" section, which highlights a current or former controversy in America.
• Gettysburg National Military Park: Camp Life, Civil War Collections  -
  Developed and maintained by the National Park Service, this exhibit illuminates the daily lives of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate. Information is organized into four sections: Living in Camp, Existing Day to Day, Battling Boredom, and All Image Gallery. Text is accompanied by captioned photographs.
• Harry Truman Library & Museum provides documents, lesson plans, and facts about Truman and the American presidency.
• Internment history - This voluminous research serves as an adjunct to PBS’s Children of the Camps. 'Historical documents' includes Executive Order 9066, which allowed the displacement of Japanese-Americans; 'The camps' describes the overcrowded conditions of the internment life, and ‘Health impact” documents the long-term effects of imprisonment. The timeline highlights important dates from 1941 to 1990.
• The New Deal Network - In October 1996, the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (FERI) launched the New Deal Network (NDN), a research and teaching resource on the Worldwide Web devoted to the public works and arts projects of the New Deal; NDN is now based at the Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University. At its core is a database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents) from the New Deal period. Currently there are over 20,000 items in this database, many of them previously accessible only to scholars. Unlike many databases on the Web, which represent the holdings of a particular institution, NDN draws from a wide variety of sources around the country to create a theme-based archive.
• Presidential Libraries of the National Archives & Records Administration is a site which provides links to presidential libraries starting with the Herbert Hoover Library. Documents from each president since Hoover, including letters, journals, diaries, official papers and documents, presidential biographies and photographs, are available in digital format on each of their library web sites.
• Presidents and First Ladies - Contains biographies, portraits, and photographs of presidents and their first ladies, as well as information about all the presidential libraries.
• The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis - Read the documents, see the photographs, hear the voices, read a detailed chronology and the analysis of contemporary historians of the events relating to the Cuban missile crisis, all from The National Security Archive web site.
• Slavery in America - Originally created to accompany the 2004 public television series, this site provides exceptional content and easily stands on its own. Materials are categorized by History, geography, American literature, narrative and biography, and teacher resources. Each of the topics has essays, maps, interactive exhibits, and additional links. Twenty primary sources are included in Narratives. All sections include excellent lesson plans. A new addition to the site is the Melrose Interactive Slavery Environment which takes students into the pre-Civil War suburban estate of Melrose in Natchez, Mississippi, from the perspective of the men, women, and children who were enslaved there.
• Sputnik Escalates the Cold War - Includes video clips, instruction, essays, images, documents, and further readings.
• Thomas Library of Congress - This site from the Library of Congress reports on all activity in the U.S. Congress, from bills and treaties to the Congressional Record and committee reports. Access catalogues from all presidential nominations since 1987. Use the excellent teacher resources and lesson plans.
• Veterans History Project -This is a project of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. Volunteers collect primary source accounts of the experiences of U.S. Veterans in World Wars I and II, Koreas, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Older students may even consider visiting a veterans hospital and conducting interviews to post online. The Web site has complete details on how to participate.
• WestWeb is a topically-organized web site about the study of the American west created and maintained by a born-and-bred westerner, Catherine Lavender, of the history department, College of Staten Island, City University of New York.
• World War I Document Archive - This archive of primary documents from World War I, assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List, is international in focus.
• World War II Primary Source Documents - To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 8, 1945), this vast archive of primary source documents from WW II was established. Read the words of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and President Charles de Gaulle as they announced the historic event, or view the official German surrender documents. There are hundreds of fascinating documents covering all aspects of the war, plus several excellent interactive timelines that are useful for research.
• World War II Propaganda Posters - Includes 31 patriotic/propaganda posters, many commissioned by US government agencies, with posters by N.C. Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton, and others. 

As students investigate large numbers of Web resources, they need to learn how to analyze, synthesize and evaluate the authenticity, credibility and accuracy of the Web content. This skill needs to be taught and practiced frequently until it becomes second nature for students to view Web sites with an ever-discerning eye.

• The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
• Inquiry on the Internet
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A gold mine of articles, links, and student handouts to help teach this valuable skill.