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GENERAL & MISC.
- The Airchive - museum of commercial aviation
- Ancestry.com - Military - searchable American military service records going back to the Revolutionary War, plus WWII newsreels
- Around the World in the 1890s - 900+ photos from Library of Congress
- Best of History Websites - lots of links, with a 5-star rating system
- Court TV Famous Cases
- Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- drive-ins.com
- Famous Left-Handers
- Find A Grave
- Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World
- The History Channel:
- HistoryWorld
- Images of Native Americans: The Bancroft Library
- Killer Fonts - computer fonts based on the handwriting of famous murderers, also dead presidents and other historical figures
- My Facts Page - Historical Information Resources [big list]
- Out Of The Past: 400 Years of Lesbian and Gay History in America [PBS]
- People's Century 1900-1999 [PBS]
- Reverse Speech Home Page - famous speeches played backwards reveal hidden messages (RealAudio clips)
- Talking History - weekly talk program via RealAudio
- Today in History - from the American Memory collections at the Library of Congress
CALIFORNIA
- California History Online (California Historical Society)
- The Land of Glittering Dreams - contemporary photos of Gold Rush sites
- Online Archive of California - photos and documents from UC's Bancroft Library
- Yesterland - bygone Disneyland attractions remembered
USA: General
- Ad*Access - huge collection of ads from newspapers and magazines 1911-1955
- America on the Move - history of transportation in USA, from National Museum of American History
- The American Presidency - from Grolier Encyclopedia
- American RadioWorks - The President Calling - taped phone calls by Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon
- America's Story from America's Library [Library of Congress]
- American Heritage (magazine)
- American Memory [Library of Congress]
- American Rhetoric.com - hundreds of examples of great speeches, interviews, etc.
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: 1774-Present
- DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms - do a search, or browse an alphabetical list of terms
- Great Seal of the United States - history of the seal, Latin mottos translated
- Medical History of American Presidents
- Our Documents - 100 most important US historical documents
- Pacifica Radio Archives - historic speeches and interviews
- Parkersburg, West Virginia: A Vintage Portrait - a collection of old photos, mostly from postcards
- The Political Graveyard - "the Web site that tells where the dead politicians are buried"
- The Presidents of the United States of America - this White House site has a one-page bio of each president
- Seminole Tribe of Florida - history and culture
- Steamboats and Paddlewheelers: Steamboating the Rivers
- Television News Archive - courtesy of Vanderbilt University
- Uncle Sam Image Gallery - symbol of the U.S. since 1852
- WashingtonPost.com: Destination: Scandal! - an online tour of actual addresses in DC where famous scandals took place
- US Armies In Uniform
- US National Archives
USA: 1700s and Before
- Archiving Early America - historical journals & documents from 18th century
- The Columbus Navigation Homepage
- Benjamin Franklin - Last Will and Testament
- MayflowerHistory.com
- Salem Witch-Hunt - National Geographic site
- Salem Witch Trials - University of Virginia
- George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress - read thousands of GW letters online
- Monticello - The Home of Thomas Jefferson
USA: 1800s (including Civil War) & Early 1900s
- American Civil War Association - "A California Reenactment Organization"
- Behind the Stonewall - 360º Panoramic Images From Civil War
Battlefields
- CivilWar@Smithsonian - Civil War Collections from the Smithsonian
- Edison National Historic Site - also see Expanded Web Page
- Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine - about the battle that inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- The Great Chicago Fire (1871)
- Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection - American Civil War (University of Georgia)
- The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868)
- Jews in the Civil War
- Lewis and Clark:
- Abraham Lincoln:
- Out of Gloucester - Gloucester vessels and men lost at sea from the 1830's to the present
- The Richmond Howitzers - Civil War reenacting
- Selected Civil War Photographs [Library of Congress]
- Kathleen Mavourneen - lyrics for the popular Civil War song, with a MIDI music link
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (1898 and 1901) - MPEG and QuickTime clips from Library of Congress
- The History of Jim Crow
- The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age - Smithsonian Institute site
WORLD WAR I
- The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of WWI
- American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I & 1920 Election - RealAudio and .WAV files, from Library of Congress
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - personal and service information for 1.7 million soldiers who died in the First and Second World Wars
- League of Nations Photo Archive - from Indiana University
USA: 1920s & 1930s
- The Iconography of Hope: The 1939-40 New York World's Fair - includes RealVideo clips
- Lindbergh Trial: Crime of the Century
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
- Voices from the Dust Bowl [Library of Congress] - focusing on 1940-41
- Amelia Earhart (official site)
WORLD WAR II
- 35th Infantry Division in Europe during WWII
- A-Bomb WWW Museum
- American Experience: Battle of the Bulge [PBS]
- American Experience: D-Day [PBS]
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - personal and service information for 1.7 million soldiers who died in the First and Second World Wars
- Anne Frank House - official site, based in the Netherlands
- Normandy: 1944 - from Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Private Art: WWII Letters To and From Home - the letters of Pvt. Arthur Pranger
- Remembering Nagasaki
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute - "a nonprofit organization dedicated to videotaping and archiving interviews of Holocaust survivors"
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- WW II Codes and Ciphers
- Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In - WWII aviation training films via RealVideo
1950s
- Cold War Museum
- Declassified Newsreels - incl. Nixon-Khruschev kitchen debate [MPEG & .MOV format]
- Little Rock Central High 40th Anniversary - Little Rock school desegregation
1960s (including the Viet Nam War)
- Battlefield: Vietnam [PBS]
- John F. Kennedy:
- Martin Luther King Jr.:
- Pat Paulsen's 1960's Television Editorials - classic satire from Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
- Viet Nam War:
1970s
- Richard Nixon:
- The Carter Center (Jimmy Carter)
1980s to present
- The Official Internet Quayle Quote List
- Bill Clinton:
- George W. Bush:
- Bush's War - watch the PBS "Frontline" documentary online
LATIN AMERICA
- AncientMexico.com
- Castro Speech Database
EUROPE
- The Battle of Hastings 1066
- The Castles of Wales
- Castles on the Web
- Château de Versailles - the home of Louis XIV
- The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs in Stalin's Russia [Newseum]
- Eiffel Tower [official site]
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa [official site]
- Learning Curve (British National Archives)
- The Middle Ages - from the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia Collection
- National Archives of Scotland
- Perseus Digital Library - all about Ancient Greece and Rome
- Society for Creative Anachronism - pre-17th-century European history
- Vindolanda Tablets - from ancient Roman fort in England
MIDDLE EAST
- At the Tomb of Tutankhamen - text and photos from 1923 National Geographic
- Secrets of the Pharaohs [PBS]
- Theban Mapping Project - virtual expedition of the largest tomb ever found in Egypt
ASIA
- Battlefield: Vietnam [PBS]
- Edo, Japan - A Virtual Tour (ancient Tokyo)
- Nanking 1937 - 60th anniversary Nanking Massacre
- Remembering Nagasaki
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall - search by name or hometown for someone's place on the wall
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