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Historical Maps

• USMA

Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

• Rice University
• Slow Birth of Agriculture
• The Impact of the Neolithic
• The Neolithic Revolution
• Quick Quiz
• Some Ancient Civilizations
• Odyssey Online

Indus River Valley

• Visual Guide
• Economics and Culture

Nile River Valley

• Ancient Egypt
• Egyptian Civilization

Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys

• Myths
• Online Textbooks

Yellow (Huang He) River Valley

• Economics and Culture
• Ancient China

Hammurabi's Code

• EAWC Anthology
• Hammurabi's Code - You be the Judge
• WSU

Government

• Ancient Greece-Sparta
• Ancient Greece-Athens
• Laws of Ancient Greece
• History 101
• BBC-Ancient Greece

Art and Architecture

• Photo Atlas
• Art and Architecture - Greece
• Art and Architecture - Rome
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome

Rise and Spread of Islam

• Islamic History Sourcebook
• Maps Relating to the Spread of Islam
• Islam City
• Islam Chronology
• Islamic History and Civilizations
• BBC
• History for Kids

1066 and 1215

• 1066 - The Battle of Hastings
• Eyewitness to History - 1066
• The Magna Carta - Full Text
• The British Library - The Magna Carta

Feudalism

• Learner.Org
• Feudalism in Japan and Europe
• Sourcebook
• Resources on Medieval Europe

the Roman Catholic Church

• Sourcebook
• The History of the Church (links)
• Historylearning Site

Crusades

• The Medieval Crusades
• Sourcebook
• The Crusades and the Rise of Islam
• The Crusades in Tapestry

Justinian's Code of Laws

• The Code of Laws
• How it was applied to Women

Charlemagne

• Sourcebook
• Biography
• The Empire

Joan of Arc

• Joan of Arc
• Archive

Bubonic Plague

• Plague and Public Health
• Electronic Passport - The Plague

Observations of Marco Polo

1492

The Renaissance

General Information

• Learner.Org - Interactive and Informative!
• Musical Instruments of the Renaissance
• Writers in England
• Life in Elizabethan England
• Primary Documents Online
• Works of Dante

Leonardo de Vinci

• Leonardo de Vinci
• Webmuseum
• Biography
• Artcyclopedia
• The Drawings of De Vinci

Michelangelo

• Michelangelo Biography
• Webmuseum
• Artcyclopedia
• His Works Online

Raphael

• Webmuseum
• Artchive
• Artcyclopedia
• Works Online

European Enlightenment

Secularism and Individualism

John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government

The growth of representative government and institutions during the colonial period.

• the Mayflower Compact

American Revolution

• Declaration of Independence and The Interactive Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

American Constitution Influences and Principles

• Magna Carta
• the English Bill of Rights
• Bill of Rights
• the Federalist Papers
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

• 1776, 1787, and 1861-1865
• Nullification Crisis and Civil War

French Revolution

• Summary
• Versailles
• Encyclopedia.com
• Chronology

Latin American Revolutions

The Scientific Revolution

• The Scientific Revolution
• Modern History Sourcebook
• University of Florida
• University of Colorado
• Sparknotes

The Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• The Americans and the Brits
• The Invention of the Steam-Engine
• The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Families
• Factory Children: The Conditions of Labor, 1832
• Report on Child Labor, 1843

World War I: General Information

• World War I - Trenches on the Web
• PBS - The Great War
• World War I - Document Archive
• The Great War
• Images of World War I
• The Great War in a Different Light
• Propaganda
• World War I Cartoons
• Encyclopedia of the First World War
• Art of the First World War
• BBC - World War I
• World War One Chronology
• Statistics of the War

Causes of World War I

• Events Leading to the Great War, 1870-1914
• British Documents on the Causes of the War
• The Zimmerman Telegram
• National Archives - The Zimmerman Telegram
• Wilson's Declaration of War
• The Triple Alliance
• Triple Alliance
• Triple Entente
• Causes of World War I
• The Assassination
• The Ultimatum to Serbia

The War Years

• History Channel - Letters to Home
• The American Experience - Letters of Soldiers
• BBC - The Western Front
• Battlefield Guide
• Battle of the Somme
• Life in the Trenches
• BBC - Tour of the Trenches
• Chemical Warfare
• Aviation in World War I
• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
• The Codetalkers

The Post War Era

• The Treaty of Versailles
• Wilson's 14 Points
• The League of Nations - Images
• The League of Nations
• The Battle over the Treaty
• The Palestine Mandate
• The Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928

Causes of World War II

• The World 1919 - Lesson with Maps
• Europe 1919
• Pre-War Chronology
• The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
• World War II Timeline
• The Causes and Consequences of World War II
• History Learning - UK
• Infoplease.com
• World War II Posters
• Pictures from World War II
• Diplomacy of Isolationism
• German Secret Rearmament
• The Rise of Hitler - Popups on this site
• Germany Under Hitler - Popups on this site
• Hitler - Speeches and Sounds
• World War II - Sounds and Pictures
• Time's Man of the Year - Hitler
• 1935 Nazi Propaganda for Rearmament
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
• Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy
• The Rhineland Crisis, 1936
• The German-Austrian Anschluss, 1938
• The Czech Crisis, 1938
• Neutrality Acts
• Lend-Lease program
• The Origins of Fascism
• Peace For Our Time by Neville Chamberlain
• The Munich Agreement
• "Radio Days - Neville Chamberlain"
• The Nazi Occupation of Poland
• War and Crisis in Asia and Europe
• Mobilization in WWII
• Japanese Occupation of China
• History Channel - World War II Memorial - Part 1 - Part 2
  

Biographies

• Bradley, Omar
• Chamberlain, Neville
• Churchill, Winston
• de Gaulle, Charles
• Eichmann, Adolf

World War II - European Theater

• About.com
• Primary Documents - Germany
• Blitzkrieg!
• Lend-Lease program
• Battle of the Atlantic
• War in Scandanavia
• The German Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
• Battle of Britain
• Battles of Britain-1939-45
• Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain
• London During the Blitz
• The Speeches of Winston Churchill
• Western Europe, 1939-1940
• Part 2, 1940-1944
• Part 3, Normandy to Berlin, 1944-1945
• France and the Low Countries
• The Maginot Line
• Italian Military History
• Battle of Monte Cassino
• Sicily - 1943
• Naples 1943-1944
• The Breakthrough to Rome
• North Apennines
• Po Valley 1945
• "Operation Overlord" - June 1944
• Normandy, June 1944
• The Normandy Invasion: The Story in Pictures
• Voices of D-Day
• The American Experience:Guts and Glory
• The Valour and The Horror - Normandy
• Battle of the Bulge
• The War of Attrition - 1944
• Defeat of Germany - 1945
• The Bombing of Dresden
• Rhineland, Sep. 1944 - May 1945
• North Africa
• Alternate Campaigns: Africa, the Med, and the Middle East
• Case Study North Africa
• Invasion of North Africa
• North African Landings - 1942
• The War in the Western Desert, El Alamein
• Victory in Tunisia - 1943
• The North African Campaign Of World War II
• Soviet Union Factbook
• The Russian Campaign 1941-1945 A photo diary
• The German Invasion of the U.S.S.R.
• The Battle of Stalingrad
• The Tide Turns
• Battle for Berlin
• Act of German Surrender
  

World War II - Pacific Theater

• Road to Pearl Harbor
• nationalgeographic.com - Pearl Harbor
• History Channel - USS Arizona
• Overview of the attack
• FDR's "A date which will live in infamy" Speech
• December Disaster - Pacific 1941
• Japan Moves South - 1941 Pacific
• America Responds - Pacific 1942
• Pacific Theater
• Lost Battalion of Texas in WWII Burma
• The Defense of Wake, Dec. 1941
• Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
• Bataan Death March
• Battle of the Coral Sea
• Midway - National Geographic
• Midway
• Guadalcanal
• Guadalcanal
• Invasion of Saipan
• Saipan & Guam
• The Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Iwo Jima, 1945
• Stepping Stones to Tokyo
• Okinawa
• Japanese Surrender
• Japanese War Crimes

The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb

• Leo Szilard Online
• The Costs of the Manhattan Project
• History of the Manhattan Project
• Living on the Manhattan Project
• Los Alamos National Laboratory: History
• A-Bomb
• The Bureau of Atomic Tourism
• Trinity Test
• General Paul Tibbets
• Enola Gay
• Eyewitness - the bombing of Hiroshima
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
• Hiroshima
• IMAGES: Hiroshima Collection
• The Day The World Changed
• Hiroshima Archive
• Hiroshima & Nagasaki
• Fifty Years from Trinity

Holocaust

• Timeline - Popups on this site
• Timeline
• Remember - Images
• Remember - Other Camps
• Gallery
• Museum of Tolerance
• U.S. Holocaust Museum
• U.S. Holocaust Museum for Students
• The Nizkor Project
• The Survivors of the Shoah
• Map of the Camps
• Chart - The Camps

Conferences of WWII

• The Avalon Project: Conferences During World War II
• German Surrender Documents
• The Nuremberg Trials

Post World War II

• Timeline of the Cold War
• Maps of the Cold War
• NATO and the Warsaw Pact Map
• The Marshall Plan - Primary Documents
• The Establishment of Occupation Zones
• Postwar Germany
• Map - Occupied Germany
• Department of State - Berlin Crisis
• Berlin Airlift
• Truman Library - Berlin Airlift
• The Berlin Wall Online
• The Concrete Curtain - The Berlin Wall
• Newseum - The Berlin Wall
• Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
• The Cold War and the Iron Curtain
• Examining the Korean War
• Department of Defense - Korean War
• National Archives
• The Truman Library
• Maps of the Korean War
• Korean War Educator
• The DMZ
• National Geographic - The DMZ
• The DMZ
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion
• The Bay of Pigs Invasion
• The Cuban Missle Crisis
• 14 Days in October
• The Vietnam War in Pictures
• American Experience - The Vietnam War

 

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