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American Memory - Internet Resources - U.S. History - Pathfinder linking to U.S. History Internet resources by chronological period. Includes primary and secondary resources. American Memory - Internet Resources - World History- Primary and Secondary Resources - Pathfinder linking to Workd History Internet resources by chronological period. Includes primary and secondary resources. The Avalon Project (Yale Law School) - Primary documents in law, history, diplomacy, organized by century. Background Notes - Factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. Best of History Web Sites - Provides reliable and searchable access to the best history-oriented Web sites. Contains links to over 800 history-related Web site resources online in a wide range of categories and broken down by periods and topics. CIA World Fact Book - Frequently updated country profiles. CORE Documents of U. S. Democracy - Provides American citizens direct online access to the basic federal documents that define our democratic society. Included in the collection are Cornerstone Documents (for example: Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proculmation, Federist papers, and Gettysburg Address), Congressional, Presidential, Judicial, Regulatory, Demographic, Economic documents. CultureGrams Online - In-depth information, including maps and statistics on 190 countries and territories. Reports are written by native or lon-term residents of each country. Geography at About.com - Get to the core of geography at this friendly and frequently-updated site. Hispanic Reading Room - Library of Congress' area studies division serving as the primary access point for research relating to all areas of the world influenced by Spanish culture and language. History Channel - A companion to the television channel, this includes a wealth of resources for both students and teachers. Key offerings include: study guides and activities, ideas from teachers, special exhibits, speech archives, discussions, and "This Day in History." Also, try the UK History Channel and the History Channel Student site. History International - Television's first and only 24-hour documentary service devoted to international topics to bring viewers a unique, in-depth understanding of the world around them. History Matters - A production of the American Social History Project/Center of Media and Learning, City University of New York, and the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, History Matters is a wonderful online resource for history teachers and students. Among the many digital resources are lesson plans, syllabi, links, and exhibits. History Net - Offered by the National Historical Society, this well-organized site covers a diverse set of topics in World and American history. Noteworthy features include a picture gallery, archives, links to full-text historical magazines, eyewitness historical accounts, special features and book reviews. History Place - This site presents a fact-based, common sense approach in the presentation of the history of humanity, with great care given to accuracy. History Study Center - A vast collection of digitised primary and secondary sources, including journal articles, rare books, newspaper articles, video clips, parliamentary papers, criminal trial records, radio and television news, maps, images, student guides and reference titles. In addition, the history Web Gateway provides links to thousands of reliable and informative Web sites. HyperHistory - A collection of timelines of lives and events in world history. There are three major timeline indexes covering important People, major Events, and general world History. There is also a fourth section on Maps and an alphabetical Index of people with links to related Web sites. Based on the World History Chart. Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use. Issues & Controversies - Authoritative online source of up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day. Library of Congress Country Studies - Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army, focused primarily on lesser known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed. Not all-inclusive. At present, 102 countries and regions are covered. Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other Western nations, as well as a number of African nations. Multnomah County Library Homework Center Social Issues Page - When you need to understand all sides of an issue, the Social Issues Page can provide valuable links. Here you will find Web sites that present opinions from multiple perspectives. National Geographic Online - Maps, photography, travel and more. Our Documents - To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, they invite us to explore 100 milestone documents of American history and vote for the documents that you think shaped America. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union." Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Extensive collection in both JPG and PDF formats. Includes all kinds of maps, including historical, topical, current event and city maps from around the world. From the University of Texas at Austin Portals to the World - Links to electronic resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts. ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The complete run of The New York Times back to 1851. WWW-VL History Central Catalogue - Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, the oldest catalog on the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself, in 1991. It is run by volunteers who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; Not the biggest index of the Web, the VL is considered among the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.
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