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Hyper History Online
World History outlines and historical era timelines featuring cross-referenced articles on the events and people of each era.
PBS History
Essays, overviews, photos, and teacher helps for each of the documentaries that PBS has produced on historical topics, both World and American.
That Wacky Millenium!
“Or, Stuff That Happened from 1001 C.E. to 2000 C.E.” A historical timeline, of sorts, highlighting the, well, “wacky” events that shaped our world, some well-known, and some obscure.
This Day in History
A History Channel site, one of the best of the "Today in History" type sites. Other excellent sites include:
History Net's Today in History;
LoC's Today in History;
PBS' Today in History.
World Cultures
“An Internet Classroom and Anthology.” Winner of numerous awards, with good reason. Click on the contents link to begin exploring, then the learning modules link to enter the historical era table of contents.
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British History
Wow! From Prehistory through the 20th Century, if it had anything to do with Britain, you can find it here at this fantastic section of the Britannia Internet Magazine.
The History Channel
Visit online features and exhibits, take quizzes, conduct searches on historical topics, and more. Also visit History Channel International for even more World history.
The History Net
This exceptional online magazine is “where history lives on the web.” Fantastic American History content, and up-and-coming World History content, unfortunately not archived by historic period. Also visit their selection of superior internet links.
AICT Art History
Art Images for College Teaching is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community, and covers the topics of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque, 18th-20th Century, and Non-Western Art.
Webmuseum
An online exhibition of the artists and art of western civilization, beginning with the Gothic style through the present day. Click on the Famous Paintings collection to enter the timeline index.
World Art Treasures
The goal of this website is to promulgate the discovery and love of art, using 100,000 art history slides belonging to the Jacques- Edouard Berger Foundation.
The sites on the left are pages with excellent historical content. The sites below are links pages, specifically chosen for the quality of pointers to other sites for further research.
Creative Impulse
This site is broken down into historical eras much like this page, and then each era has two sets of links: a history and events set, and an art, literature and culture set. Highly recommended.
Education Index History Resources Page
An excellent collection of educational history sites, both World and American.
Great Books Timeline
The timeline, divided by historical era, is part of the Mercer University Great Books site.
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.”
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