900-999 Geography & History     

Travel /Exploration

• Canterbury Tour      This is a great walking tour of an  historic English city.  Some of the shots are of modern streets but by using the navigation bar you can look to the right or left. I suggest starting at the cathedral.
• China the Beautiful   A wealth of information about all things Chinese.
• Columbus Navigation Homage      This is a web site that sets standards for a good site.  You can find who created it and when; it's well organized and has lots os useful information you do not find readily elsewhere.
• Conquistadors Cabeza de Vaca, Cortes, Orellana and Pizarro
• The MesoAmerican Ballgame   Much more than the ballgame.  With timelines and maps this is a great introduction to the early cultures of Middle America
• Virtual Antarctica       This expedition as you would expect shows you penguins and other Antarctic wildlife. The history of the exploration of the region is fascinating (although more detailed legends with some of the photos would be helpful)  There are brief descriptions of the  environmental  problems of global warming, ozone depletion and krill harvesting.
• Virtual Galapagos       On this trip to the Galapagos Islands you will find out not only about the unique wildlife and how man has had such a harmful effect on it but also something of the geology and the history of the islands.
• Washington D.C.     A Historical tour of the Nation's Capital  created for Think Quest.

Geography

• BBC Country Profiles
• CIA World Factbook    A snapshot of the world.
• Library of Congress Country Studies     Description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. Tthe interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
• Portals to the World   S elective links from the Library of Congressproviding authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories.
• U.S. Cultural Maps   A wonderful collection with links to other map sites.

History

• Historical Text Archive
• History Channel
• History for Kids
• History Matters   Resources for history teachers.
• History Net        Provides information about the following topics of historical interest: world history, American history, great battles, and the Civil War.  It includes eyewitness accounts, personality profiles, and interviews.
• History Place     Particularly useful for WWII and genocide in the 20th century.
• Hyper History Online 3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.  Search by people, periods of history, or events.  Includes a map section.
• Spartacus Educational   A British  history resource with sections on American and world history.
  
• This Day in History     From the History Channel.
• Today in History     From the Library of Congress.
• World History Links     WWW virtual library.  Extensive set of links and well organized.

Ancient History

• Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East  A ThinkQuest project.
• Ancient World Web   There are very sound sites listed here but also some very strange alternative theories. Beware!
• Flints and Stones   Real life in prehistory.  Northern Europe in the Stone Age.
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook    From Fordham University. Emphasis on access to primary source texts for educational purposes.
• Labyrinth      Resources for Medieval Studies from Georgetown University
• Perseus Project     Originally a collection of Classical (Greek) resources, this site now contains primary resources from such diverse areas as Renaissance England and California in the Gold Rush.
• Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

World History

• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Internet  Medieval Sourcebook    Not maintained but still great for primary sources.
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook     Not maintained but still great for primary sources.
  Islam and Islamic History in Arabia and the Middle East
• Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments
• Medieval Technology Pages    Technology developed and used between 500 and 1600 AD in Western Europe.
• Searching for China - Web Quest
• World History Links selected for Quaboag Regional Middle/High School arranged to support specific areas of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks as follows:

  Human Beginnings and Early Civilizations (Prehistory to 1000 B.C.   
  Classical Civilizations of the Ancient World (1000 B.C. top c. 500 A.D.)   
  World History: Growth of agricultural and commercial civilizations (c. 500 A.D. to 1500)  
  Emergence of a Global Age (1450 to 1750) 
  The Age of Revolutionary Change (1750 to 1914)
  The World in the Era of Great Wars (1900 to 1945) 
  The World from 1945 to the Present   WW1: Art of the First World War      One hundred World War I paintings from international collections. A tourof the site organizes art works by topic.
  WW1:  The Christmas truce of 1914       Fascinating account of the day that enemies came out of the trenches to shake hands with each other, drink beer, and play soccer.
  WW1: The Great War; 80 years on     This BBC site includes articles, letters, radio interviews, images, and newsreels dealing with WWI. Covers major battles.
  WW1:  The Great War; interactive timeline      A basic timeline, and brief interviews with WWI participants.
  WW1:  The red fighter pilot       Online book by Manfred von Richthofen,the Red Baron, focuses on his career as a WWI German fighter pilot.
  WW1:  Trenches on the web      People, places, and events of The Great War with photos, art work, documents, essays, biographies, maps, poetry, diaries, memoirs, timelines, and more.

U.S. History

• Age of Imperialism Simply describes US expansionism in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
• American Civil War Home Page
• American Cultural History: The Nineteenth Century
  
• American Memory       From the Library of Congress
• AmericanPresident.org  The History section includes biographical information on the Presidents and First Ladies, Cabinet  members and White House staffers.
• Archiving Early America
• Born In Slavery      Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project.
• C uban Missile Crisis, 1962: Political Perspective after 40 Years   Press releases, photographs, declassified documents audio-clips, detailed chronologies of events around the crisis, and records of the hunt for Soviet submarines.
  
• HarpWeek.com       Articles from Harper's Weekly bring the nineteenth century to life.
• History of Jim Crow
• Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the  Corps of Discovery
• Library of Congress Civil War Photographs      Photographs and  scenes of military personnel, preparations for battle, and battle after-effects.  You may search by keyword; browse by subject; or select a year from a timeline.
• Life Histories from  Massachusetts      Life histories from the Depression era recorded as part of the Federal Writers' Project.
• Massachusetts Historical Society
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers
• Mount Vernon       Take a tour of the first president's home, or find information George Washington's life.
• National Security Archive     Many of these primary sources contain material that is still classified but from this collection at George Washington University you can find out a lot about "The Real Thirteen Days" (Cuban Missile Crisis), "Fujimori's Rasputin"  (background documents that explain Peru's sudden shift in leadership), and more.
• Old Sturbridge Village
• Ongoing Voyage, 1492
• Pledge of Allegiance - A Short History
• Powers of Persuasion    Propaganda posters from WWII..
• TIME Magazine: Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
• Trail of Tears
  
• U.S. History Links selected for Quaboag Regional Middle/High School arranged to support specific areas of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks as follows: 
  • Early America and Americans (Beginnings to 1650)
  • Settlements, Colonies, and Emerging American Identity (1600 to 1763)
  • The American Revolution: Creating a New Nation (1750-1815)
  • Expansion, Reform, and Economic Growth (1800 - 1861)
  • The Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)
  • The Advent Of  Modern America (1865 to 1920)
  • The United States and Two Wars (1914 - 1945)
  • The Contemporary United States (1945 to the Present)
• Weedpatch Camp .  The camp for migrant workers in California which spawned Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and was the location of some of Dorothea Lange's most famous photographs.
• Westward Expansion An extensive set of links put together for Wisconsin schools.
  
• Within these walls   The lives of five families in a house in Ipswich, MA from an exhibition at the Smithsonian.

Flags

• Flags of  Nations