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the Name
Behind the Name offers the etymology
and history of first names.
Best
of History Web Sites
"Best of History Web Sites is a
portal created for students, history educators, and general history
enthusiasts." The sites are rated for usefulness and
accuracy.
Eye
Witness to History
Eye Witness to History presents history
through the eyes of those who lived it, illuminating the past through
personal
narratives and other first-hand sources. EyeWitness is presented
by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational
programming. It includes accounts from the ancient world,
Middle Ages/Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century,
Civil War, Old West, 20th century, World War I and World War II.
Historical
Text Archive
"This history web site offers articles,
books, maps, and photographs on various subject categories, including
genealogy, history, religion, rock-n-roll, wars and women's studies." (Copyright
2002-Scout Report)
History
Central
Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library,
History Central links to historical information on countries and
regions, eras and epochs, and general topics.
History
Matters
A web directory to
history resources for teaching US History to high school and college
students, History
Matters includes primary documents in text and audio clips resources
on using primary documents, and an annotated webliography to other
history web sites.
History World
This sites allows
you to read over 400 articles on world history.
Internet
History Sourcebook Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project
has gathered a wealth of primary materials from public domain and
copy permitted historical texts. The main sourcebooks are
divided into ancient, medieval and modern history. Supplemental
sourcebooks include African, Islamic, women's and Jewish history. This
site is a great tool for finding information concerning world history.
In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories,
and Other Personal Narratives
"In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500
collections of oral history from around the world. There are more
than 260,000 pages of full-text by over 9,000 individuals from a
variety of socio-economic backgrounds, juxtaposing the voices of
ordinary citizens with those of the well-published and famous. It
also contains pointers to over 2,500 audio and video files and 16,000
bibliographic records. With future releases, the index will broaden
to identify other first-person content, including letters, diaries,
memoirs, spanning 400 years. " National History Day
This sites offers starting topics and
guidance to complete your national history day project. It provides
a wonderful overview and discussion guide on primary sources.
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