Maps & Geography

• Historical Atlas
• Historical Maps (grouped by country or time period)
• Map of Industrial Revolution & Spheres of Influence at Mt. Holyoke
• Map of Industrialization in Europe, c. 1850
• Imperialism in Africa
• The British Empire Map Room
• Map of the Peel Commission Partition
• Expansion of the European Parliament
• Interactive map of British Universities
• CIA World Fact Book on: The West Bank, The Golan Heights, and The Gaza Strip
• Maps of the Arab-Israeli Conflict from the Global Policy Forum and from "The News Hour" (on PBS)
• Map of Kurdish lands
• The Partition of India in 1947

Historic photographs & images

• Pirate Image Archive
• Vintage Video of World War I
• of Australia
• of Africa
• National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, England)
• Cartoon illustrating imperialism in China in the 19th century
• Who's Who in World War I
• Leaders in World War II

Politics & Government

• Information on the Russian Monarchy
• The Dictators
• Homepage of the British Parliament
• National Archives page on The Electoral College
• Homepage for the State of Wisconsin
• The British Commonwealth
• The Scottish National Party
• Plaid Cymru (the national party of Wales)
• Homepage of the European Union
• Homepage of the Scottish Parliament
• Homepage of the International Monetary Fund
• The NAFTA Secretariat
• OPEC homepage
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat

Dynasties/Ruling families

• African kingdoms
• the British Monarchy
• in China, Japan and Korea (at Columbia Univ.)
• assorted links about European royalty
• modern Middle Eastern royalty
• The Ottomans
• Persian Mirror site on the Pahlavi dynasty
• The Spanish royal family

Art, Culture & Technology

• The Galileo Project
• Homepage for Versailles
• The British Museum on The Age of Enlightenment
• New Lanark World Heritage Site
• Images of the Industrial Revolution
• Animation of a Blast Furnace (at the BBC)
• Engineering History timelines
• Links about the history of the Telegraph
• The Great Exhibition of 1851
• Artcyclopedia on Romanticism
• English Romanticism (at the Univ. of Houston)
• Vincent van Gogh Gallery
• Louis Sullivan: The Architect and His Work
• History of the Wisconsin State Capitol
• Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
• The Panama Canal
• films of Akira Kurosawa
• Internet History Sourcebook page about
  Modern History in Movies
• TheatreHistory.com

Sites by country/region

• links about Asian and Pacific history
• Australian history on the internet
• British India (by the BBC)
• CanadaHistory.com
• Caribbean history
• Timeline of India's history
• History of (Trans-)Jordan
• links about Latin American history (at the U of Texas)
• Sub-Saharan Africa (at the Univ. of Washington)
• Korean Olympic flag (2000)

• Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution
• The Guillotine
• Napoleonic Guide
• The Boer War
• Nurse-At-War.org
• A virtual tour of The Maginot Line
• Leaders of the Russian Revolution
• Propaganda posters of World War II
• The invasion of Norway in 1940
• BBC site on Dunkirk
• Eyewitness to history site on the Blitz
• National Geographic site on Pearl Harbor
• Site about World War II in North Africa
• Official site for the City of Hiroshima
• Vietnam War links (at Wellesley College)
• The Iran-Iraq War
• The Department of the Navy's Naval Historical Center

Primary materials & Databases

• Spy Letters of the American Revolution
• Imperial Gazetter
• Harper's Weekly
• Bell's Weekly Messenger
• Encyclopedia of the Orient
• Encyclopedia of Marxism
• Ellis Island, New York
• Documents on the Internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII
• The Pulitzer Prize
• The Yalta Conference
• Women's history in Ireland

Historical Quizzes

• on the Unifications of Italy and Germany
• on India
• on royalty
• assorted trivia questions about the European Union
• The Great American History Quiz (at the History Channel)
• assorted history quizzes
• Scottish History Quiz and Where Am I? Quiz

Sites to check on Current World News

• The Drudge Report (with links to most major news sites...)

• The Guardian (London)
• U. S. News
• The Washington Post

Other...

• Environmental History Timeline
• Timeline of 19th-century history
• The History Channel on the History of Thanksgiving
• Homepage for Pope John Paul II
• The White House page on American Presidents
• 10 Downing Street page on Prime Ministers
• Banknotes & coins of the European Union
• Captain Euro (has a great currency converter!)

• Colonial Williamsburg
• BBC site on Darwinism
• The Dome of the Rock
• The Berlin Wall
• Athens 2004