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History
20s
Reconstruction Society information and opinions on the 1920's in
America
4000
Years of Women in Science over 125 names from our scientific and
technical past
A New Deal
for the Arts the New Deal arts projects of the American
Depression
Ad*Access
Project more than 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and
Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955
African-American
Women documents from the Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Alexander
Palace Time Machine virtual tour and information about life
before, during and after the Romanovs
AlternaTime
one of the few times we're offering a page of links to other pages,
but this one's a beauty - a collection of historic, literary and
scientific timelines
American
Life Histories written by the staff of the Folklore Project of
the WPA from 1936-1940
American Memory
over 70 historical collections from the Library of Congress
American
Popular Music Before 1900
Ancient World Web resources
delving into history before 1000 AD
Archiving Early America
source material from 18th Century America - original newspapers,
maps and writings
Around the World
in the 1890s photos of world transportation, from the Library of
Congress
Australia's
Oral History Collections life, customs, politics and
traditions in a searchable directory
UK BBC Online -
History staging center for all the BBC history series
Centro Camuno
di Studi Preistorici rock and cave art from 40,000 years
ago
Chicago in
1900 from the Chicago Public Library
Civil
War Women documents from the Special Collections Library, Duke
University
Clothing of the
Ancient Celts
Coliseum Virtual
Walkthrough more than 280 photographs of the Coliseum and parts
of the Forum Romanum
DFS
Bookmarks: Today In History Sites you want to know what happened
last year or last century, here's where to start
Diotima: Women & Gender in
the Ancient World
dMarie Time Capsule put in
a date and the capsule will tell you what was happening
Documents from the
Women's Liberation Movement from the Special Collections
Library, Duke University
Domestic
Life in 19th Century England 19th century plays about domestic
issues
Duke
Papyrus Archive texts about and images of 1,375 papyri from
ancient Egypt
Early Canadiana
Online a full text online collection of more than 3,000 books
and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European
contact to the late 19th century
Economic History Resources
how much DID a Grecian earn?
English Actors
at the turn of the Twentieth Century
Encyclopedia Mythica
contains more than 5,700 definitions of gods and goddesses,
supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all
over the world
Exploring Ancient World
Cultures info about ancient Greece, India, China, Early Islam
from the University of Evansville, Indiana
Eye of the Storm
companion website to a book reprinting the journals of a Union
soldier during the American Civil War
Eyewitness historical events
through the words of those who witnessed them
Footnotes to
History the stuff you don't learn in school - back again
Forgotten New York ancient
alleyways, fading murals, overlooked monuments... a wonderful
site
Greek Mythology
the myths, the gods, the heroes...
Guide
to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
UK Guide to UK
Archaeology Online
Hargrett
Library Rare Map Collection
Highgate Cemetery the
grandest of Victorian places for that final rest
Historic
American Buildings Survey images and drawings from the Library
of Congress
UK Historic Monuments
of England from English Heritage
History Central a large
index of world history from the University of Kansas
History of
Costume beautiful color reproductions of original plates of
Victorian costuming c.1861-1880
UK History Today
online archives of the magazine
UK How
much did things cost in Roman times?
I, Witness to
History
UK Images of
England photographs and written information about England’s
listed buildings
In
Search of Scotland website of the BBC series
Internet Medieval
Sourcebook selected and excerpted texts from Fordham
University
UK Isle of
Avalon Knowledge Bank articles about Arthurian myth, crop
circles and the like
Joan's Mad Monarch
Series a beautifully designed site about wacky royalty
Labyrinth
Project for Medieval Studies
Life in
Elizabethan England: "A Compendium of Common Knowledge"
Map
Collection 1544-1999 the American Memories collection of the
Library of Congress
Map
Collection 18th & 19th Century the David Rumsey
collection
Medieval
Names Archive medieval and renaissance names
Myths and
Legends
National
Signs of the Times Museum the history of signs, with original
photos
NetSERF extensive
index of Medieval resources
New York
City History Online from the NY Public Library
Outlaws and
Highwaymen ballads, poems, letters and more highwaymen and their
predecessors, the medieval outlaws
Plague
and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Popular American
Names for Specific Ages from the 1800s to present
Proper
Elizabethan Accents designed for Renaissance Fair people, but
good for those of us who don't want to dress as rat catchers,
too
UK Public Record Office of
the National Archives, the repository of the national archives
for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, span an unbroken period
from the 11th century to the present
Riding the Rails at
the height of the American Depression, more than a quarter million
teenagers were living on the road, many criss-crossing the country
by illegally hopping freight trains
Secrets of the
Norman Invasion
The Telephone
Exchange Name Project
This Day in History
from the History Channel, includes audio and video
Voices of the Holocaust first-hand
accounts of horrible brutality, incredible survival, and liberation
of Holocaust victims
The World War I Document
Archive
Oral
History Archives of World War II
Unpacking on the Prairie
Jewish women in the upper Midwest US
Women
and Gender in Ancient Egypt spans nearly four thousand years,
from later prehistoric times through the Muslim conquest of
Egypt
World
War II Historical Text Archive the American version
UK World War II the
British focus
World War II Through
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Museums & Art History
Images of Medieval Art and
Architecture
Site Officiel du
Musée du Louvre
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art more than 3500 online works of art
The Mother of
All Art History Pages online exhibits, resources, images
Museum Network search
33,000 museums worldwide
The Perseus Project an
evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient
world and beyond, including archives of architectural photos
Smithsonian Online
Collections
UK Victoria
and Albert Museum 2200 images from the vast collection
Virtual
Library museums pages directory of on-line museums and
museum-related resources
Web Gallery of Art
European paintings and sculptures created between 1150 and
1800
Women
Artists in History from medieval to the present
World Wide Art Resources artists,
museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques,
performing arts and more |
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Art & Images
Alta
Vista Photo Find searchable index of pics on the web
Architecture
Virtual Library
Chihuly
the master glass artist
UK Collage image
database of 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall
Art Gallery London
Diggit
image search engine
Ditto a
visual search engine
UK Dreaming Art
Centre of Utopia Aboriginal Gallery
FAST Multimedia
Search
Image Surfer a
little buggy - but a great searchable source of reference
images
Images of Medieval
Art and Architecture
International Directory
of Art Libraries
Site
Officiel du Musée du Louvre
Mars
Global Surveyor Pictures photos from Mars
Medieval
Macabre supernatural and fantastic imagery of the Middle
Ages
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art more than 3500 online works of art
The Mother of
All Art History Pages online exhibits, resources, images
Museum Network search
33,000 museums worldwide
The Perseus Project an
evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient
world and beyond, including archivers of architectural photos
Renaissance
Café hundreds of paintings, sculptures, drawings and
etchings of 19th century artists
Smithsonian Online
Collections
Smithsonian
Institution Photo Archive image database of the
Smithsonian
Symbols.com
more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to
their graphic characteristics, ranging from ideograms carved in
mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men to hobo signs and subway
graffiti
Travel
Ephemera the best in Deco graphic design from the 1920s and
1930s
Van Gogh
at Etten sketches and billboards from his early career
The Vincent van Gogh
Gallery displaying all of van Gogh's works and letters
UK Victoria
and Albert Museum 2200 images from the vast collection
Virtual
Library museums pages directory of on-line museums and
museum-related resources
WebSEEk: Image and Video
Search from Columbia University
World Wide Art Resources artists,
museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques,
performing arts and more |
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Science
Atlas of the Universe
maps from the nearest stars to the entire visible universe
Beyond2000 daily science
news
DoubleTwist
on-line genetic research
Elsevier Science full
text of more than 1100 scientific, medical and technical
journals
eNature field
guides to North American animals, birds, trees and flowers
Fossil
Horses in Cyberspace exhibit on fossil horse paleontology,
evolution, phylogeny, relationships, biology, nomenclature, and
geological time sequence in North America
JournalSeek more
than 8500 scientific journals, available in full
MicroAngela
views of the microscopic world from electron microscopes at the
University of Hawaii
Museum of the
History of Science exhibits from the University of Oxford
NatureServe
conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and
ecological communities of the United States and Canada
The
Physics Of ... everything from Buffy to football to swimming,
explained
19th
Century Scientific American Online
Solar System Simulator create
a color image of your favorite planet or satellite
What's That
Stuff? the chemical ingredients of commonplace mysteries, like
silly putty and lipstick
The Why Files
the science behind the
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