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American Memory Project – Library of Congress - Collections from the National Digital Library consisting of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. Includes documents, prints & photos, motion pictures, and sound recordings.
Biographical Dictionary - Biographical sketches of over 27,000 people spanning the history of mankind.
Black History - Offers a full range of activities and explores African-American issues on the web.
Civil War Photo Gallery - The collection is organized chronologically and is linked to a useful time line. From the Library of Congress.
Ellis Island - Virtual museum on immigration.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Text, maps, chronologies and links to other web sites for the ancient cultures of the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece and Rome plus early Islam and medieval Europe.
From Revolution to Reconstruction
The History Channel - Find out what happened today in history, link to speeches of the famous or not so famous people, take a trivia quiz, or learn about historical sites and tours.
The History Net: Where History Lives on the Net - Internet magazine brought to you by the National Historical Society, full of interesting articles about American and world history.
The History Place
History’s Besto n PBS - Shows great pages from PBS shows. Links to American history, world history, history on TV, biographies, and history in the classroom.
Infonation - Select a country, then go to the Data Menu to select statistics and other data fields. The click on Switch to a Country at a Glance to see all info on a particular country.
IPL’s POTUS - Presidents of the United States
Making America - A digital library of primary sources in American social history from 1800-1925. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. It is made up of images of the pages in 8500 books and 50,000 journal articles from the 19th century.
National Archives and Records Administration - Historical documents online.
Newspaper Links - Helps find newspaper stories by states, cities, and dates.
Repositories of Primary Sources - A listing of over 4400 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary resources. Categorized geographically.
Smithsonian Resources and Tours - Search the Smithsonian Museums, visit resources, read on-line Smithsonian publications and see photographs.
Today’s Events in History
US Historical Documents - A chronology of US Historical documents.

Decades Links
Holocaust Links
Cybrary of the Holocaust - Uses art, discussion groups, photos, poems and a wealth of facts to preserve powerful memories.
The Ghetto Fighters’ House: Museum of the Holocaust and Resistance - Searchable archive of photographs, art, and documents.
Simon Wiesenthal Center - Answers to frequently asked questions available in English, Spanish and Swedish. Biographies of children who experienced the Holocaust, info on hate groups, and extensive teacher resources.
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust - Pages of links on Victims, Bystanders, Resisters, Rescuers, Liberators, Survivors, and Perpetrators at the bottom of the page.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Searchable database of photos, on-line exhibitions. Text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips provide an overview of the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority - Includes documents, general information and answers to frequently asked questions about the Holocaust.

Third Reich
German Propaganda Archive: Nazi and East - This site includes powerful examples of Nazi propaganda, including cartoons, German posters, Nazi reports and writings on the use of propaganda, and excerpts from speeches and articles by Goebbels, Hitler, and Hess.
The History Place: Nazi Germany/World War II - Includes The Rise of Adolf Hitler, The Triumph of Hitler, Biographies of Nazi Leaders, Hitler Youth, Auschwitz Today, Timeline of World War II in Europe, Holocaust Timeline, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Includes hundreds of archive photos, text and documents.
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Perpetrators - Terrific site with excellent links to info on propaganda, terror and death, biographies of Nazi leaders, legal policies, etc.

Anti-Semitism, Racism, and Holocaust Denial
Christian Anti-Semitism - Professor Anne McGuire from Haverford College, Department of Religion presents links to related sites on anti-Semitism, religion, and the Vatican.
Holocaust Denial - Part of Ben Austin’s Holocaust/Shoah page, this site presents several essays on Holocaust denial.

Flight and Rescue
A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: Rescue - Part of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology’s site, this gives a historical overview on the topic of rescue with links to numerous sites, including the stories of rescuers, those that they rescued, bibliographies, and more.

Resistance
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - This site features an essay by Victoria Barnett on German Protestant theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The essay covers the years from the rise of Nazism until Bonhoeffer’s death in the Flossenburg concentration camp in 1945.
The History Place: Point of View – Memories of the White Rose - Dr. Wittenstein is one of two survivors of the inner circle of the White Rose, a resistance group of anti-Nazi German students and their supporters who openly opposed Hitler.
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: Resistance - Part of the Florida Center for Instructional Technology’s site, this site gives a historical overview on the topic of resistance with links to numerous sites, including memoirs of partisans and others who resisted the Nazi regime.
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue - Excerpts from a book by Ellen Land-Weber about the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust with extensive personal narratives of rescuers (and the people they rescued) with photographs.

Liberation and Aftermath
Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons, 1945-1951 - Part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Web site and includes historical essays covering camp politics, Zionism, search for justice, emigration, map of displaced person’s camps, exhibition gallery, and additional resources.
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www.acu.edu/academics/history/12ad/campsx/cover.htm" target="_blank">Twelfth Armored Division and the Liberation of Death Camps - Created by students in the History Department of Abilene Christian University, this site includes numerous written accounts of liberation given by members of the 12th Armored Division, news reports, photographs taken by American GIs, maps of the area, and links to other sites.

Middle Ages Links
Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies - One of the best sites for medieval material on the Web. Search by subject, special topics or on-site search engine.
Middle Ages Internet Links
Netserf: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources - Areas include medieval archaeology, architecture, art, culture, drama, history, law, literature, music, people, philosophy, religion, science and technology. Site also has a search engine for medieval resources.
Texas Renaissance Festival

Heraldry Links
Heraldry Heraldica - Info on many different heraldic traditions. The site contains a variety of information on heraldry and related topics, in the forms of texts, images and links.
Irish Genealogy and Coats of Arms
US Army Heraldry

Texas Links
Handbook of Texas Online - Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
Lone Star Junction - This site includes photos and songs of Texas, a searchable database of over 10,000 “Texians” that lived during the time of the Republic of Texas, full text online editions of rare and classic books about Texas and much more.
Texas Almanac
Texas Education Agency
Texas Legislature Online - The source for finding Texas Legislative information. Full-text of Texas laws and bills, the Texas Constitution, Legislative Committee members and committee schedules, directories of the Legislature, and general information about the legislative process is available here.
Texas State Government - Resources for Citizens, Visitors, Business and Government.
University Interscholastic League(UIL)

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