Race: are we so different? For ages 10 to 13.

http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

     Hyper History says it is “an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.”

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

     Interactive maps illustrate such diverse historical events as the spread of the black death and the development of agriculture.

http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/duiker_maps/

     Historical Atlas of Europe, with excellent maps, pictures, events.

http://www.euratlas.com/history_europe/europe_map_1000.0html

     Maps of war sweeps through the conquests of ancient history.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS DOCUMENTS

     A vast directory of source documents on philosophy and religion available for free download. For example, you will find here the Confucian Analects and the writings of philosophers from Aristotle to Camus.

http://ivzhao.com/plato/

     Greek and Roman myths. All educated people were once familiar with these myths; they simply assumed readers knew the stories of Pygmalion and Icarus, for example. This site makes it possible for us to join those educated classes

http://www.online-mythology.com/

     Aesop’s Fables. More stories all educated people used to know.

http://www.aesopfables.com/aesopsel.html

WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURE

     Encyclopedia Of World History. “Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have combined their expertise over the past ten years to perfect this comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.”

http://www.bartleby.com/67/

     Eyewitness to history: this astonishing and wonderful history describes events in the words of those who were there. You’ll find these eyewitness reports about everything from “The Making Of An Ancient Egyptian Mummy,” by Herodotus around 450 B.C., to present day events. The “History In Motion” section contains film clips from the early days of motion pictures on.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

     World timeline, world history – you can here go into events superficially or in detail.

http://fsmitha.com/

     The Archaeological Institute of America will take you to a Greco-Roman feast and much more, including basic archaeological techniques.

http://archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10260

     Women in the ancient world.

http://www.womenintheancientworld.com/

     Interesting archaeological findings about ancient life in many parts of the world.

http://ancientstandard.com/

THE TWO WORLD WARS

     World War I. PBS’s site on “The Great War And The Shaping Of The Twentieth Century.”

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

     First World War offers unusual facts and facets in its multimedia history of the war, including how Hitler’s experiences as a soldier in World War I shaped the world’s future.

     Their Finest Hour: A treasury of British World War II audio recordings. If you don’t do anything else, please listen to item 8, Winston Churchill’s speech, during one of England’s – and the world’s – darkest moments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/history/
worldwar2audioclipslibrary.shtml

     World War II photos. The U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES has thousands of World War II photos. Find here the ones they’ve made available to the public. They are simply wonderful. Many are heartrending. I had seen very few of them before, even though I’d seen quite a few World War II photos. You can use the zoom lens to enlarge portions of them.

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/

     The Veterans’ History Project lets you listen to American World War II veterans describe their memories:

http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/alphalist.html

     British citizens remember their war:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/

     BBC History of World War II: You can explore the European war in as much or as little detail as you choose.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo

     And find here details of World War II in the Pacific:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm