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A Book In Time - Guide to History Books & Craft Ideas
Find historical fiction & nonfiction, related craft ideas, links to helpful websites, and timelines - for kids & teens. The history reading guide is in chronological order & lists both World and American History. Each book selection has a suggested grade level and a short review.
Acts of Kindness
Inspiration for practicing random acts of kindness - with wonderful free educational and community ideas, guidance, and other resources. Fun! And they even provide five FREE pages of web space for presenting your own kindness activity or project!
The Story of Africa: African History From The Dawn of Time, by the BBC World Service
In this well illustrated site, Africa's top historians describe interesting events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid.
African American Odyssey - Library of Congress
The exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress.
America's Story
A colorful and extensive, fun and educational site for children from the Library of Congress - "Meet amazing Americans, Jump back in time, Explore the states, Join America at Play, Hear and Sing"
American Memory Learning Page!
Extensive site with ideas for learners and educators as they use the American Memory section of the
Library of Congress. Tips and tricks for using collections, activities, and lessons.
The
American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
A colorful site from the Smithsonian about the job of being president, exploring the role and
responsibilities various presidents have carried.
American Treasures
Exhibits at Library of Congress
Rare and significant items, from Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten draft of the Declaration of
Independence to Maya Lin's original drawing for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
America's Wars
The core of the site is a timeline of world history covering the major events in world history from the dawn of civilization to the present. Includes links to other sites.
Ancient Africa
This nice resource from the Kidipede - History for Kids site includes sections on the economy, literature, religion, food, art, warfare, craft ideas, and suggestions for books.
Ancient China
This resource from the Kidipede - History for Kids includes a timeline, environment (with maps), religion, clothing, economy, science, literature, games, food, art, cultures, craft and project ideas, and book ideas.
Ancient Egypt
A teacher's collecton of fun ideas for learning about ancient Egypt - includes activities, games, webquests, and much more.
The Ancient World Web
Hundreds of links to ancient history sites, indexed by name, geography, and subject.
Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman and British Living History
Delightful and historically accurate site of a living history society specializing in medieval history.
Archaelogica
Award winning site that gathers news stories of archaeological and historical
interest from around the world.
Archiving Early America
Explore the history of 18ths century America through historic documents, newspapers, maps,
magazines, and letters.
Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy
A government site that covers many important and interesting points of U.S. history, from the Declaration of Independence on through presidential debates of the 1990s. Very clear and simple layout.
Best of History Sites
This amazing, award-winning resource contains links to over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Included are links to activities, games, and more. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages. However, useful general resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well. You'll find stories about history, famous trials, religion, disasters, and even the background history behind popular movie stories.
BeWorldWise
Follow the colorful journey of The Picton Castle, a Tall Ship that spent a year sailing around the world - interactive site with movies, tracking map, beautiful photos of people and places, educational games, links to lots of interesting related subject sites, and more.
Biography.com
Search the database for over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present.
Black History
Encyclopedia Britannica’s excellent and extensive guide, with audio and video.
Black History Sites
The Carnegie Library's links to a wide spectrum of black history sites.
California Gold Rush
Very interesting site –and it also includes detailed information and graphic illustrations
about all the various routes people took to CA by land and sea.
California
Mission Internet Trail
Student constructed virtual tours of the missions, with interesting historical background
material.
The United States Civil
War Center
A complete index of Civil War Information available on the Internet, with hundreds of
related links.
Colonial Life in America 1600-1775
A nice collection of annotated links to primary resource documents, timelines, history, maps, everyday life in the Colonies, education, the trades, crafts, medicine, plantations, Indians of North America, colonies, music and dance, art, Jewish history, African Americans, religion, and a lot more - by the Internet School Library Media Center.
Core
Documents of U.S. Democracy
A core group of current and historical Government publications made available for free,
permanent, public access via the Government Printing Office Access service.
Cornell Arts
& Social Science Gateway
Includes cultures, demographics, geography, government, history, news media, and more.
Countries
An extensive list of links about countries all over the world, including the US –
cultures, customs, flags, food, recipes, parks, travel, maps and much more.
Culture Quest World Tour
– from the Internet Public Library
Sample cuisines, play games, see museums full of arts, crafts and history, hear folktales and learn
about holidays & festivals of many cultures.
Early North America - before 1500 A.D.
A very interesting history of the continent before the arrival of European invasion forces. It includes a timeline, environment (with maps), religion, clothing, economy, games, science (medicine), food, art, architecture, craft and project ideas, and books suggestions.
Educational Web Adventures
An amazing and graphically rich interactive site dealing with art, history, and science - by an award-winning developer of online learning activities. Choose by subject or by content for ages K-12. Requires Flash.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian on History & Culture Lots of interesting and extensive illustrated articles from the world's largest museum complex and research organization.
The
End of the Middle Ages
Gorgeous site: The End of Europe–s Middle Ages, 14th and 15th centuries, impressively detailed
with rich illustrations.
Explorers
& Discoverers
An extensive site about voyages of exploration and discovery, with lots of links to
related sites.
EyeWitness - History
Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
Personal narratives and first-hand sources, from the ancient world through the 20th
century, including sounds and pictures.
The
Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and
engineering.
FactCheckEd Field Trips to Historic Places First Nations’
Histories The Food Timeline Fourteen Days in
History: The Cuban Missile Crisis Free Online Geography Games Geographia Get to Know the Hispanics Around You Great Books
Interdisciplinary Matrix Greek
Civilization for Middle Schoolers Helping Your Child Learn History The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 HistoricalMap Websites Historical Movies in Chronological Order History Books for Children History Books at Embracing the Child History Channel Online History for Kids The History Net History Timelines on the Web History Trail - from BBC Home
In the Heartland Humanities Net–Humanities and
Social Sciences Online HyperHisory The
Internet Connection for Medieval Studies Iran - "The Persians" Internet Geography The Jamestown Online Adventure Learning Network - Student Connections Life Magazine Online Little House on the
Prairie The
Miniature Earth Multicultural
Paths Native
American Links Pioneers and Westward Expansion Plymouth: It’s
History and People President’s Day Respect, Diversity, Tolerance, Understanding Social Studies School
Services The Society for Creative Anachronism
(SCA) Social
Studies Sources The
Star-Spangled Banner Time
100 Poll Tut Language United States History Virtual
Renaissance Voice of the Shuttle "We Didn't Start the Fire" - The History Behind Billy Joel's Song Whitehousekids.gov World History: HyperHistory World Resource
Center WWW.First-Nations.Com (Back to Homeschooling Gateway to the Internet Index)
An educational resource for high school age, designed to help learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages we?re bombarded with every day - a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which monitors the factual accuracy of what is said in the nation's political arena.
Although there are lesson plans described here (Teaching with Historic Places), you can also just use this site for great information about learning opportunities on field trips (real or imaginary) to National Historic Sites and National Parks.
An extensive and growing site with histories of Native Ameican tribes.
A fascinating world history timeline of the foods various civilizations ate throughout history, with
recipes for making many of them yourself! Has a link to a Culinary History Timeline that
incorporates social history, manners & menus.
An intriguing and in-depth multimedia site about the drama of the events that brought us
closer to nuclear war than at any time in history.
Have fun learning the countries, capitals, and geography around the world with these colorful free online games.
A beautiful site, rich with interesting articles about places in
Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Latin America.
This site by a professor of foreign languages is quite rich in interesting content, including maps that illustrate the history of various hispanic groups.
Vast humanities site leading to many fascinating pages. A must visit! NOTE: Confusing home page - click on the photo to enter site.
This wonderful site about ancient Greece, prepared by Portland State University, includes information on
environment, war, sport, politics, science, philosophy, religion, the
arts, other countries, daily life.
A lengthy article with lots of suggestions and activity ideas for children aged 4 to 11 - a resource from the U.S. Dept. of Education.
From the National Security Archive at the George Washington University. Declassified (formerly secret) documents, press coverage, photographs, audio clips, minute by minute chronology, analysis, and more.
Includes an amazing array of historical maps from places all over the world.
A list of popular films related to various historical events, all categorized, briefly summarized and reviewed by Patrick L. Cooney, Ph. D., sociologist, historian, botanist.
A three page list of lovely books about various aspects of history - with cover pictures and good book descriptions - from Chinaberry children's books catalog.
A very nice selection of books about social studies and history of all kinds for children, classified as to age level - and with links to Amazon.com to find out more about each one.
A very rich history site connected to the television program - includes some interactive
games.
A colorful site in which history is made fascinating for kids - run by a professor from Portland State University - includes China, India, West Asia, Asia, Greece, Rome, Egypt, Africa, Islam, Germany, Middle Ages, and even ideas for related craft projects!
A huge history site, covering a wide variety of subjects around the world,
eyewitness accounts, great battles, technology, and much, much more.
To say that this site is extensive would be an understatement. Keep scrolling down the page for an amazing array of interesting links to history sites.
Articles, games, activities and quizzes that help you make sense of the past and the sources that made history.
Exhibit about family life in Illinois from 1700 to the present. "Meet real people and
share in their decision making."
An interesting multi-subject site dedicated to developing the enormous educational
potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.
Over 2,000 files are interconnected throughout the site. In addition to that HyperHistory provides
several hundred links to the world wide web.
Fascinating site with art, history, drama, culture, archaeology, architecture, etc., and
many related links.
The fascinating and colorful history of Persia (now modern Iran) from the Kidipede - History for Kids website. It uses a simple but quite interesting narrative, with links to subtopics.
Information and resources to further people's understanding and enjoyment of geography - includes interactive activities.
Play the role of the Captain of the Jamestown Colony through this beautiful site, using a copy of the London Company's Instructions to help guide you. Ask advice of fellow colonists and natives. See the outcome of your choices!
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
Free site from N.Y. Times has news stories, "Ask a Reporter" feature, web navigator, word of the day, science Q & A archives, and more.
Familiar Life format and photos, on weekly news and other events, with links to other news
magazines.
Extensive site with history, photos, photos of home sites, and much more.
A nice slide show showing what it would be lilke if the we could turn the
earth population into 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have
nowadays.
Hundreds of carefully chosen multicultural websites - gathered through multicultural
education workshops and classes at University of Virginia.
Marilee Schuhrke’s fabulous collection of wonderful links to sites with Native American
art, games & legends, clothing, crafts, songs & dances, and much more.
Links to lots of good sites related to these topics.
The Mayflower, Plymouth Colony, and links to everything about the history.
A nice chart and descriptions of all presidents of the U.S.
A lovely, holistic guide to resources having to do with these wide ranging concerns - from the Wonder Homeschool website.
Extensive selection of catalogs in social studies, history, multicultural studies, etc.,
as well as website links to selected subjects.
This organization is dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European
history. It offers membership and fun events,and the site offers great links to related
sites.
Designed by the School of Education at Indiana University for K-12 social studies teachers
and students, this site has lots of good information, topics and links.
A Smithsonian webpage all about the U.S. flag, the national anthem, and the history surrounding the
War of 1812.
Time is putting together a list of people who have shaped the century, and this is part of
the project. This site is packed full of interesting and well organized historical
information!
TUT was a secret reading method created by black American slaves at a time when it was
against the law for them to learn to read.
Links to many interesting sites - from America before Columbus, to the colonies and revolution, pioneers/westward expansion, black history, civil war, industrialization, 20th century, Cold War, historical documents, and presidents.
Travel back in time and meet characters who tell about their life and times. A very
informative virtual tour of the culture, historic events, music, food, etc
Web page for humanities research. Extensive links in classical studies, religion,
anthropology, literature, music, dance, philosophy, and much, much more!
An interesting education tool for learning about key social issues that impacted American society, beginning with events in early 1949 and leading up to the end of the 1980s - with lots of links to follow in reading about the various factors.
A fun tour of the White House for kids-with information about its history,
the president and vice president’s families–and a lot more!
3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines,
and maps.
A county-by-country and state-by-state guide to education resources
around the world.
The First Nations of BC refer to those people that can trace their ancestry to the aboriginal people that inhabited the land that is now British Columbia prior to the arrival of Europeans and Americans in the late 18th century.
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