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  History
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AIP Emilio Segrè Visual
Archives:
A collection of some 25,000 historical
photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and
other visual materials and part of the Center for
History of Physics of the American Institute of
Physics (AIP).
- Awesome
Stories: Using the great stories of history and popular
culture as a springboard, Awesome Stories interactively
allows people to examine the actual documents, pictures, graphics
and other primary resources that are the backbone of the story. It
helps them make up their own minds about what really occurred and
turns learning into a fun and entertaining process.
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Discovery of a Palaeolithic
painted cave at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche): Discovery of a
paleolithic cave site in the south of France,
with drawings and paintings equalling or
surpassing those of Lascaux.
- Duke Papyrus Archive Special Collections
Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, US - A
searchable archive of information about and
digitized images of papyri from ancient Egypt.
- Eighteenth-Century
Resources
Conferences, calls for papers; Literature (an
up-to-date and nearly comprehensive list of
E-texts); other Web sites containing 18th-century
texts.
- Electric Renaissance - A
WWW history course: A hypertext course (spring
semester, 1995) taught over the Internet at Boise
State University, Boise, Idaho by Prof. E. L.
Skip Knox on the history of Europe from
1300-1500.
- The Firehouse Museum: Displays a large
collection of fire-fighting equipment and
memorabilia from across the country and around
the world.
- Famous Rulers...Present and
Past:
Lists heads of State from many different
countries...nice site.
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Flags of Countries: This site has pictures of
almost every national flag
- More about the French and
Indian War
- Fateful
Lightning: A History of the American Civil War
Original-content multimedia featuring book-length text, animated
maps, original and archival imagery, recordings of period music,
plus interactive study guide with copy/paste functionality and
onboard word-processing. "The best integrated Civil War
disc we've found." --Library Journal. Available in download
edition or complete on a three-title CD-ROM.
- From Revolution to
Reconstruction: A fantastic U.S. History site.
- Ghosts of the Gold Rush: Stories and history from
the Klondike Gold Rush!
- United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum:
The main task of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum is to present the facts of the
Holocaust, to tell the American public as clearly
and comprehensively as possible what happened in
that darkest chapter of human history.
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WWW Sites for Historians: An incredible collection
of history links...must see!
- 1492 Exhibit: History dating back to
Columbus
Email: Edu-Links
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