30 minute Presidential Election Special Edition of VOTERGATE was created as a free educational service to get out critical information to the public.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Papers Project at Stanford University -- biography, speeches, audio of Martin Luther King

InfoPlease Almanac site on Martin Luther King and civil rights -- inludes timeline on civil rights and affirmative action

Seattle Times site on Martin Luther King, Jr. with civil rights quiz, timeline, and biography

CIA Factbook -- country profiles, flags, etc.

Variety of information, by state

Award winning site that includes battlegrounds, timeline, music, documents

Commercial site with multiple links about the Civil War

Library of Congress Civil War map site

Library of Congress site on Sir Francis Drake

6-12 school site that lists lots of links to information about African Americans. The sites appear to be credible.

PBS site about Black History

Site that contains a hotlist of websites, an interactive quiz, and a sampling of information about Black History

A collection of categorized sites put together by the LII

History Channel site with video and audio clips about issues in Black history

This site provides an interactive quiz at three different levels to test knowledge of African American history. It also provides helpful information to read before taking the quiz.

Library of Congress site on the history of African Americans

PBS site that gives a timeline and other information about the history of African Americans

National Geographic Mapmachine including dynamic and printable outline maps

Lists contributions by black Americans in categories, by date; also lists on this day in history

Alaska's history and culture

National Geographic Traveler site on Alaska, which includes information on history, land, wildlife, and people.

Library of Congress documentary project to record eyewitness accounts of 911.

Wisconsin Historical Society site about turning points in Wisconsin history

Outline Maps

U.S. government site on U. S. National Parks

Site that contains over 3,000 years of history organized by people, events, timeline, and maps.

Site provides space for students to answer great thought-provoking, open-ended questions in history to display their understanding of key events and how they affected the country.

Library of Congress access to primary sources

Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank Center in Berlin team up to present a site about Anne Frank and World War II designed for upper elementary and young adults.  Includes a timeline.

National Geographic site on remembering Pearl Harbor

The raid on the english settlement of Deerfield, MA is oulined in an educational website that includes games, timeline, and information

EduHound's portal to Benjamin Franklin sites with everything from lesson plans, information, and timeline.

Contains hundreds of items documenting African-American history. The "For Teachers" links will help you extend this activity for your students. Included are links to specific collections or exhibits as well as links to several excellent resources.  (Eduhound Weekly)

Library of Congress photograph collections -- Images may be retrieved as full-size JPGs and uncompressed TIFFs so they will not be blurry when enlarged.

Government site that allows user to view and print maps of the United States or individual states.  It includes layers for roads, agriculture, and an abundant variety of other geographic features.

Reviewed by Xpeditions.  National Geographic site on Italy's Po River with links to other sources, such as violin makers from the region, audio and video links, map, and facts

It's only common sense to spend some time exploring the foundations of our nation, so come check out Early America! You can even listen to the music played at Washington's 1789 inauguration. Browse biographies of notable 18th century men and women, outlines and documents for milestone events, maps of colonies and battles, videos, quizzes, scans of original documents and portraits. (LP Newsletter)

Encyclopedia Britannica site on the Holocaust featuring articles on the origins; the Holocause itself; the Allied response; the Christian response; and art, meaning, and memory

National Geographic site designed to increase awareness of geographywith links for children, teens, parents, and educators.  Includes a 20 pt. geography quiz.

PBS site that accompanies video.  Includes timeline, information about people involved in creating Mt. Rushmore, and interesting facts about the process

Interactive site from the United Kingdom designed for students, teachers, and parents who are interested in history, complete with quizzes 

Provides a variety of statistical information for each state and comparing one state to another.

Site about the states that includes geography, history, links to official state sites, quizzes, etc.

These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus and are added to the database of the Department of State website you are now using. (from the website)

Collection of resources and lessons about the animals, plants, habitats, and features of the Great Barrier Reef. (EduHound Weekly)

The Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, and India's Taj Mahal were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen on 07/07/07.  (EduHound Weekly)

The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form. The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress.  (EduHound Weekly)

History Channel's timeline of world history.

The site features video clips and interviews from WGBH programming created between 1968 and 1993, including clips of Muhammad Ali discussing his refusal to fight in Vietnam, African American students arriving at school during Boston's court-ordered desegregation, and Robert McNamara reading from a letter sent by Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Open Vault includes more than 500 streaming video clips and more than 1,000 interview transcripts in all. (eSchoolNews)

In addition to quotes, this site offers Franklin's Autobiography, a timeline, pictures, etc.