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History   Top Index

   Ancient History   Top Index 

American Museum of Natural History: Timelines
The American Museum of Natural History provides timelines from the Pleistocene Period to the Devonian Period; the site includes descriptions and...

Anasazi Archaeology
This site provides information about the Anasazi culture of the American southwest.

Ancient Art [DIA]
The Detroit Institute of the Arts provides information about the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East through its collection of...

Ancient Egypt
The British Museum presents an interactive overview of life in ancient Egypt; organized into ten themes, the site contains images, Shockwave...

Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
This privately maintained site presents an online study of the ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, including information about their languages,...

Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall?
The Annenberg/CPB Project presents this site about what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists find and interpret evidence; four...

Didaskalia
Didaskalia is an online magazine about current performances of Greek and Roman theater; it includes feature articles, information about ancient...

Egyptian Antiquity Information
This commercial site provides a collection of resources on ancient Egypt, including a list of rulers, information on ancient Egyptian mythology, a...

egyptology.com
This site offers illustrated information about the history and culture of ancient Egypt.

Exploring Ancient World Cultures
Maintained by the University of Evansville, this site contains historical information and links to sites related to the history of ancient Rome,...

Harappa: The Ancient Indus Valley
This commercial site contains information about the Indus Valley civilization of South Asia, including a virtual tour of Mohenjo-Daro, a 3-D model of...

Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean is an atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to serve the needs and interests of students and teachers...

Mesoweb
This site explores Mesoamerican cultures; it includes reports from ongoing archaeological digs and an illustrated encyclopedia of Mesoamerica as well...

Mystery of the Maya
The Canadian Museum of Civilization offers historical information about the Mayan civilization, including related links and a teacher's guide;...

Odyssey Online
Museums at Emory University and the University of Rochester have teamed up to create this site, an exploration into the ancient cultures of the Near...

The Perseus Project
The Perseus Project is a multimedia digital library of ancient Greece, including texts in Greek and in English translation, an archive of images of...

pharaohs [Cleveland Museum of Art]
The Cleveland Museum of Art presents an exhibition of ancient Egyptian works of art depicting pharaohs, including a section for children.

Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen
The Art Institute of Chicago presents an online exhibit of art works from the Amarna period of ancient Egyptian history; it includes information on...

The Romans [BBC Education]
The BBC offers an interactive site about Rome and Roman Britain for primary school students; it includes a timeline, glossary, activities, fun facts,...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
This privately maintained site has information on and images of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as well as information on modern and natural...

Sipapu: The Anasazi Emergence into the Cyber World
From the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, this site offers information about Anasazi architecture and...

VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics
This site includes information and resources for teaching and learning about Latin and ancient Roman culture; discussion forums and links to Latin...

   General Resources History  Top Index

The History Channel
The home page of the History Channel contains multimedia resources for students and teachers of history, such as audio and video clips, feature...

The History Place
This site offers information on major events in world history and includes weekly and monthly features, timelines, biographies, and homework tips.

HyperHistory Online
This commercial site presents 3,000 years of world history through a combination of images, biographies, timelines, and maps.

The New York Times Learning Network
Designed for parents, teachers, and students of all ages, this site offers a wide-range of learning resources related to the news; it includes daily...

Talking History
This site, from the University at Albany-SUNY History and Multimedia Center, offers RealAudio broadcasts of its weekly program on various subjects in...

   Primary Sources and Documents   Top Index

Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
This privately maintained site uses Alexander Graham Bell's papers as well as technological and historical references to trace the development of the...

Canada Speaks
Canada Speaks, presented by Canada's SchoolNet, is a collection of speeches by Canadian prime ministers.

Charters of Freedom Exhibit [NARA]
The U.S. National Records and Archives Administration offers online exhibits of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United...

A Chronology of US Historical Documents
The University of Oklahoma Law Center furnishes an archive of historical documents from the pre-colonial United States to the present.

Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982
The Department of Justice of Canada offers an HTML version of the Constitution Acts of 1867 and 1982, along with their amendments.

The Constitution of the United States [NARA]
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration has an online exhibit on the U.S. constitution, including photographs, transcriptions, and...

Documents from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
The Library of Congress presents documents relating to the Continental Congress and the drafting of the United States Constitution.

FDR Cartoon Archive
Maintained by students at Niskayuna High School in New York, this site contains hundreds of images of political cartoons from the Franklin D....

Historical Text Archive
The Historical Text Archive contains electronic versions of historical documents and links to related sites.

How We Made the First Flight by Orville Wright
The Aviation Enthusiast's Corner presents an HTML version of Orville Wright's account of the Wright Brothers' first flight; the site includes images.

Louisiana Purchase Treaty [NARA]
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration offers photographs and transcriptions of the three documents involved in the Louisiana Purchase.

The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress page provides access to government information and publications, online exhibits, Library of Congress databases, and a wealth...

Magna Carta
The British Library has an image of an original manuscript of the Magna Carta, as well as a translation and other information.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration supplies online access to historical government documents such as the Bill of Rights as well as...

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection [NARA]
Maintained by the National Archives and Records Administration, this site contains a searchable database of thousands of documents and other material...

US History Out Loud
This site offers audio clips from presidential libraries and other archives; it includes speeches from U.S. presidents and other world leaders.

Vietnam: Echoes from the Wall
This site, aimed at high school students, provides teaching and study resources on the Vietnam War; the site includes a searchable database of...

"We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident..."
The Library of Congress offers photographs of the original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.

   U.S. History   Top Index

African-American Women: On-line Archival Collections
The Special Collections Library at Duke University offers documents and other materials relating to the histories of African American women.

Africans in America [PBS Online]
PBS Online presents a feature on slavery in the United States; presented in four parts, the site includes narratives, biographies, teacher's guides,...

America Dreams
This site, developed in conjunction with the Library of Congress, challenges students to study the concept of the American Dream from the...

The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden
The National Museum of American History offers wide-ranging information about the United States presidency, including a timeline, teacher resources,...

At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie: 1800–1850
Illinois State Museum provides insight into American frontier life with true stories of individual pioneers, a timeline, maps, lesson plans, an...

Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Department of History at Ohio State University provides a history of coal mining in the 19th and early 20th centuries; the site includes images...

Coney Island [The American Experience]
PBS Online presents a history of Coney Island, featuring a timeline, video clips, biographies, photographs, and other resources.

Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
The Library of Congress presents an online exhibit about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.

Famous American Trials
Maintained by a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, this site offers accounts of famous American trials, including maps,...

Flag of the United States of America
This privately maintained page is dedicated to the flag of the United States of America and has a variety of resources, including the pledge of...

Footsteps to Freedom: History and Geography
This site provides information about slavery in the United States, including teacher resources, related quotations, and a glossary of terms.

From Revolution to Reconstruction
The American Revolution Project presents information on the American Revolution and early American history, including biographies of notable figures,...

History Matters: The US Survey Course on the Web
History Matters, a gateway for American history teachers at the high school and university levels, offers historical resources in textual, graphic,...

A History of American Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture presents an extensive timeline on the history of agriculture in America.

History of Woman's Suffrage
This page, from the Susan B. Anthony University Center, has a chronology of the woman suffrage movement in the United States, biographies of...

Hoover Dam [The American Experience]
PBS Online offers information about the history of the Hoover Dam, including a bibliography and teacher's guide.

Images of American Political History
Created especially for politics teachers, this site offers a collection of browsable and searchable images of important people, buildings, and...

In Search of the Oregon Trail
Maintained by the Public Broadcasting Service, this site contains information about the Oregon Trail, including a quiz, a timeline, classroom...

Information USA
The U.S. Information Agency provides basic facts about the United States and its history, online versions of historical documents, and overviews of...

The Internet African American History Challenge
This commercial site offers a multilevel interactive quiz on African American history, as well as profiles of notable 19th-century African Americans...

Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project
The University of Washington Libraries present an online exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945; the site also includes...

Louisiana Purchase Treaty [NARA]
The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration offers photographs and transcriptions of the three documents involved in the Louisiana Purchase.

Lewis & Clark: Mapping the West
The National Museum of Natural History and EdGate.com offer background information, historical context, expedition maps, and educational resources on...

LIBERTY! The American Revolution
PBS Online presents resources on the American Revolution (1775-1783), including timelines, reports chronicling events of the era, a bibliography, and...

The Library [Plimoth-on-Web]
Plimoth Plantation provides a collection of online documents about the history of Plymouth Colony


MacArthur [The American Experience]
PBS Online presents a site about American soldier Douglas MacArthur, including a timeline, video clips, a bibliography, and a teacher's guide.

Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
The Library of Congress offers selections from two collections that illuminate the life of United States president Abraham Lincoln; materials...

National Women's History Project
The home page of the National Women's History Project contains educational resources, links to related sites, and information about activities...

New Perspectives on The West
The online companion to a PBS broadcast, this site presents historical information about the American West, with an interactive timeline of events,...

Nixon's China Game [The American Experience]
PBS Online presents an online companion to its program about United States president Richard Nixon's policy toward China; it includes a game, a...

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
PBS Online offers an online companion to its site about the American social reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony; it includes lesson...

On the Front Lines with the Little Rock 9 [The American Experience]
PBS Online presents information on school desegregation in the United States; intended for younger users, the site focuses on the integration of...

A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America
PBS Online presents a companion piece to its film of the same name; the site includes a timeline of polio history, information about immunization,...

Pioneer Spirit
This site presents articles on pioneer life in North Dakota, a photo-essay, journal excerpts, and a photo exhibition.

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia
The University of Virginia presents an archive of searchable texts about Plymouth Colony, including biographical information about members of...

Presidential Elections Statistics
This commercial site provides statistical graphs of each U.S. presidential election, including views of the popular and electoral votes.

The Presidents [The American Experience]
PBS Online presents research materials on several United States presidents; the site includes biographies, images, quotations, a bibliography,...

The Rockefellers [The American Experience]
PBS offers this online companion to its documentary about the Rockefeller family; it includes primary sources, maps, a timeline, biographies, and...

The Salem Witch Trials 1692
This site, maintained by the city of Salem, Massachusetts, contains a chronology of the witch trials of 1692, as well as photographs of the Salem...

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy [The American Experience]
PBS Online offers a companion site to its documentary about the Scottsboro case, including a timeline, maps, biographies, descriptive articles, and a...

Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The SCLC offers information about its history and activities.

The Star-Spangled Banner
The Smithsonian Institution provides an interactive site about the original American flag, the Star-Spangled Banner; the site includes information...

The Founding Fathers [NARA]
The National Archives & Records Administration features information about the delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

There Are No Renters Here: Homesteading in a Sod House
The Women of the West Museum presents an online exhibit about life in a sod house, including photographs, maps, documents, and recommended classroom...

The Time of the Lincolns
PBS Online examines American society during the time of Abraham and Mary Lincoln; the site includes an interactive map, a virtual tour of a slave...

Virginia Historical Society
The Virginia Historical Society offers online exhibits, materials for teachers and students, and other resources.

Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolution
The Independence Hall Association presents an exploration of the American Revolution, including detailed descriptions of battles, images, and...

Voices from the Dust Bowl
The Library of Congress presents a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the life of migrant workers in central California in 1940...

Water in the West
The Cascadia Times offers information about efforts to restore and preserve rivers in the western United States and Canada.

"We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident..."
The Library of Congress offers photographs of the original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence.

 

   Wars and Battles   Top Index


The American Civil War Homepage
This privately maintained page contains links to useful Internet resources on the American Civil War (1861-1865).

The Battle of Hastings 1066
This privately maintained site offers a variety of information on the Battle of Hastings, including maps, photographs, and a glossary.

Behind the Stonewall
This privately maintained site contains 360-degree panoramic images from the American Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg.

Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg National Military Park
The National Park Service offers an exhibit on items made or used by soldiers during the American Civil War, including personal effects and...

Civil War Battle Summaries
This site, part of the American Battlefield Protection Program, contains summaries of nearly all the Civil War battles, with maps, statistics, and...

Civil War Sites in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
This site, maintained by the National Park Service, provides an overview of the various Civil War battles fought in the Shenandoah Valley, with...

Hitler's Lost Sub
Nova Online provides this site about a U-boat discovered in 1991 off the coast of New Jersey; it includes a virtual tour of the sub, an account by a...

Korean War 50th Anniversary Home Page
The Defense Technical Information Center presents a timeline of the Korean War, a bibliography, biographies, a glossary, maps, and teacher resources.

Learning Resources: The French Revolution, 1787-1799
Provided by the Department of History at Warwick University, this site offers a comprehensive bibliography, chronology, and glossary.

LIBERTY! The American Revolution
PBS Online presents resources on the American Revolution (1775-1783), including timelines, reports chronicling events of the era, a bibliography, and...

Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
PBS Online presents a site devoted to the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica, Bosnia, including video clips, lesson plans, and links to related Web...

Vietnam: Echoes from the Wall
This site, aimed at high school students, provides teaching and study resources on the Vietnam War; the site includes a searchable database of...

Vietnam Online [The American Experience]
Created to accompany a PBS program, this site offers information about the Vietnam War, including statistics, brief profiles of key players of the...

A War in Perspective
The New York Public Library presents an online exhibit about the Spanish-American War, including a chronology, images of artifacts, a bibliography,...

What did you do in the war, Grandma?
This site, maintained by students from South Kingstown High School, presents an oral history project about women in Rhode Island during World War II.

World War I: Trenches on the Web
This privately maintained page contains a wealth of information on World War I, including a timeline, photographs, and a search engine.

www.civilwar.com
This commercial site offers a timeline of the American Civil War (1861-1865), a list of battles, an archive of historic places, biographies of...

1755: the French and Indian War Homepage
This privately maintained page has information on the French and Indian war (1754-1763), HTML versions of historical documents, a bibliography, and...

 

   World History    Top Index

Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide
The Mariners' Museum presents a curriculum guide focusing on maritime exploration and discovery from ancient times through the late 18th century; the...

American Indians and the Natural World
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History presents an online exhibit on the Iroquois, Tlingit, Hopi, and Lakota Indians, and their interaction with the...

Angelcynn
This historical society presents information about Anglo-Saxon England, including a glossary and descriptions of clothing, village life, warfare,...

Anne Frank Diary Reference
This privately maintained site provides general information about Anne Frank and her diary, a chronology of the diary, information about the missing...

The Battle of Hastings 1066
This privately maintained site offers a variety of information on the Battle of Hastings, including maps, photographs, and a glossary.

A Boke of Gode Cookery
This privately maintained site offers tips on cooking authentic medieval dishes and includes recipes in the original Middle English, with...

The British Empire [Education Unlimited]
This site examines the British Empire from a number of different perspectives, showing how the British affected the regions they governed as well as...

Canadians in the World: A SchoolNet Learning Site
Canada’s SchoolNet offers information about Canada’s international achievements and its involvement in international sports, culture, science, and...

Castles of Britain
This commercial site presents photographs, ground plans, and histories of selected British castles, as well as general information about the building...

Chronology of Russian History
The Bucknell University Russian Studies Program provides a chronology of Russian history from AD 806 to the present.

The Conquest of the Incas [Conquistadors]
PBS Online follows the expedition of Francisco Pizarro; the site includes images and student and teacher resources.

Educational Resources on Asia
The UCLA Center for East Asian Studies offers a variety of materials, including links to selected Internet sites, a "Today in Asian History" feature,...

Holocaust Survivors [The Simon Wiesenthal Center]
The Simon Wiesenthal Center offers this online service that allows people to send questions or comments to survivors of the Holocaust.

Islam: Empire of Faith
PBS Online explores Islamic art and culture; the site includes an introduction to the Islamic faith, information on the contributions of Islamic...

Jewish Student Online Research Center (JSOURCE)
The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise presents this resource on Jewish history and current affairs, including news stories, biographies,...

Modern World History [BBC]
BBC Education Online presents coverage of European and American history between 1915 and 1945; images, animations, a timeline, and quizzes supplement...

Nixon's China Game [The American Experience]
PBS Online presents an online companion to its program about United States president Richard Nixon's policy toward China; it includes a game, a...

PBS Online: Napoleon
PBS Online offers an online companion to its film about Napoleon I, including historical essays, classroom materials, a timeline, an interactive...

People's Century
PBS Online explores the 20th century through personal testimony from people who lived through the events of the past 100 years; the site includes...

Renaissance [Annenberg/CPB]
The Annenberg/CPB Project presents an online exhibit on the Renaissance, including interactive tools, images, and links to related sites.

The Richard III and Yorkist History Server
The Richard III Society promotes historical research into the life and times of King Richard III; its page has a variety of information on the...

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
This site, created by students at the University of South Florida, features an annotated timeline; sections on the music, art, and literature of the...

Tudor England
This privately maintained site contains information about the Tudor royal family, as well as numerous portraits and links to related sites.

Vietnam Online [The American Experience]
Created to accompany a PBS program, this site offers information about the Vietnam War, including statistics, brief profiles of key players of the...

Language Arts   Top Index

   Authors    Top Index

Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets presents information about its organization and exhibits on notable poets.

Astrid Lindgren
This privately maintained site provides information about the life and works of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

Blake Digital Text Project
From the Department of English at the University of Georgia, this site offers the complete prose and poetic works of poet William Blake, with a...

Children's Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Created by a librarian at the University of Calgary, this site provides a directory of Web sites about authors and illustrators of children's books.

Familiar Quotations
Bartleby.com, a commercial site, has a searchable version of the ninth edition of Familiar Quotations.

Harlem Renaissance
This privately maintained site offers information about writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance, including images of paintings and the full...

ILTweb Digital Dante Project
The Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University has a biography of Italian poet Dante Alighieri, Italian and English versions of ...

IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
The Internet Public Library provides a database of more than 2,000 critical and biographical Web sites about authors and their works.

Jack London Collection
The Berkeley Digital Library presents information about Jack London's life and works, including electronic texts, photographs, and links to related...

John Milton Reading Room
From the Department of English at Dartmouth College, this site offers electronic versions of poems and prose by John Milton, selected works of...

L. M. Montgomery
Prince Edward Island Information Center provides sources for exploring the life and works of L. M. Montgomery, including hypertexts of ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl
This privately maintained site has biographies of the characters in Wilder's "Little House" books and other resources.

Meet J.K. Rowling
The publisher of the Harry Potter books presents a biography, an image, an interview, and a transcript of a chat with J.K. Rowling, the series'...

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet
This privately maintained site provides a comprehensive guide to Internet resources about William Shakespeare.

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
This site provides individual pages on English Renaissance writers and includes electronic versions of their work, essays, and links to related...

V. S. Naipaul [Emory University]
Postcolonial Studies at Emory University provides a brief biography of V. S. Naipaul along with reviews and criticism of his work.

The Walker Percy Project
The Walker Percy Educational Project, Inc. presents a variety of resources about American essayist and novelist Walker Percy, including biographical...

Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
The Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive offers a collection of American poet Walt Whitman's works and a gallery of portraits.

William Blake Online
The Tate Gallery offers an online exhibit on British poet and artist William Blake, including a biography, an interactive map of Blake's London,...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
This commercial site offers the full text of all 154 sonnets by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare; it also includes an introduction

   Creative Writing   Top Index


The Alphabet Superhighway's Writing Center
This site provides a variety of writing resources for both students and teachers, including online activities, contests, a place to read others' work...

Favorite Poem Project
The goal of this project of the Poet Laureate of the United States is to create an audio and video archive of 1,000 Americans reading their favorite...

Giggle Poetry
This commercial site contains poetry resources and activities for younger students, as well as writing tips, contests, surveys, and other resources.

Glossary of Literary Terms/Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
This privately maintained site offers a glossary of rhetorical and literary terms, with examples.

Haiku Writing Worksheet
This page supplies examples of haiku poetry, as well as writing tips and information about the history, form, and essence of haiku.

Kid Authors
This site provides an online space where children can share their own stories and poems, as well as read those submitted by others.

Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?
The Annenberg/CPB Project offers information about the elements of a good short story; a story by American writer Susan Glaspell is presented in full...

The Playwriting Seminars
This privately maintained site contains a number of resources for playwrights, including writing guides, tips on getting published, links to related...

Poetry [a click and drag diversion]
A click-and-drag version of the Magnetic Poetry Kit®, this site gives users the opportunity to create poems out of available word tiles.

RhymeZone
This commercial site offers a searchable rhyming dictionary, games, vocabulary quizzes, and other resources.

 

   Debate and Presentations   Top Index


Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website
This commercial site leads the user through five modules to research, prepare, and deliver a speech; interactivities and research sources are...

Annual High School Debate Topics Online
The Government Documents Library of the University of Kansas presents indexes of Internet resources designed to help students research annual high...

Debate America
This nonprofit site offers a forum for debate about national and local issues; free registration is required for full participation.

Debate Central
Debate Central, from the University of Vermont, posts training materials for debaters, as well as sample arguments for a number of popular debate...

High School Debate [NCPA]
The National Center for Policy Analysis presents sample arguments on both sides of the current national high school debate topic, as well as research...

My Novice Help Page: How to Debate Better
This page, created by a high school student, posts help files about several debate topics, such as note-taking, adapting to judges, and cross...

Presenters Online
This commercial site offers articles on many aspects of oral presentations, such as visual aid guidelines and bad habits to avoid while delivering...

Talks [The Keogh Lab]
This educational site lists a number of points to keep in mind when preparing and delivering an oral presentation.

Virtual Presentation Assistant
The Virtual Presentation Assistant from the University of Kansas provides help for preparing oral presentations, including starting points for...

 

   Folklore and Mythology    Top Index

Aesop's Fables
This site, hosted by the University of Massachusetts, provides illustrated electronic versions of Aesop's fables.

British and Irish Heritage: Myths and Legends
This commercial site relates several Irish folktales, from fairies to shamrocks to Irish legendary hero Finn MacCool.

Bulfinch's Mythology
This privately maintained site offers a hyperlinked, electronic version of Bulfinch's Mythology.

The Camelot Project
The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester offers electronic versions of texts relating to the Arthurian legend, images, a bibliography, and...

The Cinderella Project
Maintained by the English Department at the University of Southern Mississippi, this site contains a dozen versions of the Cinderella story and an...

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
This database of award-winning children's literature is searchable by multiple criteria, such as gender of the main character, age of the reader,...

Fables: Aesop
The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia offers an HTML version of Aesop's fables.

Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
This privately maintained site offers an extensive collection of tales from around the world, sorted by category, country of origin and source.

Grimm Brothers @ nationalgeographic.com
The National Geographic Society presents a site about the Grimm brothers and their fairy tales; it includes biographical information, the text of...

Japanese Oldtales
The Digital Library Network home page presents Japanese folktales, or oldtales, in English, French, Japanese, and several other languages.

John Henry: The Steel Driving Man
This site offers information about the legend of John Henry and the folk songs written about him; it includes song lyrics, audio clips, and a guide...

The Little Red Riding Hood Project
The Department of English at the University of Southern Mississippi presents 16 different English versions of the fairy tale "Little Red Riding...

The Moonlit Road
This site offers text and RealAudio versions of spooky folktales from the American South; the site includes historical and cultural background.

Mythology
The University of Michigan and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provide information about the myths associated with earth and the...

Mythweb
This site contains information on the heroes, gods, and monsters of Greek mythology, including illustrations, profiles of mythological characters and...

Norse Mythology
This privately maintained site features an overview of Norse mythology and literature, as well as links to related sites.

Robin Hood Project
The Robin Hood Project, sponsored by the University of Rochester, is designed to make available in electronic format a database of texts, images,...

Uncle Remus History/Ethnology Research Project
This site presents selected text from the "Uncle Remus" tales, biographical information about writer Joel Chandler Harris, a bibliography, and other...

Whootie Owl's Stories to Grow By
Geared toward younger children, this commercial site contains folk and fairy tales from around the world.

   Foreign Languages  Top Index

ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language at the University of Chicago presents an online French-English...

ESL Partyland
This site offers quizzes, message boards, and chat rooms for students and teachers of English as a Second Language.

Foreign Languages for Travelers
This comprehensive commercial site helps travelers learn enough of any of 27 different foreign languages to survive abroad; includes sound files.

French [BBC Education]
BBC Education presents several interactive features for beginning and intermediate students of French; audio clips, video clips, and downloadable...

German [BBC Education]
BBC Education presents several interactive features for beginning and intermediate students of German; audio clips, video clips, and downloadable...

German for Beginners
This site offers an introduction to the German language, including pronunciation help, audio clips, common phrases and sentences, a grammar guide and...

Golden Age Spanish Sonnets
This privately maintained site provides a collection of Spanish sonnets, with English translations.

Italian [BBC Education]
BBC Education presents several interactive features for beginning and intermediate students of Italian; audio clips, video clips, and downloadable...

Japanese Oldtales
The Digital Library Network home page presents Japanese folktales, or oldtales, in English, French, Japanese, and several other languages.

La Presse
This site contains the online version of the newspaper La Presse from Montréal, Québec; in French.

Languages of Africa
Supported by the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this site offers links to resources about several African languages,...

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
The University of Notre Dame Archives presents a searchable Latin dictionary and grammar aid.

Le Figaro
This site contains the online version of the French newspaper Le Figaro.

Learn Spanish: A Free Online Tutorial
This site offers a variety of online Spanish lessons, many with audio exercises; cultural notes and links to other resources are also provided.

Lied and Song Text Page
The Lied and Song Text Page contains an extensive collection of lyrics to songs by notable classical composers in their original languages, as well...

Little Greek 101: Learning New Testament Greek
This privately maintained site contains an online textbook for learning New Testament Greek.

Quia! Language Activities
This commercial site offers interactive games and quizzes to study vocabulary, grammar, culture, and textbook-specific lessons for over 15 foreign...

Spanish [BBC Education]
BBC Education presents several interactive features for beginning and intermediate students of Spanish; audio clips, video clips, and downloadable...

UCLA Language Materials Project
This site provides learning resources for less commonly taught languages, including textbooks, grammars, dictionaries, phrasebooks, and audio-visual...

VRoma: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics
This site includes information and resources for teaching and learning about Latin and ancient Roman culture; discussion forums and links to Latin...

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The Alphabet Superhighway
The University of Delaware presents the Alphabet Superhighway, a general resource to help students with reading, writing, and research; it also...

Book Adventure
This site helps elementary school students find books appropriate to their reading level and provides reading-related activities; free registration...

The Bookhive
The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County offers a guide to children's literature; the site includes brief reviews of children's books,...

The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Bartleby.com, a commercial site, offers an online version of the 18-volume Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Creative Quotations
This commercial site contains a database of more than 20,000 quotations; quotations are searchable and browsable by theme.

Daily Grammar
This commercial site offers free, daily e-mail messages containing writing lessons and quizzes; the site contains an archive of past lessons and a...

English-Zone.Com
This privately maintained site provides a variety of information for teaching and learning English and English grammar skills.

The Evolution of Languages [Exploratorium]
The Exploratorium provides information about where languages come from and how they develop; audio interviews with an expert linguist are included.

Familiar Quotations
Bartleby.com, a commercial site, has a searchable version of the ninth edition of Familiar Quotations.

Glossary of Literary Terms/Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
This privately maintained site offers a glossary of rhetorical and literary terms, with examples.

How to Cite a Web Resource
This site provides instructions and examples for how to cite, or give credit to, an Internet resource.

The Human-Languages Page
This privately maintained site offers a comprehensive directory of language sites on the World Wide Web.

Messages [Boston Museum of Science]
The Museum of Science, Boston, presents an interactive exhibit on messaging and communications, including information on how animals communicate and...

The New York Times Learning Network
Designed for parents, teachers, and students of all ages, this site offers a wide-range of learning resources related to the news; it includes daily...

Online Writing Lab [Purdue]
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab offers a number of writing-related resources, including a large collection of online handouts.

Roget's Thesaurus
This commercial site has a searchable HTML version of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases and links to related Internet resources.

The Six Magic Dots of Braille
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind presents an introduction to Braille, including historical information and a brief explanation of the...

Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.
Bartleby.com, a commercial site, offers this electronic version of the first edition of William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918).

Vocabulary.com
This site offers games and puzzles to teach English vocabulary at three levels based on subject matter and Latin roots; it also provides...

Writing & Teaching Guides (Colorado State University Online Writing Center)
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University provides lessons and information on writing processes, types of documents, working with...

Writing User-Friendly Documents
This site, from the United States Goverment, offers useful advice on writing reports, especially for business or technical writing.

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A+ Research & Writing for High School and College Students
The Internet Public Library provides a guide to researching and writing a paper; the site includes a step-by-step guide, information on how to search...

The Alphabet Superhighway's Writing Center
This site provides a variety of writing resources for both students and teachers, including online activities, contests, a place to read others' work...

Biography Maker
This site provides an easy, step-by-step system for researching and writing a well-organized and thoughtful biography.

Citing Internet Resources
Classroom Connect, an educational site, offers guidelines for referencing online sources in student bibliographies.

Glossary of Literary Terms/Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
This privately maintained site offers a glossary of rhetorical and literary terms, with examples.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
This privately maintained site offers writing tips and guidelines, answers to grammar-related questions, online grammar quizzes, and other resources.

Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
This privately maintained site offers instructions on writing a clear, well-organized essay, and provides a sample essay for study.

The History Place - Homework Help!
The History Place offers tips on writing history papers, as well as links to other history-related Web resources.

How to Cite a Web Resource
This site provides instructions and examples for how to cite, or give credit to, an Internet resource.

Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
This site contains an online tutorial useful to writers of any age, and offers help in organizing, revising, and editing writing; the site breaks the...

Plain Train - Plain Language Online Training
This site offers a tutorial on writing with the purpose of making your audience understand your message.

Strunk, William. 1918. The Elements of Style.
Bartleby.com, a commercial site, offers this electronic version of the first edition of William Strunk's The Elements of Style (1918).

Writing & Teaching Guides (Colorado State University Online Writing Center)
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University provides lessons and information on writing processes, types of documents, working with...

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American Literary Classics: A Chapter a Day
This commercial site presents online versions of more than 30 literary works.

American Verse Project
The University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative and the University of Michigan Press present the American Verse Project, an electronic archive...

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Bartleby.com offers thousands of works of literature, nonfiction, and reference in electronic form; the collection, which is searchable, is...

Between the Lions
This site, a companion to the public television program, offers a full set of interactive stories and games for children learning to read and write,...

Book Adventure
This site helps elementary school students find books appropriate to their reading level and provides reading-related activities; free registration...

Children's Literature Web Guide
This privately maintained page is an extensive resource for children's literature; the site includes a guide to children's book awards, bestseller...

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
This database of award-winning children's literature is searchable by multiple criteria, such as gender of the main character, age of the reader,...

Dynamic Text Edition of: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
This commercially hosted site presents a multimedia version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

The Online Medieval and Classical Library
Part of the Berkeley Digital Library, this site contains online versions of many medieval and classical texts.

Read Up On It
The National Library of Canada offers an annual selection of the best in Canadian literature for children; both English- and French-language books...

READING RANTS! -- Out of the Ordinary Teen Booklists!
This site, maintained by a librarian, provides book reviews for young adults.

Representative Poetry On-line
The University of Toronto Library offers a large selection of English-language poetry online; it is searchable in several different ways, including...

Romantic Circles
This privately maintained site is devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and their...

Scribbling Women
The Public Media Foundation provides classroom resources for teaching and learning the rich tradition of American literature by women.

A Sense of Place: Regional American Literature
Maintained by the U.S. Information Agency, this site contains several articles about American literature.

Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
This site provides individual pages on English Renaissance writers and includes electronic versions of their work, essays, and links to related...

Spark Notes
This site offers summaries, commentaries, character profiles, and sample test questions for more than 100 works of literature commonly taught in high...

Timeless Classics
KidSource OnLine provides a list of favorite children's and young-adult literature, compiled by the National Endowment of the Humanities; divided by...

Victorian Women Writers Project
The Victorian Women Writers Project provides an online collection of works by notable British authors.

100 Best Novels
This commercial site offers three lists of the best English-language novels written since 1900, as compiled by separate groups; the site also...

   Punctuation, Grammar, Spelling   Top Index

Common Errors in English
This site, created by a professor of literature, identifies errors commonly made in standard American English.

Daily Grammar
This commercial site offers free, daily e-mail messages containing writing lessons and quizzes; the site contains an archive of past lessons and a...

English-Zone.Com
This privately maintained site provides a variety of information for teaching and learning English and English grammar skills.

Everyday Spelling
This commercial site offers spelling resources for students from grades one through eight; the site includes activities, spelling strategies, lists...

Grammar Lady
This commercial site provides a guide to English grammar, a forum to ask an expert questions about the English language, and other resources.

Grammar Safari
This site from the University of Illinois sends advanced language arts students on a virtual safari to discover how grammar rules are used or broken...

Guide to Grammar and Writing
This privately maintained site offers writing tips and guidelines, answers to grammar-related questions, online grammar quizzes, and other resources.

A Handbook of Selected Punctuation Marks
This privately maintained site provides a handbook for a number of punctuation marks, including apostrophes, commas, italics, parentheses, colons,...

HyperGrammar
HyperGrammar, from the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa, offers definitions and guidelines for parts of speech, parts of a sentence,...

National Spelling Bee
Maintained by Scripps-Howard, this site provides information about its annual children's spelling bee, as well as resources for teachers and a series...

The Writing Group: Punctuation Made Simple
This privately maintained site provides explanations and examples of correct usage of apostrophes, colons, commas, dashes, and semicolons.

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Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL
This online tutorial from the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley provides an introduction to the Internet, a glossary, and...

General Tips for Searching [Alphabet Superhighway]
This site provides tips for effective searching on the World Wide Web and explains what a search engine is.

The History Place - Homework Help!
The History Place offers tips on writing history papers, as well as links to other history-related Web resources.

ICONnect - KidsConnect
The American Association of School Librarians offers this help and referral service to K–12 students; the goal is to help students access and use...

Learning Resources
CNN San Francisco and the Western/Pacific Literacy Network present news stories in audio, video, and text format, along with reading comprehension...

Memory Techniques and Mnemonics
This commercial site offers information on improving your memory and using various mnemonic devices.

Web Searching Tutorial
This site provides tips on conducting Web-based research, explains how to use different types of operators, and defines terms related to searching...

You Don't Have to Play Football to Score a Touchdown
The Developmental Studies Department at Middle Tennessee State University offers tips for high school students on study skills and improving your...

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   Anatomy     Top Index

How the Body Works [KidsHealth.Org]
KidsHealth.Org presents Shockwave animations illustrating principles of human anatomy.

InnerBody.com: Human Anatomy On-line
This commercial site uses a combination of text, Java animations, and clickable images to explore human anatomy.

Learning Guide for the Human Brain
This site from the Marymount College psychology department offers clickable images to teach students about the parts of the brain.

MEDtropolis - Virtual Body
This commercial site presents a virtual human skeleton, including a narrated description, a build-a-skeleton activity, and detailed images of...

My Body [KidsHealth.Org]
KidsHealth.Org offers a series of articles and Shockwave animations for kids on the human body.

The Visible Human Project
The National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project is creating complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male...

WebAnatomy
This privately maintained site provides interactive and informative activities designed to teach users about human anatomy; it includes sections on...

   Biology   Top Index

Amphibian Embryology Tutorial
This tutorial from the University of Wisconsin covers amphibian development from fertilization to embryo formation and includes photographs and...

Ask-a-Scientist
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute answers e-mailed questions about biology within two weeks, and includes a browsable archive of previous answers;...

ASU – Ask a Biologist
This site, from Arizona State University's Life Sciences Visualization Group, invites elementary through high school students and teachers to submit...

BioBLAST
BioBLAST (Better Learning Through Adventure, Simulation and Telecommunications) is intended as a multimedia curriculum supplement for high school...

BioInteractive
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute offers a fully interactive site about biology that includes several learning modules that allow the user to be...

The Biology Project
The University of Arizona provides this interactive online resource for learning biology, including activities for school children, quizzes, and...

Blazing a Genetic Trail
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute presents essays on the causes and treatments of genetic diseases; a brief guide to basic genetics and a glossary...

Blood Types Tutorial
This site offers an introduction to blood types and genotypes; a set of questions and answers related to blood type inheritance is also provided.

Cells Alive!
This commercially sponsored site presents photographs, video clips, and computer animations of living cells.

Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
This site, from the National Museum of Health and Medicine, the University of Wisconsin, and Michigan State University, provides brain atlases from...

Computer Model of the DNA Helix
The University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology offers an explanation of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

Cool Science for Curious Kids
This site, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, offers online activities, project ideas, and information about a variety of biological topics.

DNA from the Beginning
The DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory offers an interactive multimedia primer on the basics of DNA and heredity.

DNA: The Instruction Manual for All Life
The Tech Museum of Innovation offers an explanation of DNA, zooming in on the human hand until you are inside of the nucleus; the site also explores...

Do or DIE!
The Saint Louis Science Center provides a look into the mechanics of the evolutionary process.

ENTER EVOLUTION: Theory and History
The University of California at Berkeley Museum of Paleontology has an online exhibit about the history of evolutionary theory.

First 9 Months
This privately maintained site provides a detailed look at the development of a human fetus.

Gene Map of the Human Genome
The National Center for Biotechnology Information presents a gene map of the human genome, including information about individual chromosomes and...

Human Genome Project Information
The Human Genome Management Information System (HGMIS) maintains this comprehensive resource, including technical and general interest articles,...

The Interactive Frog Dissection
The Curry School of Education maintains a frog dissection tutorial appropriate for high school students.

Introduction to Basic Biology
This site provides a guide to basic biological concepts, including evolution, genes, cells, cell division, respiration, and photosynthesis.

MendelWeb
MendelWeb is a privately maintained educational resource on the origins of classical genetics, containing electronic versions of selected writings by...

Metabolism Problem Set
The University of Arizona offers a problem set on metabolism; explanations and tutorials are included.

Microbe.org
The American Society for Microbiology presents information about microbes and the role they play in our world; aimed at children, the site includes...

MicrobeWorld
Presented by the American Society for Microbiology, this site provides a guide to the world of microbes, and includes educational resources and...

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AIRNOW
The Environmental Protection Agency provides real-time air quality data for many parts of the United States, as well as information about the public...

B.C. Wilderness
This commercially hosted site presents an illustrated overview of the environment of British Columbia, including information about its forests,...

Biodiversity Counts
The American Museum of Natural History presents a program for middle school students about studying biodiversity in the field.

Bureau of Land Management Environmental Education Homepage
The Bureau of Land Management provides a variety of resources related to the study of the environment, including information on ecosystems, profiles...

Clean Water: Life Depends on It!
Environment Canada presents information on water pollution, including its causes, how it affects the environment, and what can be done to prevent it.

Climate Change and Human Health
This site, hosted by Johns Hopkins University, provides recent and relevant information about the potential health impacts of global warming.

Conservation International
Conservation International provides information about biodiversity conservation in the world's endangered ecosystems, including a map of global...

Ecospeak: The Greenhouse Effect
This commercial site provides a glossary of terms related to the Earth’s atmosphere and the greenhouse effect.

EE Link
The North American Association for Environmental Education provides links to Web resources about environmental organizations, grants, career...

EEK! Environmental Education for Kids
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources offers an electronic magazine on natural resources, environmental issues, and environmental careers for...

Environmental Diseases from A to Z
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences offers a guide to environmental diseases, along with materials for students and teachers.

The EPA Global Warming Kids Page
The United States Environmental Protection Agency offers information for students and teachers about global warming,