Useful History Sites

For electronic texts of historical documents and books, see also Electronic Texts: History

The History Guide - http://www.historyguide.org/

• Description: "The History Guide has been created for the high school and undergraduate student who is either taking classes in history, or who intends to major in history in college. The purpose of The History Guide is to better prepare yourself for your history classes and to make your time in class more enjoyable and proficient.
       "The History Guide contains the complete content of three undergraduate courses in European history which will certainly be of use to those of you studying such topics at the college level or in A.P. European history classes. Upon its completion, The History Guide will contain more than seventy lectures in European history from ancient Sumer to the fall of Soviet-style communism in 1989."
• Appropriate to course or program:HST
• [Reviewed by: The Scout Report, October 15, 1999]

Spartacus Educational - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/welcome.html

• Description: This textbook publisher maintains free, full-text hypertext "encyclopedias" : the Medieval World; Encyclopedia of British History, 1700-1900; First World War Encyclopedia; Investigating the Vietnam War; Emancipation Of Women: 1860-1920. Scroll down to see all the offerings.
• Appropriate to course or program:
• [Reviewed by: Reference Staff, Sept. 1999 ]

This Day in History - From the Archives of The History Channel - http://www.history.com/tdih.do

• Description: Gives a summary of a historical event for today's date; a link to other events for the same day is available. A pulldown menu allows you to search for events which happened on any day in the year.
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