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A selection of stories about historic people and events.

Scholarly initiative to create a comprehensive interactive electronic historical world atlas combining mapping, imagery, and texts. Aims, technology, scope, themes, news, membership, conference.

A search engine that indexes sites that deal with history.

Articles, books, and links for historical texts from several countries.

Aims to create a network for exchanging historical information. Information about computer database program for historical research, writing and cataloging; advice on organizing materials; and links to mostly-US research resources.

Examines the background history that is needed to understand the major economic and political problems in the world today.

Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in history, maintained at the State and University Library at Göttingen, Germany. Searchable by subject and by source type.

History like you should have learned it. Bizarre stories, trivia, and books every week.

Categorized history articles, features, thumbnailed picture gallery, discussion board, and special events and exhibits.

Aspires to put news in historical context by publishing articles written by historians on current events topics. Published by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Provides a history of every country in the world. Includes an overview as well as more detailed historical information. Based on content from the US State Department with new material added.

A comprehensive directory of links, organized by period.

A web ring which links over a thousand historical web sites.

Source for history, original content, including multimedia exhibits, as well as links to other sites. Topics include world history, American history and current events.

A history Web site development firm specializing in historic preservation and historical documentaries.

Provides an overview of Western history from ancient Sumeria to the present, including profiles of major figures, timelines, photos, and interactive features.

Directory of sites covering American, ancient, world and modern history, social studies, reference sources, study tips and related resources.

Indexes the best history content on the net, including material in History World, from which it evolved. Also offers a toolbar with history search and timeline of world history.

Research on history, geography and logistics of communication, pilgrimage, and trade routes of Eurasia and Africa 10,000 BCE to circa 1820 CE.

Gallery of reconstructed portraits of key figures from world history, without anachronisms, respecting contemporary style, and based on historical sources.