World History

World

A brief history of the English Monarchy

Ancestry.ca Canada's leading family history website, offers members access to 129 million searchable Canadian family history records. From here you can go to the American website which has a DNA test to help find matches.

www.statistics.gov.uk This is the official UK statistics site. You can view and download a wealth of economic and social data free.

DocumentsOnline allows you online access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. Searching the index is free, and it costs money to download a digital image of a document. DocumentsOnline allows you online access to The National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and family history sources. We are committed to providing online access to the records, and DocumentsOnline forms a key part of this strategy.

Computer History Museum

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

Apple-History is the history of the Apple computers. This site also has the specifications on all the Apple computers ever built.

Evidence In Camera is an archive of World War 11 aerial reconnaissance photos, including pictures of the D-Day landings in Normandy.There will be some 5 million Royal Air Force photos of Western Europe.

Holidays On The Net offers recipes, activities, and history on almost all holidays regardless of religion.

The Holiday Spot you can look up holidays by calendar month and find lots of information and recipes.

Biographical Dictionary

Behind the Name website looks at the etymology (i.e. the linguistic origin, or meaning) and history of all types of given names (first names).

The National Library of Australia : World Treasures Have students explore the contributions of world cultures in this online exhibit. Lessons in the teacher's section supports the online materials. Each treasure lists the museum that houses it; an interesting supplemental activity would have students uncover how foreign museums ended up with another culture's treasure.

Everythingmothersday.com And just as the title says, it has just about everything you need to make this Mother's Day (May 12) the best ever. Highlights include a history of Mother's Day, an interesting survey indicating which gift moms like (and dislike) the most, unique gift ideas -- even tips on how to write the perfect Mother's Day card.

Rulers of the world This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. You can find lists by month of the comings and goings in national governments from 1996 to the present. This is a great resource when studying government structures in different nations.

Chiefs Of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments.

Cocoapro.com has the history of chocolate, has videos and documents on how chocolate is made, games and more.

dMarie Time Capsule Type in day/month/year and it will tell you what happen that day, who was born, and more.

History Channel is the History channel's website.

The Seven Wonders of the World website is where you can learn about the world's architectural wonders built by the ancient civilizations of Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. This site uses text, illustrations and a timeline to describe them. A few added bonuses are sections on modern marvels such as the CN Tower.

inthe90s is a site for people who like to look back a few years, as reference to see where we've been, to recognize where we're going. Then we all laugh at how naive we've been.
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Adventure Learning Foundation This site takes students and teachers on real and virtual expeditions around the world. Through a collection of original pictures and journal excerpts, visitors can accompany travelers exploring the natural environment, culture, and peoples of different continents. Past expeditions include Alaska and Yukon, Baja California, American Southwest, and Southern Africa. Each expedition is accompanied by a mixture of information, links, and classroom activities.

Graphic Design from the 1920s and 1930s is an online gallery created to share a collection of 1920s and 1930s European travel-related ephemera (printed matter of passing interest).

Canada

Prime Ministers of Canada

Agriculture Museum -Discover Canada's unique agriculture heritage at the Agriculture Museum, where you can explore the sights, sounds and smells of traditional farm life.

History of Barrie, Ontario, Canada

History of Downtown Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Canadian Postal Museum - Operates a complete museum programme and acts as a repository to hold objects in trust for the Canadian public.

Canadian War Museum

Canadian Timeline

Canada's Digital Collections is first stop for hundreds of links to Canadian History, science and technology, culture and aboriginal affairs.

Canadian Heritage website is where you can learn when and why Canadians celebrate certain holidays.

The History of Canada's Prime Ministers Drawing on a wide variety of documents and artifacts, this site explores five main themes relating to Canada's prime ministers. This site examines our leaders' political careers as well as their private lives. It also sheds light on Canadians' perceptions of our prime ministers. From Macdonald to Chretien, our political leaders are twenty individuals who have made a difference, shaping Canada's identity, sometimes in profound ways.

The Atlas of Canada provides the most interesting, dynamic and comprehensive collection of maps and related information about Canada available anywhere on the Internet, with effective and intuitive tools for users to access them.

Virtual Exhibits from the Virtual Museum of Canada View Canada in terms of the artwork of Canada and the Americas, historic events that have impacted the Canadian people, and major influences in the Canadian culture. Students can also discover how learning science, doing science, and applying science each play a distinct role in the development of a country. The Teacher's Centre includes search capabilities for museum and online educational programs. (Flash or RealPlayer is required for some exhibits.)

The Canadian West How did Westward expansion play out in what is now the Canadian provinces? Access early maps that show European cartographers' best guesses at the western lands. Learn how the fur trade and scientific expeditions impacted the future of the land and the peoples living there then witness the urbanization and industrialization of Canada in the 1920s.

The National Archives of Canada is a treasure house of the memory of Canada.
We care for and share millions of documents of all kinds of films, maps, diaries, treaties, journals, art, government records, photographs, sound recordings and more.
Many are of unique value and exceptional beauty. Some are centuries old. All reveal how we have lived in this place called Canada and enable Canadians to better understand the story of their country and of their fellow citizens.
Through its services to researchers and government, its exhibitions and other initiatives, the National Archives of Canada seeks to connect Canadians to the sources of these stories.

USA

American Currency Exhibit Money hasn't always looked like it does today. Explore the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit online and watch history come alive as you step back in time to the United States' beginning. Learn how the United States' rich history is closely tied to their currency.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is one of only two broadcast museums in America. Located in the Chicago Cultural Center on Michigan Avenue at Washington Street since the summer of 1992, the extensive public archives collection houses more than 70,000 radio and television programs and commercials. Within the MBC are state-of-the-art studios, spacious screening suites, special galleries and the museum's own gift shop. The museum's unique interactive exhibits attract a diverse group of visitors-from students researching the history of radio and television to senior citizens reminiscing about the great moments in their lives.

American FactFinder

Digital History includes a U.S. history textbook; over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history; succinct essays on the history of film, ethnicity, private life, and technology; multimedia exhibitions; and reference resources that include a searchable database of 1,500 annotated links, classroom handouts, chronologies, glossaries, an audio archive including speeches and book talks by historians, and a visual archive with hundreds of historical maps and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians. This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and is supported by the Department of History and the College of Education at the University of Houston.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit Money hasn't always looked like it does today. Explore the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit online and watch history come alive as you step back in time to USA's beginning. Learn how their country's rich history is closely tied to their currency. Discover the role the Federal Reserve has played--and continues to play--in that history.

The Currency Gallery The Currency Gallery is an on-line museum that contains images of U.S. paper money and provides the history of U.S. currency. This site is easy to read and the images are very clear. You can use this site to research the history of U.S. currency and see wonderful images of the currency. This site also includes information about the printing process.

Biograhpical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present.

The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum has tiny toy like replicas of turn-of-the-century patent products.

The Jamestown Online Adventure Put your students in the situation of landing in the New World and making all the decisions needed to found a colony. This simulation lets them decide where to land, what to do when they get there, and even how many will be required to do hard labor. There are online helpers in the form of the London Company's Instruction and a Native American neighbor. Players will be scored as to how well they fared given the choices made, and will review what actually happended in Jamestown. This activity requires Flash version 5 or higher.

Underground Railroad This website supports the mission of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinatti. The section on Slavery's Past is interesting. One feature (Places) is a clickable map showing locations of railroad stops. Another is the People section that contains stories of the work of people involved in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Students can add locations or stories to these areas. Freedom Today will pose various questions to visitors of this website and allow them to respond.

Australia

The National Library of Australia : World Treasures Have students explore the contributions of world cultures in this online exhibit. Lessons in the teacher's section supports the online materials. Each treasure lists the museum that houses it; an interesting supplemental activity would have students uncover how foreign museums ended up with another culture's treasure.