Learning Resource Centers
On campus and online serving the campuses of
International Institute of the Americas and Stellar International Institute

History and Biography Sites
History Sites:
  • History: Central Catalogue (WWW Virtual Library) (select a continent, a time, or a topic, and find the history of that place or topic)
  • History Channel (click on Topics in the top menu or More Topics in the left menu)
  • Historynet.com (In the left menu, click on Today in History or on one of the Historynet magazines.  This site has a lot of images, as well as information.)
  • Images from History (click on the folder icon of a time period; select a region; keep clicking until you see the green icon; that will bring up images from history and short descriptions; click on the image to enlarge it)
  • Comprehensive History Link Collections (covers general history, American history, and Civil War history)
  • Internet History Sourcebooks Project (covers ancient, medieval, and modern history; also divided into topics such as the history of Africa, east Asia, India, women, science; and Jewish, Islamic, gay/lesbian, and global history)
  • Portals to the World:  Links to Electronic Resources from Around theWorld (click on a country, then on a topic, and find many links to sites dealing with that topic.  There are also links to firsthand information from the country itself.  For example, under Afghanistan, Society, is a link to an Afghan site with Afghan biographies)
  • Perseus Digital Library (click on Classics:  it contains an overview of Greek and Roman history, all of the literature, and more than 56,000 images.  The site also covers the English Renaissance and Shakespeare)
Sites with Biographies:
  • Biographies (Internet Public Library) (scroll down to click on a sub-heading or scroll further to see links to biographies of African Americans in history, Buscabiografias [biographies in Spanish of people all over the world], distinguished women past and present, and many more.)
  • Biography.com (over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present) (type in a name or a keyword, or search by category, such as inventors, infamous people, designers, actors, etc.)

 

Last modified:  1-31-2007.  9:00 a.m.  BLJ.