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)
- Best of History Websites (contains over 1000 annotated websites on history; it covers gneral, American, and European 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)
Biography Sites:
- 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.)