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Africans in America PBS Series
Woman and Slavery
African American Experience: works by and about African Americans from 1630 - 1830
African American History, Culture, Biographies
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow History
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Miscegenation
Lynchings
In Motion: The African American Migration Experience

American History

History Reference Center: Articles from magazines and books, biographies, images, video clips
Best of History Web Sites
American Memory
History Matters: the U.S. Survey course on the web

Civil War

American Civil War Homepagex
American Civil War
CivilWar.com
Civil War Medicine
Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
New York Times Historical Archive
History Reference Center: Articles from magazines and books, biographies, images, video clips

Colonial History

Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial America
American Colonist's Library
Colonial America 1600-1775

Countries

World Factbook (CIA)
Background notes on Countries
Governments on the Web (Embassies)
United Nations Statistics
Information Please Almanac

Egypt

Maxims of Ptahhotep
Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
Song of the Harp Player (Lay of the Harper)
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Ancient Egypt and Egyptology
Ancient Egypt from the British Museum
Ancient Egypt links from About.com--all topics

Elizabethan Life

Life in Elizabethan England: a compendium
Description of Elizabethan England in 1577
Renaissance Links for Daily Life
Renaissance: an Encyclopedia for students

French Revolution

French Revolution, 1789 - 1793
French Revolution from Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: exploring the French Revolution
Fulltext historical documents

Literature (Authors and Book reviews)

Online Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism (Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism)
Sparknotes: summaries of books
Classic Notes by GradeSaver: summaries and criticism of books

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Infotrac Onefile magazine and journal articles, many full text, since 1980
iconn NewStand: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor
NewsBank Public Library Collection
NewsBank Retrospective: articles from 1970 - 1991
Access World News: International, American and Connecticut Newspapers
New Canaan Newspapers: New Canaan Advertiser and New Canaan News Review. Full text articles from 2003 to the present.

Medieval Europe

Netserf Medieval Sites
The Labyrinth
Norman Conquest

Native Americans

Manifest Destiny & its consequences
The West (by Ken Burns)
Native American web

Science and Science Projects

Science Reference Center: Science projects and all topics in science. Articles from books, magazines, journals, images.
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Global Change

Supreme Court Cases

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World History

History Reference Center: Articles from magazines and books, biographies, images, video clips