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Current Events

CNN Student News

Smithsonian Tween Tribune

PBS News Hour Extra

NBC Nightly News for Kids

Student News Daily

Wonderopolis

 

Countries
CIA World Factbook
Flags of the World

LOC: Portals to the World
Library of Congress Country Studies

UN Cyberschoolbus
Yahooligans: Around the World
Rulers
U.S. Dept. of State
U.S. Embassies

Geographia
Word2Word Language Translator
International Recipes
Recipe Source

US Department of State:  Cambodia

Cambodia Country Guide

Cambodia in Modern History

The Middle East: Beginning Sources

 

India

Timeline of India

History of India

India:  The Most Mysterious Country...

India.com

India: The Great Ocean of Heritage

50 Years of Indian Independence

British Museum:  Ancient India

US Dept. of State:  South & Central Asia

A Blend of Indian Cultures

India Past & Present

National Geographic:Mt. Everest  

 

Geography Games

National Geographic Geography Stumper

National Geographic's GeoBee Challenge

National Geographic's GeoSpy

Copycats Continents Memory Game

Trivia Plaza 

Europe Games, Puzzles, Trivia, Quizzes

World Geography Quizzes

State Capitals Quiz

50 States Quiz

State Nicknames Quiz

Historical Geography Quiz

US States Quiz

Know Your States

South America Map Puzzle

 

World Religions

Virtual Religion Index

BBC Guide to Religions

Religions of the World

 

Russia

Welcome to the New Russia

Moscow’s Kremlin

Trans-Siberian Route

Russia on the Net

Russia on the Web

Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825

U.S. Dep't of State: Russia

Lonely Planet: Russia

Tsar Alexander's Famous Eggs

Matrioshka/Matruska Dolls

Russian Life

Glencoe World History: Modern Times

Horses

Russian School System

Russian Poets

NC Students Go to Russia

 

Africa

Slaves’ Stories
Ancient Africa
Ancient Africa's Black Kingdoms
The Story of Africa
Internet African History Sourcebook
Kingdom of Askum
Black Kingdoms of the Nile
Great Kings & Queens of Africa
Egyptian Timeline
Africana.com
Synopsis of Transatlantic Slave Trade

 

Native Americans
Native American Indian Resources
Native Nations
Powersource:  Native American Artistic Symbols
Native American Tribes
Storytelling of NC Native Americans
Index of Native American Resources
Cherokee History Links
First Americans

 

Civil War
U.S. Civil War Center
American Civil War Homepage
Civil War Links
Images of the Civil War
Selected Civil War Photographs(LOC)

Southern Homefront 1861-1865
Civil War Women

Remember the Ladies

Civil War Interactive

US Colored Troops in the Civil War

NPS Gettysburg: Camp Life

NPS Civil War Flags/Battles
Civil War Cookbook
Mason-Dixon Line's Civil War Recipes
Recipes of the Civil War Era

Salisbury Prison

NC Civil War Image Portfolio

Freedmen's Bureau Online

Bentonville Battlefield

NC Map of Civil War Battles

NC & the Civil War

Balloons in the Civil War

Civil War in NC Day by Day

 

Ancient History
Daily Life in Ancient Greece
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
The Greeks:  Crucible of Civilization
Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

Ancient Olympia

BBC Ancient Greece: Athens

Greek Daily Life

Ancient Greece for Kids

Ancient Rome for Kids

Ancient City of Athens

Images of Ancient Greece and Rome

British Museum:  Ancient Greece

Who Were the Ancient Greeks

The Art of the Greeks

eThemes Resource: Famous Greeks

eThemes Resource: Mythology

BBC:  The Romans

Odyssey:  Daily Life in Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome

Pompeii

Ancient Civilizations for Kids 

MrDonn.org Social Studies

Social Studies for Kids-Ancient Civ.

Academic Kids Ancient Civilizations

 

African American History

African American History

African American Odyssey: LOC

Black History Month

Segregation Timeline

Harlem Renaissance

Tuskegee Airmen

11 Supreme Court Cases

Plessy v. Ferguson PBS

Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board PBS

School Integration

Little Rock 50 Years Ago

1957: Integration of Central High

LIFE Magazine: Little Rock Nine

Central High School

CORE

NAACP

 

South Africa

Story of Africa

History of Apartheid in South Africa

CIA World Factbook-South Africa

South Africa Under Apartheid

 

Arabian Peninsula and Iraq

Crude Oil FAQs

America's Oil Dependence

OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet

Bedouin Culture

Bedouins

Negev Bedouins

Bedouins of the Sinai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

World War I

Prisoners of War

The Red Baron

WWI Aces and Airplanes - New Weapons of the Great War

The Red Baron, German Pilot WW1 - Timeline Index

First World War: Strategy and Tactics

First World War.com - Weapons of War: Trench Mortars

First World War.com - Weapons of War: Introduction

First World War.com - Weapons of War: Machine Guns

World War One - Weapons

World War I

  

World War II

Anne Frank Museum

NC's WWII Experience

USS North Carolina Battleship

National Park Service:  USS North Carolina

US Navy Battleships:  USS North Carolina

Camp Butner

History of Camp Butner

Charlie Two-Shoes:  Carolina Week Radio Report

Henry Jay MacMillan

Charles Paty

George Preddy

Margaret Rogers

Jack Lucas

World War II through the Eyes of Cape Fear

USCG Combat Victories:  German U-Boats

Women Marines in WWII

Camp Lejeune Oral History Project

African-Americans in World War II

African American Marines in World War II

Montford Point Marines

POWs in North Carolina

Military Nurses

UNC-TV: Focus on World War II

NCSU:  Victory Gardens

Homefront:  Charlotte-Mecklenberg 1941-1946

The Triple Nickels

Women’s Veteran’s Historical Collection-UNC-G

Camp Davis

Army Nurses 

 

Decades

Decades: A Study of the 20th Century

Vintage Ads

  

Heritage Project

Ancestors:  Charts & Records (Includes pedigree charts)

Climbing Your Family Tree

Ancestry.com: Ancestral charts

Journal Jar: Interview Ideas

Genealogy.com:Oral History Questions & Documents

Guide for Interview Questions

Family Search:  Mormon (LDS) Church (How-to Guides)

Mayflower Society:  Pilgrims' Genealogy

United States Internet Genealogical Society

Script for Video/Audio Interviews with FamilyMembers

Afri-Geneas: African Ancestored Genealogy

FEEFHS:  Eastern European Families

GENUKI:  UK & Ireland Genealogy

Jewish Genealogy

Italian Genealogy.com

Lithuanian Genealogy

Polish Genealogy Society

SSHAR: Society of Hispanic Historial & Ancestral Research

Ellis Island

National Archives Immigration Records

Genealogical Internet Sites

 

NC Counties

North Carolina Encyclopedia: Counties and Communities

Epodunk:  North Carolina Counties Index

US Census: NC Quickfacts

US Census Bureau Factsheet

NC's Historical People & Places

UNC School of Government:  Counties in NC

NC Echo:  Cultural Heritage by County

Visit NC

NC Government Fact Book

 

Wake County

Wake County Government Site

Triangle Life Magazine

Raleigh Online

Wake County Communities

Home Town Locator:  Wake County, North Carolina

 

American Revolution

Bunker Hill

Cowpens

Concord

Lexington

King's Mountain

NPS: Saratoga

Trenton

Yorktown Campaign

Battles of the American Revolution

American Revolution

The American Revolution Battles

Revolutionary War Battles Index

British Battles

Major Events of the Revolutionary War

Interactive Revolutionary War Battle Map

  

Revolutionary Biographies

Colonial Hall

America’s Founding Fathers

Biographies Archive:  Leaders/Founding Fathers

American Revolution Biographies

US History.org

Paul Revere House

From Revolution to Reconstruction

Revolutionary War Biographies

 

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution:  Age of Industry

Plight of Women's Work in England & Wales

The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England 

Industrial Revolution (primary source)

KidsKonnect:  Industrial Revolution

Victorian Social History

 

Five Themes of Geography
http://www2.una.edu/geography/statedepted/themes.html
http://sd71.bc.ca/Sd71/Edulinks/ICT6_9/lessons/geo1/5themes2.htm

 

Middle Ages
Music
Classical Net:  Medieval Period
Medieval Period:  500-1450
Medieval Literature
Brief Outline of Medieval Literature
Texts from or about Medieval Period
History
Britannia:  Medieval Period
Art
Women Artists
Medieval Maps
Index of Cartographic Images
Games
Period Games

A Little Bit about Everything Medieval
Knighthood, Chivalry, & Tournaments
NetSERF
Merlin
A Boke of Gode Cookery
Medieval Crusades
Health
Annenberg:  Middle Ages

Explorers
Mariners Museum: Age of Exploration
Discoverers Web
European Voyages of Exploration
New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia: Vasco da Gama
Voyages of Exploration: Explorers Database
Columbus Navigation Homepage
Roanoke Revisited

 

Civil Rights

Greensboro Sit-Ins

NC Civil Rights Time Line

Civil Rights Museum

SNCC

MLK Institute

Civil Rights Era

Civil Right Movement, 1955-1965

 

 

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