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General
Hyper-History: an information-packed site with a good chronological table which relates events in globally.
Project Gutenberg: a large number of electronic texts, both books and articles.
Michigan Electronic Library: includes history on a particular day, visual resources, documents, information on historians and philosophers.
History Index: a number of gateways to countries and to different topics.
History: particularly strong collection of resources on Great Britain.
EuroDocs: original texts and documents.
Voice of the Shuttle: major site full of links to other sites--oranized primarily by countries.
Horus History Links: many, many links organized geographically and chronologically.
Gateway to World History: links to documents, images, and sites.
Images
WebMuseum: The WebMuseum, a wonderful collection of paintings from a wide range of artists, time periods, and places. Good explanations of a number of paintings.
Mark Harden's Artchive: Art Resources Links: Many paintings, easily accessible. The WebMuseum and this collection complement each other well.
Lycos Pictures and Sounds: Quite a few interesting historical images--paintings, caricatures, photos.
Web Gallery of Art: Many images of paintings and sculpture from 1200-1700, often with biographies and analyses.
Paris Pages Musee d'Orsay Collection Paintings: Mostly Impressionist paintings from their very rich collection.
Photo Archives Data: the collection gathered by the U.S. Holocaust Museum, including photos from World War I to the 1950s..
Museums: "A comprehensive directory of on-line museums."
The Ancient Mediterranean
Exploring Ancient Cultures: a number of links and sites to ancient and medieval cultures.
The Ancient World: prehistoric archeology of the Aegean
Dead Romans: a great source of information on all areas of Roman culture and society
The Ancient World : The Perseus Project: very rich site including texts, maps, images, descriptions
Ancient History Sourcebook : a number of important primary texts to explore.
The Middle Ages
Middle Ages: Illuminated Manuscripts: a number of links to important manuscripts including the Magna Carta
Netserf: rich site with numerous links on a range of interesting subjects.
Medieval and Renaissance History: includes some sources on ancient history as well as key sites for the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, organized by general site and by more specific subject.
Crusades: links to texts of the chroniclers and to further information.
Labyrinth: includes resources on special topics, on countries, as well as articles.
Medieval Sourcebook: original documents, including chronicles of the Crusades and saints' lives.
Byzantine Studies: useful links, particularly for studying Constantinople
Gargoyles: pictures, descriptions, and explanations
Europe from the Renaissance to the French Revolution
Heaven and Earth: many images and maps of the earth and the skies. In French, but the images are not.
Galileo: explore the instruments he used in his scientific experiements in the Science Museum in Florence Italy and a very detailed examination of his life and his work at The Galileo Project.
Renaissance Architecture: many designs by prominent Italian architects
18th Century Resources: a number of interesting links.
Witches; the plague; the legend of Robin Hood
The Modern Period
The Victorian Web: information and links on all dimensions of life in the 19th century.
Charles Darwin: The complete Origin of Species
Spartacus: educational resources produced for teachers in Britain. Especially good on British history.
Trenches on the Web: dense site with information on battles, memoirs of soldiers, images, and music.
World War II Propaganda Posters: nice collection of posters from both sides of the Great War
Cybrary of the Holocaust: eyewitness accounts, photographs, descriptions, links.