• Ancient History & Archeology
• Anthropology
• American History
• Canadian Democracy
• Democracy
• The Depression
• Economics
• Fifties
• Hiroshima
• Branches of Canadian Government
• Canadian Biography
• Canadian Government
• Canadian History

• Canadian Invention
• Canadian Political Parties
• Charter of Rights
• Canadian Social Trends Magazine
• Civics Grade 10
• Corrections Canada
• Country Data 
• Disasters 
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• Labour 
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• Remembrance Day
• Renaissance
• School Violence
• Sociology
• Twenties & Thirties
• Violence
• Women's History
• World Wars/Guerre Mondiale
• Wars - Propaganda

History - General

• Ancient China - a British Museum exhibit
• Decades of History
• Best History Sites on the Web. An excellent, easy to use site full of links, resources, maps, lesson plans, etc.
• BBC History - excellent
• 33 History Sites to see

• Associated Press History clips - pictures, video, audio of major 20th century current & historical events.  AP is the American equivalent of Canadian Press

• Top 100 American Speeches - mp3 & real audio files
• Historical Games - Thx to Widdifield for this link to a British site containing excellent games and quizzes for History.  Well designed.  Easy to use.  See especially the Life inThe Avalon Project - primary historical documents
• Thematic, Physical, World, Historical Maps - great site but watch out for the ads
• European History - primary documents
• WWII Primary Documents
• Cultures - history of cultures and world tour
• Emancipation of Women
• Genealogy - Heraldry [US Gov't links]
• Great Britain National Curriculum in History
• History Central
• History Channel
• History of Costume
• The History Place
• History World
• Historical Text Archive
• Hyper History Online - history of everything
• Schools History - great site from the UK
• United Nations news from around the world
• World Governments

Primary Documents

• Avalon Project at Yale - Documents in History, Law and Diplomacy
• CanText - an amazing collection of primary documents, timelines, historical pictures, 
• Eurodocs - European Historical Documents

• Historical Text Archive

• History & Politics Out Loud [site of the week!] - uses Real Audio to play historical speeches
• History of Economic Thought Archive
• Holocaust Documents
• Library of Congress Exhibits of American History
• Speeches in History
• World War I - Primary Document Archive
• World War II - Primary Documents
• US Primary Documents
• Vintage Music from the 1920s and 1930s [needs Real Audio Player]

Ancient History & Archeology

• Archeology Net
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient History Internet Text - Babylon
• Art History - Ancient
• Ancient India from the British Museum
• Assyria Online
• Ancient Worlds Civilization 

• Digital History - very extensive

• Middle Ages
• Renaissance
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Egypt from UK
• Architecture through the Ages
• 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

Medieval History - The Middle Ages

• Math of catapults
• Catapults: Trebuchets
• Trebuchets
• How Catapults Work at How Stuff Works [close popup ads]
• Links to Medieval Topics - food, armour, rulers, castles, crusades, etc.
• Middle Ages for Middle School - great for integrated units

Renaissance

• The Renaissance - integrated exhibit from the Annenberg/CPB Project
• Renaissance Connection - well done.  Requires the Flash plugin.
• Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design
• The Mariner's Museum - exploration through the ages
• Six Wives of Henry VIII
• Tudors [BBC]

American History

• Top 100 American Speeches - mp3 & real audio files
• Black History including a special on Martin Luther King Jr from Time Magazine
• Civil War Links
• Civil War Home Page

• Digital History - American - very extensive

• EBSCO's links to American History
• Index of Civil War Information
• Pearl Harbor - from US Navy
• Political Parties in America
  • Political Science Resources at the University of Michigan - Political Parties
  • Republican Party History
  • Democratic Party History
• Smithsonian Links for the Civil war
• Smithsonian Institute Virtual Exhibits on American History
• Time Magazine Archive
• Colonies
  • 13 Colonies population
  • 13 Originals
  • Colonies Fact Sheet
  • James Madison
  • Peopling of America

British History

• Titanic Encyclopedia
• Titanic - Nova Scotia Gov't
• Titanic Online
• Return to Titanic - Dr Robert Ballard [who found the ship]
• Snapshots - Many episodes from History, ancient and modern, from the British perspective:
  • WWII Evacuation to Canada
  • Liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp
  • Sinking of the Titanic
  • and many more
• BBC History
• UK History

• Titanic
  • Titanic Encyclopedia
  • Titanic - Nova Scotia Gov't
  • Titanic Online
  • Return to Titanic - Dr Robert Ballard [who found the ship]
• Submarine Disasters
• Tsunami
• Volcanoes
• Hurricane Katrina
• Earthquakes
• Pompeii
• Pompeii - PBS
• Black Death
• San Francisco Fire 1906
• Hindenburg Crash
• Flu pandemic
• Darfur from Doctors Without Borders
• Halifax Explosion
• Romeo Dallaire on the Rwandan Genocide
• Mt St Helens Volcano

• Children and Television Violence
• The Impact of Violence on Television
• Media Awareness http://www.media-awareness.ca/
• From Child Health Monthly 
• Electronic Frontiers Canada

Violence in Sports

• Violence in Sports 
• Prevention of Violence in Youth Sports
• Hockey Violence:
  • Safe Hockey
  • NHL

Anthropology

• Cultural Profiles [U of T studies from around the world]
• Cultural Anthro - assess each site carefully

Sociology - School Violence

• Cultural Profiles [U of T studies from around the world]
• Social Science Gateway - major portal to social science sites
  • sociology of the family
• U.S. Coverage 
• A closer Look at School Violence

Sociology

• Sociologists - information plus e-texts
• Sociology of Cultures:
  • Cross-Cultural Analysis
• Sociology Links
• Sociology Portal - mega links
• Sociology Timeline
• Statistics on Everything including stats on sociology 
• The Sociology of Terrorism from the Library of Congress - scholarly

• Be convinced.com
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Islam 
• The Land of Genghis Khan from National Geographic
• Persia art & history
• Persian art

Remember to use your local library subscriptions to 
SIRS, Electric Library, Ehost as well as CD-ROMS
Books in 297 in libraries

Islam - en francais

• Webencyclopedia
• Islam France

• From the Whitehouse 
• History Channel
• Grolier Online 

MARTIN LUTHER KING

• Stanford University 
• Nobel Site 
• From the Seattle Times
• Major reference list on MLK Jr 

• Auschwitz Alphabet
• Holocaust Museum
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Anne Frank
• Holocaust
• California State University
• Voices of the Holocaust - actual audio recordings of survivors' stories; alternate site
• History of the Holocaust
• Holocaust Survivors

• War - from Canadian Archives
• DND - everything you could ever want to know about military history in either language
• Anciens Combattants Canada 
• Art of WW1
• The Canadian Great War Homepage
• Encyclopedia of the 1st WW
• First World War - excellent site
• The Great War Exhibit
• Patrimoine militaire du Canada 
• Poetry of the First WW
• Propaganda
  • World War II Propaganda posters
  • WWI Posters
• Teacher's guide to the Holocaust

• Trenches games

• WW1 from Britain's Schoolnet - huge site
• World War I

World War II

• Canadian War Museum 'Armoured Warrior' - A Second World War Interactive Adventure
• Timeline of WWII
• Causes of WWII 
• Encyclopedia of the 2nd WW
• Primary Documents of WWII
• From United Kingdom Schools Network - WWII
• WWII from Eduscapes - great linkslinks
• Veterans' Affairs  - go to history/histoire
• Collections Canada 
• Lest We Forget - Air Aces 
• Canadian Military Heritage 
• Canadian Prime Ministers
• Canadian War Artists from National Archives
• Artistes de guerre 
• Queen's Own Rifles
• European Theatre
• America and the War
• Battle of Britain
• Histoire de la 2e Guerre Mondiale 

Hiroshima

• A Bomb site
• Atomic Bomb Decision Documents
• The Enola Gay home page - from the man who dropped the bomb
• Hiroshima Gallery

Korean War

• Korean War in Canadian History
• Guerre de Corée

• Museum of Civilization - Canada
• Assembly of First Nations
• Aboriginal Canada Portal
• Legends Ojibway Dream Catcher 
• Legends Lakota Dream Catcher
• Legend of the Iroquois 
• How Indian Corn Came Into the World 
• How Saynday Got The Sun 
• Blackfeet Tales

• see also The Canadian Encyclopedia
• The Herbert Hoover Library and Museum: the Roaring Twenties
• 20th century decades - amazing

• see also The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Canada A People's History 1930s
• Hubert Hoover Library and Museum: the Thirties
• Internet History of the Depression
• 20th century decades - amazing

• Fifties web
• History of the CBC

• Econo Class - all kinds of info and activities
• Economics America
• Federal Reserve - Economics Lessons
• Global Macroeconomic and Global Policy Site 
  

Economic e-texts

• University of McMaster e-texts
• Internet Public Library e-texts
• Digital Library @ University of Pennsylvania
• Oxford Text Archive

Links

• Department of Justice - Federal
  • Case Law
  • Charter of Rights & Freedoms
  • Canadian Legal History & Dictionary [Duhaime]
  • Community Law [CLEO] by topic - excellent
  • Law Museum
  • Small Claims Court
  • Liens in Ontario
  • Legal Resources & Topics
  • Canadian Law Information Institute
  • Access to Justice Network  - See especially Legislative Materials - text of Criminal Code, Charter, laws, statutes... Excellent links via topics: ie. the Law and Natives, and babysitting, and AIDS, and drugs...
  • The Law Connection
    • See especially their Resources
  • The Law Room at Schoolnet - Canadian
  • Supreme Court of Canada
  • Statistics Canada - Crime & Justice statistics
  • Correctional Services Canada
  • Charter of Rights & Freedoms in Canada - English
  • Charte canadienne des droits et libertés
  • Canadian Law - A History
  • Canadian Law Links from Pritchard's
  • Time Portal for Human Rights in Canada

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Ontario Laws

  • Laws in Ontario
  • Ministry of the Attorney General

  Other Laws

  • Big Chalk megalist of legal links
  • Famous Trials of history
  • Legal History Links
  • Findlaw - US law links & searches
  • Medieval Legal History
  • Library of Legal History
  • Timetable of World Legal History * 
  • Avalon Project at Yale - Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy
  • Thomas Aquinas on Law
  • Sources in Law, especially Medieval
  • English Legal History
  • Napoleonic Code

  Religion and Law

  • Gospelcom
  • Evolution and the Judiciary
  • Religious Legal Systems
  • CHP Party
  • Roman Law - Common Law
  • Common Law of England is based on Christian principles

  Research Sample Worksheet for Law

• National Library of Canada
• The Vote in Canada - from the Museum of Civilization
• Herstory Exhibition

• CBC Archives - audio and video clips from the CBC's 50 year history

• Canada in the Making - Themes, plans, maps, primary documents from the Early Canadiana Collection

• Canadian Archival Exhibits

• What the Centenarians Saw - a wonderful, multimedia site from Statistics Canada which runs through a presentation about historical events from the past 100 years.
• 100 Years of Cdn History timeline
• Canadian Territorial Evolution from National Atlas
• Canada in the Making - Constitutional History, Aboriginals, Pioneers, and more
• Canada in the World - a great site from Foreign Affairs; includes Canada and the UN, Cdn sports, etc.
• Canada - A People's History - the CBC video series background material - requires some plugins
• Canadian First Nations History
• Canadian Heroes - from Collections Canada
• The Canadian Hierloom Series
• Canadian History - online exhibits plus 90,000 pictures of Canadian History from the Musée McCord Museum
• The Canadian History Portal - amazing!
• Canadian Immigration
• Canadian Military Heritage - text, pictures, maps
• Canadian Military History Themes
• Canadiana - mega links to Cdn infoLa page des ressources canadiennes
• CanText - an amazing collection of primary documents, timelines, historical pictures, 
• Canadian Civics Textbook Online
• Census Canada 1911
• Curricular Resources in Canadian History
• The Canadian West - from Archives Canada. 
• Champlain Exhibit- New France, New Horizons
• Early Canadiana online
• Famous Canadians
• Government at a Glance - summaries of government; biographies
• Governors General - National Library of Canada
• Heritage Canadian Minutes in History - Movies of those TV commercials
• Historic Text Archives
- Heritage Minutes
• Historical Atlas of Canada
• How Canadians Govern Themselves - the book; includes information about the role of the Monarch
• Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King
• Museum of Civilization site map - incredible!
• The Monarchist League of Canada - pro Monarchy
  • The Official Royal Family Site
• New France from the Virtual Museum at the Museum of Civilization
• Ontario History Quest and Ontario History Digital Photo Archive Quest
• Parliament of CanadaPrimary Documents in Canadian History
• First Among Equals - Children's Site - an excellent, simple exhibit from the National Library of Canada
• Canadian Prime Ministers - multimedia.  Very good.
• Underground Railroad - National Geographic
• Underground Railroad - home page
• Underground Railroad - Shared History - US government
• Underground Railroad - educational site

Pioneers

• Museum of Civilization - links to all Canadian pioneer sites
• Canadian Historical Association
• Historial Atlas of Canada [click on symbol to left of topics to see detailed table of contents]

• Women in Canadian History
• Famous Canadians
• First Among Equals - The PM from the National Library of Canada exhibit
• Canadian War Artists from National Archives
• Canadian Heroes
• Canadian Air Aces
• Banting & Best
• Canadian Scientists
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• Dionne Quintuplets from the North Bay site
• Group of Seven
• Canadian Prime Ministers - multimedia.  Very good.

Canadian Inventors

• Canadian Theme Page on inventors
• from Clever.net
• Canadian Innovation Centre
• Inventions not necessarily Canadian

• Canadian Parliamentary Channel
• Charter of Rights & Freedoms in Canada
• Holocaust Museum
• Links to Canadian Newspapers
• National Library of Canada
• NATO Home page
• Stats Canada
• United Nations Home page
• Women in Canadian History
• Civilization Canada - links to the War Museum, Museum of Civilization...
• Cyber Nation

• Corrections Canada

• CIA World Factbook
• UN Info-Nation - comparison of countries
• Country Watch
• US State Department
• World Atlas
• World Bank
• Canadian Social Trends Magazine
• See also EBSCO subscription - Step 3 - Country Reports

Poverty

• Worldwide
• Canadian

• Magna Carta
• American Constitution, Bill of Rights
• American Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment
• 5th century Athens
• The American State Department's Report on Libyan Human Rights Practices for 1996
• Switzerland - the homepage of the Swiss Parliament
• Ontario Human Rights' Commission

Democracy in Canada

• Canadian Politics on the Web - excellent explanation & links
• Canadiana, The Canadian Resource Page
• The Civnet site
• Foundation For Education For Democracy
• the Constitution Act, 1867 at the National Library of Canada

• How Canadians Govern Themselves - Senator Eugene Forsey's excellent summary
• Government of Canada - main site
• Parliament of Canada
• Legislative Assemblies
• A diagram of the government of the City of Toronto is available at
• CBC News Online site on the Internet offers information (and often photographs) on political figures that have been in the media during the past year.
• The Federal Department of Justice
• overview of the Canadian justice system
• Canada's School Net page entitled "Welcome to the Law Room"

• Elections Canada - Selected excerpts
• Liberal Party
• Conservative Party
• New Democratic Party
• Bloc Quebecois
• Political Parties in America
• Political Science Resources at the University of Michigan

Canadian Issues Political Science Resources at the University of Michigan

• Aboriginal Self Government
• Turtle Island on the Net
• The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Issues and Self Government - Selected excerpts
• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

• Heritage Canada
• Government of New Brunswick
• United Nations
• Ontario Human Rights' Commission
• The Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• Ontario Human Rights' Commission index 
• Charter of Rights and Freedom
• The Alberta Law Foundation
• Human Rights Watch
• Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• A plain language version of the Declaration of Human Rights
• Insult and Injury - Hate Crime in Cyberspace 

Agencies

• NGO Global Network
• The United Way
• UN NGOs
• International Affairs Links - great links for maps, international agencies, world peace, international media
• Idealist.org - See Teacher and Teen Site
• Free the Children
• World Vision
• Volunteer North Bay

Privacy Issues

• The Media Awareness Network
• Canada's School Net

World Religions

• BBC Gateway to major religions of the world
Church History - The Ecole Initiative