- About.com Guides - An impressive Web directory, About.com lists 30 subjects with links to more than 700 sites covering centuries, biographies, and topics reflecting traditional time frames, major events, gender, race, and ethnicity. The About.com site also provides access to forums, chatrooms, and brief introductory articles.
- ALA Recommended Sites
- AMDOCS - Documents for the Study of American History with links to primary historical documents dating from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries.
- American and British History Research Guides - This well-organized and easy- to-use site is maintained at the Rutgers University Libraries. The guide contents include reference sources, archival and manuscript guides, general history portals, sites organized by subject, sites organized by period, full-text documents by period, history associations, and history electronic lists.
- American Civil War Homepage
- American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - The Library of Congress' huge project to create a national digital library, representing American history and culture, so far offers more than 7 million digitized items from more than 100 historical collections. These primary sources include text, photographs, film, maps, and music (sound and sheet). American Memory provides the capability to search for items across its collections and links to digital collections from around the world.
- Archives and special collections - A guide to resources on the Web recommended by ALA.
- Archiving Early America - Historic Documents from 18th Century America
- Chronology of US Historical Documents
- Civil War Rosters - All States
- Duke University: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library - Features several digitized collections including: Ad Access (over 7000 images of advertisements), Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement, African-American Women, and Civil War Women.
- The Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend.
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Hosted by the University of Evansville, Indiana. Contains original text and images, as well as internet links on the following cultures: the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe.
- Historic Buildings
- Historical Picture Collections - Steven Schoenherr, an American historian at the University of San Diego, provides pictures in such categories as presidents, states, cities and regions, aviation, military, movies and radio, railroads, science and technology, ships, and space images.
- Historical Text Archive - "The HTA provides original material, links to other sites, and electronic reprints of books and is organized by geography/nations and topics."
- History Channel: Speeches - The site hosts hundreds of speeches available in audio files that can be searched by speaker, topic, or time period. An alphabetically arranged speakers index can also be browsed. Speech categories are politics and government; science and technology; arts, entertainment, and culture; and war and diplomacy. A written context is provided for each speech.
- History of the American West 1860-1920
- Internet History Sourcebooks Project - Collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use, with sourcebooks for ancient history, medieval, modern history and Byzantine studies, as well as African, East Asian, global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, gay and lesbian, science and women's studies. Edited by Paul Halsall at Fordham University.
- Making of America: A "digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." The project is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Cornell University.
- The University of Michigan collection
- The Cornell collection- Map Collections 1500-1999
- National Women's History Project
- NEBib - Electronic version of volume 9 of the Bibliographies of New England History. Citations to items published largely between 1989 and 1994 on the history of New England.
- Perry-Casteneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps of the United States - The categories used by the University of Texas map library are early inhabitants, exploration and settlement, U.S. territorial growth, later historical periods, military history, historical maps of Texas and U.S. cities, and national historic sites. There is a link to other map sites.
- Today in History
- United States Historical Census Data Browser - Using data compiled by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, the University of Virginia Libraries have created easily browsed data files that describe the people and economy of each state and county from 1790 to 1960.
- Veterans History Project (American Folklife Center)
- World history archives
- WWW Virtual Library History: United States - The History Index Network is maintained by Lynn H. Nelson, professor emeritus of medieval history at the University of Kansas. The U.S. history portion is superbly organized into three major categories with many topics. The first category, Research Tools, includes bibliography, materials, research aids, and associations and societies, which each have more specific categories. The second major category lists 19 historical topics. The third major category is divided into 11 chronological periods from pre-Columbian contact to the 20th century.
Homeschooling (see Education)
Homework Helps (see also Children's Sites & Young Adults)
- Criteria for Evaluating Web Sources
- Student Safety on the Internet
- Ask Jeeves! http://www.aj.com
- Basic Reference Web Sites
- Bigchalk - The Education Network
- BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
- Britannica.com
- Databases for Reports & Projects
- DiscoverySchool.com Student Guide
- Enchanted Learning Home Page
- Homework Help
- HomeworkSpot
- Information Please Almanac
- Kid Info - The Web's Best Student Homework Reference
- KidsConnect - Online question and answer service for students
- Multnomah County Homework Site - This homework site from Multnomah County Library in Oregon has multiple links for every major homework topic.
- NIE WORLD - Homework helpers
- NIE WORLD - Newspaper in Education - The Daytona Beach News-Journal
- Online Educational Resource Links
- Research Tools
- Super Sites for Teachers
- WWW Virtual Library
Style & Writing Guides & English
- Citation Style Guides for Internet and Electronic Resources - From the University of Alberta Libraries
- English Sites http://www.rrpl.org/ya_english_sites.stm
- Guide to Grammar & Writing
- Librarians' Index to the Internet...Style Manuals
- Online!
- On-line English Grammar
- Researchpaper.com - Ideas for research papers, improving your writing, proofreading, and more. Click on the *Writing Center* and get that A!
Science Fair Fun
Politics & Government
- 50 States & Capitals
- The American Civil War Home Page
- American Flags
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
- ClassBrain.com - State Reports
- FactFinder Kids' Corner
- Freedom: A History Of Us
- IRS Understanding Taxes
- Presidents of the United States
- Uncle Sam for Kids
- U.S. Founding Documents
- White House for Kids
Math & Science
- Biomes of the World
- Bob's Place - Teacher Resources - Technology for Teachers
- Children's Museum - Bones Exhibit
- Coolmath.com - Amusement park of mathematics
- Dave's Math Tables
- Franklin's Forecast - A Weather Site
- Geo-Mysteries - The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
- How Stuff Works
- Invent Now
- Invention Dimension!
- Maggie's Earth Adventures
- Math Sites
- Merck Manual of Medical Information
- The Nine Planets
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Plant Cells
- Savage Earth http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth
- SciEd
- Science Sites
- Search the Invention Dimension
- USDA for Kids Page
- Volcano World
- Walking with Dinosaurs
History, Geography & Culture
- 42 Explorer's Explorers Page
- American Inventors
- Anthropology on the Internet for K-12
- AskAsia.org
- Carnegie Museum's Life in Ancient Egypt
- Castles on the Web
- CIA World Factbook
- The Encyclopedia Mythica - An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legend.
- Eyewitness History
- Free World Flags Clipart (A-L)
- Free World Flags Clipart (M-Z)
- Geography Sites
- History Sites
- The Holocaust
- Inventors Site
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Native American Resources on the Internet
- Native American Sites
- Odyssey Online - Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures
- Outline Maps
- Reference Resources Inventors Inventions
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Social Studies for Kids
- This Day in History
- Women's History and Biography
Humanities (see also Books & Literature & History)
- American Memory - Historical Collections for the National Digital Library with photographs, documents, motion pictures, maps, and sound recordings digitized from the vast Library of Congress collection
- Art History Resources on the Web - Excellent guide to art history web sites, with sections on the ancient world, the middle ages, the world beyond Europe, the renaissance and the baroque and rococo, and the modern and postmodern world. Links are also provided to other art history web sites. The site is maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College (Virginia).
- Classics Collections Page - Produced by the University of Florida Libraries, this is a great place to begin Internet research in classical studies.
- The Human-Languages Page - A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources
- National Gallery of Art: The Collection
- The Pulitzer Prizes
- Vermont Humanities Council
- Voice of the Shuttle - Web Page for Humanities Research
- World Wide Art Resources - Gateway for websites dealing with artists, museums, exhibitions, festivals, employment, and art supplies
- Episteme Links - Philosophy Resources on the Internet
- Hippias - Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Philosophy in Cyberspace - Compiled by Dey Alexander of Monash University
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy