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Encyclopedias
World
Book Online 
Great
for background information for your history assignments!
Best of History Web Sites
http://www.besthistorysites.net/
An "award-winning portal created for students, history educators,
and general history enthusiasts" Sites are rated (one to five stars)
for accuracy and usefulness.
Black
History
Africans in America:
America's Journey Through Slavery
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
This excellent site "chronicles the history of racial slavery in
the United States -- from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the
16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865." It includes
images, documents, stories, biographies and commentaries. This is the
companion site to the PBS series of the same name.
Biography.com Black History
http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/
Biographies of various lengths of famous African Americans of the past
and of our time.
Black History: Black History Hotlist
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hotlist.html
Links to many issues and topics in black history.
Education First: Black History
Activities:
Exploring African-American Issues on the Web
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
Includes an excellent annotated hotlist of sites related to African-American
events and issues; a subject Sampler, an interactive Treasure Hunt, and
two WebQuests, the Little Rock Nine and one on the Tuskegee Tragedy.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Guide to Black History
http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/
An excellent site! Click on Eras in Black History to explore five centuries
of black heritage. Includes biographies, events, photographs, film clips
and audio, study guide and related links.
Faces
of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
Search by name or scientific subtopic for a biography of African American
scientists of all eras.
This
Day/Year in History
Year by Year : 1900-2005 (InfoPlease)
http://www.infoplease.com/yearbyyear.html
Find out what happened during a particular year. Information icludes world
and U.S. Events, sports, economics, entertainment, statistics, and science.
Today in History
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html
Find out what happened on a particular day.
National
Women's History Project Resource Center
http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/index.php
Use the biography center and dozens of links to sites related to women's
history to learn more about women's contributions throughout time.
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