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History Pin is a site that lets teachers and students view and share their personal history in a totally new way. It uses Google Maps and Street View technology and hopes to become the largest user-generated archive of the worlds historical images and stories. History Pin asks the public to dig out, upload and pin their own old photos, as well as the stories behind them, onto the History Pin map. Uniquely, History Pin lets you layer old images onto modern Street View scenes, giving a series of peeks into the past. This is a great tool for writing compare and contrast literature and, of course, for use with a History class as well.

Richard posted a link to Active History. It's an English site and costs about $80 for annual membership, but it's good value if only for the huge variety of activities for year 12 Modern History students(alas, no Ancient History!) and a bit of historiography for Exrension History. There is a lot of free stuff to whet your appetite. Games such as Fling the Teacher are great for some fun revision.

A great list of Modern History websites.

These podcasts are designed to help with GCSE and IGCSE history revision. 

Australia and the Vietnam War - Short course at USyd

Equally relevant and useful for NSW HSC students & teachers

Photographs of modern conflicts. Use for research or discussions for IB history

The History Faculty offers FREE video & audio lectures by leading UK historians. Please register for access to all our materials. There's no catch. We will not use your details for any commercial purpose.

This collection offers many sources and textual excerpts, with some annotation and discussion, identifying deaf men and women through more than 700 years of Turkish history, and sign language through 500 years, up to the present. Most of the excerpts are situated in the regions of Istanbul and Edirne between 1300 and the 1920s, when 'deaf- mute' people worked at the court of the Ottoman sultans. In the past 150 years some other cities of the Ottoman Empire, and of modern Turkey, come into focus. Evidence appears for deaf servants developing a Sign Language probably from the late 15th century onward, and teaching it to younger deaf people, and also to some hearing people. Sign language is seen becoming established in some households, harems and working places of successive sultans, viziers and minor court officials. Deaf people who had retired from service and were living in the cities and towns also returned for social contact with the deaf people currently serving the Ottoman court. The most recent half century has seen more significant development of formal education for deaf children, and the beginnings of a rediscovery and official recognition of the value of sign language. The strengths, weaknesses and contradictions of different kinds of evidence are scrutinised and discussed, and some popular myths are seen to lack any solid basis.

historical images alongside modern, streetview images.

Index of numerous JFK links

JFK Assassination Records Collection