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Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years. Our latest addition is panoramas of historic sites in America.

Site has primary sources, newspaper archives, reference libraries and narrated tours of historic sites.

Strategic studies have retained the thinking of Karl von Clausewitz at its core. The Prussian General's understanding of war by reference to the political process saw wars as the "continuation of politics by other means" (Clausewitz, 1997). In conflict research, this has become the most widely quoted definition of war. What made Clausewitz's work 'On War' so successful was that he wrote about war by focusing on its general aspects, or more simply, on the spirit of war as he saw it. In this way, war no longer drew on narrow and specific contexts, but rather became understood, as an enduring phenomenon, in general terms.

Links to reference resources prepared by the Miller Center's Library that are designed to help students and scholars quickly conduct their research. Includes JFK speech collection.

Thematic Essays By Category By Geographical Region & Time Period The Burgundian Netherlands refers to an area encompassing the Low Countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg) and northern France during the period when it was ruled by the dukes of Burgundy, from the end of the fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century.

Text by David Burr [olivi@mail.vt.edu]. See his INQUISITION: INTRODUCTION by David Burr When medieval people used the word "inquisition," they were referring to a judicial technique, not an organization. There was , in fact, no such thing as "the Inquisition" in the sense of an impersonal organization with a chain of command.

Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more. Footnote.com is more than just an online repository for original documents. In addition to hosting millions of records, Footnote supports a community of people who are passionate about a variety of topics relating to history.

"Resources for Medieval Studies Sponsored by Georgetown University"

Useful guide for history, science and social science students.

Technology guides and teach sheets for freed download by teachers and educators. Web 2.0 quickstart guides and curriculum suggestions for teachers."> This is a cached version of http://www.larkin.net.au/020_technology_howtos.html. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x ba

Create or explore pre-made digital vaults of historical events and news.

Primary source documents and lesson plans

Library of Congress National Jukebox

Life magazine on the web