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Scholars of ancient history and IT experts at Stanford University have collaborated to create a novel way to study Ancient Rome. ORBIS, a geospatial network model, allows visitors to experience the strategy behind travel in antiquity. (Find a handy tutorial for using the system on the Web and YouTube). The ORBIS map includes about 750 mostly urban settlements of the Roman period

"Based at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, the Journalist's Resource project examines news topics through a research lens. We surface scholarly materials that may be relevant to media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students and general readers. Our philosophy is that peer-reviewed research studies can, at the very least, help anchor journalists as they navigate difficult terrain and competing claims. In 2013 the American Library Association named us one of the best free reference Web sites."

This is a timeline-based website at MIT on the Russian Revolution.  In addition to having links to primary and secondary sources, it provides an interesting model for assessment or project-based learning.

A large and well-maintained collection of history source websites organised well under topics, regions and periods.

A list of the top 101 websites for social studies, U.S. history, world history, government, economics and civics teachers.

press release announcing 'a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital's past, revolutionising our understanding of London's history '

3D views of Hagia Sophia, interactive - very cool. :)

This is also another great resource to tour the Hagia Sophia. This source also has tours of several other places http://www.3dmekanlar.com/en/hagia-sophia.html

A site on the history of the industrial revolution in Britain.  Includes activities and primary sources.