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"To open our image slideshow, just click on any of the images below. The selected image will then be shown in full and you can navigate through the slideshow by using the forward and back arrows. To simply download the image, click on image name underneath the photograph."

"Transportation transformed America. Choose from these three interconnected routes to explore how transportation shaped our lives, landscapes, culture, and communities. "

I just had a look at the month-long free trial and this looks like a great resource for lessons or student research on history and geography. I'm waiting to receive a quote on how much an annual subscription costs. Subscriptions like this, I believe, can become excellent substitutes for textbooks.

My school has I believe all the ABC-CLIO Databases and I recommend them highly. They come out of our library budget. All teachers should at least try a free trial.

just a few of many student conducted interviews with amazing people who survived the Holocaust either by hiding or by just staying alive for their loved ones.  The interviewees are not only survivors but also people who helped other survive and saw what these people went through.

Why We Fight #1: Prelude to War (1943) 52:21 - 4 years ago The first part of a series of films produced by the United States War Department during World War II. The series explained the reasons for the U.S war effort up to that time. This first part covers the rise of Fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, and Militarism in Japan and juxtaposes their political and social systems with that of the U.S. It also portrays the first examples of Japanese aggression in Manchuria and China, as well as the example of Italian aggression in Ethiopia. Supervised and Directed by Frank Capra. Be mindful of the ethnic stereotypes in this film.

Wow.  There are a ton of sites here.

discover the world's historic sites, from the most famous national treasures to the oft-forgotten hidden gems. You'll get information on each historic site, directions, entry and contact details and comments from other users

Created by Rachel Duffy and Marc Ducharme. Focuses on the Gilded Age in the United States, but could be adapted to work with any historical era.

Interactive from the Guardian.

"But Einstein kept God at the center of its research activities throughout his life. He shares this passion during one day with a young physics student, "I am not a family man. I want my peace. " I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts, the rest is detail. ""

"Informing you about 3D models of Civil War related places, buildings, and structures that are featured in Google Earth or created with the Sketchup software."

World War II map of Europe, 1945 with country names left out.

Thanks to Angela Cunningham for this link.