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MAKING HISTORY® is a series of counterfactual turn-based strategy games in which players apply their strategic skills to lead their chosen nation through real-world periods of conflict. The goal is not to replay history exactly as it happened, but rather to operate in an unpredictable, player-driven world. Virtually any country is playable across a variety of the game's bundled scenarios, and players can use the MAKING HISTORY® Game Editor to create new scenarios of their own, offering endless hours of gameplay.

MilestoneDocuments.com combines famous primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Designed for teachers, students, and researchers, MilestoneDocuments.com explores the speeches, laws and legal opinions, proclamations and executive orders, and other documents that influenced the course of history. At present the site only covers documents from American history, but we will be adding coverage of primary documents from world history later in 2009. Also coming soon is a greatly expanded set of resources for teaching with documents. For now, see our free monthly e-newsletter for U.S. history teachers.

This is what the ancient to contemporary peoples would have created if facebook had existed back in the day, and if large groups of people ever got together to create online pages. This was a project, but is now a tool. We the AP World History students and teacher of Burlington High School invite history dorks everywhere to see the connections, explore the relationships, and enjoy the patterns that exist in history.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

"In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries."

Timeline period: 1000-1500 CE -Conquests -in China -Key Figures -Nomadic Life

The Meteoric Rise of Nathaniel Greene

How to use ? You can easily draw line, write text, and fill the nation.

Create your own biography timeline and map, add your ancestors and view them on a historical map. Interactive Maps, Timelines, Videos, Geocoded Photos, and Museum Artifacts await you on WorldHistory.com

peer-reviewed, online journal exploring the real and imagined places of the American South and their connections with the wider world. We welcome submissions from scholars, photographers, and visual artists in such areas as geography, southern studies, regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's studies, LGBTQ studies, and public health.

Larry Ferlazzo's list of resources for teaching WWII

The National World War II Memorial has 8000 objects directly related to science and technology. Their impressive exhibit contains an animated timeline, activities (such as sending encrypted messages), expert audio responses to science and technology questions, lesson plans, a quiz, introductory essays, and more.

fully prepared lesson plans on Hinduism and Buddhism for high school teachers ; religions can be taught individually or comparatively

Homefront America in WW II A Document Based Question by Peter Pappas This lesson improves content reading comprehension with an engaging array of source documents - including journals, maps, photos, posters, cartoons, historic data and artifacts. It is framed around essential questions that link the past and present and invite students to reflect on parallel developments in contemporary America.

New technology could be end to the guidebook: Tourists will be able to call up images and video footage of landmark attractions in their heyday - seen from the spot on which they are standing.

New technology could be end to the guidebook: Tourists will be able to call up images and video footage on their phone of landmark attractions in their heyday - seen from the spot on which they are standing.