Best History Sites http://www.besthistorysites.net/
History On-Line http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/
History Teacher.Net http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/APEuro_Main_Weblinks_Page.htm
Virtual School http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistory.htm
Magazines
History Review - the Magazine for 'A' Level students
You can search for articles on any subject from this page
http://www.historytoday.com/historyreview/index.cfm
History Net Index
http://www.thehistorynet.com/general/articleindex_full.htm
American magazine articles. Civil War, History, Military, Vietnam, Wild West
Histories
Guardian Millennium in I000 Years in 500 days � 1000 A.D. to now
1000 A.D and later http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Millennium/1,2833,-1000,00.html
History of Europe � AD1- AD2000 timeline http://www.camelotintl.com/world/02europe.html
English History � A narrative http://www.britannia.com/history/narintrohist.html
Tudor England
Tudor History http://tudorhistory.org/
Henry VII/VIII, Wives, Life, Who�s Who, Elizabeth, Maps, Genealogy,
The House of Tudor � Morton http://englishhistory.net/tudor.html
The Life and Times of Elizabeth I http://www.elizabethi.org/
Biography of Elizabeth I http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/e1r.htm%20
Mary Rose Museum http://www.maryrose.org/
GCSE Revision
Bitesize: BBC revision site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/gcsebitesize/history/index.shtml
BBC Modern World History - an excellent site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/mainmenu/mainfla.htm
You will need Shockwave to see this site at its best.
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The History Channel GCSE Revision
[Click on the icon on the left whenever you see it]
A very good range of activities. Information and quizzes with immediate feedback. Covers:
Causes of World War II | League of Nations | Hitler's Germany | Treaties at the End of World War I | The Cold War |
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/index.htm
Germany
Freecampus Germany
http://lineone.freecampus.co.uk/login/sec/history/1914ger/index.htm
Detailed account, with a clear structure and useful investigative/summary questions on each page.
Fall of the Weimar Republic - a well written account
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/hist/tyra.html
Weimar election results - a table
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/hist/weim.html
Who's who in Nazi Germany - extracts from the book
12 personalities from Hitler to Einstein [so not all 'obvious' ones!] and an introduction
http://zelda.thomson.com/routledge/who/germany/intro.html
A simple biography of Hitler:
http://remember.org/guide/Facts.root.hitler.html
The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
From Unknown to Dictator of Germany: a Complete History in 24 Chapters
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm
Grolier On-Line encyclopaedia article on Hitler:
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_hitler.html
85 Photographs of Adolf Hitler - from About.com
http://history1900s.miningco.com/education/history1900s/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/albums/palbum/p02/a0142p1.html
"The Wrong War": Hitler's preparations for World War II
BBC site to accompany series
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/wwtwo/wrongwar/wrongwar01.shtml
Was Hitler a Passionate Lunatic?
Public Record Office site - source examination of Hitler in 1937
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot6.htm
Russia
The Russian Revolution
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/classroom/gcse/rus2.htm
Timeline of the Russian Revolution, 1917, and a brief account of some key individuals and events.
Chronology of Russian History 1917-1991.
If you want who did what, when - this is the place to come. A lot of links, sometimes to quite advanced sites.
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/chrono3.html
A long list of links on the Russian Revolution and after:
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html
About.com Russian Revolution - easy to use, well-labelled links.
A great place to start:
http://history1900s.miningco.com/education/history1900s/msub15.htm
Links for Lenin & his life - comprehensive:
http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~kaleck/Lenin/
Lenin Internet Archive - a lot here, very good for photos
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/index.htm
Lenin Biography (Infoplease) - straightforward, with links to other entries.
http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE030217.html
Stalin Biography - Grolier
http://www.soften.ktu.lt/~kaleck/Lenin/
The Chairman smiles - Soviet Posters
http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/sovintro.html
32 posters from 1919 to 1938 - from celebrating the Bolshevik revolution to celebrating Stalin and the Five Year Plans
World War One
Go to the excellent links in our Year 9 section
1919-1939
Versailles - all you could possibly want to know!
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html
Causes of World War II - a useful round-up essay from Grolier:
http://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_1.html
World War Two
Go to the excellent links in our Year 9 section
Cold War
CNN site to accompany the series 'Cold War'
A really impressive site - but some parts may not work on basic browsers
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
CWIHP Document Library
Cold War International History Project - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
http://cwihp.si.edu/CWIHPlib.nsf/Keyword/Subject
Documents on the Cold War. A well-organised - but still (7.7.00) developing site,
Advanced: really for university research.
Good search engine. Sections on:
Cold War Crises | Cold War Leaders | Cold War Origins (1917-47) | Culture and Economics | End of the Cold War (85-89/91) | Intelligence | Khrushchev Era (1953-64) | Reagan Era (1980-88) | Rise and Fall of Detente (1962-80) | Stalin Era (1945-53)
An essay on the Cold War:
http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~phealy/welcome.html
The Cold War Museum - simple summaries, easy to cover a lot of ground
http://www.coldwar.org/
Cold War Hot List - pick and mix!
http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html
Hungary 1956 - outline
http://www.hungary.org/users/hipcat/history.htm
Hungary 1956 - 3 links
http://www.hungary.com/corvinus/revol.htm
Cuba
Fourteen Days in October: the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/
If you come across as good a site as this on any topic on the Internet, you are lucky! Outstanding:
Description, Eyewitness Testimony, Analysis - superbly presented.
CNN Cold War: Cuba
http://europe.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/10/
Episode 10 of CNN's excellent series dealt with the crisis. Background, as it happened news, eyewitness testimony� Plus other programmes in the series would be useful for the development of the Cold War and the Arms Race.
FAS Intelligence Resource Program
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/cuba.htm
Excellent quality photographs from the U2 missions which alerted the Americans to the building of the missile sites.
A couple of good articles - the ExComm transcripts of the discussion of what to do on the 18 October, and a review of the evidence 10 years later, plus links to other good detailed sources.
NSA Archive
You will find plenty of references to the NSA archives - which have moved and are now no longer available on line! Tough! However, there is a new NSA site at: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/cuba_mis_cri.html
This is good - detailed chronology, useful glossary of key players and terms, plus a good selection of documents - and the voices of some of the major American players (as secretly recorded by JFK!). It helps to know what you are looking for.
Reading the day-by-day account gives a real sense of crisis. Good use of hyperlinks.
Yale University
- Avalon project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/20th.htm
An excellent resource for 20th Century documents Quick and easy to use. Original texts, well presented.
Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath Yale University Avalon Project http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm
An excellent resource: 275 official U.S. documents from the crisis
History Out Loud: Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
Kennedy secretly recorded the deliberations of ExComm. Here you can listen to some key moments from the discussions over the '13 Days'.
If you really want to go in depth here are the State Department Documents that deal with Cuba (Discussions in the Department, Memoranda, Telegrams to and from key Ambassadors�)
No Contents list that's any help - you just have to explore!
Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1963 Volume X Cuba, 1961-1962 DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington State Department Documents - Cuba
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusX/index.html
See below.
Foreign Relations of the United States 1961-1963 Volume XI Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath DEPARTMENT OF STATE Washington
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusXI/index.html
See below.
State Department Foreign Relations Series
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/fruswhat.html
Administration of President John F.Kennedy
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusken.html
State Department - Volumes in the Foreign Relations series for the Administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frusjohn.html%20
