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For quickies, try Biography.com
Library of Congress' America's Story
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's American Currency Exhibit -- the history of money
American Museum of Natural History's Meeting God - artifacts, symbols, photos and explanations of the sacred acts of the Hindi.
Smithsonian's History Wired - great search interface!
HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things is an experimental program through which you can take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History. Here you'll have an opportunity to look at hundreds of museum artifacts, most of which are not currently on exhibit.
Who-What-When interactive historical timelines
A database of people and events from 1000 A.D. to the present. Create graphic timelines of periods in history and of the lives of individuals.
Eye Witness -History through the eyes of those who lived it
The History Channel's This Day in History
Walk the Great Wall -- interactive panorama of the Great Wall of China
Megalithia -- over 1000 sites of standing stones
Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
The notion of an ideal society, one organized in ways that guarantee the felicity of its members, has been a staple element in human experience through all of recorded history. The details of this society — where and when it exists, how one gets to it, how it is governed, who lives in it, the ramifications of its existence — can, and do, vary radically, producing the broadest possible set of answers to the question of what constitutes the ideal.
Early Office Museum's Antique Staplers
The Stapler Database - The biggest serious website totally about stapler information
Database of Houses - all the country houses ever built in Britain and Ireland, standing or demolished
Ever wonder what the Vikings ate when they set off to explore the new world? How Thomas Jefferson made his ice cream? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Food is the fun part of social studies! The tricky part is finding recipes you can make in a modern kitchen, with ingredients bought at your local supermarket
Bring faces to the names of our ancestors by adding photos to genealogy. We provide an exchange where the owners of old photos can share them for free so that people researching their family trees can see their ancestors.
At Find a Grave, you can search their database and then click to see the graves of thousands of famous people from around the world. The site has a separate search for non-famous graves -- find your ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' to a loved one's grave.
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