Politics
& History
- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
- From the Library of Congress exhibit, an exploration of history both before and after Columbus' famous voyage.
- 2002 Human Rights Practices
- Released by the U.S. Department of State in March 2002, this site includes information on a country-by-country basis.
- American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
- Extensive links to information about major events, important persons, and cultural trends of each decade.
- American Memory
- From the Library of Congress, explore American history with this multimedia interactive tour.
- American Model United Nations
- American Model United Nations Inc. (AMUN) is a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1989 to provide students with the highest quality, most professionally run simulation of the United Nations available. Find information about this year's contest and how you can join.
- America's Story
- Information on America's past, from the Library of Congress.
- Amnesty International Annual Report
- AI's annual report on human rights issues and abuses from around the world. Search by region of the world.
- Anne Frank Center USA
- Read excerpts from her diary and learn about her world and the holocaust.
- Biographical Dictionary
- This dictionary contains biographical information on over 28,000 people from ancient times to the present day. These are the notable men and women who have shaped our world.
- The Concord Review
- The Concord Review was founded in March 1987 to search out and publish exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world.
- CongressLink
- Basic information on Congress and its functions.
- Country Studies
- Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
- Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations
- Students can explore daily life in five ancient cultures: Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and China. This site includes basic information for each culture and links to other resources as well.
- HistoryChannel.com
- Visit the History Channel online. Explore important events in world history, read or hear great speeches, play games that help you learn more about history and geography.
- InfoNation
- Select up to seven countries and compare statistics and information from this United Nations resource. Statistics and indicators are provided by the United Nations Statistics Division from the World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, except capital cities, languages, and illiteracy rate.
- MayflowerHistory.com
- The Mayflower Web Pages were started in September 1995 with a simple passenger list of the Mayflower and have been growing quickly ever since. They now contain full-text of important Plymouth writings and biographies of all Mayflower passengers.
- The Stock Market Game Program
- The Stock Market Game is an electronic simulation of Wall Street trading, designed to help students and adults understand the stock market, the costs and benfits involved in decisionmaking, the sources and uses of capital, and other related economic concepts.
- Students.gov
- Quick and easy access to government information of specific interest to high school and college students. Financial aid, preparing for college, community service, military service, and all about the government.
- The Underground Railroad
- This National Geographic site lets you follow the footsteps of Harriet Tubman, who led hundreds of runaway slaves to freedom. The site includes a short interactive journey, classroom ideas, maps, a timeline, and more.
- The World's Columbian Exposition
- The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was the last and the greatest of the nineteenth century's World's Fairs. Nominally a celebration of Columbus' voyages 400 years prior, the Exposition was in actuality a reflection and celebration of American culture and society--for fun, edification, and profit--and a blueprint for life in modern and postmodern America.