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The Auschwitz Alphabet
An A-Z glossary by Jonathan Blumen that traces the horrors of Auschwitz through historical and personal materials in a non-trivializing manner; part of a larger site devoted to the ethics of cyberspace.
The U.S. Holocaust Museum
Features changing online exhibits, photographs from the museum's collection, and excerpts from the trials of Nazi doctors.
ArabNet
Presents an overview of specific Arab nations (such as Algeria, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iraq), their vastly different geographies, histories, and so on. Each history section is divided into topics (for example, "Early History," "French Colonization," and "After Independence" for Algeria). Outlines historical circumstances that have led to social-political changes.
A Hypertext on American History
Offers an ongoing online text project directed by George Welling and Garry Weiserma with links to maps, biographies, essays, and primary documents from the Magna Carta to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
African-American Mosaic: Abolition
Part of a larger Library of Congress site, this section presents original abolition documents from handbills to photographs to sheet music, with links to information about key figures in the movement.
The U.S. Civil War Center
This site at Louisiana State University, maintained by David Madden, provides links to more than 1,800 alphabetically categorized Civil War Web sites and offers interesting comparative statistics and analyses concerning America's major wars.
India: History and Politics
A hypertext history of India by Vinay Lal of UCLA's History Department, this site offers a detailed history of ancient and British-colonized India, with an accompanying index of additional documents on topics ranging from Indira Gandhi to the Black Hole of Calcutta.
National Women's History Project
Includes excellent links for specific research on women's history and a self-test of the visitor's knowledge of women's history.
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