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Online photo collections of firing artillery, focusing on the life of the US Military soldier thru the Civil, Indian, and Spanish American wars.

Life of the king of Poland

An essay on African activities.

A chronology of events surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Year-by-year articles on the highlights of the decade.

Browse through fashions, activities and events of this era.

Celebrates the lifestyle of the era, including music, movies, TV, news, and books of the decade.

Information on Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons research and development. Includes statements, position papers, research and analysis, news coverage and opinion polls, and related information on nuclear proliferation.

Atomic culture past and present. A clearinghouse of atomic links, articles, photos, and memorabilia of the atomic age.

The Bureau of Atomic Tourism promotes tourist locations that have either been the site of atomic explosions, display exhibits on the development of atomic devices, or contain atomic weapons delivery systems. Includes links to related materials.

Discusses missing nuclear materials from the former Soviet Union, suitcase bombs, interviews, readings, the future of nuclear weapons and the Russian nuclear complex.

In depth collection of links to nuclear news, information, research, searches on nuclear topics, software to model nuclear blast effects, history, commentary, and links pages.

Reports, tables, and statistics on nuclear stockpiles, strategic nuclear forces, and nuclear test programs of the United States, Russia, France, China, and Great Britain.

Describes the mission and capabilities of the system, includes photos, launch history, diagrams of the components of the missiles and their launch facilities and crew details.

Presents essay-like articles, commenting selected events of the Cold War in a narrative, chronological way, accessible through a timeline. Also photo presentations in a museum-like way.

The story of Stanislav Petrov, a Russian officer whose refusal to launch a nuclear strike, in response to a false report of a US attack, averted a nuclear war in 1983.

Research of the atrocities committed by the soldiers during World War II.

Collection of poems calling for an end to the atrocities.

General and in-depth resources, and related crimes against humanity.

Yearly table of major events in America during the Great Depression and New Deal.

Companion site to the not-for-profit book.

Student's account of visiting Holocaust sites as part of this event. Includes history and photographs.

An extensive partially-annotated listing of books about Holocaust rescuers with links to more information.

Focuses on non-Jewish and Polish victims of the Holocaust: photos and survivor stories.

A database of correspondence from conflicts of the twentieth century most letters from World War I and II.

Titanic, Lusitania, Empress of Ireland, Britannic, Andrea Doria.

Photographs, maps, and documents from two exploratory surveys conducted by J.B. Tyrrell of the region west of Hudson Bay.

Presents a biography, chronology, image gallery, and map gallery.

Offers history of Australia's activities in rocket and missile testing at the Woomera Range. Includes personal memories of many ex-residents.

A book-length history of the period between Sputnik I and the creation of NASA, by the NASA History Office.

Pirate history and nautical archeology - includes biographies of famous pirates, terminology, weapons and a variety of related historical information. [Warning: full-screen browser resize]

A site dedicated to the preservation of the ship HMS Cavalier.

Compares ship sizes beginning with the Titanic to other ocean liners, some warships, and the giant tankers up to the largest ships afloat today.

Great Lakes maritime history, with an emphasis in shipwrecks. Includes a database of over 4,400 Great Lakes shipwrecks.

Technology guide looking at the past, present and future of technology and gadgets.

Describes the development of calculating machines beginning with an adaptation of the Chinese abacus called the soroban. Page includes background of developers and photos of early prototypes.

The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalizator in 1913 and its subsequent development. Mechanical computing on a commercial scale.

International society devoted to the history of earth sciences. Site has information about the organization and its journal, Earth Sciences History.

Searchable by date or keyword.

Features announcements, inquiries and discussion on access to historical sources and their use and interpretation.

An annotated bibliography of the models of human cognition of Berkeley, Burton, Hobbes, and Locke.

Online exhibit at Cornell University which explores the question: "What was home economics?"

Humorous articles about cinema, people, trends and fads that shape our modern world.

Online community celebrating pop-culture phenomena. Topics are organized by decade and include TV, lunch boxes, and toys.

Multi-media tours of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Includes views of music, lifestyles, fashion, and fads of the three decades.

Provides resources for the critical analysis of popular culture in the US.

Article from Wikipedia discussing the 20th century tank strategist's life and theories.

By Edward Gibbon. Folio. Downloadable e-text from Project Gutenberg.

Learned society devoted to the study of American history. Publisher of the Journal of American History, the OAH Newsletter, the OAH Magazine of History and Talking History Radio Program.

Various content for each day - kind of like fortune cookies.