WORLD HISTORY
LAPL Databases
- Discovering Collection
- Comprehensive coverage of core curriculum in Literature, History, Biography, Science and Social Studies, geared to the younger student. Includes Discovering Authors.
- Greenwood Daily Life Online
- Browse daily life in the ancient world, medieval world, 15th and 16 centuries, 17th and 18th centuries, 19th century, and modern world and find out what it was like.
- History Resource Center: World (Gale)
- A comprehensive collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary source documents that give extensive coverage of the 20th century world. Additional historical resources are being added continually to expand the time frame from antiquity to the present.
- Social Studies Fact Cards
- California curriculum quick reference topics for grades 4 to 8 on Explorers, Indians, Missions, Ranchos, Governors, U.S. Presidents, Religions, Wonders, History by Decades, Counties, Countries, and Early Civilization.
- World Book Encyclopedia
- Offers information on a range of topics.
World History Websites
- Discovering Ancient Egypt
- This guide is designed for Junior and Senior High School students who have been assigned to do a report about ancient Egypt.
- NationMaster
- A central source of data from the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organizations, World Bank, World Resources, Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF, and OECD.
- World History: Hyper History
- Timelines with hyperlinks to brief bios, events and maps.
- Ancient Greece.com
- Divided into sections: Art & Architecture, Geography, History, Mythology, Olympics, People, Wars, and Other resources.
- Rulers
- Historical lists of heads of states, and heads of countries of all currently existing countries and territories. Retrospective to approximately 1900.
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- Includes links to other forgotten modern and natural wonders.