- 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
By Gavin Menzies. Theorizes that Chinese seafarers and concubines settled in Malaysia, India, Africa, the Americas, and Australia almost a century before the Europeans.
www.1421.tv
- Ballymoney Heroes
Roll of honour and stories of the men from the Ballymoney region who died during WWI. Reproduced from the book by Robert Thompson.
www.ballymoneyheroes.co.uk
- Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
Reference work created by the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina.
www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas
- Blasket Islands
Series of books about a tiny group of uninhabited islands just off Ireland's South West coast.
www.blasketislands.com
- Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas
By Sara Lorimer. Examines the history of women in piracy, including Sadie the Goat, Cheng I Sao, Rachel Wall, Lady Mary Killigrew, and Charlotte de Berry.
www.pirate-women.com
- Captain William Thomas Turner
Biography of the Captain of the Lusitania.
www.lusitania.net
- Donbas
Jacques Sandulescu's recollections of his imprisonment in and escape from a Soviet slave labor camp.
www.donbas.com
- Drake's Bay
By Brian Kelleher about Sir Francis Drake, his voyage in the Golden Hind and the maritime mystery surrounding his lost California harbor, Bodega.
www.drakesbay.com
- Five Epochs of Civilization
The story of society told in terms of five civilizations and their communication technologies.
www.worldhistorysite.com
- From Ashes to Life
By Lucille Eichengreen, a Holocaust survivor of the Lodz Ghetto and concentration camps at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Neuengamme.
www.webtran.com/lucille
- Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany
By Walter Laqueur.
www.laqueur.net
- Ghost Soldiers
By Hampton Sides. Excerpt and review from the book recounting the U.S. Army's plan to rescue prisoners of war in the Philippines in 1945.
www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/ghostsoldiers
- Harbors and High Seas
By Dean King and John B. Hattendorf. Atlas and geographical guide to the Aubrey-Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian. Includes an excerpt about O'Brian's Master and Commander.
www.io.com/gibbonsb/harbors
- Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground
Peter Moruzzi explores pre Castro Cuba through vintage and contemporary photographs, brochures, and artifacts.
www.havanabeforecastro.com/index.htm
- Henry Ford and the Jews
By Neil Baldwin. Examines the industrialist's history of anti-Semitism.
www.neilbaldwinbooks.com
- History of Humanity: Scientific and Cultural Development
Offers readers a history of the development of the human mind, focusing on its highest cultural achievements.
www.unesco.org/culture/humanity
- Holocaust Chronicle, The
Companion web site to the book. Includes the full text and many images from the not-for-profit volume.
www.holocaustchronicle.org
- IBM and the Holocaust
Edwin Black traces IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany.
www.ibmandtheholocaust.com
- International Timeline, Inc.
Featuring The World History Chart, an extensive timeline of world events.
www.historychart.com
- Irish Ancestry, a beginner's Guide
Aimed at both the beginner and more experienced researcher.
www.irishresearch.cwc.net
- Joe Manning's Books and Music
Features Steeples, a history of North Adams, Massachusetts and I Love Baseball, a collection of songs.
www.sevensteeples.com
- Lest We Forget
By Fred Seiker. Sketches of atrocities carried out by Japanese military during the building of the Thai-Burma railroad.
www.beverevivis.com/books/lestweforget
- Lincoln's Constitution
Offers a discussion with law professor Daniel Farber on whether President Lincoln abused the Constitution during the Civil War.
www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/237931in.html
- Mackenzie Yesterday and Beyond, The
Looks at Canada's north, including the search for gold and for the Northwest Passage.
www.members.shaw.ca/aquilina
- Michael Collins - The Final Days
Lavishly illustrated book outlining Michael's life.
www.iol.ie/~jnelson
- Mushroom Years, The
Tells the story of the house arrest and eventual imprisonment of a British family in the Orient through the eyes of a teenager.
www.hendersonhouse.com
- New World Order: Democracy, Civility and World Peace
Summarizes the contributions of ancient religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and governments (Roman, Persian and Muslim) to wisdom and peace.
users2.ev1.net/~alavi/peace.htm
- Not the Germans Alone
Both a memoir and a work of history.
levendel.home.sprynet.com
- OH Napier's Hillbilly Home
Documents the newspaper coverage of violence in Breathitt County and Southeastern Kentucky during the early 1900s.
ohnapier.bravepages.com
- Pancho Villa Days at Pilares
Stories about the cattle rustlers, gunfighters, and the rough and tough cowboys of the wild west during the Mexican Revolution.
www.panchovilladays.com
- Pirate Hunter, The
Historical thriller about Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks.
www.piratehunter.com
- Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust
Interviews with and portraits of people who rescued Jews from the Nazis.
www.holocaustrescuers.com
- Secrets of the Code
Unauthorized guide to the Mysteries behind The Da Vinci Code. Resources, book excerpts, and online community.
www.secretsofthecode.com
- Shoah: Journey from the Ashes
Auschwitz survivor Cantor Leo Fettman?s tale of survival. By Paul M. Howey.
www.fivestarpublications.com/books/shoah
- Speckled Monster, The
Online companion to The Speckled Monster, Jennifer Lee Carrell's book about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, the western world's first experimenters with smallpox inoculation in 1721.
www.speckledmonster.com
- Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition
History of footbinding: the tradition of Chinese women binding their feet to 3 or 4 inches toe to heel.
www.silcom.com/~bevjack
- Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
By Paul Dickson. Chronicle of the events and developments leading up to and emanating from Sputnik's launch.
www.sputnikbook.com
- Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing in Eastern Poland
By Bronia Kacperek and Eric J. Whittle. Covers the deportation of Eastern Polish communities by the Soviets into Siberia in 1940, and their subsequent treatment.
www.stalinsethniccleansing.com
- The Encyclopedia of Chicago
Description and sample pages from the reference work on Chicago's history.
www.press.uchicago.edu/books/grossman
- Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years
1998 volume which re-examines the making of the treaty and presents a fresh review by a group of international experts.
www.people.virginia.edu/~sas4u/versailles.htm
- Trial of Ruby McCollum, The
By C. Arthur Ellis, Jr, and Leslie E. Ellis. Tells the story of the murder trial that challenged Paramour Rights.
www.rubymccollum.net
- Weimar Republic Sourcebook, The
By Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg. From the University of California Press.
www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/5360.html
- Weird History 101
Collection of strange, unusual and fascinating things they don't teach you in college.
www.ferncanyonpress.com/weird/history.shtml
- Words That Shook the World
100 years of unforgettable speeches and events, edited and compiled by Richard Greene.
www.wordsthatshooktheworld.com
- World History Chart
Synchronoptic world history timeline and book, and a companion to HyperHistory Online.
www.hyperhistory.com
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