The most powerful feature of the WWW is the way it provides links toother sites. Imagine what it would be like to find your college library suddenly expandedto include materials from all over the world. That's what Web links do for you. Try surfing the Web to find materials that enrich a course's syllabus. Fortunately, a growing number of sites are useful for history students. Here are a few links to get you started.

USING THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Like any resource, the Internet should be used critically. Anybody - even you and I ! - can publish anything on the Web without an editorial board or professional authority vetting it. Web users, to protect themselves from becoming dupes, must develop skill in evaluating Web material. Here are a few guides:

	Check List for Evaluating Web Sources
	Searching the Internet
	Search Methods

	Survey of US History, a brief look from the Revolution to World War I
	Modern History Sourcebook, Paul's Halsall's collection particularly suited to CS4
	Welling Collection, documents and short articles on American history.
	Hanover College, documents in world history by region
	British and American Sources
	Brian's World Civ Materials
	Tenn Tech Electronic History Documents
	World History Texts
	West European Documents
	For information on moden philosophies and ideologies browse the Modern Western Philosophy Site.
	World History Links

	On-Line Searching (Halsall's CS4 site.)
	Yahoo
	AOL
	Alta Vista, most powerful but may produce too many hits
	Webcrawler
	LYCOS

REFERENCES:

	Glossary prepared by Paul Halsall
	Finding Links for CS4 Topics (Halsall's CS4 site).

	Check List for Evaluating Web Sources
	Virtual History References
	Brian's Reference Tools
	Online Reference Works
	Index of history sources organized by world region
	Index of historians and philosophers since 1750
	World Cultures Resources
	French Revolution Links at University of Warwick,UK
	Images for History Teachers
	Chronology of the French Revolution
	http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/intro.html

RESEARCH AND WRITING GUIDES:

	Paisley Currah's Writing Guide
	Evaluating Internet Resources: A checklist
	Study Guides Analysis of Primary Materials,Textbook Notes,Writing Advice [At Brooklyn College]
	Stylesheet for Humanities Papers[ At Halsall's]

LIBRARIES:

	Library of Congress
	Library of Congress Learning Page
	Duke University Library, varied sources from the collection
	The Virtual Library of Virginia
	New York Public Library

CHECK OUT THESE COOL SITES:

	The History Channel A site for the TV History channel aimed at a general audience.
	Public Broadcasting Online  Has a growing number of educational sites.
	Valley of the Shadow, Outstanding archival site on the American Civil War
	Center for History and New Media
	Books & Journals Online