Internet History Sourcebook from Fordham University
A history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidta with a chronological and cartographical interactive view. Click on Enter History at top of page.
This engaging game from the St. Albans Museum challenges the player to find items that were stolen from the museum by the Norse god Loki. The player travels through time to find the items and also has to answer history questions.
World Populations Interactive Map
Watch the world population grow from the Ice Age to the year 2000.
The British National Archives website has a nice selection of history themed games that you won't likely find elsewhere. One game is based on trench warfare while another centers around turning off your lights during a German air raid.
Ancient World Maps that Changed the World
See Maps from Ancient Greece, Babylon, Rome, and the Islamic World
Sketchfab from The British Museum
View over 200 3D models of historical objects from the British Museum. Manipulate the models online, view using Google Cardboard and download the models to print on a 3D printer.
Mr. Betts Class YouTube Channel
Music videos for US and World History that are completely goofy, but with great content and students LOVE them!
Rise of the Forex Empire Infographic
WW I in Photos from The Atlantic
iWonder from BBC, Pigeon vs Telephone, What worked better in the trenches?
Short videos of trenches and communication used by British in WW I. Great pictures and video footage, primary sources, transcripts available of videos. Entire Series on WWI from BBC, by clicking Where Next.
iWonder from BBC, How did so many soldiers survive the trenches?
Lets you move through time by tapping or clicking on a historic image to reveal the modern view. You can drag or swipe to control the speed of the transformation.
WW II photo locations, then and now
Interesting tool for teaching and learning history. As a teacher, you can use this tool to create animated multimedia historical scenarios of people and things moving through a historical space and time. Students can use it in their history projects to create animated events using different multimedia materials.
This site has videos (Crash Courses) from all subject areas. They are designed to engage the student. Please view before showing students as some may find content may not be classroom appropriate. World History videos include: World War II, The Colombian Exchange, Imperialism, Globalization, and many more.
Newspaper Map is a neat tool for locating and reading newspapers from locations all around the world. Newspaper Map claims to have geolocated 10,000 newspapers. To find a newspaper you can browse the map then click on a placemark to open the link within to read a newspaper. You can also locate newspapers by using the search boxes to locate a newspaper by title or location. Along with links to the newspapers, Newspapers Map provides links to translate the newspapers you find on the map.
Inspired by letters from the First World War and a number of other historical materials. A fictitious story, the game is nevertheless based on real historical events and sites, such as famous battles like the Battle of the Marne or the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front.
The Atlantic, Life Timeline Interactive
Use a “drop-and-drag” menu to input your birthday, and it will deliver a visually engaging history of the key events that have happened during your lifetime. The timeline includes political, cultural, technological and other kinds of developments, along with an intriguing short summary.
TimelinesTV YouTube channel - Good, Short History Lessons
TimelinesTV was originally built as a site that featured video lessons displayed on a timeline. Today, the timelines don't function well (the site hasn't been updated in a few years), but the videos are still available through the TimelinesTV YouTube channel.
Google Arts & Culture, Life Tags
LIFE Tags organizes over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia using machine learning. Published weekly between 1936 and 1972 and monthly from 1978 to 2000, LIFE magazine was the most popular photojournalism magazine in the United States.