This website from the BBC and the British Museum takes another important step into moving the museum experience online. People usually go to museums to see historic objects, and that's exactly what A History of the World makes possible, via the web. For example, one week's theme was status symbols, and the object of the day was the David Vases, two Chinese blue-and-white porcelain vessels, named...

A professor of History at UC-Davis, Roland Marchand has placed online an excellent collection of primary source teaching materials for use in both secondary school and university classrooms. This site is hosted by the History Project, which is in turn part of the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP), a collaborative network of teachers, from kindergartens to the universities, "with...