Biographical information on the Wright Brothers, including their childhoods, the Wright Cycle Shop, the world's first airplane, a chronology, and links to more information.

Information about the Shang Dynasty in China, the earliest in recorded history. Short article that discusses agriculture, rulers and society.

Site describes the clay army the first Chinese emperor Qin Shihuangdi ordered to be made in order to protect him in the afterlife.

Online lesson plan to teach the concept of historical understanding by studying how a community changes over time. In this case, we look at the South Side of Chicago and ask, What happened here? Why did this place change? How am I...

PowerPoint overview provides a look at Roman history in which civil war plagued Rome from the beginning of the Roman Republic to the Pax Romana. Teacher, Tom Richey, provides us with numerous slides, both informative and entertaining.

This easy-to-navigate site has Hoover's biography, events occurring during his presidency, an image gallery, and several video clips.

Place the inventions on the interactive timeline in chronological order to advance to the next level.

A brief chronology by decade of the major events in the history of salsa music development.

Explains the abbreviations used on a historical timeline and provides a list of events for students to put in chronological order.

Surveys the history of mapmaking from prehistoric to current times with an illustrated chronology.

Annotated chronology of various compromise legislation, including the Northwest Ordinance, the Constitution, the Missouri Compromise, 1850 Compromise, and Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Chronology of historical events in Spain, from the beginnings to the present.

A detailed chronology of the piano, beginning with Bartolomeo Cristofori's invention of the pianoforte in Florence, Italy, in 1700.

A chronological listing of all the major and minor battles of the American Civil War from the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter to the last Battle of Palmetto Ranch, fought a month after Lee surrendered at Appomatox. Most of the...

Find a chronological list of important battles and minor skirmishes fought during the Revolutionary War. The information is from Wikipedia.

This resource presents a brief history of the English language provided by an amateur historian of English and librarian.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text and timeline about ancient dentistry and surgeries. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

What do you know about the origins of the English language? Explore this resource to learn more about this topic. This resource features links to several helpful sites.

This site summarizes the role of the U.S. Navy in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Compiled from the reports of operationalcommanders and from information gathered at U.S. Navy headquarters, the lengthy document presented at...

Biographies of Blacks in mathematics from the 1700s to the present time.

This site has a timeline covering the years of 1941 (Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor) to 1945 (United Nations is born). Selected WWII battle photos are also included.

Listen to an animated song about teeth, with advice for keeping them healthy and clean. Read-along lyrics make this resource particularly useful in English language learning settings and with beginning readers, but it also fits 21st...

The 1948 section from the Palestine Remembered lists events, almost daily at times, when the Jewish army (Haganah) conflicted with the ALA (Arab Liberation Army) after the partition of Palestine.

A timeline from 1920-1938 that briefly summarizes important economic events that occurred around the world after World War I.