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The GateWay: Social Studies
http://www.thegateway.org/index1/SubjectIndex.html#social_studies
The Gateway enables "teachers, parents, administrators [to]l search or browse The Gateway and find high quality educational materials, including lesson plans, activities, and projects from GEM Consortium member sites." You may browse through lists organized by subject; organized by keywords; or search by subject, keyword, title, or grade level. A very comprehensive site.
Biography
Site
http://www.biography.com/
A part of A&E's web site containing a searchable biography database of some 25,000 biographies.
A searchable database of biographies arranged by categories such as profession, region and culture, historical leaders, gender, and collections of biogrpahies. It is also possible to restrict the search by age level.
Discoverer's Web
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/
A text-based listing of information on most discoverers. The developer tried "to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration."
The
History Net
http://www.thehistorynet.com/
A well organized commercial site that contains a lot of historical information both US and World.
The
History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/
The companion web site for cable channel. The featuared listings are "keyed" to the current programs being offered.A serach engine is provided to locate other information than that which is featured.
Castles on the Web
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/search/Castle_Kids/
Build a medieval castle and learn how people in the middle ages lived.