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See this Time magazine article on Taliban's enslavement and forced prostitution of women in Afghanistan.  Where in the Koran does THIS come from? (hint--it doesn't.  The Koran prohibits this, which demonstrates how vile, un-Islamic the Taliban really was!)

GENERAL HISTORY LINKS

The History Channel's Archive of historically significant speeches  
The History Channel's Biographies site
The History Channel's Travel site allows you to view historically significant places
Rhodes College Online Historical resources--links
Voice of the Shuttle History Page  primary- and secondary-source materials
The History Web articles on historical topics (see  especially the article index)
The Library of Congress' Country Studies extensive country-by-country information
The University of Michigan's Documents Center federal, international documents 
U.S. State Department's 1997 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 
U.S. State Department's 1996 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights, 1993-1995
Exploring Ancient Civilizations hosted by the University of Evansville
The Ancient World Main Index
Links relating to classic and Mediterranean civilizations
Duke University's Papyrus Project
International Women's Issues on the WWW
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook:  Ancient History in the Movies
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Internet Medieval History Sourcebook:  Medieval History in the Movies
Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  Scientific, Political, and Industrial Revolution
Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  The Early Modern West
Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  The Long 19th Century
Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  Multimedia & History
Internet Modern History Sourcebook:  Modern History in the Movies
Internet African History Sourcebook
Internet East Asian Sourcebook
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
Internet Global History Sourcebook global community vs. 'world history'
Internet History of Science Sourcebook
World Constitutions on the Web
United Nations and Other International Documents
NATO's WWW Site
The Sixties Project
U.S. State Department Background Notes on all countries
The Washington Post's World Project detailed information on 220+ countries
CIA World Fact Book for all countries in the world
Lonely Planet Destinations 
ABC News Country Profiles
Web sites of national parliaments worldwide

UNITED STATES HISTORY-GENERAL

The History Channel's history of our Star Spangled Banner
Primary sources in American history from the Plymouth Compact to the present 
Presidential papers collection at the Library of Congress 
The Federalist Papers entire text from the Library of Congress
AmDocs:  Documents for the Study of American History
Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy from the United States Information Agency
Index to Presidential Libraries OnLine
Charters of Freedom from the National Archives
Documents from the Continental Congress & Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
The Work of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
Revolutionary Timeline, 1764-1776
Revolutionary Timeline, 1776-1789
Modern English Authors includes American writers from Jefferson to present
How the Other Half Lives  entire text online of Jacob Riis' classic 1890 treatise on urban poverty in the U.S.
The Great Depression:   Its Causes and its Cure
The American Memory:  Historical Collections for the National Digital Library 
Abraham Lincoln's Virtual Library at the Library of Congress
The Amistad Affair
The Amistad Case at the Library of Congress
The Marshall Plan at the Library of Congress
U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel
Constitutional Issues:  Watergate and the Constitution from the National Archives

ANCIENT HISTORY

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
The Ancient City of Athens an online photographic archive
Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology dozens of WWW links
The Ancient World Web
Duke University's Papyrus Archive online
Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit
Egyptology Resources
Exploring Ancient World Cultures
The Gnostic Society Virtual Library
A WWW site devoted to the Dead Sea Scrolls
Guardian's Egypt 
Reeder's Egypt page
A home page for Hellenic civilization
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Women and Gender in the Ancient World

MEDIEVAL

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Anglo-Saxon links on the web
Centre for Medieval Studies at the Univesity of Toronto
History:  Resources for the Medieval Historian
Another hub of Medieval links
Georgetown University's Virtual Library of Medieval Studies
Secrets of the Norman Invasion
The Vatican Museum online



BLACK AMERICANS:  LINKS CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH

First Person, Third Person:  Slave Voices from Duke's Special Collections
Profiles of some Important Nineteenth Century African Americans
Harper's Ferry National Park online includes John Brown's fort and his story
The Amistad Case from the Library of Congress
The text of the Amistad case online
The Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center online
one chapter from Frederick Douglass' The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas
WWW Black History Museum
Historical Text Archive on Dr. Martin Luther King
An overview of Dr. King's life
Recording of excerpts from Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech (Real Time)
Text of Dr. King's I have a Dream speech
Robert Kennedy announces Dr. King's tragic murder in Indianapolis, June 5, 1968
Influential African Americans in the Twentieth Century a photographic archive
MSNBC's Black History Month Site includes numerous useful links
Video tour of historic moments in the Civil Rights movement
Links relating to African nations from MSNBC
Virtual tour of a Maasai village in Tanzania
Current status of the Civil Rights movement
African American History and Culture from the Library of Congress

ASIAN HISTORY 

Militaristic Nationalism in Pre-WWII Japan from the History Web
Japanese War Crimes Trials from the History Web
Vietnam on the Internet
History of China from ancient times to the present
Documents from China's Republican era 1912-1949
Republican China:   nationalism versus communism
The People's Republic of China:   1949-present
John Fairbank Memorial Chinese Virtual Library 
A small site devoted to Mao
Republic of China government's official Taiwan WWW page
A site devoted to the Tiananmen tragedy
Photographs of the Tianamen massacre
The Vatican collection of Tiananmen photographs
Chinese photos from Nanjing massacre
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library includes country-by-country links
Hong Kong WWW Virtual Library
Hong Kong government's 1997 WWW site commemorating HK's return to China 
Taiwan WWW Virtual Library
Topics in Korean History organized by period
North Korean Virtual Library
General North Korean site with dozens of additional links to various topics
The Korean War includes numerous sites related to the war
North Korean special weapons site missiles, nuclear weapons, checical agents, etc.
The South Korean Virtual Library
The Korean Historical Connection
index of Pacific Rim/Pacific islands nations and their virtual libraries
Singapore WWW Virtual Library
Vietnam WWW Virtual Library
Bangladesh WWW Virtual Library
J Guide:  Stanford University's guide to Japanese information resources 

EUROPEAN HISTORY

EuroDocs primary historical documents from Western Europe
The French Revolution Home Page
Documents from the French Revolution
American and British Resources on the Internet
The Marx-Engels Internet Archive
Marx and Engels:  The Communist Manifesto
The Treaty of Versailles
Documents from the interwar period (1919-1939)
The Russian Revolution on the web
Stalin on the industrialization of the USSR in 1928
Collectivization of Soviet farms, 1929-1940
Explanation of Stalinist purges
Text of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
Benito Mussolini:   "What is Fascism?" 1932
The Brezhnev Doctrine of 1968
Twenty-five lectures on modern Balkan history
Balkan History Documents from 1456-1997
Recent revelations from the Russian Archives deals with Stalinism, repression, etc
 

 

NATO IN THE BALKANS (1999)

Rambouillet Agreement the text of the accord
Understanding the Rambouillet Accords fact sheet released by the Bureau of European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC March 1, 1999
Kosovo Crisis from the University of Michigan Documents Center
The Dayton Peace Accords signed in Dayton, Ohio on November 21, 1995
USIA's page:   NATO strikes in Serbia/the Kosovo Crisis
The State Department's Kosovo section includes helpful explanaations and links
United States Information Agency's latest press briefings on the Kosovo crisis
Political map of the Balkans includes Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, etc.
"The Saga of Kosovo" helps clarify Serb position regarding Kosovo
The Albanian Question presents the Albanian side of the conflict
Homepage of the Kosovo Liberation peace Movement Kosovar position 
The Dayton peace Agreement regarding war in the region signed 11/95
A list of suspected war criminals resulting from recent problems in the Balkans
A map of dozens of Bosnian Serb concentration camps
The Kosovo Crisis Center online--excellent, huge site with much useful information
The Kosovo Liberation Peace Movement
Expulsions of Albanians and Colonisation of Kosovo
Kosovo Home Page presents perspective of  Kosovo's ethnic Albanian population
Time Magazine's A Kosovo Primer
Media Center of Pristina, capital of Kosovo  
Serbia Information on the Internet includes basic facts and figures
Radio B92 live from Belgrade, Serbia
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Home Page on the web 
NATO's page on the web 
Top stories from ABC news regarding NATO strikes in Serbia and surrounding areas
CNN's page on the NATO strikes in Serbia and related crises


WOMEN'S HISTORY

WWW site of the National Women's History Project 
The National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
Women's Issues in Third World Countries
Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues
Women's Issues in Africa
U.S. Women's Suffrage Timeline from the Library of Congress
Women in World History 
WWW links related to women around the globe 
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World 
Statistics and Indicators on the World's Women
Women in politics worldwide