History: Modern

  1. Academic Earth -

    Full video courses and lectures from the world's leading scholars. Includes a large number of subjects, from Art & Architecture, Economics, History, Law, Literature, Psychology, Test Preparation, and much, much more!
  2. Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster -

    History.com
  3. Current Events -

    From InfoPlease - includes major U.S., world, business, and science news events from 1997 to the present.
  4. History in the News - The Middle East -

    History, culture, society, religion, economics, politics, maps.
  5. Internet History Sourcebooks -

    Series of history primary sourcebooks covering ancient, medieval, and modern history. Subsidiary sourcebooks include African, East Asian, Global, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Science, Women, and GLBT history.
  6. National Archives Education Service -

    Sessions and resources covering a huge range of United Kingdom history, from life in the middle ages, the Tudors, Shakespeare, and English Civil Wars, growth of the British Empire, the Victorian period, suffragettes, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, and much more. From the UK government's official archive.
  7. Plane Crash Info.com -

    Includes statistics, famous deaths, 100 worst, etc.
  8. September 11 Attacks -

    From Answers.com.
  9. September 11 Digital Archive -

    Includes websites, video, digital art, audio, stories, etc.
  10. September 12 Newspaper Front Pages -

    National and international - Attack on America.
  11. Space Shuttle Columbia -

    CNN Special Report.
  12. Timeline: Iraq -

    A chronology of key events from 1920 to the present from BBC News.