World History
Here is an animated map of each of the years in WWI that show the major movements of both sides. But there is much more on this BBC site including the human experience, international view, virtual tours of the trenches, Versailles and more. While we are at it, there is also a WWII and Cold War page.
- Civil War Animated
I spent a pleasant hour today at a website titled Civil War Animated. The site depicts key land battles of the American Civil War using animation. The animation was colorful, was annotated, and left me a good sense of the history of each battle I examined....
- Virtual Tours Of The Auschwitz Death Camps
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has created three online virtual tours of the Auschwitz-I and Auschwitz-II-Birkenau death camps. On these sites the Nazis built the largest of its concentration and extermination centers. Over...
- Trench Warfare Video
) I was looking for images of trench warfare and came up with this video from the Battle of the Somme. But it not only has that, but actual footage of the trenches (including some dead soldiers) as well as interviews with British soldiers...
- A Plethora Of World History Links
This is an amazing site put together by Fordham University. It is nicely broken into the typical parts of world history (absolutism, scientific revolution up to WWI, WWII, Cold War, post Cold War, etc. It is a great resource for both US and world...
- Animated Historical Maps
This site has over 175 online animated maps. You have to have an account to access the vast majority but many are free. For example there are two great animated maps of ancient Greece. One is an overview of Greece from Mycenae and Greek colonization to...
World History
World War I - Animated Battle Maps & Much More
- Civil War Animated
I spent a pleasant hour today at a website titled Civil War Animated. The site depicts key land battles of the American Civil War using animation. The animation was colorful, was annotated, and left me a good sense of the history of each battle I examined....
- Virtual Tours Of The Auschwitz Death Camps
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has created three online virtual tours of the Auschwitz-I and Auschwitz-II-Birkenau death camps. On these sites the Nazis built the largest of its concentration and extermination centers. Over...
- Trench Warfare Video
) I was looking for images of trench warfare and came up with this video from the Battle of the Somme. But it not only has that, but actual footage of the trenches (including some dead soldiers) as well as interviews with British soldiers...
- A Plethora Of World History Links
This is an amazing site put together by Fordham University. It is nicely broken into the typical parts of world history (absolutism, scientific revolution up to WWI, WWII, Cold War, post Cold War, etc. It is a great resource for both US and world...
- Animated Historical Maps
This site has over 175 online animated maps. You have to have an account to access the vast majority but many are free. For example there are two great animated maps of ancient Greece. One is an overview of Greece from Mycenae and Greek colonization to...