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- Histography. Sounds, animations, and visuals. What else do you need to "relive" history? Histography gives you all three on an interactive timeline that spans across 14 billion years of history, from the Big Bang to 2015.
- Histagrams. There shouldn't be anything remarkable about a site that combines Instagram and history. Except, there is. A lot of the photos will sum up the value of the site for you.
- A History of The World. The BBC takes a different approach to explore history. A History of the World in 100 Objects is their tagline, and it works. The objects are spread across the ages from 2 billion years ago to 2010.
- HistoryExtra. If the last website is an educational archive, then this one keeps up with the times past and present. HistoryExtra is the official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.
- Xi'an Warriors
- Smithsonian Museum of American History
- The Museum of Flight
- National Women's History Museum
- Anne Frank House
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
- NASA
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
It was one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th century. In 1974, farmers digging a well stumbled across a life-sized clay figure that, government archaeologists later discovered, belonged to a vast army of terra cotta soldierscreated to protect China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in the afterlife. The massive mausoleum, created ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History bills itself as the greatest single collection of U.S. history in the world, home to more than 1.8 million objects that each, in some fundamental way, defines the American experience. The museum offers about 100 online exhibits from its encyclopedic collections, each with a mix of photos, video,...
War planes. Spy planes. Spacecraft. Gliders. Kit planes. Eccentric contraptions. This sprawling museum, adjacent to the Boeing complex south of Seattle, Washington, is considered one of the world’s largest and best air and space museums, with more than 150 aircraft, 25,000-plus aviation-related artifacts and a huge array of exhibits that collective...
Come for the deep well of biographies and digital classroom resources, stay for the wide array of virtual exhibits, many of which are enabled by Google Arts & Culture. For two decades, the National Women’s History Museum has been the largest online cultural institution telling the stories of women who helped transform the U.S. Heavy with slide show...
Anne Frank’s diary, chronicling her life in hiding during World War II, remains one of the most powerful testimonies to the horrors of the Holocaust. If a trip to Amsterdam to visit the Anne Frank House isn’t in the cards, AnneFrank.org offers the next best thing. In addition to tons of informative content about the teen, her diary and the war, the...
FDR, America’s only four-term president, presided over the nation during two of its most trying ordeals: the Great Depression and World War II. This online experience walks users room by room through the exhibits in his extensive presidential library and museum in Hyde Park, New York, drawing together a wealth of original documents, artifacts, vide...
Calling all space geeks: Report to the NASA site for ultimate fun in the final frontier. Get the full scoop on all the key NASA programs past and present, from the Hubble Telescope to the Mars Rover to the upcoming Parker Solar Probe. Check out the History hub to dive deep into photos, videos and articles about all their historic missions. Enjoy a ...
The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. presents powerful online exhibits brimming with resources such as videos, timelines, glossaries and image galleries rich with potent original artifacts. Themes include Collaboration & Complicity, Nazi Propaganda, Americans and the Holocaust, Racial Health Policies and more. Elsewhere on the museum’s...
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World History Maps & Timelines. Kingdoms, Battles, Expeditions. Comparative History, Political, Military, Art, Science, Literature, Religion, Philosophy. Maps based on vector database.
- Xian Warriors Historic Site Virtual Tour (China) Oh. My. Goodness. Let’s start this list of the BEST virtual tours of historic sites with one incredible famous place.
- Great Wall of China Virtual Tour (China) Here’s another top tourist destination in China. Given how famous the Great Wall of China is, it isn’t surprising that you can find a few virtual tours.
- Angkor Wat Historic Site Virtual Tour (Cambodia) Cambodia’s Angkor Wat complex is incredible. It’s one of my happy places, and was a must for this list of best virtual tours of historic sites.
- The White House Virtual Tour (United States) Okay. Let’s jump aaaall the way across the Pacific Ocean to the most famous home in the world: the White House.
Interactive Maps. Map of the Ancient World. This interactive political map by World History Encyclopedia offers a large-scale overview of the ancient world across all time periods. Choose a date and see what the world looked like. It focuses on the Mediterranean, but also covers other parts of the world. Note: This is a work in progress!
2 days ago · One of these tools is the World Heritage Interactive Map in which all of UNESCO’s World Heritage sites are represented by a single point. The points are color-coded by conservation status and can be filtered by properties, country, region, keyword, year listed, cultural criteria, category, etc.
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Mar 26, 2020 · Here are 10 standout virtual history sites worth exploring: Xi'an Warriors. It was one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th century.
