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This is a membership association site aimed mainly at academics and students with interest in political science and has the authoritative weight that you would expect from an academic association. When you look through the list of directors you see they a

For a long time the CIA World Fact Book has existed in print form and is a standard print resource used in libraries because it gives a quick political / economic / statistical profiles of virtually every nation in the world. This print resource is now av

The B.C. Archives is a vital resource for both scholarship and research of a personal nature involving British Columbia history. For most of the actual material you have to go to the Archives in Victoria in person, but you can do some preliminary searching online. There is access to the Archives Library catalogue as well as information about exhibitions and events. This site is widely used by people doing family history (or genealogical) research because it provides an index to birth registrations (1872–1903), marriage registrations (1872–1932) and death registration records (1872–1987) through the Vital Event Indexes.

Canadiana.org is a national group consisting of academic and public libraries and government departments such as Statistics Canada, who work together to create, present and manage Canadian online content. Canadiana.org acts as an overall coordinator for digitization projects and access to collections. One of the services provided by Canadiana is access to Early Canadiana Online, a searchable online catalogue of pre-1900 microfilmed documents and a digital library of over 2.3 million pages of documents and publications. Not all items in the catalogue have been digitized and some ECO content is only available to registered ECO members. But with new material digitized all the time this is a fast-growing reference collection for historians. And in March 2007 Canadiana.org formed a partnership with Ancestry.ca to bring online nearly 300 years of early Canadian historical documents dating back to the 1600s.

This Internet resource provides access to various primary or secondary documents covering the breadth of humanities. All of these sources have been selected and evaluated. The site covers a very broad range of topics including African Studies, American Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Archeology, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature.

The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. opened in 1993. The website contains searchable databases relevant to Holocaust research. There is a wealth of information available online here about the Holocaust but if that is not sufficient you can also search their library catalogue for items in their collection. Of course these will not be in full-text but the citations are a good starting point for further research. Visitors to the Holocaust Museum itself say that it is a profoundly moving experience.

In May 2004 the National Archives and the National Library of Canada merged to become Library and Archives Canada (LAC) which resulted in a single website linking to resources from both institutions. LAC is providing more and more archival and historical material online in an effort to provide Canadians with access to their national heritage. Another resource hosted by the LAC is a site dedicated to information on Canada's Confederation.

Source for teachers to find maps for projection in the classroom. Also has blank maps for student use.

"Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. More..."