• 50 States and Capitals - http://www.50states.com/ -
  Information on all 50 states, as well as commonwealths and territories.

• The 1998 World Factbook - http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
  Look here for information about countries of the world.

• African-American History/Biography Index - http://www.triadntr.net/~rdavis/biolist.htm -
  Short biographies of famous Black Americans.

• African Americans in the Sciences - http://www.lib.lsu.edu/lib/chem/display/faces.html -
  Provides information about the accomplishments of African-American men and women in the fields of science and engineering.

• American Presidents: Life Portraits - http://www.americanpresidents.org/ -
  Use this website to learn more about the personal stories of these 41 men.

• The American West - http://www.americanwest.com/index.htm -
  A presentation of the history and development of the American West, from the frontier and pioneer days of the Wild West to today's modern West. Look here for information about Billy the Kid, Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp, Sitting Bull, and others.

• Atlapedia Online - http://www.atlapedia.com/ -
  A great source of information on the geography, climate, religion, people, language, history and economy of every country in the world.

• Biography - http://www.biography.com/find/find.html -
  Choose from an alphabetic listing or type in a name to find information about any of the 15,000 famous people included in this site.

• Catholic Online Saints & Angels - http://www.catholic.org/saints/index.shtml -
  Links to information about patron saints, ethnic saints, feast days, and more.

• CLEARWATER Hudson River Sloop - http://clearwater.org/ -
  Find out all about the Clearwater, the Hudson River and getting involved in the river cleanup.

• Explorers of the World - http://www.bham.wednet.edu/explore.htm -
  Find links here to biographies of famous explorers, scientists, artists, musicians, pilots and astronauts.

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures - http://eawc.evansville.edu/mepage.htm -
  An introduction to ancient world cultures of the Near East, Europe, India, Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome.

• The First Ladies of the United States of America - http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/firstladies/html/firstladies.html -
  A picture and a short biography of each of the First Ladies of the United States of America.

• Flags - http://www.law.ou.edu/flags.html -
  Look here for pictures of flags of the United States, current state flags, and current flags of U.S. Districts, Territories and Possessions.

• 4000 Years of Women in Science - http://crux.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html-
  Offers biographical information and pictures of over 125 women from our scientific and technical past.

• The Global Gastronomer - Cuisines of the World - http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/hupfer/global/gastronomer.html -
  Links to recipes, food history, and food lore of the world.

• The Invention Dimension: Inventor of the Week Archives - http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/archive.html -
  Find out information on inventors from A to Z.

• KIDPROJ's Multi-Cultural Calendar - http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/ -
  Provides information written by kids about holidays celebrated around the world.

• Kids @ NationalGeographic.com - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids -
  Take a GeoBee quiz, get a glimpse into the age of piracy or check out an issue of National Geographic World Online at this kids' section of the National Geographic web site.

• License Plates of North America - http://danshiki.oit.gatech.edu/~iadt3mk/world/LP_NA.html -
  Provides information and pictures about general and special issue license plates of the United States and Canada.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. - http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/ -
  Information about Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, the holiday, and more.

• Multicultural Pavilion - http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/curry/centers/multicultural/home.html -
  Provides links to awareness activities, photo exhibits, a multicultural song index, and more.

• NASA Astronaut Biographies - http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/ -
  Biographical and other information about astronauts and the space program.

• National Inventors Hall of Fame - http://www.invent.org/book/index.html -
  Provides information about inventors; also contains an index of inventions.

• Native American Home Pages - http://www.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html -
  Provides links to home pages of individual Native American Nations and to other related sites.

• POTUS (Presidents of the United States) - http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS -
  Find out about our U.S. presidents and get election results, information about cabinet members, and presidency highlights.

• Presidential Libraries IDEA Network - http://sunsite.unc.edu/lia/president/ -
  Provides links to a homepage for each president, where you can find pictures, biographical data, and other information including the text of inaugural addresses.

• Stately Knowledge - http://www.ipl.org/youth/stateknow -
  A wealth of interesting information about every state in the U.S. and Washington, D. C.

• TIME For Kids - http://www.pathfinder.com/TFK/ -
  Completely up-to-date online news for kids.

• Titanic - Raising a Legend Online - http://www.discovery.com/area/science/titanic/titanicopener.html -
  Facts, photographs, and crew information highlight this virtual Titanic website.

• U.S. Founding Documents - http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL -
  Read the text of the United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the Federalist papers and view the original documents.

• Welcome to the White House for Kids - http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/home.html -
  Take a tour of the White House given by Socks the cat, learn its history, get information about the president, find out about kids and pets in the White House and send an e-mail to President Clinton.

• Yahoo! Maps - http://maps.yahoo.com/yahoo -
  Create maps by typing in an address or city.

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