# Cool history links, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801 "2003-01-25T03:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/1 "2003-01-25T03:16:54Z")
I was wandering around the 'net looking for the coldest winter on record when I chanced upon some really cool history sites. Apparently [The New York Times 100 Years of New York](http://www.nytimes.com/specials/nyc100/contents.html) has been up for 5 years. And then there’s [Forgotten New York](http://www.forgotten-ny.com/)– more coolness. And then I found this ABC News site [Trials of the Century](http://more.abcnews.go.com/century/feature/trials_980111.html) and Associated Press’ [History photo archive](http://www.apwideworld.com/WWP_HOME/history/history.html) and I thought I’d share with you all. Now you. Got any cool history links? ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/2 "2003-01-25T03:47:25Z")
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/) [http://www.villa-rustica.de/intro/intro01e.html](http://www.villa-rustica.de/intro/intro01e.html) [http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/history/](http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/history/) [http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm](http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/3 "2003-01-25T08:23:28Z")
[http://www.astronautix.com/articles/sovpart1.htm](http://www.astronautix.com/articles/sovpart1.htm) [http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/sovtions.htm](http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/sovtions.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/4 "2003-01-25T09:03:27Z")
[WWII: The Secret History](http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/secret_history/) [NZ History.net](http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/index.html) [Alexander Palace Time Machine](http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/index.html?GXHC_GX_jst=8258c07950ea6164) [History of the Workhouse](http://www.workhouses.org.uk/?GXHC_GX_jst=8258c07950ea6164) [Timeframes (NZ National Library photo collection)](http://timeframes1.natlib.govt.nz/) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/5 "2003-01-25T19:27:43Z")
Lotso good stuff here, thanks all. It’ll take quite some time to read it all. P.S. I’m a History Channel (AKA The Hitler Channel) fanatic, so The Secret History of WWII has got me engrossed. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/6 "2003-01-25T20:07:20Z")
History Book Club site with good links: [http://www.historybookclub.com/doc/content/sitelets/Sitelet\_Theme\_3.jhtml?SID=HBC\_HOW\_3](http://www.historybookclub.com/doc/content/sitelets/Sitelet_Theme_3.jhtml?SID=HBC_HOW_3) ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/7 "2003-01-25T21:02:07Z")
Here’s a few… [Project Gutenberg](http://www.promo.net/pg/) [Eyewitness History](http://www.ibiscom.com/index.html) [Forgotten Battles of the Second World War](http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Bunker/3351/index.html) [dMarie Time Capsule](http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/) [Discoverer’s Web](http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html) [Macroreference](http://www.cs.uh.edu/~clifton/macro.a.html) ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/8 "2003-01-25T21:04:41Z")
[Guardian Century](http://www.guardiancentury.co.uk/) (online versions of major new stories from the newspaper’s history). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/9 "2003-01-26T00:16:40Z")
[Casebook on Jack the Ripper](http://www.casebook.org) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/10 "2003-01-26T04:32:22Z")
That Gutenberg Project site is freakin’ great! Are the books all public domain books? ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/11 "2003-01-26T04:43:59Z")
All public domain and freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/12 "2003-01-26T05:12:18Z")
**Spider Woman** turned me on (well she always turns me on, but I digress) to this site, [The Attack on the USS Liberty](http://www.logogo.net/liberty.htm). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/13 "2003-01-26T06:27:02Z")
For a lighter read, Life Magazine did a pretty good [Top 100 Events of the Millennium](http://www.life.com/Life/millennium/events/100.html), which also has links to their list of the top 100 people. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-history-links-please/150801/14 "2003-01-26T09:14:20Z")
[The Museum of Hoaxes](http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/) [Rulers](http://www.rulers.org/) [Flags of the World](http://www.fotw.net/flags/index.html) [The Political Graveyard](http://politicalgraveyard.com/)