General Reference Links

 Table of Contents...Useful Links By Subject

• General Reference

• Almanacs

• Biographies

• Dictionaries and Thesauruses

• Government Information

• Maps and Geography

• Quotations

• Libraries

• Other References & Collections

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General Reference

• Library of Congress (American Memory)-  Browse or search for events, people, places, or time periods.

• The News York Times Newsroom Navigator

• Library Spot

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Almanacs

• On This Day - This site sponsored by the New York Times is an excellent site to view and learn about events from the past on certain dates.

• Old Farmer's Almanac

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Biographies

• Outline of American History Biographies

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Government Information

• FirstGov - The vision of this web site "transcends the traditional boundaries of government and our vision is global - connecting the world to all U.S. Government information and services."

• City of Simi Valley - See the inner workings of our city government including the organizational chart for the City of Simi Valley.

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Maps and Geography

 

• Altapedia Online -"Contains full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world."

• Historical and Map Collection Web Site- This is a web site with maps of places from earlier times and maps by continent and then by country.

• Map Collection at Perry-Castaneda - This is a site where maps are organized by continent and then by country.

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 Quotations

• Conversations with History- "In these lively and unedited interviews,distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. They reminisce about their participation in great events, and they share their perspectives on the past and reflect on what the future may hold.  Choose your own quotations from these interviews and conversations with famous people of our times."    

• Quote Garden 

• Quoteland

• Quoteworld 

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Libraries

• ProjectGuttenberg - offers over 45,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
• The Internet Public Library
• The Library of Congress - The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

• Duke University- Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

• The WWW Virtual Library:  International Affairs Resources - "This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2000 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs topics. Most of the sites are in English, and are carefully selected for long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, high-quality information and analysis online. Many are gateway sites or have internal search engines. Each site is described only in general terms because of the typically rapid change in details of content."

 

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Other General References & Collections

 

• HyperHistory Online -" HyperHistory presents 3,000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps."

• Nova Online - "NOVA offers a rich Web site to accompany every program, plus occasional Online Adventures--expeditions that allow the Internet audience to travel in real time with scientists and explorers to remote parts of the world. These sites regularly win rave reviews and design awards, and are chosen as "picks" by popular Internet portals such as Yahoo, USA Today Online and Netscape. By using RealAudio clips, QuickTime virtual reality, Shockwave games, video streaming and more, NOVA Online explores the edge of what computers and minds can do."

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