This page was last updated June 8, 2007.

 Cold War: From Yalta to Malta (CNN)
This CNN Perspectives series explores the Cold War experience from many different angles. Included are interactive maps, rare video footage, declassified documents, biographies, picture galleries, timelines, interactive activities, a search function, book excerpts, an educator's guide and more. For instance, you can watch a video interview with George Kennan, tour a Cold War prison, play a Brinkmanship interactive game interview, and listen to an interview with Fidel Castro. Launched in September 1998, the COLD WAR companion site covers more than a 1,000 Web pages and was honored with a 1998 Sigma Delta Chi Award in the Online Journalism Non-Deadline Reporting category by the Society of Professional Journalists.

 PBS Online
A great source for information on a myriad of historical events and personalities. PBS's assorted and diverse web exhibits supplement specific individual television series and generally include a resume of each episode, interviews (often with sound bites), a timeline, a glossary, photos, and links to relevant sites. Categories include American History, World History, History on Television, and Biographies.

 Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall. The site and its documents are well organized and the breadth of materials is impressive. The Sourcebooks include: Ancient History Sourcebook | Medieval Sourcebook | Modern History Sourcebook | Byzantine Studies Page /African | East Asian | Global | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | Lesbian and Gay | Science | Women's | Medieval Studies Course | Modern History Course | Chinese Studies Course | Medieval Webguide

 People's Century
The site is based on a 26-episode PBS television series and features a teacher's guide, a timeline, a thematic overview, and RealAudio excerpts

 CNN.com Specials (current events)
The CNN Archives feature special reports on many key World and American events, issues and personalities of the late 20th and early 21st centuries

Here are some engaging sites on Twentieth Century History for use in the classroom:

 Academy of Achievement
Features stories of "legendary achievers" of the 20th century in arts, public service, sports, science, and other fields. Includes audio and video clips. Check out the "Gallery of Achievement"

 Race for the Super Bomb (PBS)
There are some quirky but fascinating features at this site, including a Panic Quiz and a Nuclear Blast Map. Visitors to the site can simulate the drop of 50s-era atomic bombs on American cities and get death and damage reports. Visitors are also treated to interviews, film footage of explosions, a map of target sites in the U.S., a weapons stockpile list for 1945 to 1997, a timeline, primary sources, transcripts, a teacher's guide and a people and events section