Best of History Web Sites was created by Thomas Daccord (B.A. Princeton University, M.A. Universite de Montreal), Academic Technology Advocate for the Humanities and a history and technology teacher at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Mr. Daccord is also the President of the Center for Teaching History With Technology, created to help history educators integrate technology into their curriculum. He is also the creator and webmaster of Teaching Literature & Writing With Technology. A "laptop teacher" who has instructed in a wireless laptop environment for the last six years, Mr. Daccord has been featured in the Boston Globe ("Making Tech Connect," December 29, 2003) for his contributions to teaching with technology. He has presented on educational technology topics at conferences such as the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, the Laptop Institute, and the Connecticut Association of Independent Schools "Teaching With Technology" Conference.

Best of History Web Sites is maintained by Justin Reich (B.A., M.A. University of Virginia ), Justin Reich has taught wilderness medicine for the SOLO school in New Hampshire and World History and Topics in Modern History at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts. Mr. Reich developed a variety of new curriculum and lesson plans around chatting, blogging, and other projects based on new and emerging technologies. Mr. Reich is also an avid traveler, and is pictured here with some of his friends from the Mramba Primary School in Mwanga, Tanzania.

Best of History Web Sites aims to provide quick, convenient, and reliable access to the best history-oriented resources online in a wide range of categories. BOHWS has been designed to benefit history teachers and their students, but general history enthusiasts will benefit from the site as well. Best of History Web Sites is ranked #1 by Google for "history web sites" and receives upwards of 112,000 visitors per month.

Best of History Web Sites contains links to over 1200 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy, and usefulness. Included are links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more. Sites with engaging educational content and stimulating and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included in these pages. However, useful general resources and research-oriented sites have been included as well.

Suggestions are welcome and appreciated. (BOHWS receives many suggestions, so please understand that it may be several weeks until your recommendation is reviewed.) To make any suggestions, comments, questions, or to be notified of updates to the BOHWS Newsletter, please fill in the form located in the contact section. BOHWS respects your privacy and will not provide any information regarding you to a third party.

Best of History Web Sites has won many awards and recognition, including: Blue Web'n Blue-Ribbon Web Site Award from the Pacific Bell Knowledge Network, Yahoo Pick (July 15, 2002) by Yahoo.com, The Editor's Choice Award ("Top 5% Site in K-12 Education") from Awesome Library, History News Network Website of the Week, USA Today Education Best Bet Award, Education World Award for October 2002, 4Teachers Site of the Week, New York Public Library "Best of Reference", UK Department of Education for Education and Skills "Useful External Web Sites", National University of Ireland Web Site of the Month , Schoolhouse Site of the Week, and Schools Library Journal Site of the Week.

BOHWS has also been recommended by: The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The Detroit Free Press, History on the Net, The Denver Post, The Washington Library Media Association, ABC News Radio, Teaching History Magazine, UNESCO, Academic Info, the United States government, Landmark for Schools, Merlot, MIT Libraries, Pacific Bell's Great Links to U.S. History, City University of New York, HistoryTeacher.net, WWW Virtual Library, Babson College Horn Library, teachersfirst.com, Philadelphia University, Teaching History Online, California State University at Northridge, University of Queensland (Australia), University of Houston-Downtown, Herriot Watt University (Scotland), ISI Web of Knowledge, Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, The Scout Report, Kingswood College Library, Teachnology, and others.

This site was designed, engineered and built by Deb Fillman and Ryan Boone using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and ImageReady, HTML, Javascript, SSI, CSS and a content management system that uses MS Excel and VBScript to automatically generate HTML pages. Please note that your web browser must support java script "pop-up" windows in order to use BOHWS most efficiently. Important content editing and design input was provided by Sumita Chakraborty.

Best of History Web Sites follows the general guidelines for web site evaluation put forward by the Oregon Public Education Network.

We hope you enjoy the site and find it useful.