Canada's National History Society , established in 1994 as a charitable organization devoted to popularizing Canadian history, aims to make Canadians more aware and appreciative of their past.
Museum of the Moving Image houses artifacts from every stage of producing, promoting, and exhibiting motion pictures, television, and digital media—more than 130,000 objects in all. The Museum's website includes an array of educational resources that can be used for pre- and post- visit activities, in-class projects, and student homework assignments.
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
THE INTERNET SACRED TEXT ARCHIVE is a freely available archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics. Texts are presented in English translation and, where possible, in the original language.
Our Roots has close to 5500 digital texts of local, out-of-print history publications: pages about the history of small towns, rural areas and large cities, as well as many topics such as: the Acadian migration to the Maritimes, Métis heroes, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Irish at Grosse Isle.
CYARK's mission is to digitally preserve world cultural artifacts at-risk through exposure to sun, wind, and rain; earthquakes, fire, and human aggressions. They collect, archive and provide open access to data created by laser scanning, digital modeling, and other state-of-the-art technologies. Check out the interactive Hazard Map and the list of projects.
Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers
Author Steven Johnson takes us on a 10-minute tour of The Ghost Map, his book about a cholera outbreak in 1854 London and the impact it had on science, cities and modern society.
