online historical fiction resources

Life in a medieval castle http://www.castlewales.com/life.html

The plague http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html

King Arthur http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/kingarthurfaq1.html

Slave narratives http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

Witchcraft ban ends in Zimbabwe http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5134244.stm

African-American History: the great Mississippi Flood http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/communities/a/greatmissflood.htm

Jackie Robinson http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/jackierobinson/p/bio_robinson_j.htm

Early Iranians http://www.iranian.com/History/2006/July/Persia/index.html

Cleopatra http://interoz.com/egypt/cleopatr.htm

Witchcraft in New York http://history.hanover.edu/texts/nyhah.html

Declaration of Independence Accepted http://americanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa070401a.htm

Battle of Gettysburg, Day One http://americanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa101601a.htm

Charles Dickens “A Walk in the Workhouse” http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/poorlaw.html

Victorian Poverty http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/nelson1.html

1800 child labor http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html

march on Washington, 1963 (civil rights movement) http://www.abbeville.com/civilrights/washington.asp

wwII links http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/

atomic bomb http://aaas.ohio-state.edu/projects/ehistory/World/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=14

A-Bomb survivor stories http://www.hiroshima-is.ac.jp/Hiroshima/survivors.htm#Eyewitness%20Account

9/11 workers’ voices http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/09/11/witnesses/index.html

flight 93 http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/04/19/flight93-recordings.htm

French and Indian War http://www.philaprintshop.com/frchintx.html