History |
American Memory
American Memory is a
gateway to rich primary source materials relating to
the history and culture of the United States. The
site offers more than 5 million items from
more than 90 historical collections. |
American
Time Capsule
Three
Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera
from the Library of Congress. |
Encyclopedia
Britannica's Guide to
Black History
This site examines five
centuries of black heritage through five distinct time
periods, from the slave revolts of early America through
the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. Each era is
further divided by topic/profession, with biographies
and photographs of notable people and descriptions and
documents of historic events. |
Florida
Memory Project
The Florida State Archives Florida Memory Project
provides a web-based structure for primary records
that illustrates significant moments in the state's
history, provides educational resources for students
of all ages, and makes available collections useful
for historical research. |
Historic Palm Beach
Brought to you by the Palm Beach Post, this site features stories, pictures, and videos exploring the history of Palm Beach County. |
Inaugural
Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
A complete list of Inaugural
Addresses from George Washington to Barack Obama.
It Includes mention of the five Presidents who were never
inaugurated. |
Medieval
Studies Resources
The
Labyrinth searches for and links to Medieval
resources. |
PBCLS Genealogy Research
The Palm Beach County
Library System's Genealogy Research information site
promotes the wealth of family history resources
available through the library system, local
organizations, and the Internet, and to assist in their
use. |
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people
and events of the Holocaust through photographs,
documents, art, music, movies, and literature. |
United
States
Historical Census Data
Site
presents census data for the United States on people
and the economy for each
state and county from 1790 to 1960. |
United
States Historical Documents
Links to such documents as
the Declaration of Independence and Richard Nixon's
letter of resignation from the Presidency. |
Voice
of the Shuttle
This site contains links to
Renaissance resources for literature, music, theatre,
religion, etc. (fully searchable!) |
Why
Do Civilizations Fall?
Site
explores the collapse of four ancient civilizations.
Learn what happens
when a society collapses and how archaeologists find
and interpret evidence. |
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Geography |
Altapedia
Online
Produces
full color physical and political maps, includes facts
and statistics. |
Local
Maps Index
A
list of maps in the Palm Beach County Library System -
Main Library, with links tolocal digital maps. |
Morgan
Quitno Awards
Rankings
of America's safest and most dangerous cities. |
National Geographic Map Machine
Physical maps, political maps, flags, star charts, and
satellite images from National Georgraphic. |
Population Clock
The
U.S. Census Bureau
calculates US and the world's population. |
Population Statistics
Here you will find a
historical, demographical and statistical overview of
the population of all the countries in the world, their
administrative divisions and their important cities. |
Sunrise
& Sunset
Computation
The
U.S. Naval Observatory calculates solar and lunar
cycles for any date you submit. |
Tide/Current
Predictor
This site takes an educated guess at tide information
for many areas. |
Time and Date.com
Time and Date.com lets you
create customized calendars or check the time anywhere
in the world. |
Time
Zone
Converter
An interactive site that
allows users to examine time zones across the world.
It adjusts for daylight savings and even offers a
bibliography of time-related books. |
U.S.
Gazetteer
From
the U.S. Census, links to maps and provides longitude,
latitude and zip code for any location it finds. |
World
Factbooks
CIA
publications on governments around the world with
links to the history of the Agency. |
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Environment |
Envirofacts
- from the Environmental Protection Agency
A
large database of EPA data that can generate maps
based on a variety of environmental criteria. |
Federal Emergency
Management Agency
FEMA's mission is to reduce
loss of life and property and protect our nation's
critical infrastructure from all types of hazards
through a comprehensive, risk-based, emergency
management program of mitigation, preparedness, response
and recovery. |
Greenpeace
The International web site
for the famous environmental activist group. |
Internet Recycling Guide
From About.com, this site
contains information on recycling paper, plastics, scrap
metal, automobiles, industry and more. |
National Interagency Fire
Center
The National Interagency
Fire Center (NIFC),
consists of seven federal agencies that serve as a
support center for wildland firefighting.
Statistics on wildland fires, information about safety
and prevention of wildfires, and the cooperating
agencies of the center are available. |
Scorecard
The Environmental Defense
Fund's community pollution scorecard identifies local
chemical hazards. |
South
Florida Water
Management
The
official site concerning all things water-related with
regards to the South Florida region. News on
water restrictions, rainfall amounts and much more. |
World Wildlife
Fund
Known worldwide by
its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is dedicated
to protecting the world's wildlife and wild lands. The
largest privately supported international conservation
organization in the world. |
The following Internet sites have been selected for
their value as reference sources. Although reviewed by library staff
at the time of inclusion in this list, the Palm Beach County Library
System is not responsible for their contents.