If you like shuffling through your browsing history, you’d be surprised just how stale Google Chrome’s history page looks. Sure, you can search through your history and view the listed websites sorted by date, but it is not enough to call it a polished feature of an otherwise awesome browser. Fortunately, there is an extension [...]
TimeSearch is a great tool for history lovers who want to search the Internet for historical events. This allows them to discover the order of events as they occurred and also help people to learn more about history and find interesting articles as they search through timelines. Using the service is very easy. Just visit [...]
One very useful feature of Mozilla Firefox is private browsing. People prefer to use it when they don’t want to leave any trace of websites they visit. However, if you browse the Internet you will find certain tools and addons available which can retrieve the webpages visited with private browsing enabled. So a better option [...]
The online marvels that are Facebook and Twitter have brought two revolutionary ideas into our 21st century. First, they allowed us to communicate and share sutff like never before; and secondly, they help curate our life histories online. ArchivedBook is a cool app that scans your Facebook’s profile history and presents all of them on [...]
Just reading about historical events may not be an interesting enough learning exercise for many students. DocsTeach changes that by letting you access digital copies of thousands of original documents in the National Archive, as well as interactive activities that can help you learn from those documents. You can simply browse or print documents based [...]
If you are an art enthusiast and wish that you could attend all the major museums in the world (but know that it might not be possible), then you will love Google’s new offering: Art Project. Google has collaborated with 17 art museums around the world, which include big names like The Metropolitan Museum of [...]
It is remarkable how places change with time. Have you ever wondered what your native city looked like in the past? If yes then What Was There is a website you should definitely visit. What Was There is a wonderful website that lets people upload old photographs of places in the world. Visitors to the [...]
I’m a big fan of history. A lot of my ‘online time’ is spent reading archaeological articles and the latest discoveries in the field. Today I’ve got a great educational website for History to share with you all: the site is the History Channel’s own History.com. History.com, with its fitting name, is the perfect online [...]
Do you want to know what happened on this very day years ago? Nikon’s “This Day” is a flash-based web app that takes you on a quick journey of important historical events with stunning photography. In addition to that, you may also browse the previous five dates so that you can learn about other events [...]
Due to today’s advances in technology we often forget what the world used to be like. Thankfully, a large collection of travel video clips exists from the past that documents the real world back then. You will find these videos on the Travel Film Archive. The Travel Film Archive is a simple and free to [...]