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Political Gateway - Jan 25th, 2005 - Here is your list of the top ten websites under the category of 'History.' From a 9/11 forum to Nazi trials, from Moses to Valerie Plame. These 10 sites cover the breadth of written world history.

1) best 9/11 forum, Fark.com - Started by 'Drew' the site was just a humorous news link site. The site seemed to change on Sept 11th 2001 and the comments/forum section is a great snapshot of all the emotions we went through that day.
First Posts That Day Second Third More

2) The Internet Archive's 'Way Back Machine.' - A non profit group dedicated to many things, one of them a historical snapshot of the internet. Some cool quick links are listed below.

Government Sites - The Whitehouse in 1996

News Sites - Drudge Report Sept 2001 CNN in 2000 Note: Foxnews banned the Way Back Machine and no snapshots exist for them. I wonder why?

Political Sites - Democrat National Website – May of 2000 Republicans National website in April of 1997

Well Known Business Sites - Microsofts website in 1996 AOL in 1997 Netscape in 1996

Elections - Entire 2000 election season

Religion - Creationism’s First official webpage?

Search Engines - Yahoo in 1996 Google in 1998 WebCrawler in 1996

Ironic - The Way Back Machine in 1998 (Archive of itself)

Political Gateway In Dec 2002 after being up for one month In April of 2003 In July of 2003 In Nov of 2003 (The news style) In June of 2004 (started accepting candidates on June 4th)

3) Political Graveyard - Lawrence Kestenbaum's attempt to list the graves and cemeteries of US and UK politicians. This one goes way back and it quite interesting.

4) University of Oklahoma's Library - A good collection of about 500 years of historical US documents

5) National Archives - Amazing and free resources of great and interesting historical research US UK France

6) Best Collection of Iraq War Documents - Findlaw.com has a huge collection of many documents from UN inspections to the Valerie Plame investigation.

7) Best collection of Presidential history - POTUS A little bit about each president and a complete reference list of documents and links about each one.

8) Mother load of Historical and Diplomatic Documents - Yale University's Avalon Project, this site has years worth of research for you history buffs including a great WWII document section.

9) Best Nuremburg/Nazi site - Harvard's amazing attempt to digitize all the documents and photos of the Nuremburg trials. And we do mean all the millions of documents and Nazi memos.

10) Best Religious Document site - Sacred Texts.com. This site has an almost complete collection of every major and minor religious writing, separated by religion. Amazing.