Cartographic Images (historical maps)
http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/

Color Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
    Michigan page
    http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/mi_0.html

Geography at The Mining Company
http://geography.miningco.com/
    Maps
    http://geography.miningco.com/library/maps/blindex.htm
    Michigan maps
    http://geography.miningco.com/library/maps/blusmi.htm

North American map archive at the University of Oregon
  (most are interactive and require Shockwave plug-in)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/america/maps.html

University of Georgia rare map collection - the New World
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/neworld.html

Zip Code lookup at the United States Postal Service
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ziplookup/lookupmenu.htm

HISTORY

American history resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amhist.htm

Boundaries of the 48 contiguous states through history (animated map)
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html

Don Mabry's Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/

Geneology Home Page
http://www.genhomepage.com/

History Channel online
http://www.historychannel.com/

Inaugural addresses of all the U.S. presidents
http://www.bartleby.com/124/

Index of online Civil War information
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/civlink.htm

Non-Western history
http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/hist.html

This day in history
http://www.execnet.com/today.html

Today in History from the Associated Press
http://www.9online.com/today/today.htm

Vitalog - The Book of Life
Features profiles of outstanding people from all times, places and walks of life
http://www.vitalog.com

MATH

Calculator.com (many online calculators)
http://www.calculator.com/index.html

CoolMath.com
Everything from elementary to calculus
http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm

Megaconverter.com (any units you can think of)
http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/index.html
    Fraction to decimal converter
    http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=17&id=31
    Roman to Arabic numeral converter
    http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=14&id=38
    Time unit converter
    http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=1&id=4

WebMath.com
Everything mathmatical for grades K through 12
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/webmath/
    Problem solver, organized alphabetically
    http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/webmath/alphaindex.html

READING

Jump to a list of Libraries in the region

Acronym Finder
(What does ASAP mean? or PDQ?)
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

American and English Literature Internet Resources
http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/litbib.html

Babelfish (translate text from or to English)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

Bartleby.com
Many great books online for free
http://www.bartleby.com/
    Aesop's Fables
    http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/
    American Bible Society’s King James Version
    http://www.bartleby.com/108/
    The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse
    http://www.bartleby.com/249/
    Poems by Robert Frost
    http://www.bartleby.com/people/Frost-Ro.html
    The Oxford Shakespeare
    http://www.bartleby.com/70/

Encyclopedia Mythica (myths and images from around the world)
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Internet Dictionary Project (look up or translate a word)
http://www.june29.com/IDP/IDPsearch.html

Project Gutenburg
The full text of classic books from the early 1900s and earlier
http://promo.net/pg/

REFERENCE

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
http://www.bartleby.com/61/

Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Bartlett's Quotations online
http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Columbia Encyclopedia 2001 edition
http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org/search?query=Encyclopedias+not+General;searchtype=subject

Library of Congress online catalog (searchable)
http://www.loc.gov/catalog/

Roget's II The New Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Simpson's Contempory Quotations (1950-1988)
http://www.bartleby.com/63/

University of Michigan image archives
http://images.umdl.umich.edu/i/image/all/

Virtual Reference Library
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/referenc.htm

World Fact Book 2000
http://www.bartleby.com/151/

SCIENCE

All about time
http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/chronos.html

Distance converter
http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=1&id=2

Interactive Weather Information Network
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/graphicsversion/main.html

Mad Scientist Library
http://www.madsci.org/libs/MAD_libs.html

Mass and weight converter
http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=1&id=1

Periodic Table of the Elements
(with extensive information about each element)
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html

SciQuest Foundation
http://www.sciquestfoundation.org/k12/index.html

Speed converter
http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=1&id=5

Sunclock
Where is the sun shining right now?
http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/sunclock/sunclock.html

Temperature converter
http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/mega.asp?type=2&id=9

Ultimate Science Fair Resource
http://www.scifair.org/

SOCIAL STUDIES

Africana.com
http://www.africana.com

Africast.com
Community and news for Africans and African-Americans
http://www.africast.com

AfricaOnline.com
http://www.africaonline.com

AOnline.com
Asian news and culture
http://www.aonline.com

Arabia.com
http://www.arabia.com

BlackVoices.com
African-American news and culture
http://www.blackvoices.com

CaribbeanSuperSite.com
Links to all things from the islands
http://www.caribbeansupersite.com

China.com
Portal to China, Hong Kong and Taiwanese news and culture
http://www.china.com

ExPat.ru
English-language site for Russians far from home
http://www.expat.ru

FranceTime.com
http://www.francetime.com

Government Information Locator Service (USA)
http://www.fedworld.gov/gils/

Guyana.com
Events in Guyana and the West Indies
http://www.guyana.com

Latino.com
An online community for those south of the border
http://www.latino.com

National Council for the Social Studies links page
http://www.ncss.org/links/

Netsperanto.com
Site for Americans with roots in Eastern Europe and Asia
http://www.netsperanto.com

PanIndia.com
News from India and Indian communities around the world
http://www.panindia.com

StarMedia.com
Portal for Latin American news and culture
http://www.starmedia.com

Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. - Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
    USA QuickFacts
    http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html
    Michigan
    http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26000.html
    Grand Traverse County
    http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/26055.html

US government resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/refgovernment.htm

VirtualJerusalem.com
News from the Holy Land
http://www.virtualjerusalem.com

Vitalog - The Book of Life
Features profiles of outstanding people from all times, places and walks of life
http://www.vitalog.com

White House home page
http://www.whitehouse.gov/

World Clock (time zones and more)
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

World history social studies resources
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/world.htm

WRITING

Creative Quotations
(search by utterer's birth date)
http://www.bemorecreative.com/cqs.shtml

EnglishZone.com
http://members.home.net/englishzone/index.html

Mrs. Smith's English Page
http://home.earthlink.net/~jesmith/index.html

Rhymezone.com
(online rhyming-synonym-definition dictionary)
http://www.rhymezone.com/

Strunk's Elements of Style
http://www.bartleby.com/141/

FUN STUFF

FamousBirthdays.com
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/

FunBrain.com
http://www.funbrain.com/

Morse Code (code table with sound clips)
http://www.teklasoft.com/java/applets/morse/table.htm

Sign Language
http://www.handspeak.com/

EVEN MORE LINKS

Bigchalk.com
http://www.bigchalk.com

Explore the Internet - Libary of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/global/explore.html

FactMonster.com
http://www.factmonster.com/

Homework Spot
http://www.homeworkspot.com

Kidsclick! search engine
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!

Landmark for Schools
http://www.landmark-project.com/

LibrarySpot encyclopedias
http://www.libraryspot.com/encyclopedias.htm

Searchopolis search engine
http://www.searchopolis.com

Yahooligans search engine
http://www.yahooligans.com