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History

Avalon Project
Read the contents of the most influential documents in law, history, and diplomacy - global scope, from 18th to 21st Century.

Hyper History
Elaborate timelines with short entries on events and people.

This Day in History
Find out what happened today, and any day, in history by the History Channel.

Presidential Rhetoric -- information relating to American presidents, political communication, and rhetorical criticism. There is also an archive of Presidential speeches dating back to George Washington and a Top 100 speeches archive with text and streaming audio.

Genealogy

GENI
Geni is a family-tree-making service that's free and incredibly easy to use. It also has a straightforward way to invite other family members in the hopes that they'll put in their own data.

Cyndi's List
Categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet.

Ellis Island Records
Search Immigration records.

FamilySearch
Family History Library, Salt Lake City.

The USGen Web Project
A volunteer maintained project providing free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. Organization is by county and state, and this website provides you with links to all the state genealogy websites which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties.

Maps & Geography

TopoZone
Online USGS topographical maps of the entire U.S.

MapQuest or Yahoo!Maps or Google Maps
Create zoomable maps of your choice from your input of a location’s address in the U.S. and other countries. Create driving directions between starting and destination points.

Library of Congress Map Collections
Digitalized maps of subject matters and areas of interest – (1500–2002).

TerraServer
Zoomable aerial views of much of the U.S.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
A very extensive collection of maps and links covering the world and a wide variety of map subjects.

Weather Underground
View various maps of the weather conditions and find the weather for any city, state, zip code or country.