Just What The World Needs: A New History Site

An Internet junky receives all sorts of tips about new resources on the Web. Just today, one of my tipsheets touted a new history Web site: WorldHistory. If this is (fair & balanced) spamming, so be it.

Depending on what type of student you were, history may or may not have been your favorite subject in school. Of course, if you were like some students, the very concept of actually having a favorite subject may have been too much for your brain to comprehend. The fact of the matter is that history doesn’t have to be a boring overview of the dates when political events happened. The schooling system sculpts your thinking into that mold, but much more in involved in history. Obviously, anything that took place before this very second is history, and the scope of what that includes is ridiculously vast. Click on WorldHistory to learn what happened in the past.

When you arrive at the site, feel free to type in any topic that you want to learn about. As you would expect on a world history site, you can search for information on someone like George Washington, but you can also use it to learn more about George Clooney's past. The dates are accurate, and the details are specific. The "This Day in History" page is helpful for figuring out what happened in the past on that exact day, and you can even have this information e-mailed to you. Whether your tastes are for political, pop culture, or any other information in between, WorldHistory will try to tell you about it.

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