Timeline of Old Testament History About.com
As text timelines go, this is an awefully good representation of events in and around the Bible.

The Dakota Experience: Deadwood Illustrated South Dakota State Historical Society
Meet all kinds of people in the Dakota gold rush.

Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds - Kaiser Family Foundation
There was lots of reporting on this..one at Yahoo!: 'Media Multi-tasking' Changing the Amount and Nature of Young People's Media Use

NYPL Digital Gallery
The New York Public Library is making available 275,000 images digitized from its collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

WW2: The North Africa Campaign BBC - History

Paint the Cathedral Animation BBC
Students can bring the Cathedral facade backs to its splendor.

2005 National Education Summit on High Schools
Following up on the Bill Gates entry, here is the website for the 2005 Governors Summit. Also, you can find more info at Achieve.org, including their Action Agenda. And this little tidbit from Gates: "In 2001, India graduated almost a million more students from college than the United States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor’s degrees as the U.S., and they have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. " Full Text of Speech