Useful for nitty-gritty historical detail. Emphasis is on post-medieval history. Researching on the internet means making judgments about the quality of information. Some sites are simply misinforming, like the humorous Mankato Home Page , which attributes tropical qualities to a town just south of the Canadian border. One way to screen web sites is to use a web directory as your search engine.
Web directories vary in restrictiveness, but all have some sort of rating system for site inclusion.
Another highly regarded web directory is the Librarian's Index to the Internet , and also Looksmart . For both classical and medieval, a site that if fairly scholarly is Online Literary Criticism , of the University of Michigan. Offers biographical sketches and some criticism. For classical themes, one of the best scholarly sites is Tuft University's Perseus Project , which includes among its highlights the Perseus Encyclopedia and Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites . Perseus Project's historical overview is a fine place for comment on Homer in particular.