- Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
 - Including information on socio-economic trends, systems of government, wars, and religion. - Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
- The top twenty achievements in terms of their impact on the quality of life, chosen by the National Academy of Engineering and its collaborators.
- Geneva Convention of 1949@
- Titanic, The@
- Pop History Now
- Features a random year in pop history every weekday. Covers music, televison, movies, news, and politics.
- BoondocksNet.com
- Considers the history of imperialism. Covers such topics as anti-imperialism in the U.S., Mark Twain's writings on the Philippine-American War, political cartoons, Rudyard Kipling, and the World's Fairs.
- World History
- E-texts and maps by Frank Smitha. Covers antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the twentieth century.
- EyeWitness: The 20th Century
- First-hand accounts of historic events including sinking of the Titanic, 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Lindbergh's flight over Atlantic, and Scott's 1912 expedition to the South Pole.
- Lectures on 20th Century Europe
- Lectures on Europe in the 20th century, Nietzsche to the fall of Soviet Communism. Part of The History Guide.
- Cottingley Fairies Hoax@
- Learn about Cottingley Fairies, the mysterious photos of fairies taken by two English girls which later was disclosed as fake. Sites feature the story, legends of fairies, photographs, theories, alternative views, and critique of the fairies on film.
- League of Nations (10)
- The Dictatorship.com
- Takes a slightly more tongue-in-cheek approach to highlighting the actions and atrocities of some of the century's famous dictators.
- Piltdown Man Hoax@
- 20th Century Women
- Journal of stories from the lives of women, recording their places in the workplace and society.
- Legacy Project, The
- Working to build a cultural and artistic library of scholarly research and innovative presentations of the many historical tragedies of the 20th century.
- 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco
- Images and history.
- Time 100
- Presents the most important people of the 20th Century, as selected by the editors. Also features the results of a readers poll.
- 1918 Influenza Pandemic (8)
- People's Century
- Relive the events of the 20th century through the eyes of the people who witnessed them. This site features a timeline of 20th century world events, teaching notes, and more.
- Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The@
- 1901 Pan-American Exposition@
- 1900s
- Features a text and .wav audio retrospective of the 20th Century, from 1900-1999.
- 1947 Partition of Palestine@
- That Wacky Century!
- Stuff that happened from 1901 C.E. to 2000 C.E.
- Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire@
- Inter-War Years, The
- Annotated timeline of the years between World War I and World War II.
- Death of the Father: An Anthropology of Closure
- Focuses on the idea of the death of a leader and his symbol as a father figure in the regimes of Mussolini, Hitler, Hirohito, Ceausescu, Stalin, and Tito.
- Mine Workers Union@
- 20th Century, The
- Stories, timeline, pictures, and video from The Associated Press (AP).
- Genocide in the 20th Century
- Provides overviews of such occurrences as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Pol Pot in Cambodia, the Nazi Holocaust, Nanking, Stalin's forced famine, and the Armenians in Turkey.
- BBC World Service: My Century
- Thematic weekly features focus on a particular aspect of life in the 20th century.
- Roaring Twenties, The
- Historical snapshot of life in the 1920s as recorded in period publications. Primarily focused on the United States.
- 20th Century History
- Provides photographs, timelines, maps, and more.
- One Man's Window on the 20th Century
- Thurston Griggs' memoirs. Includes accounts of the Nazi rise to power, his experience as a conscientious objector in WWII, life in China before the Communist takeover, his research in speech transcription technology, and his work on behalf of the Appalachian Trail.
- Infoplease: Chronology of the Twentieth Century
- Covers world and U.S. events, literature, entertainment, awards, and sport.
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