History

General

• BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Home Page : The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life.
• IconicPhotos at wordpress.com
• 12 Maps That Changed the World: Is there such a thing as a perfect map?
• 12 Weapons That Changed Everything by Josh Herr, The Fiscal Times
• Hacking the Nazis: The secret story of the women who broke Hitler's codes / The Women Who Helped Crack Nazi Codes at Bletchley Park

Religion

• 5000 years of religion in a few seconds - shows the spread of current major religions (with a timeline). From MapsOfWar.com
• These are the 12 worst ideas religion has unleashed on the world
• Dr. Joel Hoffman: Five Ways Your Bible Translation Distorts the Original Meaning of the Text: Unfortunately, etymology, internal structure, and cognates are the three pillars of Bible translation. And with them, the power of history and a focus on the wrong parts of metaphor degrade all English Bibles even more.
• Does Kin Selection Explain The Evolution Of Religion? - NPR

Teaching History

• Teaching History.org

Specific events

Human Population Movements

• Making of Europe unlocked by DNA BBC 2013-04-23
• Faces, Places, Spaces: The Renaissance of Geographic History by Adam Gopnik (A Critic at large, The New Yorker)

Discovery of the Americas

• Full text of "Voyages To Vinland The First American Saga Newly Translated And Interpreted"

Vikings

• Secrets of the Viking Sun-Compass -- After Dark
• Did the Vikings Get a Bum Rap?
• How the Vikings became the world's first climate change profiteers - Salon.com: Historians have long puzzled over the explosive growth of the Vikings. Now a new theory is gaining steam.
• Vikings Traded First (Then Plundered), Study Suggests - LiveScience, 2015-05-16.