General

• The HEL (History of the English Language) Home Page (Dan Mosser)
• A Narrative History of England (Peter Williams) from pre-Roman times to the present
• Take Our Word for It A weekly web magazine of interesting origins of English words.
• World Wide Words (Michael Quinion) - Information about interesting English words.
• British History (Britannia) - timelines, documents, monarchs, biographies, etc.
• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Project Bartleby) - complete English literary history.
• Online Etymology Dictionary (Douglas Harper)

Phonetics and Phonology

• Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish (University of Iowa) - click on English sounds library (requires Quicktime and Flash plug-ins)
• The International Phonetic Alphabet (Peter Ladefoged) - vowel and consonant chart, sounds (requires RealPlayer)
• The Phones and Phonemes of English (George Dillon) - descriptions, charts, sounds of phonemes
• The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Home Page
• Phthong (University of Toronto) - exercises for phonemic transcription - Be patient. The Java app takes a while to load.
• IPA Articulators (SIL) - facial chart locates parts of the speech-producing mechanism
• Interactive Sagittal Section (University of Toronto) - shows points and manners of articulation for various phonemes

Nostratic and the Comparative Method

• "What We All Spoke When the World Was Young" - Feb. 1, 2000, NY Times article on language superfamilies and the comparative method
• "Linguists Debating Deepest Roots of Language" (1995 NY Times article on Nostratic)
• "The Early History of the Indo-European Languages" (Thomas V. Gamkrelidze and V. V. Ivanov) - 1990 Scientific American article on Nostratic
• The Nostratic Language (Wikipedia)

Indo-European

• The Indo-European Language Family (18:02) || Quiz
• Verner's Law (Ari Hoptman) - YouTube Videos - Part 1 (7:51) - Part 2 (3:12) - Part 3 (7:14)
• "Everything you wanted to know about Proto-Indo-European but were afraid to ask" (University of Texas)
• List of Proto-Indo-European Roots (Wiktionary)

Germanic

• Germanic Languages (Cyril Babaev)
• The Seven Distinctive Features of Germanic - linguistic features, Grimm's Law
• The Lord's Prayer in several Germanic languages (Cathy Ball)
• Indo-European Language Resources (Sean Crist) - Gothic, Old English, Old High German glossaries, Tocharian texts and notes, etc.
• The Germanic Invasion of Western Europe (University of Calgary)

Old English

• Old English Pages (Cathy Ball) - texts, fonts, art, links, etc.
• Old English/Anglo-Saxon (Omniglot) - brief explanation with focus on the OE alphabet and its pronunciation; links
• Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry - texts of all surviving OE poetry; no translations or recordings
• The Electronic Sermo Lupi ad Anglos (Melissa Bernstein) - Old English sermon with manuscript image, texts, translation; good for learning to read Old English script
• Bright's Anglo-Saxon Glossary (Sean Crist) - abridged Old English dictionary
• Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Ondrej Tichy) - complete Old English dictionary.
• King Alfred's Old English Grammar - complete OE grammar with modern grammar review, useful exercises
• Old English Aloud (Steve Pollington) - texts, readings in OE Poetry - Click on capital letter for sound. RealAudio
• Introduction to Old English (Peter Baker) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, useful exercises
• An Online Course in Old English (Murray McGillivray) - pronunciation, grammar, texts, RealAudio recordings

Middle English

• "Sumer is icumen in" - manuscript image (London, British Library, Harley MS 978, f. 11v); RealAudio recording (Elly van Gelderen's audio page)
• "Alysoun" manuscript image (London, British Library, Harley MS 2253, f. 63v)
• Chaucer's General Prologue (Edwin Duncan) - text, translations, RealAudio readings, manuscript images, bibliographies
• Chaucer's Language, Pronunciation, and Vocabulary (Elizabeth Rehfeld) - explanations, charts, sound recordings of phonemes and texts, grammar of Middle English
• The English Language in the Fourteenth Century (Larry Benson) - explanation with links to French and Latin borrowings, bibliography, other useful information
• The Middle English Compendium (U. of Michigan) - the MED (Middle English Dictionary), searchable library of Middle English works, and more
• Thomas Usk's Testament of Love (R. Allen Shoaf) - text, manuscript images, audio recording
• Elly van Gelderen's Audio Page - links to RealAudio recordings of readings in Old and Middle English
• Library of On-Line Middle English Texts (Labyrinth) - texts without translations
• TU Chaucer Course Home Page (Edwin Duncan) - texts, audio, links

Early Modern English

• The Great Vowel Shift (Melinda Menzer) vowel sounds (requires Java plug-in) - useful, informative
• The Great Vowel Shift (Larry Benson) - explanation, charts, vowel sounds
• Renascence Editions (Richard Bear) - English works printed 1477-1799
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare (James Matthew Farrow)
• The King James Version of the Bible (U. of Michigan)

Modern English

• Yankee or Dixie Quiz (Harvard Computer Society) - take a short quiz to learn how much of your speech is Yankee and how much Dixie
• American Varieties (PBS)
• Dialect Survey of the U.S. (Bert Vaux)
• The Best of British: the American's Guide to Speaking British (Mike Etherington)
• The American Dialect Society Home Page
• American Dialect Links (Claudio Salvucci) - extensive set of links to various regional dialects, many informal and fun
• A Phonological Atlas of North America (U. of Pennsylvania) - descriptions, maps, links
• Language Varieties (U. of New England [Australia]) - AAVE (African-American Vernacular English), other world pidgins and creoles
• Speech Accent Archive (George Mason U.) - sound recordings of various language speakers reading an English paragraph
• MLA Language Map (Modern Language Association) - county-by-county breakdown of over 300 languages spoken in the U. S. A.
• The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes - take the survey and record your dialect.
• The Voices Recordings (BBC) - sound recordings of dialects in dozens of locations in Great Britain