World
Civilizations: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/. This site is the
basis for two Washington State University online world civilizations
courses, but its contents are also open to general web browsing. It is
most valuable for its many, many very useful essays narrating all eras
and most areas of world history. Its supplementary areas (recommended
weblinks, maps, primary documents, glossary definitions) are spotty
(broken links, unfinished areas), but also valuable when present.
Exploring Ancient World
Cultures: http://eawc.evansville.edu/. Created by the University
of Evansville in 1997, this site doesn't seem to have grown much since
then, and now contains lots of broken or changed links. But it is still
useful for it clearly organized pages and subpages of links to
chronologies, essays, images, primary document texts and websites about
various ancient and medieval cultures. Subsaharan Africa, the Americas
and other major culture areas are omitted, but the site focus does
include most of the Mediterranean and Asia greats: the Near East (the
lands between the east Mediterranean shore and India), India, Egypt,
China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe.
MERLOT - Multimedia
Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching:
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po . A huge site, once requiring an expensive
subscription, but now available free. It's self description says it
well: "Links to online learning materials are collected here along with
annotations such as peer reviews and assignments." Teachers can find
very useful websites containing a huge amount of multimedia
resources.
Edsitement:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/websites_all.asp. Subtitled "The Best of the
Humanities on the Web," this NEH page contains annotated links to what
it has identified as top humanities sites.Subdivided in a variety of
ways to make searching easier. Focus is on sites suitable for
pre-college students, but sites identified as 9-12 usually contain
materials of value at least to introductory level college students. Site
can be set to look only for younger or older student levels.
The Best of History Web
Sites: http://www.besthistorysites.net/. Like Edsitement, this
site provides descriptions, ratings and links to history-related sites
judged especially worthy for educators. The topics in which sites are
listed include chronological and area ones, plus those best for K-12
lesson plans/activities, multimedia and research.
The WWW Virtual Library:
http://www.vlib.org/Overview.html. Go especially to subpages for the
Humanities (Note that History is listed under it), Regional Studies and
Society.
PBS History:
http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/. This site
contains hotlinks to the very large number of individual PBS sites
developed to accompany history-related PBS serieses. This is a very rich
resource for sites that might be assigned as supplemental "virtual field
trips" for students to visit or review, and also used by teachers as
background resources for themselves.
Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History Table of Contents: http://www.teacheroz.com/toc.htm . Offers a great array of links to other pages, many of which can be useful from which to harvest media and other teaching resources.
Big Lists of
Links
Art History Resources on
the Web: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html. A very
big, very rich site kept very up to date by Professor Chris Whitcombe
of Sweet Briar.
Photographic Image Databases (not restricted to one place or
time)
Cities/Buildings
Database: http://www.washington.edu/ark2/
Art Images for
College Teaching: http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html To quote the site, "AICT is a free-use image resource for the
educational community." Its images are almost entirely Western, with
just a few non-Western (a few Pacific Northwest Native American and
Mayan), but a number of very useful images for the Ancient through
Modern Mediterranean cultures.
Digital
Imaging Project -- Art historical images of sculpture and architecture
from pre-historic to post-modern:
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index3.html. Large collection
of slides collected by Mary Anne Sullivan of Bluffton College. Almost
all are early and classical Mediterranean and then European from early
Christian through 20th century eras. "Prehistoric" slides do include
some of North American pueblos. Also images of work by women
architects.Indexed 3 ways: chronologically, by sites and by artists
& architects. ll are available for unrestricted educational
use.
Jacques-Edouard Berger
Foundation World Art Treasures:
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/. This site reflects the 100,000+ slide
Berger collection for North African, East and South Asian and
Classical and Medieval European art. Its links lead to many very
useful but almost completely uncaptioned slides. A very useful
resource for the instructor who already knows what s/he is doing, and
only needs links to existing online images.
Wadsworth/Thompson
Learning World History Image Bank:
http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/image_bank/index.html.
Site consists of links to (as of early 2002) 14 subpages each
containing 20-30 very useful teaching images.All non-US areas
represented. Most were donated by William Duiker. Copyright-free Images: The site specifically
gives permission for their use "in the classroom or for non-commercial
education purposes".
Asian Historical
Architecture: In its own words, it is "a photographic survey
of Asia's architectural heritage. Here you can view over 6500
photos of 461 sites in seventeen countries, with background
information and virtual tours. This website is a collection of photos
from many different contributors." Unfortunately, the website does not
spell out what uses viewers make legitimately make of its photographic
collection.
Images From
History: http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/index.html. This
site, created by Haines Brown, was one of the very early ones up on
the web. It contains lots of thumbnail images divided first into his
distinctive three eras of Archaic, Ancient, and Feudal (the fourth,
Capitalist, is no longer available). Useful for traditional closed
classroom settings, but note that Professor Brown says that he
originally used all images under the theory of educational fairuse, so
he has, and can provide, no copyright permission.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art Online Collection:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/index.asp This page has
links to 20+ subpages for different collections, at least half
non-American. Each of these collection contains many dozens of images of
museum collection pieces. To make navigation easy, they can be viewed in
batches of 50, 10 or 1. Many come in various image sizes. Very useful
source of images. According to the site's terms and conditions
statement, unaltered images from the Museum's Web site may be placed on
a file server at educational institutions "if there is no charge for the
user and if electronic distribution is of limited term to your school or
museum only.... All of the accompanying caption information must be
included without alteration, and the citation should include the URL
'www.metmuseum.org'."
WebMuseum:
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/. One of the really early image-rich sites put
up on the web, with pages still dated 1995 and 1996, it neverthe less is
a rich trove of very good images of mostly European art. Its curator,
Nicholas Pioch, makes clear that he considers the images copyright-free,
since they are all of art over 50 years old, with the photographic
images donated freely for educational use.
Art Institute of Chicago:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/. Has
some very nice online images for each of its permanent collections,
which are mostly Western (including Ancient Mediterranean), but also
some African, Amerindian and Asian. Of particular value is Cleopatria: A Multimedia Guide to
Ancient Art, meaning Egyptian, Greek and Italian. (See
full description below, in Egyptian, Roman & Greek sections.)
State Hermitage
Museum: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html. A
very up-to-date, well organized, searchable website for Russia's great
museum. Offers a limited number of useful images, plus some nice
interpretive essays giving context for various eras. All images
copyright protected.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
http://www.mfa.org. Go especially to the Guide to the Collection.
Site is useful on many levels. Its online collections offer more than
500 images of art works from a broad variety of world culture areas,
plus some very nice "Explorations" essays for each area. Do note MFA's
very restrictive use policy: NO image reuse allowed without specific
permission.
Christus Rex
(Vatican): http://www.christusrex.org/www1/icons/index.html
Internet History
Sourcebooks: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/. All of these seem
to be the work primarily of Paul Halsall, and together represent an
immense resource primarily for online texts, but also often a good
amount of multimedia nd many useful links to related
websites.
-
Ancient
History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html. Covers
Mediterranean world topics: Human origins, Ancient Near East, Egypt,
Greece & Hellenistic world, Rome, and Late Antiquity
- Medieval History
Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html. Again focused on
Mediterranean world topics mostly Europe, Byzantium and Islam. His
sections of selected sources, full text and saints' lives. Good map
and image links plus guides to films and music.
- Modern History
Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html.
Western-focused starting with the Protestant Reformation, but also
includes many century non-western world topics through colonial
topics. More world topics starting with the breakup of colonial
empires
- African
History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html. Earliest to
modern eras
- East
Asian History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html.
Earliest to modern era. Very dominantly China and Japan, but some
limited resources for Korea and other area countries. Excellent on
Buddhism
- Indian
History Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html.
Earliest era to present; includes 20th century sources for all
subcontinent countries
- Islamic
History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html.
Pre-Islamic Arabia to present; 20th century texts are mostly Middle
Eastern countries. Some very useful maps.
- Jewish
History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html People of
Canaan to present. Some very nice soundfiles.
- History
of Science Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html Compiles specifically-scientific topics from areas
covered in all other Sourcebooks.
- Women's
History Sourcebook:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html Very
helpful compilation of sources included in all the other
Sourcebooks
The Avalon Project
at the Yale Law School:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm. Large and growing
collection of "documents on law, history and diplomacy." Organized by
century (pre-18th, 18th, 19th & 20th) and alphabetically by
author/title, subject, and/or event. Also searchable. Site gives
permission to use all documents "on your website or in your classroom
for any educational or non-commercial purpose."
Perry-Castaneda Library Map
Collection Online: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/.
Copyright-free Images: Excellent source for copyright-free digital maps, both with modern
borders and showing earlier historic boundaries. See especially the Historical
Map collection at
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html. Altogether
contains about 5000 digital map images, all copyright free because they
were scanned from sources in the public domain (see Map FAQ at
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/faq.html#3.html).
About.com
Geography: Free Blank Outline Maps of the Countries and Continents of
the World:
http://geography.miningco.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm. About.com used
to be The Mining Company. It has hundreds of different sites, each
focused on one topic, with a Guide who creats annotated lists of links
to that topic. Copyright-free Images: Its Geography site includes this subsite of about 200 -
as it says - free (fairuse) blank outline maps. The outlines are just of
coastline and political borders; no rivers, dots for cities,
etc.
National Geographic Maps
& Geography: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/.
See especially the Xpeditions
Atlas, which offers a dozen outline maps (the world, the
continents, and a few others), each of which can be viewed in either
.gif or .pdf format, with or without political boundaries, and with or
without location names visible. Copyright-free Images: all
are available for unrestricted non-commerical use, either in the
classroom or online.
Florida Geographic
Alliance: http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/maps.html. Copyright-free Images: A useful
assortment of outline maps of all major world regions, presented with
the statement "Feel free to use them in any lesson or classroom." Note
they Require Adobe Acrobat 4.
Education Place
Outline Maps (Houghton Mifflin):
http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/index.html/ Significantly upgraded from
its earlier version, now uses Adobe Acrobat (free download Reader 4.0 or
better required) and all files are in .pdf format. Copyright-free Images: site
says "These maps may be printed and copied for personal or classroom
use."
Ancient
World Mapping Center Maps for Students:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/awmc/content/html4/mapsforstudents.html.
Contains free digital maps intended for high school and college level
courses on the Classical Mediterranean world. Wheelock
maps are provided in both .pdf and .jpg as well as labeled and unlabeled
versions. Copyright-free Images, somewhat restricted in use: The site gives permission for classroom and online educational
use that does not change map images; in additional correspondence site
master Tom Elliott also gave permission for instructors to use map
images as a base, with additional geographic marks added. In all cases
credit to the site should be given with each use.
Hyper
History:
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html Not
university-level in coverage, but useful for its simple, effective
colored world and regional maps for many different eras. Students often
like its timelines as a review resource.
Historical Atlas of
the 20th Century: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/20centry.htm.
Fairly large, interesting variety of interpretive maps, mostly
concerning Great Powers (including China).
Graphic
Maps Free Clip Art Outline Maps:
http://www.graphicmaps.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm. Very simple black
and white outline maps of the world, all continents and regions. Most
with modern political boundaries but a few without. Copyright-free Images: All available for
almost unrestricted use, with a link back to the site.
Shock-ing
Geography: http://www.depauw.edu/learn/shock_maps/. INTERACTIVE
outline map site created by Daniel J. Pfeifer of Wake Forest University.
Using it students can first learn and then quiz themselves on physical,
current political and some historical map information. Historical maps
are so far only for Europe 1763-1914, but physical and current political
maps cover most world areas. Instructors can have results of student
self-quizzes emailed to them. Requires Shockwave software.
Paleolithic French Cave
Paintings: Very
technologically-sophisticated sites, best viewed with Netscape or
Internet Explorer browsers of 4.x or above. If faced with a blank black
screen, try moving the mouse around and/or clicking. Some maps, many
very good images and explanatory & interpretive
essays.
Ancient
Near East
Oriental
Institute Virtual Museum:
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/QTVR96/QTVR96.html. Contains
hotlinks to two very rich subpages of the University of Chicago's
Oriental Institute website: Highlights
from the Collections and Photographic
Archives. All images are copyright protected, but work well
online when reached via a link to the OI site. Each image is
accompanied by both full identifying detail and a helpful short
explanatory essay.
Discoverers
Web: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/index.html.
This site contains a large number of links to webpages concerning both
broad and very specialized topics about discoverers from pre-history to
fairly recent times and in all areas of the world .Most links are not
annotated, but one sub-page of links to multi-page sites does include
annotations.
International Museum of the
Horse Online History Exhibits: http://www.imh.org/museum/ From prehistory to the present,
divided chronologically and covering many world areas.(The horse is
central to an amazing number of historic developments.) This site's
narrative offers both analysis and fascinating tid-bits, plus many
excellent images.
Engines of Our
Ingenuity: http://www.uh.edu/engines/engines.htm. Hundreds of
very brief essays which are really the scripts for short radio pieces
done by John Lienhard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and History
at the University of Houston. A great source of both memorable tidbits
and the many roles of technology & invention in history.
Mostly post-Medieval and Western). Unfortunately there seems to be no
page listing and organizing all episode titles by category, but you can
either do keyword searches or just read down the whole list of titles on
the Keywords
page: http://www.uh.edu/engines/keywords.htm.
Silk Road
Seattle: http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/index.shtml.
To quote the site's own introduction, it was developed as part of the
Silk Road Seattle project, a "collaborative public
education project exploring cultural interaction across Eurasia from the
first century BCE to the sixteenth century CE." Its resources include
images of both artwork and travellers' photos of cities and
architecture, translations of documents, maps including interactive
self-quizzes, interpretive essays, curriculum guides, and lists of other
print and online resources.
The
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual
Record:
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php. Site is
by Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.. It has
thousands of images, many out from under copyright. Copyright-free
Images: The authors
say that all of these are provided for use, including posting online, "
the personal use of students, teachers, scholars, and the general
public. Any commercial use or publication of them is strictly
prohibited."
Africa Focus: Sights and
Sounds of a Continent: http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/.
University of Wisconsin, Madison site containing a large number of
digital images originally donated to the university's African Studies
Department. Altogether contains 3000+ slides and 500+ photographs plus
50 hours of sound from 45 different African countries. Site can be
searched by by topic, country, keyword. Copyright-free Images: All materials may be
freely copied for any personal, teaching and research purposes.
Searchable in multiple ways.
BBC World Focus: The Story of Africa: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/index.shtml . Rich although overview-level site with sub-pages on Early History, Nile Valley, West African Kingdoms, The Swahili, Religion, Slavery, Central African Kingdoms, Africa and Europe, Southern Africa, Between the wars, and Independence. Each subpage includes text excerpts from original sources, plus some "Listen" soundfiles. To play these, look for a separate sound player box that should pop up behind the webpage window.
Ancient Americas
The Sport of Life
and Death: the Mesoamerican Ballgame: http://www.ballgame.org/main.asp?section=5. Very rich
interactive site created by NEH and Mint Museum of Art. Includes
timeline, maps showing all major cultures, great amounts of specific
information, scholars' comments, a video reconstruction,
etc.
Ancient Architects of the Mississippi: http://www.nps.gov/archeology/feature/feature.htm . National Park Service Site for Moundbuilders. Some illustrations reflect earlier assumptions of their daily life (gender roles, etc), and all seem to be copyright restricted.
Asia for
Educators:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/japanworks/index.html. An excellent
Columbia University site seeming intended for the secondary level, but
with many elements useful for introductory university-level
instructors.
- Asian
Topics: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/asiasite/index.htm.
Created by Columbia University, this site features a growing number
of multi-media subpages on a variety of Japan and China topics.
These pages include a number of very brief background statements by
noted experts in each field, video and sound clips, class resources
and recommended print and web resources.
- East
Asia in World History:
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/webcourse/tempintro.htm
Asian
Historical Architecture: http://www.orientalarchitecture.com.
Site contains a great many photographs of buildings and sites from
most east and south Asian areas. Site organized first by state and
then by specific historic sites within each state. Use of each image
is donated by travelers who retain copyright. Site says "Images may be
reproduced for educational purposes only, with permission of the
authors. Higher resolution versions of many of the photos are
available upon request for educational use."
Ask
Asia Instructional Resources:
http://www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Resources/index.htm.
Clearly aimed at the secondary level, but includes some useful
"copyright cleared" photos, plus a good deal of material very useful
to the beginning instructor.
Minneapolis
Institute of Arts - Arts of Asia: http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/asia.cfm.
Beautifully designed site with subsites on China, Japan and Tibet. The
China site has an excellent sub-subsite of simple but
classroom-effective maps for all the eras of Chinese
history.
Britain
Spartacus Internet
Encyclopedia: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ An encyclopedia-style online free resource focused mostly on British
history, medieval era on. (Also some US). Contains a number of useful
images and text selections; helpful to instructors fleshing out new
topics. Includes subpages on Medieval World, British History
1700-1900, Industrial Revolution, WWI, Slavery 1750-1870, RR
1780-1900, Emancipation of Women 1750-1920, and Investigating
the Vietnam War.
The Victorian
Web: http://www.victorianweb.org/ A big
site with lots of subpages on all sorts of related topics. Contains
texts, essays, some images, bibliographies, links, etc.
The British Empire:
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/. Very definitely written
to the popular level by an English teacher, but it contains a large
variety of very useful images as well as a number of interpretive
articles by academics. Recommended by the BBC as a valuable
educational resource.
China
A Visual
Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization by Patricia Buckley Ebrey:
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm. This is an excellent
and extensive online visual accompanyment to Ebrey's excellent print
Chinese Civilization reader. Limited
amount of copyright-free images: Some
images are public domain but others are on her site with permission
only for that site, so many of its resources are best used either
through links to the site or visited there by students. The site is
organized into modules focused on the themes of Chinese geography,
tomb archaeology, Buddhism, calligraphy, military technology,
painting, homes, gardens, clothing, and graphic arts.
China the
Beautiful: http://www.chinapage.org/china-rm.html. A
rich smorgasboard of topics concerning China, including broad art,
music, literature, history.
The Song Dynasty in China (960-1279) : http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/. Part of the Columbia University Asian Topics in World History, Asia for Educators site. It's subtitle is "Life in the Song seen through a 12th century scroll" referring to the famous Beijing Qingming Scroll which offers such an excellent image with which to build students' visual literacy skills. The very rich, excellent site includes a bibliography, online readings and scholars' essays, maps, and other class materials and recommended links.
Classical Mediterranean
Diotima: Material for the Study of
Women and Gender in the Ancient World:
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/. A wonderful gateway to all sorts
of resources on both Greece and Rome: Course syllabi , texts, essays,
bibliographies, images, links, etc. One of the best big sites
there is.
The Perseus Project
:http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ A digital library of Greek
& Latin texts, some in translation, plus some other resources).
Excellent resource.
Maecenas:
Images of Ancient Greece and Rome:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html. As of Spring 2002
the site contains about 1800 photographs taken by Professor Leo C.
Curran (retired? Classics, SUNY/Buffalo). Unrestricted educational copyright-free use of images:
to quote Prof. Curran "You many do
anything you like with these images. The only exception: no commercial
use."
Egypt
Pilgrimage to
Abydos: http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Abydos/. This site,
built using early frames technology, still can work well for students
to visit as a virtual "field trip," although perhaps guided by some
additional instructor's directions and questions. When all interactive
links are followed and explanations understood, the site provides an
indepth look at the complexities and interactions of Egyptian
architecture together with religious and political
beliefs.
Mark Millmore's Ancient
Egypt: http://www.discoveringegypt.com/. Millmore, according to
his own online biography, is a professional artist & designer who
has studied Egypt fairly seriously, and put his artistic skills to
work designing simple, effective online graphics demonstrating and
explaining various aspects of Ancient Egyptian cultural achievements
(pyramids & temples, mathematics and hieroglyphics). Copyright-free Images: Millmore specifically says he will permit reuse of his
images "for Educational, non-profit purposes" provided he's credited
with a link back to his site, and permission is asked of him via
email.
Color Tour of
Egypt: http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/egypt.html. This page was
created by the University of Memphis's Institute for Egyptian Art and
Archeology in 1996. It contains a number of subpages, each with a
limited but very nice assortment of images (available in different
file sizes) of some of Ancient Egypt's most important sites. The
largest size images load quickly and work very well as illustrations.
All are copyrighted so should be used only as links
online.
Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to the
Ancient World: http://www.artic.edu/cleo/. Created by
the Art Institute of Chicago, this site requires QuickTime software.
Although presented in a style understandable by secondary students,
its many QuickTime movie presentations provide rich, fascinating
detail about ancient Egyptian, Greek and Italian beliefs, practices,
technologies, etc. [To see movies the "Stories" button then one of the
buttons that appears.]
Hieroglyphics
Translator: http://www.quizland.com/hiero.mv. This one is just
for fun, but is a real student favorite. Key in any name or phrase and
almost instantly get it translated into the sort-of correct hieroglyph
symbols. The result doesn't seem to be available for the usual "save
image" command, but a screen print captures it and can be pasted into any
graphic editing program.
Amiens
Cathedral:
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/index-frame.html A wonderful
small-focus website, using the power of computers to let students
experience in a complex way the full glory of medieval cathedral
architecture. Also a great source of images and information for
instructors.
Celtic Art & Cultures:
http://www.unc.edu/celtic/. Site was developed out of a University of North Carolina course in Celtic Art. Features several galleries of images and designs, as well as timelines, maps, and a glossary.
France
Chateau de Versailles: http://www.chateauversailles.fr/en/index.php . Official site of Versailles. Includes a number of very useful images and some good pamphlet-level information.
Fondation de l'OEuvre Notre-Dame (Building of Notre Dame/English version): http://www.oeuvre-notre-dame.org/indexgb.htm. Not to the level of the Amiens Cathedral website, but still well worth visiting. To navigate, look for very small yellow triangles appearing within the larger window. Hover over one and you should see that it is a link to either "Page Suivante" or "Page Precedente" - the next or previous page.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity:
Exploring the French Revolution:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/. This site, created by significant FR
scholars Lynn Hunt and
Jack Censer, contains more than 600 texts, images, maps, and songs
plus provides the contexts by which to understand them.
Greek (Ancient) - see also Classical
Mediterranean
Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/about. Maintained by Tufts University. In their words: "Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world."
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology's The Ancient Greek World: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html. Built around images of artifacts from the museum collection, this site provides good short pages of information on Ancient Greece's Land & Time, Daily Life, Religion and Death, Economy and Extra Topics. For example, Daily Life covers women's lives, men's lives, and life in the house.
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html. As of Spring 2002 the site contains about 1800 photographs taken by Professor Leo C. Curran (retired? Classics, SUNY/Buffalo). Unrestricted educational copyright-free use of images: to quote Prof. Curran "You many do anything you like with these images. The only exception: no commercial use."
India
The Ancient Indus
Valley: http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html A
very useful site for India's earliest Indus River/Harappan
civilization.
Japan
Visualizing Cultures – Image-Driven Scholarship: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html. An excellent new resource from MIT aimed, as its introduction says, at exploring "the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning." As the title suggests, it is very rich on images. As of early 2009 it
has 13 units on both Eastern and Western perspectives on 19th & 20th century Japan, going from Black Ships & Samurai (Perry's arrivals in 1853 and 1854) and Ground Zero 1945. There are plans for a similar assortment of units on 19th and 20th century China.
Visual
Literacy Exercise- 53 Stations of Tokaido:
http://www.csuohio.edu/history/exercise/vlehome.html This
site is valuable to instructors not for its great Hiroshige blockprint
images of Tokugawa Japan but also for its interactive nature. Student
visitors get very good guidance and experience in how to evaluate
visual images as historic sources.
Edo Tour:
http://www.us-japan.org/EdoMatsu/. An extremely rich, interactive site
taking visitors on many sub-"tours" of late 18th-century Tokugawa
Japan. written for about a secondary school audience, but filled with
detail likely to be of value to at least introductory college level
study. Especially rich on details of all levels of daily
life.
Middle East
Encyclopedia of the
Orient: http://www.i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm. Despite its
name, covers North Africa and the Middle East. As its name suggests,
covers many hundreds of topics in brief encyclopedia style. Easily
navigated, contains a number of useful teaching-level images and
maps.
Arab Net:
http://www.arab.net/ Covers all Arab states, so more than just
the Middle East. Click on any country's flag, and its subpage comes
up, with subpages for Geography (modern maps) and History (brief,
introductory level, but sometimes useful).
Rome (Ancient) - see also Classical
Mediterranean
Ancient Rome:
Images and Pictures:
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/faculty/fjust/Rome.htm. A collection of over
240 photographs of Roman area monuments and sites plus maps and
illustrations from Samuel Ball Platner's 1904 The Topography and
Monuments of Ancient Rome. Copyright-free Images:
Images copyrighted to Prof. Felix Just, S.J. of Loyola Marymount
University, who makes them freely available for online and classroom
for all non-profit educational use but asks credit and a link back to
his website.
VRoma:
http://www.vroma.org/images/image_search.html. Copyright-free Images: The site clearly says that "images in the VRoma Archive
are freely available for all non-commercial use on the web. Users may
link to the images on the VRoma server or download them for use on
their own server."
PBS's The Roman
Empire in the First Century:
http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/index.html. Developed as a public
school resource to accompany the TV program on this subject. While
aimed at pre-college level students, it also offers detailed surveys
useful for at least introductory-level college students. Has timeline,
extensive essays on Roman Empire, Ancient Voices (good excerpt texts),
Social Order and Life in Roman Times. It contains no maps of its own,
but does offer a Web
Resources page
(http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/about/resources.html) with many
useful links including those to maps.
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/index.html. As of Spring 2002 the site contains about 1800 photographs taken by Professor Leo C. Curran (retired? Classics, SUNY/Buffalo). Unrestricted educational copyright-free use of images: to quote Prof. Curran "You many do anything you like with these images. The only exception: no commercial use."
Russia
Soviet Archives Exhibit:
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html. Supporting website for the LC exhibit of internal Soviet government
documents. Basic exhibit is divided into two "floors": Internal Workings of the Soviet System and The Soviet Union and the United States. Includes essays, small and large images of documents, and
often English translations of them.
United States (including Colonial era)
[just barely a start...]
Large Gateways
Library of Congress pages:
http://www.loc.gov/. Look especially at two subsites: Exhibitions: An Online
Gallery: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ for permanent online
versions of past and present LC exhibits and American Memory - American History in
Word, Sound and Pictures: http://memory.loc.gov/. According to
the website as of Spring 2002, American Memory offers links to "more
than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical
collections."
Gilder Lehrman History
Online :
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/gl7.htm. Annotated Links:
As of February 2002 entitled "Pathways to the Past: The Best
U.S. History Teaching Resources on the World Wide Web." In
appearance this seems to be a work in progress, but already this
clearly annotated, chronologically arranged list is a very valuable
source for many very useful websites. See also the Gilder Lehrman homepage
(http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gl/) for other useful
History Matters:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/. A very rich website created by George
Mason University, designed for US history teachers at both the high
school and college level.
Picture History - The Primary
Source for History Online:
http://www.picturehistory.com/. Site features lots of very
useful images and some sound files from US history, colonial times -
present. It is arranged under all sorts of useful categories plus has
a good search function. Copyright-free Images: It appears to make all images available for
personal and educational fairuse plus offers paid higher resolution
copies for what it calls professional use.
WebCorp
Multimedia: http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm. The
URL given is actually somewhat misleading, but works better than the
WebCorp top page. The page that will come up is actually to WebCorp's
Historic Audio Archives page, but it comes accompanied by a side frame
with an additional "MultiMedia" button that leads to some very short
Nixon video clips.
History and Politics Out Loud: http://www.hpol.org. Politically significant sound files from people like JFK, FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Churchill, and Martin Luther King.
Specific Topics
The Great Chicago Fire & the Web of Memory: http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/. Created by the Chicago Historical Society with the technological help of Northwestern University. Contains a rich assortment of documents, images, sound files, essays, etc.
New Deal Network: http://newdeal.feri.org/. The site contains lots of 1930s era document texts and photographs plus both lesson plans and interpretive essays.
The Triangle Factory Fire: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/ .
A rich site recently made richer by the addition of 2 volumes of full text transcripts from the trial of the factory's owners.
Below are a list of websites all of which have some
(varying) value to the study of world women's history, and thus were
recommended as subjects for a Women in World History class Website
Review assignment. Several are the product of one non-professional's
personal point of view; a few others are the result of a great many
professional historians and graphic designers working together. Some may
have changed since they were selected in 2000.
Ancient Mediterranean World Women
European
Women
American Women: (links assembled as choices
for website review assignment)
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