World History
This fantastic collection is well-organized by time period. Click on a period and the site takes you to a menu with an introduction, documents, images, and maps. As my colleague Jeff Feinstein, who sent this to me says, "it's great for classroom use."
- David Rumsey Map Collection
While browsing yesterday, I found a fun map site. The David Rumsey Map Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. It includes maps, atlases, globes, school geographies, and maritime charts. This site is...
- Nos Los Inquisidores - Harley L. Mcdevitt Collection On The Spanish Inquisition
Nos Los Inquisidores - Harley L. McDevitt Collection on the Spanish Inquisition. Extensive collection of documents from the Spanish Inquisition, maintained at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. From the site: In November 1996 the University...
- Google & The Fall Of The Iron Curtain
Google's Cultural Institute has an awesome collection on The Fall of the Iron Curtain with videos, documents, and images curated by historian Niall Ferguson. You can read more about the project on Open Culture where I found this information...
- Google Cultural Institute
Google has an amazing collection of online exhibitions dealing with world history. The collection is called The Cultural Institute. The collections include exhibitions on D-Day, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, and Nelson Mandela. The images are awesome ...
- Who Wants To Be A Cotton Millionaire
Studying the Industrial Revolution? Take your kids to the computer lab and launch this site and have them play this game. It allows them to evaluate the different factors that entrepreneurs had to make if they wanted to make money in the new cotton industry....
World History
Awesome Collection of German Documents & Images
This fantastic collection is well-organized by time period. Click on a period and the site takes you to a menu with an introduction, documents, images, and maps. As my colleague Jeff Feinstein, who sent this to me says, "it's great for classroom use."
- David Rumsey Map Collection
While browsing yesterday, I found a fun map site. The David Rumsey Map Collection focuses on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. It includes maps, atlases, globes, school geographies, and maritime charts. This site is...
- Nos Los Inquisidores - Harley L. Mcdevitt Collection On The Spanish Inquisition
Nos Los Inquisidores - Harley L. McDevitt Collection on the Spanish Inquisition. Extensive collection of documents from the Spanish Inquisition, maintained at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. From the site: In November 1996 the University...
- Google & The Fall Of The Iron Curtain
Google's Cultural Institute has an awesome collection on The Fall of the Iron Curtain with videos, documents, and images curated by historian Niall Ferguson. You can read more about the project on Open Culture where I found this information...
- Google Cultural Institute
Google has an amazing collection of online exhibitions dealing with world history. The collection is called The Cultural Institute. The collections include exhibitions on D-Day, Anne Frank, Auschwitz, and Nelson Mandela. The images are awesome ...
- Who Wants To Be A Cotton Millionaire
Studying the Industrial Revolution? Take your kids to the computer lab and launch this site and have them play this game. It allows them to evaluate the different factors that entrepreneurs had to make if they wanted to make money in the new cotton industry....