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World History on the Web

I. Geography 

• Some facts about our planet (maps of world climates and biomes)
• Find the continents
• Another continents quiz
• Interactive maps (bookmarked)
• Test your geography knowledge (lots of interactive quizzes)
• Map puzzles (Owl & Mouse)
• WorldMapper (fascinating collection of world maps showing distribution of wealth, income, population, and other variables among the nations of the world)
• NationMaster 
• Mapping History (includes maps showing changes over time)
• Maproom.org (tremendous collection of old atlases in the public domain; good image quality)
• Eduplace Outline maps 
• Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection; including many historical maps; PCL's directory of outline maps
• Online Map Bank (Pearson)
• Old Maps - James Ford Bell Library
• Historical Atlas showing changes in many countries over long periods
• National Geographic Student Atlas (MapMachine)
• Maps, Graphs, and Tables from major textbook (Kirshlansky, Civilization in the West)
• Outline maps (Perry-Castaneda Library)
• Outline Maps (Washburn U.)
• Oxford Student Atlas: Interactive world maps
• WorldAtlas.com
• Maps of Early Modern  Africa
• Charting North America
• Historical Atlas (mostly Europe)
• games 4 geography
• Shocking Geography (quiz yourself)
• Maps showing historical changes in Europe 
• Historic cities (original images of early cities, available in high resolution)
• David Rumsey Collection
• Maps (Le Monde - current issues)
• Mapping globalization

II. Overviews of world history

Current events

• Current events in historical perspective
• Digital Journalist
• Google News - Generating timelines of current events
• Current Events
• Google News
• Places in the News (Library of Congress)
• iCue (NBC videos and other content on U.S. history, the 2008 elections, English, and current events)

General resources & references

• World Digital Library
• Google News Timeline
• Explore (video documentaries from around the world)
• Academic Earth (video lectures from universities about many subjects)
• The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, received the first Newberry Award when it was published in 1922
• Country Studies (Library of Congress research reports on 102 countries)
• CIA World Factbook
• Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project (large and growing collection of books written between 1880 and 1923, including history, folk tales, poems, and stories; well formatted for easy reading)
• Children and Youth in History
• International Children's Digital Library (colorful online books, many historical in theme)
• History for Kids
• Encyclopedia of World History
• A World History Encyclopedia (easy to read)
• World History for Us All (curriculum based on National History Standards)
• History World (British, well-designed, searchable)
• Best of History Web Sites
• HyperHistory Online
• World History Database
• History Guide (recommended for adults looking for a clear synthesis)
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook
• Eyewitness.com (entertaining primary sources)
• Primary sources
• Hanover Historical Texts Project
• Global History Sourcebook (primary sources)
• Bridging World History (excellent videos, a bit advanced, from the Annenberg Foundation)
• Finding World History (directory of primary sources, by region and by National History Standard unit)
• Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
• Guns, Germs, Steel (interactive Web site created for Jared Diamond's book and PBS series)
• Why do civilizations fall? (interactive)
• Military history encyclopedihttp://www.localhistories.org/index.htmla
• World Civilizations (Peter Stearns' textbook)
• History World
• World History sites (from FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
• World History at KMLA (very useful collection produced by a private school in Korea)
• British History Timeline (BBC)
• British History in Depth (BBC)
• BBC History (excellent overviews in support of England's national history curriculum)
• School History (UK)
• What in the world is that? Ingenious inventions throughout history
• Engines of our ingenuity (archived radio broadcasts about technology in world history)
• History of happiness
• Calvin and Hobbes

Pedagogy 

• Why historical thinking matters
• Interactive introduction to primary sources
• John D. Clare (20th century teaching resources)
• Primary Resources (UK)
• Learning Curve (UK)
• UC - Irvine History Project
• Instructional strategies
• National History Standards
• National History Education Clearinghouse
• Making Sense of Evidence (U.S.-focused)
• Historical Scene of Investigation
• Interactive History Games (UK)
• Teaching History with Technology

Podcasts (general lectures and discussions about history)

• Historical podcasts
• History podcast network
• World at War podcast
• Dan Carlin's hardcore history
• History on the Air
• LearnOutloud History podcasts
• LearnOutloud World History podcasts
• Voices from the Days of Slavery (Library of Congress)
• Military history
• 12 Byzantine Rulers
• History of Buddhism
• Talking History (Organization of American History)
• National Archives (UK): Past Masters
• History according to Bob
• In our time (history of ideas - BBC)

Farming and Food

• Harvest of History
• Agricultural Revolution
• 2008: Year of the Potato
• Food Timeline (with old recipes)
• Plant Cultures: People and Plants
• Salt
• Understanding Chocolate
• Chocolate, Food of the Gods

Population and Disease

• The World at Six Billion
• Population Growth over Human History
• Population Reference Bureau
• Contagion: Historical views of diseases and epidemics
• World of infectious diseases
• Global disease alert map
• History of Medicine  and Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
• History of Western Biomedicine
• Diseases in history (Spartacus)
• Smallpox (UCLA exhibit)
• Smallpox: A great and terrible scourge (NLM)
• Plagues and People
• Cholera Online (National Library of Medicine)

Beliefs

• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Myths (Flash animation of several  myths)
• BigView (thoughtful essays on Buddhism, Taoism, and Greek philosophy)
• BBC Religion
• Beginnings
• Biblos.com (searchable Jewishand Christian bibles in many translations)
• The Religious Movements Page
• Puja: Expressions of Hindu devotion
• Jewish Encyclopedia (classic work published in 1901-6)
• Jewish Virtual Library
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Muslim Heritage
• Council on Islamic Education
• Spirit of Islam: Exploring Islam through Calligraphy
• Buddhism (BBC); 35,000 images of Buddhist art
• Taoism (BBC)
• Taoism overview
• Buddhist Studies
• The Dhammapada (Buddha's sayings on ethics)
• Sayings of Confucius (MP3 audio recording)

Art and Images

• Interactive timeline of art history (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• The poet speaks of art (famous historical paintings, with poems written about them)
• World religions in art
• BibliOdyssey (lots of fun - misc. collection of visual primary sources)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: European Paintings
• Hermitage Museum
• Himalayan Art Project
• Exploring World History through Documents and Images: Poster Art and World History
• Turning the Pages (books from the British Library; interactive; ancient Hebrew, Islamic, and Christian texts)
• Steedman Architectural Collection
• WebMuseum (famous paintings & painters, useful for for history students)
• Modern History in the Movies
• Historical movies in chronological order
• Berger Foundation: World Art Foundation

Places (miscellaneous)

• Africa
• Africa South of the Sahara
• Art of being Tuareg
• Wonders of the African World (PBS series with Henry Gates)
• On the Line: Eight countries on the equator (incl. Mali, Ghana, and Algeria)
• Mapping imperialism and decolonization
• Asia
• Asia for Educators
• AskAsia for kids
• Indian Ocean  (interactive)
• Visualizing Cultures (images and essays on modern Japan)
• Story of India (PBS)
• Visualizing cultures (movies about Asian history)
• Saudi Aramco World (outstanding illustrated magazine; the print version is free)
• Australia, indigenous (including spoken "dream stories")
• Europe
• Europeana (portal of European culture; digital archive)
• Shaping of Modern Europe (IB curriculum, published by a French school)
• British History Timeline (BBC, interactive)
• British Cartoons Archive
• German History in Documents and Images
• Europa: EU at a glance
• Dutch Empire
• Russia
• Russian heritage
• Introduction to Russian Culture
• The empire that was (color photographs of imperial Russia)
• Washington, DC
• United States
• American Memory (Library of Congress; primary sources organized by topic)
• U.S. History.org (Independence Hall Association, includes an online textbook of U.S. history)
• Smithsonian's History Explorer
• Making of America (digital versions of 10,000 books and 50,000 articles written in 19th century U.S.)
• Gilda Lehrman Institute of American History
• Price of Freedom
• EASE (collection of images for teaching and comparing events)
• American Social History Online
• Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach [U.S.] History
• Social history of advertising (Marchand)
• Story of Racism (video documentary on development of racism and eugenics)
• United States from Revolution to Reconstruction (history of U.S.)
• Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture 
• Editorial cartoons (Dirksen Center)
• Herblock's History (political cartoons)
• Digital History (U.S. history, with timeliness, textbooks, sources, etc.)
• Early advertisements
• Emergence of Advertising in America
• Early Advertising in the West
• Advertising (Library of Congress)
• 1920s radio and newspaper links
• New Deal Network
• Picture This: California perspectives on American history
• Valley of the Shadow (classroom use of primary sources - Civil War)
• Encyclopaedia of US History: Events and Issues 1860-1900

III. Course Web sites by topic

China and the Mongols

• Living in the Chinese Cosmos
• A visual sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
• The Mongols in World History | Asia Topics in World History (excellent multimedia resource!)
• Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation
• The Historical Mongol Empire
• Timeline of the Mongols
• Ethnographic Table of Contents (pictures of central Asia today)
• Genghis Khan: Trail Head @ nationalgeographic.com
• Mongol Empire - Wikipedia
• Genghis Khan: Timeline @ nationalgeographic.com
• Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire
• How did the Mongols link East and West?
• Marco Polo and his Travels
• Central Asia in World History (GIS - mapping)
• Chinese History index (www.chinaknowledge.org)
• Wild Horses of Mongolia with Julia Roberts | PBS
• Mongols WebQuest

China and the Silk Road

• Geographical setting
• Silk Road Maps
• My Journey on the Silk Road
• Where the pepper grows
• Belief systems along the Silk Road
• texts
• Deciphering Buddhist Imagery (interactive)
• Traveling the Silk Road (special issue of Saudi Aramco)
• Monks and Merchants | Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century
• The Silk Road
• Silk Road Foundation
• Silk Road Seattle
• Zhang Qian: Opening the Silk Road

Medieval Europe 

• The Middle Ages (Interactive)
• Middle Ages
• ...Weather forecast for the early 14th century (background to famine of 1310s"
• Interactive map showing size of Byzantine Empire over time
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Medieval Millenium (excellent resource, but text is somewhat advanced)
• The Middle Ages (Interactive)
• Interactive map showing size of Byzantine Empire over time
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Medieval Millenium (excellent resource, but text is somewhat advanced)
• King Egbert, The man and his times (England at the time of Charlemagne and the Vikings - very informative, good images)
• Feudal life
• Medieval Europe for Kids 
• Gode Cookery ( recipes)
• Medieval castle "walk throughs"
• Medieval art (Met. Museum)
• Medieval life
• Images of medieval art and architecture
• Beowulf (spoken version)

Islamic Empires

• Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (PBS)
• Worlds of 1300 (maps)
• Empire of Faith (PBS)
• Muslim Heritage
• In Focus: The World of Islam @ nationalgeographic.com
• Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
• Muslim Travelers and Mapmakers during the Middle Ages
• Ibn Battuta (easy-to-read adapted version of his travels)
• Ibn Battuta on the Web
• Ibn Battua: The Longest Hajj (3-part, illustrated article)
• Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354
• Old World Contacts/Diplomats & Other Travellers/Ibn Battuta
• Ibn Battuta - The great traveller
• The Travels of Ibn Battuta
• On the Edge: Timbuktu (NPR)

Black Death

• Path of the Black Death in Europe (classroom activity)
• Great Famine/Great Plague
• Plague Home Page (CDC)
• Decameron Web (Plague)
• The Black Death and the Jews, 1348-1349
• Discovery Channel: Moments in Time: Black Death
• History of Medicine - Plagues and Peoples: the Columbian Exchange
• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
• Secrets of the Dead . Mystery of the Black Death | PBS
• The Florentine Chronicle

From the Crusades to the Fall of Constantinople (1453)

• The Crusades and the rise of Islam
• Glories of Byzantium
• The Byzantine Empire
• Fall of Constantinople (YouTube)
• Rise & Fall of Ottoman Empire (maps)
• Discover the Ottomans
• Virtual Tour of the Suleymaniye Mosque (Istanbul)

The Reformation 

• Maps of Early Modern Europe
• Atlas of Early Printing
• Renaissance (Annenberg/CPB)
• Martin Luther: "On the Freedom of A Christian"
• Martin Luther, "On Secular Authority: How Far Should It Be Obeyed?"
• Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850)
• Henry VIII
• Sacred Musica (Catholic music from the counter-Reformation and other times)
• Days of Royalty (interactive, comparative)
• Wars of Religion
• Huguenots (from Huguenot Memorial Museum in South Africa)
• The Peasant War in Germany by Frederick Engels
• Thirty Years War (includes primary sources about conditions during the war); more sources on this  destructive war

Explorations

• European Voyages of Exploration: 15th - 16th centuries
• A history of navigation (animation)
• Columbus and the Shape of Things to Come (Columbus wasn't trying to "go west"; good slideshow)
• Columbus and the Age of Discovery (dozens of short articles written about  the 500th anniversary of 1492)
• Indian Ocean and Global Trade (special issue o f Saudi Aramco)
• Caravel (the type of ship used by the first explorers)
• Exporation through the Ages -  Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia
• Conquistadors (PBS)
• Beyond the Map (explorations of the Pacific northwest in the 1700s)
• New World (Texas Council for the Humanities)
• The Conquest of Mexico (AHA)
• Hernando Cortes on the Web
• Potosi's Silver Tears.
• Discoverers Web Homepage - links and information on voyages of discovery
• Discoverers Web: Primary sources
• British Empire (Learning Curve - UK)
• Images of London, 15th century to the present

Global Trade: Spices, sugar, and "colonial products"

• Colonial products (coffee, tea, sugar, etc.)
• Trading Places (how England's trading companies built the British Empire)
• Yemen's well-traveled bean (coffee)
• History of sugar cane
• The sugar and slave trade
• Sugar and the slave trade
• Sugar (Wikipedia)
• How sugar is made
• Chocolate: The Exhibition (Field Museum); making chocolate (interactive); chocolate challenge
• Dutch East Indies Company
• Encyclopedia of spices
• Another encyclopedia of spices (McCormick)
• Spices
• Spices: Exotic Flavors and Medicines (UCLA)
• History of spices

Rise of the Slave Trade

• Images of precolonial Africa
• Slaves' Stories
• Recovered Histories
• Slave narratives (animation, Museum of the African Diaspora)
• House of Slaves (Senegal)
• Africa and the Caribbean
• Transatlantic Slave Trade (Schomburg Center)
• Transatlantic Slave Trade: Statistics (Emory U.)
• Wonders of the African World (PBS series with Henry Gates)
• Breaking the Silence: Learning about the Translatlantic Slave Trade
• Slavery Images
• Excerpts from slave narratives
• The Slavery Business (Open University)
• Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
• Understanding Slavery
• Black Presence in Britain
• The Story of Africa| BBC World Service
• Encyclopaedia of Slavery
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives
• The Slave Trade
• Exploring Amistad: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America
• BBC News | AFRICA | Focus on the slave trade
• JuneteenthPictorial "The Middle Passage"
• Africans in America | Part 1
• The Middle Passage (PBS)
• Freedom - A history resource about Britain and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• PortCities Bristol
• Port Cities: The Slave Trade
• History of Slavery: UNESCO Culture Sector
• Slavery in America
• The Slave Trade
• African Slave System
• Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

Scientific revolution & Enlightenment 

• European Enlightenment
• Copernicus: Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies
• Galileo Project
• Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration
  
• Kant: What is Enlightenment?
• Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary
• Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
• Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Atlantic Revolutions & their impact

• Louis XIV - biography
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
• Imagining the French Revolution
• French Revolution (primary sources)
• Origins of the French Revolution (plus Lectures 12, 13, 14, 15)
• Social causes of the French Revolution
• British newspaper coverage of the French Revolution
• The French Revolt and Empire
• Marie Antoinette
• Napoleon
• Anti-Napoleon (cartoons)
• Napoleonic period (cartoons)
• Napoleonic Wars
• Battle of Trafalgar (animation)
• Insects, Disease, and Military History (another view of Napoleon's rise and fall)
• Simon Bolivar
• Bolivar,  "Jamaica Letter" (statement of his beliefs)
• Louverture Project (about Toussaint and the Haitian Revolution)
• Haitian Revolution (about Toussaint)
• Frederick Douglass (National Park Service)
• Parliament and the British Slave Trade, 1600-1807 (includes sources and dramatizations)
• Frederick Douglass (PBS)
• Abolitionist Movement (anti-slavery) (Encarta)
• Thoughts Upon Slavery by John Wesley (1774)
• Abolition of Slavery (William Wilberforce)
• African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachussetts
• David Walker (abolitionist) (includes links to his writings)

Industrial revolution 

Victorian life

• Beneath the Surface: A Country of Two Nations (19th century Britain)
• British newspapers (newspaper articles about great developments of the 19th century)
• British Prime Ministers: Interactive Timelines
• The Victorians (interactive BBC site for school use)
• British Empire: Overview (audio)
• Sceptered Isle (extensive BBC series with information about 90 episodes in history of British Empire)
• Irish Potato Famine
• Related information about potato famine
• The Origin of Plant Pathology and the Potato Famine (and Other Stories of Plant Diseases)
• Views of the Famine
• British Rule in India, by Karl Marx
• John Snow (UCLA site on the man who discovered the cause of cholera)
• Cholera Online (National Library of Medicine)
• History of the Atlantic Cable and Submarine Telegraphy
• The Great Transatlantic Cable (PBS Web site devoted to TV special about the cable)
• Victorian Web
• Victorian Britain: An industrial nation? A happy nation? A healthy nation?
• Britain, 1906-1918 (Learning Curve, UK)
• Prisoner 4099 (a boy imprisoned for stealing rabbits)
• Charles Darwin
• Origin of Species
• Darwin and art
• Pine Tree Web (primary sources on early history of scouting around the world)
• Provisioning a Transatlantic Liner (Scientific American article, 1901)

Nationalism & socialism 

• Luddites (interactive simulation)
• Opposing voices
• Labour History: Special Topics
• Owned by the Miners (Wales; a photography exhibit)
• Images of industrial England (Bill Brandt; 1930s)
• Marxists.org Internet Archive (primary sources)
• The Internationale (anthem of workers' movement)
• Paris Commune (as seen from the left; includes Marx's Civil War in France)
• Art to the People (19th century Labor cartoons)
• Political Protests of the 19th century
• 19th Century Germany
• The Nationalism Project: What is Nationalism?
• German Unification
• Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
• Italian Unification
• Eugenics Archive (part of Cold Spring Harbors' interactive Gene Almanac)
• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions

Imperialism (late 19th century) 

• Primary sources on imperialism, WWI, and the interwar years (O'Brien)
• White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (BBC video on Belgian Congo)
• Punch cartoons (relating to British Empire; good for self-image and imperial arrogance)
• British Empire (Learning Curve - UK; many primary sources)
• British Empire
• British view of imperialism
• ABC for Baby Patriots (London, 1899)
• African resistance
• Boer War
• Boxer Rebellion
• Anglo-Zulu War
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914
• Imperialism sources
• Place in the Sun speech (Wilhelm II)
• Primary sources on imperialism - motives, Africa, Asia, etc. (from Palmer, textbook)
• John Hobson (Spartacus bio)
• John Hobson: Imperialism, 1902
• Map showing Western imperialism in China
• Colonial Schoolbooks (Belgian Congo); primary sources on how Congolese children were taught to understand themselves under Belgian rule.
• Benefits of British Rule (primary source, India, 1874; gratitude to the British combined with condemnation)

World War I  and aftermath

• Origins of World War One
• Casualties (mobilized, wounded, killed); general statistics of the war
• Maps: Campaign atlas to the Great War (West Point)
• Experiencing War (Veterans' History Project)
• Historians' commentaries on the Great War
• Propaganda postcards of the Great War
• WWI (Best Web sites)
• Dogs of War (satirical maps of European countries portrayed as various animals, 1914-5)
• Rats of the Western Front
• Encyclopedia of the First World War
• BBC - World War One (points of view)
• First World War Digital Poetry Archive
• First World War Poetry
• World War I Poetry (Halsall)
• The Great War: Original poetry and postcards from the war
• Color photos of World War I
• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of the Somme (video)
• WWI newspaper reports by D.H. Lawrence and others, read aloud
• The Great War (primary sources for school use)
• Illustrated History of the Great War (from Punch magazine)
• The Genocide of the Armenians (book)
• Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (report on the massacres by a  historian)
• Armenia: Memories from my Home
• Armenian genocide
• World War I documents
• The Heritage of The Great War 1914 1918
• Trenches on the Web - Reference Library
• The Great War | PBS
• The World War I Document Archive
• British War Posters
• Art of the First World War
• Propaganda: Images of Nationalism
• Summons to Comradeship: WWI - WWII Postcards and Posters
• The National Archives Learning Curve, The Great War (original film)
• The Middle East and the West: WWI and Beyond
• Killer Flu: Background - PBS
• Influenza, 1918 (American Experience)
• The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 (WebMD)
• Influenza in the First World War
• The First World War
• Music clips - patriotic songs from the Great 
• Trench Warfare (TeacherTube video)
• Versailles Treaty
• Causes of the Great Depression

Fascism and Communism 

• Political Writings of George Orwell
• Russian Revolution, October, 1917
• Adolf Hitler
• Germany, 1900-1945
• Don Henry Story - American student & Spanish Civil War
• They Still Draw Pictures (children's art from Spanish Civil War)
• Iron Guard - Romania
• Italian Life Under Fascism
• Mussolini, "What is Fascism?" 1932
• Fascism: A reader's guide

Propaganda 

• Soviet Posters
• "A Summons to Comradeship:" WWI and WW2 Posters & Postcards (searchable)
• The Illustrated Enemy (original propaganda posters, illustrations, and postcards)
• Propaganda (Holocaust Museum)
• Posters
• Political cartoons (by Dr. Seuss)
• German Propaganda Archive
• Political Propaganda (Florida International University)
• British Government Propaganda during WW2
• Spanish Civil War posters
• Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
• Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Netz-Quelle Geschichte und Politik (Nazi and socialist posters)

World War II 

• Voices from World War II (radio broadcasts)
• Eyewitness to History: Sources from WWII
• BBC's On This Day: Events of WWII
• Maps: World War II - European Theaters (West Point)
• Powers of Persuasion
• Outbreak of war (1939 articles from British Telegraph)
• Nazi Invasion of Poland in 1939 (90 photographs)
• The War (materials related to Ken Burns documentary)
• Voices of World War II
• In the Face of History (great photographers, strong images)
• Audie Murphy (war hero, subject of 1955 movie)
• BBC History of World War II
• D-Day
• Normandy 1944
• Animation of the landings
• D-Day (American Experience)
• Voices of D-Day
• Modern World History Revision Site (in support of British national curriculum)
• Second World War Encyclopedia
• French Resistance
• World War II: The Soviet Experience
• What did you do in the war, Grandma?
• Bombing of Dresden
• Surviving the firestorm (from Victor Klemperer's diary)
• Battle of the Bulge (interactive)
• Churchill's Speech on the Iron Curtain

The Holocaust 

• Animated overview of the Holocaust; of World War II (Holocaust Museum)
• Auschitz album
• Best Holocaust movies for children (annotated list of "safe" movies, 2001)
• Escape from Auschwitz (PBS television program)
• Propaganda: Visualizing otherness
• Trials of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg trials)
• Video from Steven Spielberg archive of contemporary Jewish history
• Organizing the history (photos for analysis; Holocaust Museum)
• Shoah Foundation Institute
• Holocaust Timeline: The Rise of the Nazi Party
• Surviving Auschwitz
• Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz
• Anne Frank, Writer
• White Rose Group (young German resisters)
• Child Survivors (BBC); Give me your children (portraits of children in Lodz ghetto; USHMM)
• Holocaust: Personal Histories
• Yad Vashem exhibitions
• Righteous among the Nations (Yad Vashem program to recognize people who saved Jews)
• Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS)
• Holocaust era in Croatia (multimedia exhibit on the Jasenovac camps)
• Nuremberg Trials (PBS)
• Genocide under the Nazis (BBC)
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online
• Women in the Holocaust
• Holocaust Cybrary remembering the Survivors, Remember.org
• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• History Place: Genocide in the 20th Century
• Eugenics: A faultline in history
• Facing Ourselves and History
• I'm Still Here (MTV special on teens in the Holocaust)
• Racism: Are We so Different?
• Teaching the Children of Willesden Lane (requires free registration with Annenberg Foundation)

• Cold War cartoons by Edmund Valtman (LOC)
• Cold War propaganda posters
• Cold War (UK, Learning Curve)
• Cold War Museum: Resources
• China and the Great Leap Forward (propaganda posters)
• Windows through the Curtain (photographs of shop windows in Eastern Europe)
• Duck and Cover (1951 government film for children); Communism (1952 film)
• Berlin Airlift
• 1968
• Vietnam Online (PBS)
• Vietnam (Spartacus)
• May 4 collection (Kent State shooting in 1970)
• 1989 (end of the Cold War)

Globalization: Trends and Issues 

• Globalization (National Geographic)
• Visualizing empires in decline
• WorldFocus (excellent TV show on foreign news)
• New Global History
• The Globalist (analysis of major issues, for high school students)
• Global Envision (Mercy Corps)
• Yale Global Online
• Teen experience of war
• The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
• Drawing on terror (editorial cartoons & bias)
• Terrorism resources (Library of Congress)
• The Middle East and the West (PBS)
• Teaching Tolerance
• The First Measured Century (PBS)
• Pandemic Flu (U.S. government)
• Avian flu (CDC)
• Word for Word (interviews with leaders - PBS)
• Slavery Today
• Save Darfur.org
• Darfur is Dying (interactive game)
• Ripples of Genocide (eastern Congo)
• Cambodia Genocide Program (Yale)
• Rwanda: Through the Eyes of Children
• The U.S. and Genocide in Rwanda
• When radio kills (from Freakonomics blog)
• Genocide Watch
• Preventing Genocide