On-line Resources for World History

World History for US All

– A free world history curriculum program.

– Includes lessons and units and “panoramic” PowerPoint presentations that you can download.

Bridging World History

– Professional development and classroom materials to support the teaching and study of world

history.

– Includes 26 thematic units such as Global Industrializationand Food, Demographics, Culture.

World History Matters

– Contains searchable archival databases, including one devoted to women in world history.

World History Connected

– Free online journal

– Includes textbook reviews by teachers

– Resource for World History “Makeovers”

Topics

– European Renaissance

– Africa

– The French Revolution

World Images

– Access to the CaliforniaStateUniversity IMAGE Project

– Contains over 60,000 searchable images that are global in coverage

– Free for educational use

Additional Resources Teachers Have Found Useful

This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity (2007) by David Christian

– Provides a short (90 page) “big” history of the world

Maps of War

–Contains a downloadable animated map of world religions. “3,000 years of religion in 90

seconds” and an imperial map of the Middle East over 5,000 years

The History of the World in Seven Minutes

– Video on the WHFUA website

– Archive of over 1500 images and maps in a searchable database.

Internet Africa History Sourcebook

– Contains a large number of primary sources for classroom use

Provided by Lauren McArthur Harris and Bob Bain, Ph.D., University of Michigan

WEB resources for Geography/History

Indian Ocean History (and the land surrounding this little-studied body of water)

Under MAPS, there are 7 interactive maps (by time periods from prehistoric to20th C). For each, there are primary sources with linked information about each of the following topics:

  • Documents
  • Technologies
  • Places
  • Goods
  • Geography
  • Routes
  • Travelers
  • Objects

An example: On the "Ancient Era" map, the icon about the wheel focuses on the starting place and spreading to other places. Good write-ups and excellent images.

“GIS for History" website is about U.S. history.

This sitepulls together some niceprimary sourcedocuments on the following topics:

  • Completed ones: Slavery,Great Migration,First Census, US Expansion
  • Under construction: Immigration,Native American Lands

Lesson plans (investigations) at this site use interactive maps, U. S. census data, and primary documents to help students interpret patterns and put events into historical context.

Historical Census Browser (making maps)

This site allows users to examine state and county data for individual census years (1790-1960) and,using a GIS tool, map one or more of the following categories:

  • General population
  • Ethnicity/Race/Place of Birth
  • Agriculture
  • Education and Literacy
  • Economy/Manufacturing/Employment
  • Slave Population

Access historical content

This site contains background content in a variety of formats, including:

  • Primary Sources
  • Ethnic Voices
  • Teacher Materials
  • Multimedia
  • Interactive Timeline
  • Visual History
  • History References

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