Contributing Sites

With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Children and Youth in History website was designed to help teachers and students learn about young people throughout history by providing access to information about the lived experiences of children and youth from multiple perspectives.

Women in World History reflects three approaches central to current scholarship in world history and the history of women: an emphasis on comparative issues rather than civilization in isolation, a focus on contacts among different societies, and an attentiveness to "global" forces, such as technology diffusion, migration, or trade routes, that transcend individual societies. 

A resource center designed to help high school and college world history teachers and students locate, analyze, and learn from online primary sources and further their understanding of the complex nature of world history issues.

This site provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important documentary evidence from the Revolution, including 338 texts, 245 images, and a number of maps and songs.

This site examines a famous 17th-century conspiracy trial involving Japanese mercenaries, Dutch officials, and English merchants. Designed for teachers and students interested in European empire, the place of Japan in global history, and the politics of torture and waterboarding.

Making the History of 1989 explores the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe through essays, primary sources including scholar interviews, and case studies. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Global History Reader is a collaborative project between researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and Warwick University in Coventry, UK. The goal of the collaboration is to develop a comprehensive set of resources for students and teachers of global history.