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Tasveer Ghar (A House of Pictures)
This database would be most useful for instructors teaching modern South Asia and for students in college-level seminars.
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The Song Dynasty in China
What makes this module particularly interesting is its usage of a 12th century picture scroll as a means to explore various facets of Chinese life during this period.
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Constitute: The World’s Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare
Constitute provides full text for almost all active constitutions around the globe, making it a powerful teaching tool for government, political history, and civic engagement.
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Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time
These thousands of photographic images, maps, and texts focus on Shanghai during the pre-1949 period, bringing a wealth of visual material previously scattered among various institutions to students, teachers, and scholars.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The historical material that is presented from multiple angles carefully allows the material to speak for the catastrophe and reconstruction.
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Abdul-Hamid II Collection Photography Archive
Teachers and students of the history of children and youth will be particularly taken by the vast array of education-themed photographs, which reveal a strong emphasis placed on schooling by the Ottoman Empire at the time.
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Museum of the City of New York: Byron Collection
The Byron photographers took as its subjects all manner of social life in and around New York; the collection includes private subjects (family portraits and home photographs), but the bulk of the collection documents public life and public institutions.
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Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive
At its heart is a collection of "Photographs", "Case files", and "Learning materials" from one of the many philanthropic societies dedicated to the care of children in Britain at this period.
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Japanese Incarceration Camps Sites
One of the richest sites on this topic is the Denshō Website, which documents the lives of internees through text, photographs, maps, and video interviews with survivors.
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