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Digital Innovation South Africa
Bringing together primary source material from archives, libraries, and universities from across South Africa, DISA provides researchers, teachers, students, and the public with valuable access to a period of history that reshaped not only South Africa but the world as well.Review
What's on the Menu?
A delectable slice of the internet that serves up tasty morsels of the culinary history of New York, What’s on the Menu? is a fusion of digital archive and collaborative transcription project that is equal parts brilliant, mouth-watering, and historically significant.Review
Canadiana
With a catalogue containing sixty million pages of material spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, scholars and educators will have no shortage of material to consult on every aspect of Canada’s past.Review
BBC Ancient Egypt
Created with the help of academics, writers, and broadcasters, the BBC’s Egyptians webpage provides an excellent, easily digestible overview of Ancient Egypt through a series of essays and photo galleries.Review
Primary Source: Educating Global Citizens
Such sources are indeed a superb addition to one’s class; unquestionably the materials on the Primary Source site can help enhance any class.Source
Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to Emperor Charles V, 1520
This text is an excerpt of a letter sent from Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to the Spanish King, Charles V, in 1520.
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Juxtapose: Easy-to-make frame comparisons
This tool is perfect for historians because it emphasizes visual representations of change over time.Review
MapWarper
This can be a powerful tool to understand the spatial orientation of past places or events and to present spatial history projects directly onto contemporary maps.Review
Livingstone Online
While the site is primarily dedicated to digitising the famed British explorer’s works, Livingstone Online is far more than a mere repository of primary sources.Methods
Analyzing Maps
The map is one of the oldest forms of nonverbal communication. Humans were probably drawing maps before they were writing texts. Mapmaking may even predate formal language. As far as historians and geographers can determine, every culture in every part of the world uses and makes maps.