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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.
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Res Obscura
Functioning primarily as the personal blog of historian Benjamin Breen, Res Obscura stays true to its by-line by being ‘a catalogue of obscure things’.
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a free online archive of over 19,000 culturally significant primary source materials from around the world.
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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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Girl who died of Cholera
This is a page from a book containing a colored lithograph (reproduced here in black and white) depicting a girl who died from cholera. The lithograph's caption, “Blue Stage of the Spasmodic Cholera.
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Cholera Transmission
This map, created by Dr. John C. Peters and featured in the April 25, 1885 edition of Harper's Weekly, depicts the spread of cholera throughout the world and the major cholera pandemics that occurred in the nineteenth century.
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Dream Anatomy
This site, developed as part of an exhibit, remains a valuable online source for the study of the history of anatomy.
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Africa Online Digital Library
The site’s stated goal is the implementation of emerging best practices in the “American digital library community” in an African context, and it does not disappoint. Indeed, the site demonstrates a rare combination of scholarly sophistication, ease of use, and broad appeal.
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