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Logo and name for the International Dunhuang Project
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International Dunhuang Project

The IDP, based at the British Library in London, is an international collaborative effort to catalog, conserve, and encourage research of Silk Road artifacts. This website, which currently displays around 20,000 digitized images of these artifacts, is one product of this larger effort.
A woman dressed in a kimono and hair in Japanese style sits in a room playing a shamisen. A tray with a tea set and a tobacco tray are placed next to her, and a screen is placed at her back.
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Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period

The site will be useful to instructors looking to add visual sources to enliven a discussion of Japanese history at this critical moment in which Japan confronted the threat of Western imperialism and embarked on its own urgent project of modernization.
Australian War Memorial
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Australian War Memorial

This website provides extensive information about the history of Australia at war, through primary and secondary material, as well as information about the memorial itself.
Detail: Black and white photograph of two girls in dresses standing in front of a tree
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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.
Detail of the header for The Illustrated London News showing the word "News" over part of the London skyline
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The Illustrated London News

In sum, the archive has a variety of delights for the historians to search through, and a well-organized website, though no great depth of coverage or supporting material.
1914 cartoon reading "Bound for Berlin: The Great War Game" encircling a German soldier with a frightened look
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Cartoons

This site provides students and teachers alike with a way of enlivening their approach to British political and social history. The website has a huge amount of material available, and it is well organized to help the researcher find cartoons from a particular cartoonist, or on a particular theme.
Phelps mourning embroidery from American Centuries' collections. It shows two people visiting a grave flanked by weeping willows.
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American Centuries

A section of the site called "In the Classroom" offers numerous lesson plans for elementary and middle-school teachers, some written by museum employees and some by schoolteachers themselves, using materials in the online exhibits.
Logo for Austrialian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 showing the title in front of newspaper pages
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Australian Periodical Publications Project, 1840–1845

The manner in which newspapers in this period created transnational links, both in reporting news from elsewhere and in systematically including extracts from other papers, makes them an especially pertinent source for the study of world history.
1897 watercolor of Sydney's port looking across the roofs of several buildings towards the harbor and ships
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Australian Studies Resources

The wide assortment of material makes it useful for teaching many distinct themes relevant to world history.
The portrait of Selim III 1789-1807, showing Selim dressed in red robes sitting against some pillows
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Topkapi Museum

Such images of Islamic art from the Topkapi museum can not only bring to life periods of Ottoman history, but also the variety and brilliance of Islamic art, both of which are useful to the teaching of world history.