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The image is of "Child with Fox Mask; Gosho Doll" from the museum's collections. It is a small, white porcelain figure of a child wearing a textile decorated with flowers. A separate image of the doll on the site shows a fox mask for it to wear.
Review

Kyoto National Museum

The museum site is accessible and user-friendly. It will be particularly valuable for instructors looking to mobilize a collection of images and objects from ancient through early modern periods of Japanese history for student exploration.
Progression of Napoleon’s Life
Teaching

Source Collection: The Napoleonic Experience

The bare facts of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte stagger the imagination and rival the plots of the most fantastic novels.

Source

Six Part German Caricature: Napoleon Is Now Reduced to a Manageable Size!

Napoleon is mocked through this diminutive portrayal of the former conqueror.

Original Format
Engraving

Physical Dimensions
18.8 x 25 cm

Painting of a slave sale
Teaching

Source Collection: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution

Since the revolutionaries explicitly proclaimed liberty as their highest ideal, slavery was bound to come into question during the French Revolution. Even before 1789 critics had attacked the slave trade and slavery in the colonies.

Detail from the poster "Our Brigade Leader" created in 1976. The detail shows a family excitedly watching tv. In the complete poster, they are watching a politician on tv.
Review

Chinese Posters: Propaganda, Politics, History, Art

Chinese Posters offers a rich collection of over 1,600 Chinese propaganda posters, representing a time period from 1841 to the present day, and a rich range of political, social, cultural, and visual themes.
The image is a detail from the a photo titled "Boys at Boubon, Niger 1992" from Gallery 5 of the site. It shows three Nigerian boys posing for a picture.
Review

Africa Speaks: West African University Students Write About Their Lives

The great strength of Africa Speaks is the honest and unfiltered voices of the Nigerien students. Rather than being described and defined by journalists, scholars, and other outsiders, they speak for themselves about the experience of growing up in a developing and politically unstable African
Image from the collection titled "Making Pottery at Kwilu" taken by Robert E. Smith in the 1960s. It shows a woman kneeling over a clay bowl she is sculpting with her hands.
Review

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

By using the search filters effectively, teachers can have students compare and contrast various images of worship, schooling, work, and landscapes to highlight the vast cultural and ecological diversity of Africa.
Image from the collection titled "Lady in Waiting" from the 1930s-1940s. Its shows two children and their nanny walking. The youngest child is walking in front with a cloth on her head and the nanny carrying the end like a wedding veil.
Review

Swaziland Digital Archives

Featuring approximately 600 photographs chronicling daily life and politics in Swaziland, the Swaziland Digital Archives provides visual insights into the experiences of childhood and adolescence in southern Africa over the past century.
Stone tablet from Gilgamesh's Epic. The specific tablet is number 11 discussing the Flood Narrative.
Review

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook

This site was designed to provide classroom teachers with an extensive, well-organized collection of ancient Mediterranean literary texts and, to a lesser extent, art and archaeological sources.
Detail of an early modern map of the Malay Peninsula
Review

Sejarah Melayu: The History of the Malay Peninsula

Internet resources dealing with Malaysian history are difficult to locate. Although this site has some shortcomings, it remains one of the most accessible sources for such information.