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Portrait of Ho Chi Minh later in life.
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The Vietnam War: 1945 – 1975

Included on the site is a curriculum guide - a 180-page PDF that can be viewed on the site or downloaded. The that includes four distinct units divided chronologically (1945-1975) and further divided into eight clusters.
Shows edsitement logo and "Driving excellence in humanities education"
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Edsitement

The site contains over 500 lesson plans in a variety of humanities related subjects including history, literature, and art.
Homepage of Constitute website
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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.
Thumbnail image of a Korean painting from MIA's Art of Asia website
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Art of Asia

This site, an integrated, interactive media program, introduces users to the various arts of Asia. The site focuses on MIA’s extensive collections of Asian art, focusing on Chinese and Japanese art.
Thumbnail image of Fidel Castro
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Castro Speech Database

This database contains English translations of thousands of speeches, interviews, and press conferences given by Fidel Castro between 1959 and 1996.
Thumbnail image of Descobrimento do Brasil [Discovery of Brazil] by Oscar Pereira da Silva
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United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

The goals of the site are to illuminate Brazilian history, to explore the historical and cultural interactions between Brazil and the United States, and to draw attention to the similarities and differences between these two societies.
Thumbnail image of Hanover Historical Texts homepage
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Hanover Historical Texts Project

The project has taken a selection of more than 115 primary texts in the public domain, in English or translated into English, and made them available to anyone with Internet access.
Thumbnail image of Book of Hours of Marguerite d'Orléans
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Creating French Culture: Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

The site promises a look at the relation between image and power, from the time of Charlemagne to the time of Charles de Gaulle.
Detail: 1592 letter to Don Pedro Verastigui
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Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592-1597

The letters, grouped by the year in which they were written, are offered in a clear, readable facsimile.
Photograph of Li Zhensheng with his camera in 1965
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Red-Color News Soldier — Li Zhensheng: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey through the Cultural Revolution

The entire project is particularly noteworthy for the beauty of its production, its strict adherence to a chronological framework, and a staunch commitment to precise and accurate captioning backed up by additional research and verification.