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The image is titled on the site as "Children contend with a too-big bicycle, Pre Umbel" taken in 1991. It is a black and white photograph showing too girls holding up a bicycle, unable to climb onto it.

Review

Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia

In order to comprehend these overwhelming atrocities on a personal level, I strongly recommend the chilling oral histories...The accounts would make excellent supplementary reading for a class discussion on the Khmer Rogue and provide a hauntingly human face to the statistics.

Detail of the Journeys in Time home page

Review

Journeys in Time, 1809 – 1822: The Diaries of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie

In teaching world history courses, this site would contribute to understanding the nature of British imperial expansion in the Pacific and the business of colonial governance.

Detail of an engraving showing Saint Peter's cathedral ca. 1587

Review

Vatican Library

But the best use of this site might be to accept it as an exhibit and encourage students to wander through it themselves, stopping where they choose, so that they discover the beauty and variety of the collection.

Teaching

Long Teaching Module: Economies in Transition in Eastern Europe, 1970-1990

It is well known that the East European Communist governments were unable to provide their citizens with a standard of living comparable to that of the West.

Review

Urban Dharma, Buddhism in America

Although many of the essays are intended to promote Buddhism and a Buddhist religious perspective, the site also includes English translations of important early South Asian documents.

Thumbnail image of The Secret of England's Greatness painting.

Teaching

Long Teaching Module: Women in the British Empire, 1800-2000

This module will help students explore the importance of women—both British women and women from British colonies—to the British Empire, as well as their importance in developing an understanding of Britain as an imperial power to a domestic audience at home.