Women
Fine Arts in Hungary
A handy feature of this site is the Guided Tours, designed to help users 'discover the territory of Hungarian fine arts.'
COLLAGE The London Picture Archive
Reproductions of paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures provide more than a glimpse into the history of London and London life from the 15th century to the present.
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
the collection is arguably made more valuable and useful by its focus on a limited cultural and historical context and by its presentation of texts that are less well known and more difficult to locate.
Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The museum Yad Vashem is one of the foremost research centers for holocaust studies in the world.
South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
These images represent a valuable visual record of life in the south Texas borderlands during the 1910s and 1920s, as well as an important window onto a relatively understudied phase of the Mexican Revolution.
Short Teaching Module: Codex Mendoza (16th c.)
In Mexico City, towards the middle of the 16th century, Nahuatl-speaking painters created the Codex Mendoza, one of the most lavish indigenous accounts of history and moral behavior known today. Across pages of expensive, imported paper, the painters of the C.
Short Teaching Module: Roman Children’s Sarcophagi
I use images of two Roman marble sarcophagi for topics on children and childhood in undergraduate courses on ancient society, family, gender, representations, and historiography. The sarcophagi can be used to study one period of antiquity or to examine changing notions of childhood over time.
Cultural Contact in Southern Africa: Letters, Johanna Maria van Riebeeck
Johanna Maria van Riebeeck (1679-1759) was from an elite family in the Dutch colonial network.
Southeast Asian Politics: Website, Sisters In Islam
The women’s movement has always been inherently global, but by the end of the 20th century there was a new burst of transnational women’s organizing as women used new technologies to network at home and abroad.
Southeast Asian Politics: Song, Philippine Feminist Movement
This song, entitled Maria and sung in Tagalog (a Philippine language), challenges cultural constructions of women as passive, as sex objects or domestic cooks. “Maria” is used as a generic term for woman. The song identifies heroines such as Lorena Barros, Gabriela Silang, and Tandang Sora.