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A Hindu Princess Committing Sati against the Wishes of Emperor Akbar
This 18th century painting by Mohammad Rizā Naw'ī depicts Sati, the practice whereby an elite Hindu widow would commit suicide through self-immolation upon the death of her husband.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
For teachers and students, the sections dealing with the history of the holocaust, education, research, and contemporary genocides are the most valuable.![Screenshot of Smithsonian National Museum of African Art homepage Screenshot of Smithsonian National Museum of African Art homepage](/sites/default/files/african-art-si-thumbnail.png)
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National Museum of African Art
This site showcases an incredible collection of artwork from across the African continent, including more than 1,500 ancient artifacts, pieces collected in the colonial era, photographs, textiles, and works by modern African artists.![Africa Online Digital Library Photograph of a Goudiry Woman and Children](/sites/default/files/AODL%20thumbnail.jpg)
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Africa Online Digital Library
The site’s stated goal is the implementation of emerging best practices in the “American digital library community” in an African context, and it does not disappoint. Indeed, the site demonstrates a rare combination of scholarly sophistication, ease of use, and broad appeal.![The Adoption History Project Image of an ad asking "Wanted: Homes for Orphan Children"](/sites/default/files/Adoption%20thumbnail.jpg)
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The Adoption History Project
Overall, the Adoption History Project is among the best-designed and most succinctly comprehensive historical websites currently available. It is useful for students and scholars at all levels of academic proficiency![Home Economics Archive Image of two women making a dress on a dummy](/sites/default/files/Hearth%20thumbnail.jpg)
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Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History (HEARTH)
Materials are arranged into 11 broadly-defined topics; each is introduced with a short essay, an image, and a substantial bibliography of influential texts on that topic, in PDF format. The history of home economics is a relatively young discipline, so these bibliographies provide an especially![American Centuries Phelps mourning embroidery from American Centuries' collections. It shows two people visiting a grave flanked by weeping willows.](/sites/default/files/American%20Centuries%20thumbnail.jpg)
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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.![Topkapi Museum The portrait of Selim III 1789-1807, showing Selim dressed in red robes sitting against some pillows](/sites/default/files/Topkapi%20thumbnail.jpg)
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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.![Liberty, Equality, Fraternity "The Radical's Arms" a political cartoon criticizing French Revolutionaries for the reign of terror by depicting two peasants with a guillotine before a burning globe](/sites/default/files/Liberty%2C%20Equality%2C%20Fraternity%20thumbnail.jpg)
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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
It is this type of versatility, coupled with the topical essays and the intuitive design of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity that makes this site a welcome resource for teachers of European history and world history (and their students).![Trust Territory Photo Archives The image is titled "Outer Islands High School students". It shows a group of boys sitting on the floor in a crowd.](/sites/default/files/TTPA%20thumbnail.jpg)
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