
Abstention Rate in Napoleonic Plebiscites
All regions of France did not support Napoleon equally. His rule aroused most enthusiasm in the east (a prerevolutionary border region crucial in the Napoleonic wars) and the center of the country, least in the west, which had long provided a home to royalist counterrevolution.
Abstension rate in Napoleonic plebiscites (shaded areas = those where the abstention rate exceeded 80 percent... Read More »

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent

Afriterra, The Cartographic Free Library

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820

American Centuries

Analyzing Maps
The modules in Methods present case studies that demonstrate how scholars interpret different kinds of historical evidence in world history. In the video historian Gerald Danzer analyzes maps of the world. In the primary sources menu below, you can examine two world maps two maps of the world. The first, a Mercator projection, probably seems familiar to you because Mercator maps are among the... Read More »

Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896

Biblioteca Ambrosiana

Burke and Wills – Terra Incognita
