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Teaching
Long Teaching Module: “Reading” Primary Sources on the History of Children & Youth
How do you study the history of young people? What can primary source documents reveal? What limitations do they pose? What light can the history of young people shed on the past?
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Oriental Institute Museum Photographic Archives
These photographs are invaluable sources for teachers who wish to illustrate lessons about the ancient civilizations of the Middle East or discussions about archeological research.
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Great Archaeological Sites
The sites are not designed as collections of primary materials (though much primary visual and archaeological data is embedded), but as synopses of particular topics, sites, or excavations. With this in mind, any of these sites would be an excellent place for students to learn the basics of a
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Mesoamerican Photo Archives
The excellent images provided here can serve as a stimulus to further research for students interested in Mesoamerican history and in broader comparative history.
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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.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
This is still quite easily the best single location of source materials in English for the Reformation period online.
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Internet African History Sourcebook
The site provides broad chronological and geographic coverage, with a particularly impressive list of sources for ancient Egypt and Greek and Roman Africa. It is a gateway to an abundance of information.
Teaching
Long Teaching Module: Children in Ancient China
The unprecedented interest in the child who assumed unique importance in the Han period was set into motion by a convergence of historically-specific conditions: (1) the establishment in the Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE) and the further development in Han times (206 BCE-220 CE) of a merit-based civil
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LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
Initiated in 1995, this site has developed into an impressive array of primary and secondary resources on ancient Rome
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