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Primer: Tasting and Hearing the Past
Experiencing the full spectrum of world history involves all the senses. World historians not only use their eyes to see what happened; they not only read or otherwise examine written and visual evidence.
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Early Caribbean Digital Archive
The ECDA is an essential educational resource for studying the history of enslaved and free African, Afro-creole, and Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, European imperialism and colonialism, and the history of the Caribbean within the wider Atlantic World.
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a free online archive of over 19,000 culturally significant primary source materials from around the world.
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Slave Voyages
Slave Voyages is an essential project for those seeking to learn more about enslavement and imperial powers in the Atlantic World, the transatlantic slave trade and Middle Passage, and the African diaspora.
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Constitute: The World’s Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare
Constitute provides full text for almost all active constitutions around the globe, making it a powerful teaching tool for government, political history, and civic engagement.
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Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age
This site commemorates the Spanish-American War of 1898 that ended Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, and began U.S. control of these areas.
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Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time
These thousands of photographic images, maps, and texts focus on Shanghai during the pre-1949 period, bringing a wealth of visual material previously scattered among various institutions to students, teachers, and scholars.
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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.
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British History Online
This site is a digital library containing more than 800 printed primary and secondary sources—including maps, personal journals and diaries, official and political documents, and quantitative evidence—for the history of The British Isles from the 16th to the early 19th Century.
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