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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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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.
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Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
A bilingual, English-Spanish website, Parallel Histories assembles approximately 250 documents relating to the history of Spanish presence in the Americas since the 15th century.
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Formosa
This site consists of firsthand accounts of 19th-century Taiwan from the perspective of European and American visitors.
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Afriterra, The Cartographic Free Library
The maps can be used as important teaching tools for courses on many topics: African history; Atlantic World history; the slave trade; the era of European expansion; environmental history; and military history.
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Art of Asia
This site, an integrated, interactive media program, introduces users to the various arts of Asia. The site focuses on MIA’s extensive collections of Asian art, focusing on Chinese and Japanese art.
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SouthEast Asian Images and Texts
This website provides excellent primary and secondary resources dealing with two regions of the world that are underrepresented on the Internet: the Philippines and Laos.![Thumbnail image of Descobrimento do Brasil [Discovery of Brazil] by Oscar Pereira da Silva](/sites/default/files/brazil-thumbnail.jpeg "Thumbnail image of Descobrimento do Brasil [Discovery of Brazil] by Oscar Pereira da Silva")
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United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
The goals of the site are to illuminate Brazilian history, to explore the historical and cultural interactions between Brazil and the United States, and to draw attention to the similarities and differences between these two societies.
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Hanover Historical Texts Project
The project has taken a selection of more than 115 primary texts in the public domain, in English or translated into English, and made them available to anyone with Internet access.
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