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Modern (1800 CE - 1950 CE)
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Mexican-American War and the Media
The contrast between coverage of the war in the United States and in England is particularly striking.
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Uysal-Walker Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
By collecting and translating these folktales, the three interviewers preserved many oral traditions that may have otherwise been lost in the dynamism of a changing, 21st-century Turkey.
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NBER Macrohistory Database
The NBER Macrohistory Database is one of the best resources and clearinghouses on the internet for economics and economic history, but it requires a little hunting to locate information.
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Broadside Ballads Online
This website highlights 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century broadside ballads. These were popular songs (frequently with lavish woodcut illustrations) sold at a relatively affordable price and widely circulated.
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Fine Arts in Hungary
A handy feature of this site is the Guided Tours, designed to help users 'discover the territory of Hungarian fine arts.'
Teaching
Long Teaching Module: Children in the Slave Trade
From the 16th to the 18th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans crossed the Atlantic to the Americas in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Used on plantations throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, enslaved Africans were shipped largely from West Africa.
Teaching
Long Teaching Module: African Scouting (20th c.)
Conceived by General Sir Robert Baden Powell to reduce class tensions in early 20th-century Britain, the Boy Scout movement evolved into an international youth movement that offered a romantic program of vigorous outdoor life for boys and adolescents as a cure for the physical decline and social
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COLLAGE The London Picture Archive
Reproductions of paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures provide more than a glimpse into the history of London and London life from the 15th century to the present.
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The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
The collection calls attention to the way in which the emergence of the American Empire coincided with—and was in important ways shaped by—the birth of the cinema.
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