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A curated guide to the best online content, large and small, in world history through website reviews from the perspective of a world history teacher.

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (Hispanic Digital Library)

...the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica is a well-organized, highly searchable, and remarkable platform for a wide audience, including instructors, students, researchers, and the general public. Historians interested in Spain’s cross-cultural encounters in Europe, Asia, and the Americas will particularly benefit from this resource.
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Studs Terkel Radio Archive

As stated on the tin, the Studs Terkel Radio Archive is dedicated to digitising and archiving the numerous radio programs that Louis “Studs” Terkel (1912-2008) made throughout his prolific career.
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Crash Course World History

Crash Course World History is a perfect supplementary video overview for AP students, but it is too fast and jumpy to be the main source of learning for a class.
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Babylonia Collection Yale

The versatility of the collection makes it useful for any discipline that approaches the material to have a chance of finding artifacts or useful resources either for research or educational purposes.
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Ancient History Encyclopedia

Overall this site is a fantastic resource in terms of the vast amounts of material collected for use. The site is primarily user-generated, with a system to ensure the entries uphold the website's management team's standards.
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Africa Past & Present Podcast

The podcast could serve as a useful tool for Africa experts to stay up-to-date on scholarship, for professors in other areas to broaden their knowledge of Africa and establish relevant connections, and for students to engage in analysis of “texts” beyond the written word.
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Hypothesis

This tool provides a user-friendly way for you and your students to have conversations around primary and secondary sources through digital annotation.
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Juxtapose: Easy-to-make frame comparisons

This tool is perfect for historians because it emphasizes visual representations of change over time.
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Soundcite: Seamless inline audio

This is a great tool to use with students to have them engage with sound as historical artifacts as well as to think about how incorporating sound into your writing can enhance a historical argument.
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MapWarper

This can be a powerful tool to understand the spatial orientation of past places or events and to present spatial history projects directly onto contemporary maps.

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