Browse Website Reviews

Discover quality websites on a range of topics and time periods. If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.

Image from Making African Connections Media Page

Making African Connections

This site focuses on the decolonization of South African artifacts and stories.
Soviet Union Propaganda

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History

The site provides a cross-section of the Soviet world at seventeen different historical junctures. It covers political, societal, cultural, and economic issues enabling users to experience each given time that an ordinary Soviet citizen would have encountered.
Newspapers and letters in the archive

London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

This digital resource focuses on the perspectives of common Londoners in the 18th century, making available, in a fully digitized and searchable form, a wide range of primary sources about 18th-century London.
A group of officials talk with immigrants

Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980

The project traces transnational entanglements, European influences on American society, and multidirectional transfers that complicate narratives of postwar “Americanization.”
A photo of a German Immigrant Family

Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present

The project traces German immigrants' lives, careers, and business ventures from colonial times to the present, integrating the history of German American immigration into the larger narrative of U.S. economic and business history.
Notebooks of Keigan, c.1804, re. Raku

Meiji Japan

Meiji Japan is an excellent resource that shows how Edward Morse devoted much of his life to the task of documenting life in Japan before it was transformed by Western modernization.
Jewish Life in America is a rich collection of archival materials and primary sources documenting the history of Jewish settlement and life in the US from colonial times through the mid-twentieth century.

Jewish Life in America

The archive brings to life the communal and social aspects of Jewish identity and culture, while tracing Jewish involvement in the political life of American society as a whole.
Lyn Cooper wearing "I Am A Lesbian" t-shirt, Adelaide, South Australia, c. 1973.

Wearing Gay History

The project uses the t-shirt, to uncover and make available often unknown narratives regarding LGBTQIA history, defeating coastal biases and exhibiting the diversity of the queer community.
Teaching Central America: A Project of Teaching for Change

Teaching Central America

Teaching Central America provides educational materials for K-12 educators with the goal of centering Central American history and culture in primary and secondary classrooms.
Teaching LGBTQ History website homepage with a collage of images from the archive behind the title.

Teaching LGBTQ History

Teaching LGBTQ History is an organized and quality social-justice oriented educational resource that provides a wide diversity of adaptable lesson plans and connection to outside community-based and digital online resources.
Girl Museum Logo, Celebrating 15 years, 2009-2014

Girl Museum

The Girl Museum makes important interventions by placing girlhood more squarely into the teaching of history, literature, culture, and arts on a global scale.
Logo says "Archives Portal Europe" with magnifying glass icon

Archives Portal Europe

This website presents records from dozens of countries, in over 20 languages, and from around 7000 diverse archival institutions total including the national archives of dozens of countries and other smaller institutions.
Logo of the Acropolis Museum

The Acropolis Museum

The excavation and marbles videos might be useful for, in addition to teaching Greek history, helpful for educators wishing to discuss imperialism and globalism through material culture.
Logo of the National WWII museum

National World War II Museum

The museum also offers a bank of student resources, primarily research tools such as the yearbook database and Research Starters, a bank of statistics and introductory ma
Image of a gold pre-hispanic container used to hold lime.

Archeological Collection of the Gold Museums

The work of the Banco de la República combines collections related to music, plastic arts, documentary, numismatic, philatelic, archeological, and ethnographic elements.
Logo of the Office of the Historian with the title of the Foreign Relations Series using a background depicting old books.

The Foreign Relations of the United States Series

The Foreign Relations of the United States series contains the transcriptions of historical documents related to significant official U.S. foreign relations events.
This chromolithograph, possibly from a multi-volumed History of Mexico, shows a processional standard with the Virgin of Guadalupe surrounded by Mexican flags and regimental standards. Beneath these are a captured American flag, the captured Texas standard of the Fayette County volunteers from the "Dawson massacre" of 1842, an unidentified regimental standard, as well as swords, bugles, cannons, and a pistol.

A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War

The UT Arlington Library's Special Collection is considered amongst the most comprehensive repositories on the U.S. - Mexico war, containing broadsides, sheet music, manuscripts, maps and graphic materials from both U.S. and Mexican sources.
Black and white image of the front page of El Bravo newspaper. It includes a logo that combines the US and Cuban flags. It also features a list of names.

Caribbean Sea Migration Collection

The resources found in this archive offer a close look at migration trends, practices, and life experiences related to official and unofficial responses to the humanitarian crisis product of Caribbean migration by sea into the US.
Medieval painting

Middle Ages for Educators

...the site boasts more than 40 videos and video playlists, more than 125 different resource links, and worked with more than 50 subject matter experts on this project.
German soldiers from WWI standing in front of airplanes preparing to fly and air raid over Paris

National WWI Museum and Memorial

Due to the immense amount of resources, we advise educators to enter the databases with an idea of what they want rather than attempting to browse.