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 If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.
The Web Museum, Paris
Perhaps the greatest strength of the Web Museum site as a teaching tool is the interlinking of text within the site. Many of the essays and artist biographies contain one or more links to other, related artists, or to terminology.
The Victorian Women Writers Project
This website that should prove an excellent source for student research projects on the social and cultural history of the Victorian era.
Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai, 1931-1937
The abundance of graphic images such as photographs, cartoons, and advertisements is an important resource for studying urban mass culture and women’s lives in 1930s Shanghai.
Vatican Library
But the best use of this site might be to accept it as an exhibit and encourage students to wander through it themselves, stopping where they choose, so that they discover the beauty and variety of the collection.
Morning Sun
This companion site provides a wonderful introduction to 'the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China.'
Guaman Poma - El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
This digital version of Guaman Poma’s manuscript provides teachers and students with an opportunity to think about the relationship between events and the way that they are recorded, and about the materials that historians use to interpret the past.
Mexico: From Empire to Revolution
By making hundreds of photographs available and placing them in a clear, historical context, the website provides students with a fascinating perspective on several crucial decades in Mexican history.
Urban Dharma, Buddhism in America
Although many of the essays are intended to promote Buddhism and a Buddhist religious perspective, the site also includes English translations of important early South Asian documents.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
This is still quite easily the best single location of source materials in English for the Reformation period online.
National Security Archive: Sources on Latin America
The documents on the website provide students the opportunity to construct their own historical interpretations.
Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story
This site has particular strengths in presenting legal and constitutional materials on the emergence of a democratic nation in a colonial context.
Liberian Letters
Liberian Letters will fascinate teachers and students interested in the late history of slavery, manumission, and repatriation of people of African descent to Sub-Saharan coasts.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Immerse your students in the language of one the best poets and playwrights writing in English, using this graceful site.
National Security Archive: Sources on Europe
These materials help students discover that history does not follow a predetermined course, but is the result of decisions, any one of which could drastically alter history’s outcome.
Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
Supplementing each chapter are as many as 31 digitized images or manuscripts. The exhibit is both informative and thought-provoking.
Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume XVII: Near East, 1961-1962
These documents provide crucial historical evidence of the attitudes American diplomats and officials held toward the countries of the Middle East, as well as uncovering aspects of foreign relations from an American perspective at the height of the Cold War.
Gertrude Bell Project
In the teaching of world history, this site lends itself to exploring both the themes of women travelers and their writing, as well as the timely topic of European intervention in the Middle East, in particular Iraq.
Internet African History Sourcebook
The site provides broad chronological and geographic coverage, with a particularly impressive list of sources for ancient Egypt and Greek and Roman Africa. It is a gateway to an abundance of information.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
In general, this website is strongest in fulfilling its original purpose—providing supplementary materials and information for an excellent documentary.