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 If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World
This site offers an archive of speeches by “influential, contemporary women.” Almost all of the speeches in the collection come directly from the authors themselves or from the organizations representing them and have not been published elsewhere.
Project Wittenberg
It contains the largest online collection of Luther’s writings in English, including more than 100 hymns, as well as writings about Luther by many of his contemporaries and later Lutheran scholars.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
This site was designed to provide classroom teachers with an extensive, well-organized collection of ancient Mediterranean literary texts and, to a lesser extent, art and archaeological sources.
Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia
In order to comprehend these overwhelming atrocities on a personal level, I strongly recommend the chilling oral histories...The accounts would make excellent supplementary reading for a class discussion on the Khmer Rogue and provide a hauntingly human face to the statistics.
Sejarah Melayu: The History of the Malay Peninsula
Internet resources dealing with Malaysian history are difficult to locate. Although this site has some shortcomings, it remains one of the most accessible sources for such information.
Cambodian Genocide Program
These materials are more appropriate for teaching older students because they provide a grim and poignant reminder of the individual tragedies that underlie the staggering statistics associated with these crimes.
Viettouch
Some of the sections under the “Literature” and “History” categories are largely written in Vietnamese and may, therefore, be inaccessible to students. However, the vast majority of the site is in English and well worth a careful read.
Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
Users willing to delve deeply into the various sections are rewarded with a vast amount of primary materials in the form of texts, videos, images, and maps.
Journeys in Time, 1809 – 1822: The Diaries of Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie
In teaching world history courses, this site would contribute to understanding the nature of British imperial expansion in the Pacific and the business of colonial governance.
RBI Monetary Museum Galleries
The wide selection of currencies and time periods make this useful for classroom instruction and for generating discussion.
Oriental Institute Museum Photographic Archives
These photographs are invaluable sources for teachers who wish to illustrate lessons about the ancient civilizations of the Middle East or discussions about archeological research.
Great Archaeological Sites
The sites are not designed as collections of primary materials (though much primary visual and archaeological data is embedded), but as synopses of particular topics, sites, or excavations. With this in mind, any of these sites would be an excellent place for students to learn the basics of a particular topic.
Mesoamerican Photo Archives
The excellent images provided here can serve as a stimulus to further research for students interested in Mesoamerican history and in broader comparative history.
Decisions of the Superior Courts of New South Wales, 1788-1899
Legal records are a key resource in gaining access to the voices of the non-elite, providing a rich repository of the details of life in the period. The subject index is particularly useful in drawing themes together for teaching.
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.'