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 If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.
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.
Florence Catasto of 1427
It provides a unique opportunity for students to explore the urban landscape and family life of Renaissance Florence in incredible detail, rare for a city in this period.
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820
Students could speculate on who made the objects, who used them, and how they were used. This would give them a sense of the kind of interpretive work done by historians.
Japanese Historical Maps
This collection contains high quality digital reproductions of roughly 100 historical maps produced in Japan from the 17th century to the 20th century.
Mexican-American War and the Media
The contrast between coverage of the war in the United States and in England is particularly striking.
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.
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank
The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank provides straightforward database access to five sets of data on European currency exchange and commodities prices from the 13th through the 18th centuries.