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The First World War

The First World War is a wonderful collection of primary source documents which offers a remarkable window on the lives and experiences of people during the First World War.

This picture shows how westerners draws the gods of China

China: Culture and Society is a collection of pamphlets digitized from the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University, the materials in this collection depict Chinese history and culture from a primarily Western

An advertisement about the tour of all America and Both Worlds Fairs, it also include a map of all destinations of the tour.

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture – The History of Tourism

Leisure, Travel and Mass Culture – The History of Tourism is an online archive of tourism resources, which allows students and researchers to gain a broader understanding of the cultural and social history of mass tourism.

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

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

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

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

The Girl Museum makes important interventions by placing girlhood more squarely into the teaching of history, literature, culture, and arts on a global scale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz, the two short heels are covered in red sequin and have small bows over the toe box.

Academy Museum

Though the Academy is an American organization, the film industry has long been international as people from across the world work on American films and American films are distributed globally. Additionally, the Academy instituted an award for Best Internation

Part of a Chinese painting of Guanshiyin, a figure from Buddhism. The figure is a person sitting cross-legged practicing meditation.

National Museum of Asian Art

Because the museum is dedicated to Asian art, its educational resources are largely meant to teach students about art.