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 If a website link is no longer active, consult this guide to website URL paths for tips on locating the original resource.
Letters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1592-1597
The letters, grouped by the year in which they were written, are offered in a clear, readable facsimile.
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820
The Slave Database offers information on more than 100,000 slaves and the Free Database has records on more than 4,000 slave manumissions.
Red-Color News Soldier — Li Zhensheng: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey through the Cultural Revolution
The entire project is particularly noteworthy for the beauty of its production, its strict adherence to a chronological framework, and a staunch commitment to precise and accurate captioning backed up by additional research and verification.
Southeast Asia Visions Collection
The range of sources and their ready accessibility also provides valuable material for work on diverse Southeast Asia topics related to local, regional, and global history.
The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946
The Morrison collection is nevertheless a rich and accessible one that will nicely serve the dual themes of visual culture and childhood—among many others—for studies of early-to-mid 20th century China.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The historical material that is presented from multiple angles carefully allows the material to speak for the catastrophe and reconstruction.
Dream Anatomy
This site, developed as part of an exhibit, remains a valuable online source for the study of the history of anatomy.
Taiwan Documents Project
This site seems most valuable not as an unbiased repository of information, but rather as part of the movement for Taiwanese independence and more generally as a historical case study in the politics of national identity.
Digital South Asia Library
The information and source materials presented on this site are extremely wide ranging, rare, and occasionally quite specific. Given the amount of content, this specificity should be seen as an asset rather than a drawback.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
Although these photographs are immediately useful to any discussion of 19th-century travel, they also provide an important look at the nature of colonialism and industrialization in many of the regions to which Jackson traveled.
East Asian Collection
Students could be encouraged to probe the social, religious, cultural, and geographic diversity of China in the early 1900s as well as the impact of momentous events upon different regions and social groups.
Amiens Cathedral
The site’s rich image collections still recommend it for classroom and research use.
George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, The Philippines, 1899-1901
The diary could be used by teachers in a variety of ways. Its representation of the inhabitants of Bohol and of the island itself illuminate turn-of-the-century thinking on race and landscape.
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
This website is unique in the growing number of Internet sources that explore African experiences and slavery. Teachers will find Mintz’s documents invaluable in promoting classroom discussion.
G. I. Jones, Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
The site describes itself as a “research resource” for those personally or professionally interested in the art, history, and ethnography of southeastern Nigeria. It is also a valuable resource for those interested in the history of photography in Africa.
Africa Online Digital Library
The site’s stated goal is the implementation of emerging best practices in the “American digital library community” in an African context, and it does not disappoint. Indeed, the site demonstrates a rare combination of scholarly sophistication, ease of use, and broad appeal.
Burke and Wills – Terra Incognita
Supplementary material is easy to follow and fairly extensive... Information is included on the background to the expedition, its historical context, biographies of those involved, the preparation for and events of the expedition, and its aftermath.
Map Section Image Database
The Walker Collection comprises 135 maps, printed between 1511 and 1774, that cover Asia Minor and surrounding areas including the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and the Balkans.
Wetmore Print Collection
While the responsibility of providing historical context for these images remains with the instructor, the images themselves will delight and puzzle students—and, if they are properly prepared, will provide good insight into the historical periods in question as well.