World History Related Links
Below are a number of annotated links you might useful is expanding your knowledge
of world history. Items in [brackets] or with no links are areas I intended
to develop in the future. Feel free to suggest any good sites you know of.
Table of Contents
History Writing Resources
Organizations for Professional Historians
This is a mere sampling of the organizations that produce journals,
hold conferences, and provide opportunities to increase your historical knowledge.
Students usually get a heavily discounted rate; impress your friends and get
a scholary journal delivered to your door -- you might learn something. Future
teachers are strongly encouraged to join one of these organizations.
- The American Historical Association:
"The AHA serves more than 14,000 history professionals, representing
every historical period and geographical area. AHA members include K –12 teachers,
academics at two- and four-year colleges and universities, graduate students,
historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, government
and business, as well as independent historians." The AHA's Directory
of Affiliated Societies (some of which are listed below).
- Organization of American Historians: "Largest
learned society devoted to the study of American History." Maintain and
extensive set of Links for
the History Profession
- The World History Association:
- African Studies Association:
"The African Studies Association was founded in 1957 as a non-profit
organization open to all individuals and institutions interested in African
affairs. Its mission is to bring together people with a scholarly and professional
interest in Africa." Also maintain African
studies related links
- The Association for Asian Studies:
which maintains links to Asian
Studies Groups and Organizations
- The Caribbean Studies Association:
Caribbean related links.
- Latin American Studies Association:
"LASA is the largest professional Association in the world for individuals
and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America." Also maintain
Latin American related
links
- Middle East Studies Association:
" The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a non-political association
that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship
and teaching, and encourages public understanding of the region and its peoples
through programs, publications and services that enhance education, further
intellectual exchange, recognize professional distinction, and defend academic
freedom." Also maintain Middle
East related links
Email Discussion Groups w/ Searchable Archives
- Humanities and Social Sciences Online:
"H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars
and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of
the Internet and the World Wide Web." This is a site you must see to
believe. H-Net organizes specialized email discussion groups on almost everything
of interest to historians such as: Japanese history, the History of the North
American West, Environmental History, the history of Science, Medicine, and
technology there is even a forum for undergraduates working on a history major
(H-HistMajor). In the spirit
of full disclosure I am coeditor of H-World,
the discussion group centered upon the history of "the big picture."
Consider joining one of the groups of interest to you; it is ok just to lurk
and learn.
Online Journals
The best online source for history journals is The
History Cooperative. This is not a free source, but if you are an LCSC
student you can access it at no cost through the library website. Talk to
a reference librarian to get the password.
- World
History Connected: The EJournal of Learning and Teaching. "World
History Connected is designed for everyone who wants to deepen the engagement
and understanding of world history: students, college instructors, high school
teachers, leaders of teacher education programs, social studies coordinators,
research historians, and librarians. "
World History Gateways
This page is basically a gateway that leads you to a variety
of resources on as many topics as I had time and energy to organize. Below
are a couple of other good ones you should also look at.
- Professor David Kalivas's
Web Page: Professor Kalivas is a colleague of mine who teaches world history
at Middlesex Community College and we actively collaborate with one another
concerning the world history courses we teach. Although he and I take slightly
different approaches to our courses based on our respective strengths and
interests, his site is very good in terms of online resource suggestions.
You might also find the content of his site to be helpful in terms of deepening
your understanding of the issues we discuss in class. His World
History Database contains many links not on this page. Check it out.
- "Usefull websites for World
Cultures insturctors" is the creation of Sara Tucker at Washburn
University. It is also a very big set of links with annotations (descriptions)
of interest to historians. Enjoy.
- Art History Network:
Self proclaimed "one stop resource for Art History, Archaeology and Architecture
resources on the web."
- Links of Interest to
H-World Readers
Online Collections of Primary Sources
This is where to go if you want to find a few additional sources
to add to your HIST 101 or 102 essays or if for some reason you still don't
have the assigned reader. This is also a good spot for more advanced students
to scout the primary source potential for research projects under consideration.
- The _____ History Sourcebooks based out of Fordham University are nothing
short of outstanding. If you are looking for an additional primary source
for a HIST 101 or 102 assignment this should be your first stop. Some sourcebooks
are still underconstruction.
- Sources organized by chronology (time) Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet
Medieval History Sourcebook, Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
- Sources organized by geography
Internet African History Sourcebook, Internet
East Asian History Sourcebook, Internet
Indian History Sourcebook
- Sources organized by religion Internet
Islamic History Sourcebook, Internet
Jewish History Sourcebook
- Sources organized by theme Internet
Global History Sourcebook (interactions between cultures), People
with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History,
Internet
Women's History Sourcebook, Internet
History of Science Sourcebook
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures
at first you will think some of the links dont work -- and they don't. But
what you want are the primary sources listed on the left hand colomn, and
those work just fine.
- Reading
About the World Vol. I and Reading
About the World Vol. II both contain a large set of links to primary sources.
- The Hanover Historical
Texts Project
- A Visual Sourcebook
for Chinese Civilization
- African Online Digital Library "MATRIX,
working in cooperation with the African Studies Center at MSU, and in partnership
with premiere research institutions in Africa, is pioneering the African Online
Digital Library. The goal of this fully accessible online digital repository
is to adopt the emerging best practices of the American digital library community
and apply them in an African context. AODL benefits a wide variety of scholars,
students, and institutions by producing multilingual, multimedia materials
for both scholarly research and public viewing audiences. AODL serves scholars
and students conducting research and teaching about West and South Africa
as well as teachers and students of African languages in both the United States
and Africa. It also provides a valuable model for creating and distributing
a diverse array of materials in a region with very limited electronic connectivity"
- South Africa: Overcoming
Apartheid: "South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
presents first-hand accounts of this important political movement. Interviews
with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance
and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original
narratives tell this remarkable story"
Listed below are a few digital archives (primary sources) for more advanced
students or for those who want to understand better what a primary source is.
- The Internet Classics Archive
I have had trouble getting all the texts to upload on this site. But I kept
it linked because when it works it contains full text versions of numerous
ancient texts.
- Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi this
has the potential to be an outstanding site for both information on Gandhi
and scholarship on Gandhi. Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies in
Nagpur India this site contains the first 7 of Gandhi's collected works with
a promise to upload 2 per week until the job is done. Also on this site is
great background info on Gandhi for all kinds of projects for either students
or teachers. Self proclaimed as the greatest Gandhi site and moving in that
direction.
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General World History Resources
- WebChron: A useful
set of chronologies formely based at the History Department of North
Park University.
- Bridging
World History is a video series produced by Oregon Public Television
and available online. I use in my internet World History courses.
Human Origins
Paleolithic Socities
Neolithic Socities
- Catalhoyuk:
This site is dedicated to the archeological data under scrutiny from Catal
Hoyuk. It also lists many good sites related to this Neolithic city.
- The Mysteries of Catalhoyuk: A fun,
interactive site created by the Science Museum of Minnesota
Early Complex Societies (3500 to 500 BCE)
Classical Societies (500 BCE to 500 CE)
- Qin Dynasty Online
Sourcebook
- A Guide to
Ancient Greece and Rome on the Web
- The Splendor of Persia
contains information on Ancient Persia and is part of the larger website Concord
which is dedicated to distributing information about Iran.
- Avesta--Zoroastrian Archives
is dedicated to promoting this ancient faith through content such as translated
religious texts, brief articles, and hundreds of links to other sites.
- Buddhist weblinks from
Buddhanet. This is a very
extensive resource site with links to a variety of topics including (among
others): Therevada Buddhism,
Mahayana Buddhism, Zen
Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism,
and Women in Buddhism.
- An Introduction
to Buddhism was created by George Boeree, a professor of psychology at
Shippensburg University. Many psychotherapists have begun to examine Buddhist
psychology as a way of enhancing their own practice. In addition to an introduction
this site also contains several good links for furthering your understanding
of Buddhist thought.
- Buddhist
Studies -- Art Resources is a set of links that connect to a number of
sites with good Buddhist art of various sorts. This site is part of the Buddhist
Studies WWW Virtual Library which contains material from the WWW Virtual
library which is the oldest virtual library on the web, looks very similar
to what you might see doing a yahoo search.
- A
Dead Sea Scroll: The Essenes' Manual of Discipline is a nice primary source
from the website for the world history text, The
Earth and Its Peoples
primary source collection.
- From Jesus
to Christ: the First Christians is a website designed to accompany the
four hour Frontline
program which does an extraordinary job placing Jesus into his historical
context, examining the initial spread of Christianity, as well as looking
at the New Testament as a historical source. This site (as well as the program)
is highly recommended and also contains a teachers
guide for those utilizing the program in class.
- The Silk Road Foundation
is dedicated to examining "The Bridge Between Eastern and Western Cultures"
during all historical periods since the classical age. The interactive timeline
is quite good, as is the map section. The links page goes to a number of archeological
and other good visual sites.
The Postclassical Era (500 to 1000 CE)
- A Guide
to the Middle Ages on the Web
- Islam: Empire of Faith Website
to accompany the three part PBS video series. The material on the website
offers several brief summaries of various aspects of various "Islams".
A good place to start, but not very in depth.
- Islam.com In their own words
"islam.com is a humble effort to serve the spiritual, commercial, informational,
communication, cultural, educational, economic, political and social needs
of the worldwide Islamic community in the 21st century. We are dedicated to
make islam.com an information portal site on the internet that is pure, clean
and "worthy of its name", InshaAllah." Includes a basic introduction
to Islam. I must admit I had a difficult time making the search engine
work properly.
- Muslim Scientists,
Mathematicians and Astronomers from 700-1500 CE This massive site by Dr.
A Zahoor is dedicated to "those Muslims whose multi-disciplinary contributions
sparked the light of learning and productivity and without whom the European
Renaissance would not have begun and come to maturity."
- Byzantine Studies on
the Internet is part of the Online Reference
Book for Medieval Studies and is geared towards scholars, college and
university level teachers, and serious students of history. However, this
should not prevent secondary ed. teachers or first semester college freshman
from exploring this excellent resource. Especially recommended is the Gallery
of Byzantine Images as well as a very large set of selected Byzantine
Primary Sources in translation.
- Silk Road
Seattle
- Tang
Poetry was an important literary form and even a requirement for the civil
service examination during this period. This site is from Asian Topic, based
at Columbia University. Be careful of utilizing their video, as it crashed
my computer and there seemed to be numerous glitches in their site. But this
promises to be an excellent resource once these glitches are worked out.
- Some art and
artifacts from the Tang Dynasty in China (618-906) from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
- [Monkey]
- The Song Dynasty in China
(960-1279)
An Age of Cross Cultural Interaction (1000
to 1500 CE)
- The Mongol
Empire: A Historical Website was apparently created as a high school history
project, although the author chose not to reveal herself or the course she
created the website for. This website is very basic, but also quite thoughtful
and might be a good model for those wishing to assign (or who have been assigned)
the creation of historical websites.
- Ibn
Battuta: A Visual Tour
: Although aimed at a high school audience, this site provides numerous links
that provide visual images of the areas the Ibn Battuta visited during his journey.
- Ibn Battuta:
The Great Traveler: An introductory article by A.S. Chughati.
- Selections from
Ibn Battuta's account of his journey from the Medieval
Sourcebook
- Cheng
Ho (Zheng He) Suzho: History Comes Full Circle is a very brief introductory
article that first appeared in The Straits Times on 12 November 1995.
- "The
Emperor's Giraffe" is a brief, but solid introductory article to Zheng
He by anthropologist Samuel Wilson in Natural History (Vol. 101, No.12, Dec
1992)
- "Should
the Ming End the Treasure Ship Voyages?" is an interesting lesson
plan created by Jean Johnson of New York University which addresses a critical
question during the time of Zheng He. This lesson plan is located in the AskAsia
portion of the Asia Societies home
page. Students, and especially teachers, will find these two sites (as well
as their sister site Asia Source)
to be of tremendous value in creating lesson plans, preparing papers, and
learning about all things connected to Asia.
- Mansa Musa is
a very short introductory from mrdowling.com
Mike Downling teaches geography to 6th and 7th graders and his site is
geared towards that age group. However, his site is worth a look.
- This Sundaita link
is a short description of the story and several links more information on
the history of Mali from Mr.
Dowlings Elctronic Passport, which is directed at Jr. High School Students,
but a very nice place to start gathering information on several topics in
world history.
- More good
material on understanding the story of Sundiata.
- "Background
to the epic of Sundiata Keita" by James A. Jones, Ph.D. West Chester University
Department of History.
- The
World of the Mande History, Art and Ritual In the Mande Culture.
- Sundiata Links and
Bibliography is a rather impressive collection of resources on the topic.
Housed at the University of California Berkeley, this material is part of
a project known as History
Through Literature in the 7th Grade Core Classroom 1999-2000.
- [Marco Polo]
The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500-1800
Placing 1492 into Global and Historical Context
- [Ming China]
- The Preface
to When China Ruled the Seas by Louise Levathes, by far the best
monograph on the voyages of Zheng He. This file is rather large and took me
three or four tries to get it to load properly.
- Admiral
Zhengh Ho is an introductory article written by a retired Pakistani Admiral
for Globe, an
English Language magazine from Pakistan. This is also a good article to use
to practice looking for signs that tell us something about the author .
- An enlightening comparison of Zheng
He's flagship and Columbus's.
- 1492:
The Prequel is an article written for the New York Times Magazine on the
Voyages of Zheng He.
- 1492: An Ongoing
Voyage is an online exhibition created by the Library of Congress.
- Columbus and the Age
of Discover is site was created for the celebration of the 500th anniversary
of Columbus's voyage.
The Columbian Exchange
Slavery
- The
Timeline of African Salve Trade and European Imperialism is an interactive
timeline with numerous links to related materials.
- Africans in America
is a website designed to accompany the PBS broadcast of the series by the
same name. This is a very good resource to get started in dealing with the
Atlantic Slave trade although the site is, for the most part, limited to looking
at Africans in the United States (as opposed to the America's as a whole)
- Slave
Trade Statistics is a short effort to calculate the number of Africans
brought to the America's between 1666 and 1800. This is housed on the Chains
website which is a collaboration of African and American artists. The website
is geared more towards the artistic and less towards the historical.
- Slavery:
The Peculiar Institution is part of a larger online exhibit by the Library
of Congress, African
American Odyssey.
- Studies in the World History
of Slavery, Abolition, and Emancipation is a collaborative website that
houses articles and several links to other sites dealing with the history
of slavery.
- Excerpts from Slave Narratives
is an excellent set of primary sources edited by Steven Mintz
- Exploring Amistad
at Mystic Seaport is a site dedicated to telling the store of the slave
revolt upon the Amistad. This site contains several good features: including
a decent
timeline of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Slave
Resistance: a Caribbean Study is the product of a class at the University
of Miami that has sections dealing with the slave trade, Maroons of Jamaica,
Planters Perspectives, Art and Slave Resistance, Women in Resistance, the
Haitian Revolution, and Religion and Resistance.
- Africa Reparations Movement is a
UK site designed to advance the argument that reparations should be made to
people of African origin because of the legacy of the slave trade. While not
designed to be a historical site, this site clearly demonstrates the connection
between our present and our past.
An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750-1914
Enlightenment and Revolutions
- The
Haitian Revolution by Franklin W. Knight is essential reading for understanding
the ideas of the Enlightenment from the point of view of Africans in Haiti.
This article was published by the American Historical Review and is housed
on History Cooperative, a
good site to consult for serious historical scholarship. LCSC has a subscription
to this site, contact a reference librian for access information if these
links do not work.
- Haitian
History is a site the covers a great deal of Haitian history in general
and is part of a larger Haiti page created by Bob
Corbett of Webster University.
- Haiti: a Country
Study (From the Library of Congress)offers brief profile of many aspects
of Haiti including a very short history.
- The Haitian Revolution
(1794-1804) is another short history from the website for the extremely useful
PBS series website Africans
in America. Africans in America has a number of Primary Source and Secondary
Source documents on the Haitian revolution as well as other topics from this
period of history such as: by
Douglas Egerton. This is a very extensive site, see
the table of contents for 1791-1831.
- The Internet
Modern History Sourcebook is a good place to go for additionally primary
sources or for secondary sources to help you understand the material better.
- The Enlightenment
is an excellent introductory site on the topic and is part of the extremely
HistoryWiz site which is designed
for adult, lower level college, and high school students. The site also has
an excellent set of resources of becoming more ware of current
events.
Industrialization
[Marx and Engels]
[Adam Smith]
The New Imperialism
The Twentieth Century
World War One
Anti-Colonial Movements
Gandhi and Hind Swaraj
Gandhi material on the web has exploded in the last 5 years and the projects
to digitize the 100+ volumes of his collected works is a very important. Below
are just a few of the sites that will get you started in the right direction.
If someone comes across the full text of Hind Swaraj online, I'd like to hear
about it.
- Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi this
has the potential to be an outstanding site for both information on Gandhi
and scholarship on Gandhi. Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies in
Nagpur India this site contains the first 7 of Gandhi's collected works with
a promise to upload 2 per week until the job is done. Also on this site is
great background info on Gandhi for all kinds of projects for either students
or teachers. Self proclaimed as the greatest Gandhi site and moving in that
direction.
- "Moral Foundation
of Hind Swaraj and Nonviolence" is an essay written by Ramashray
Roy and was first published in N. Prasand's important edited work Hind
Swaraj: A Fresh Look. The essay is housed on the Swaraj
Foundation's website which is an organization that is trying to implement
swaraj into today's world.
- This short essay on Hind
Swaraj is housed on the Manas site from U.C.L.A. Manas is dedicated to
providing information on the cultural, political, historical, social etc...
diversity of South Asia in general.
- I am not sure how one becomes 'the
official Mahatma Gandhi website' but this site is fairly extensive and
a good place to get information on Gandhi.
- The
Sacred Warrior is a short essay on Gandhi written for Time Magazine by
another who struggled against colonialism, Nelson Mandela.
- Mahatma Gandhi: a retrospective
is a nice site by the Indian Government's 'Discover India' site which is designed
to promote tourism. This site has a number of essays about Gandhi by people
who knew him as well as a nice photo essay.
[Various Anti-Colonial Primary Sources]
Primary Source's on Fascism,
Nazism, the
Holocaust and World
War II from the Internet
Modern History Sourcebook.
Socialism
The Cold War
The Twenty-FirstCentury
Globalization
The following material is just a small sample of what is available on this
issue. You might also look at the links under the news and opinion section for
this site.
- International Forum on Globalization "Representing
over 60 organizations in 25 countries, the International Forum on Globalization
associates come together out of a shared concern that the world's corporate
and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics
and economics that may prove as historically significant as any event since
the Industrial Revolution. This restructuring is happening at tremendous speed,
with little public disclosure of the profound consequences affecting democracy,
human welfare, local economies, and the natural world. "
- Global Exchange perhaps you
already drink coffee from Global exchange which "is a human rights organization
dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around
the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving to increase global
awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around
the world." Excellent material on the global economy.
- Globalization 101
is a special issue put out by CorpWatch
an organization dedicated to tracking corporate activity.
- Global Trade Watch is a division
of Public Citizen (a national consumer group
founded by Ralph Nader in 1972) a focuses on the international commercial
agreements shaping the current version of globalization.
- International Action Center was founded
by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to provide "information,
activism, and resistance to U.S. militarism, war, and corporate greed, linking
with struggles against racism and oppression within the United States."
- NoLogo.org originally created as a
publicity site for Naomi Kleins outstanding book on the impact of of the corporatization
of the economy, politics, and society NoLogo.org has been transformed into
a discussion site for these same matters and is an excellent resource for
those who are reading the book to get more info on any specific chapter.
- The Third World Network collective
of individuals and organizations that pay special attention to North/South
issues, globalization being near the top of the agenda for discussion.
Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Resources
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FTAA info
from Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, who also maintain a
NAFTA
site as well.
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People's Consultation
on the FTAA According to their site, " the People's Consultation
is the US component of a hemisphere-wide campaign against the Free Trade
Area of the Americas. The campaign includes workshops, public hearings,
resolutions, and a national survey. We ask a simple set of questions: Who
benefits? Who loses? and Who decides?" Check out the section on
Passing
FTAA-Free Zone Resolutions in your community.
International Monetary Fund (IMF) & World Bank Resources
World Trade Organization Resources
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World Trade Organization
(WTO) is the organizations official site. Taking notice of some of the
issues the site attempts to address might help you figure out what some
of the issues of debate are more quickly.
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The
WTO from
Global Trade
Watch provides both a brief look on many of the key issues
and also allows the user to follow up some issues in great detail.
Global Trade Watch is a division of
Public
Citizen, a national consumer group founded by Ralph Nader
in 1972.
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The Third
World Network "is an independent nonprofit international
network of organizations and individuals involved in issues
relating to development, the Third World and North- South
issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic,
social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to
publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in
seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern
interests and perspectives at international fora such as the
UN conferences and processes."
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The
Independent Media Center "is a collective of
independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists
offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage." This
site will provide coverage of the people who went to the
meeting in Cancun to demonstrate against the W.T.O. Indymedia
was organized for the purpose for providing media coverage
for the demonstrations (and issues driving them) of the
1999 W.T.O meeting in Seattle, and have since made it
their mission to be a forum for grass roots news coverage,
particularly of demonstrations. There are local Indymedia
centers all over the world.
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Democracy Now
is a daily news radio program that archives its material on the Internet
If you look in the right hand section of the home page, you will see their
WTO coverage material.
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The War on Terrorism