World History since 1500 (HY 104)

The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa.

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. ANES data enable researchers to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.

The Archives of Ontario is the premier source of information about the provinces history.

The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) is custodian of the Alan Lomax Archive, a priceless collection of recorded music, dance, and the spoken word. Our mission is to facilitate cultural equity. We preserve, publish, repatriate and freely disseminate our collections. ACE practices “cultural feedback” by disseminating thousands of recordings, photos and videos through educational partners, free online resources and partners, and publishing partners; by repatriating artists’ rights and ro

We have scanned millions of pages of historical newspapers and made them available online for the first time ever. Search millions of articles by keyword, name, location, date or title and watch your results appear in an instant.

The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system.

John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe was indeed having some issues, many other parts of the world were thriving and relatively enlightened.

As the nation’s experts on oceanic and atmospheric science, the lead science agency for oil spills — and the nation's steward for our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes — NOAA has been on the scene from day one, providing coordinated scientific, weather and biological information and products when and where they are needed most.

This website presents American history by using new technologies. It contains an interactive timeline, primary sources,virtual exhibitions, multimedia, sections for teachers, biographies, maps, images, etc.

With more than 12,000 items, The Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, housed in the University of Nebraska at Omaha Library, is the largest collection of materials on Afghanistan in the US.

The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries, letting you visualize and compare progress on the most important development challenges facing our world.

The European Library is a collaborative project of the Conference of European National Libraries. it provides free online access to holdings, maps, photographs, music and digitized materials from 48 national libraries in Europe.

The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office. Included here are many new files that have been released to the public but never added to this website; dozens of records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; files from our previous electronic reading room, and new, previously unreleased files.

Welcome to FedFlix, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.

The first interactive resource that lets you explore the complex relationship between history and film.

The SNAC project is addressing a longstanding research challenge: discovering, locating, and using distributed historical records. Scholars use these records as primary evidence for the lives and work of historical persons and the events in which they participated.

The Food Timeline was created by Lynne Olver, reference librarian with a passion for food history. Information is checked against standard reference tools for accuracy. All sources are cited for research purposes. As with most historical topics, there are some conflicting stories in the field of food history. We do our best to select and present the information with the most documented support.

The General Society of the War of 1812 traces its origins to the huge collection of American militia companies which were called to meet the British thrust at Baltimore following the occupation of the National Capital. Those veterans led by General Samuel Smith, set great importance upon their record against "Wellington's Invincibles" at North Point on September 12, 1814.

The George W. Bush Library holds millions of pages of official records documenting the two-term administration (2001-2009) of the nation's forty-third president. In addition to these textual records, the Library will also receive millions of electronic records through NARA’s Electronic Record Archives (ERA). The George W. Bush Library also has an extensive audiovisual collection containing photographs and videotapes, as well as an extensive artifact collection containing presidential domestic and foreign gifts.

Ideal resources for teaching immigration, American history, multiculturalism, and much more!

The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you com

The Louisiana Biography and Obituary Index references obituaries and death notices published in New Orleans newspapers from 1804-1972 and biographical information published in older Louisiana collective biographies. The original index, housed in the Louisiana Division of New Orleans Public Library, is an alphabetical card file of more than 650,000 names.

The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries.

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. The MHL promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live. The Medical Heritage Library’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books (10,000+ so far) is available here through the Internet Archive.

MIT World is a free and open site that provides on demand video of significant public events at MIT. MIT World's video index contains more than 800 videos.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers several mapping products.

This guide is divided into 5 main sections: War of 1812, Flag, Song, Legacy and interact.

Thousands of Old Time Radio series and hundreds of thousands of episodes are still in existence today. Some have been preserved on the original transcription disks from the time the shows were initially broadcast, while others exist on reel-to-reel and cassettes tapes. The introduction of MP3 technology has greatly changed the hobby. Previously, shows were traded in a format such as a cassette or reel-to-reel tape for example. But thanks to MP3s, classic shows from the old time period are now widely available and easily accessible.

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. This site has a list of liks on the War of 1812.

This website shares the results of research on 1,578 paper specimens made between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The papers tested were selected from collections at the Newberry Library and The University of Iowa, and were analyzed using nondestructive instrumentation. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Kress Foundation, and The University of Iowa provided funding support.

On July 4, 1950, RFE went on the air for the first time with a broadcast to communist Czechoslovakia from a studio in New York City. Sixty years later, RFE reaches nearly 20 million people in 28 languages and 21 countries.

The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and such number of Associate Justices as may be fixed by Congress. The number of Associate Justices is currently fixed at eight (28 U.S.C. §1). Power to nominate the Justices is vested in the President of the United States and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate. Article III, §1, of the Constitution further provides that "[t]he Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office."

This website is a project of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University. The site contains transcriptions of orginal primary documents and letters written by key political figures about the War of 1812.

Teachinghistory.org is designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom. With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) has created Teachinghistory.org with the goal of making history content, teaching strategies, resources, and research accessible.

The concept and development of the 2012 “Unforgiving Economy” calendar, Web site and smart phone app have been guided by CUNY Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations and Board Secretary Jay Hershenson and LaGuardia Community College President Gail O. Mellow. Their vision has been realized by Richard K. Lieberman, director of the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives and professor of history at LaGuardia Community College, and his colleagues at the archives, Associate Project Directors Steven A. Levine and Stephen Weinstein, and Assistant Project Director Tara Jean Hickman. The project has received valuable input from some of the University’s finest scholars, whose participation underscores the integrity of the content. The calendar’s one-of-a-kind images were sourced from both the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives and The New York Times photo archives.

The Federal Reserve considers the record rate of mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures and their impacts on communities an urgent problem. The New York Fed uses its expertise and knowledge to provide detailed data on U.S. credit conditions to the public to establish a body of factual data for use in forming policy decisions and developing mortgage foreclosure mitigation efforts.

The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library is a collection of over 40,000 hours of spoken word recordings, dating back to 1888. The collection includes the voices of over 100,000 persons from all walks of life. Political and cultural leaders and minor players in the human drama are captured and cataloged to serve the research needs of a local, national and international user base.

A visionof Britain between 1801 and 2001. Includes maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.

With stunning re-enactments, evocative animation and the incisive commentary of key experts, The War of 1812 presents the conflict that forged the destiny of a continent.

Take a virtual tour of a World War One trench and experience the conditions under which World War One soldiers fought and lived.

The Living Room Candidate contains more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952, when Madison Avenue advertising executive Rosser Reeves convinced Dwight Eisenhower that short ads played during such popular TV programs as I Love Lucy would reach more voters than any other form of advertising. This innovation had a permanent effect on the way presidential campaigns are run.

LegiStorm launched in September 2006. Our web site is dedicated to providing a variety of important information about the US Congress. Based on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, LegiStorm's first information product was a database of congressional staff salaries but we have now added other valuable information, such as the most comprehensive database of all privately financed trips taken by members of Congress and congressional staffers. The information is provided in a strictly factual, non-partisan fashion. We have no political affiliations and no political purpose except to make the workings of Congress as transparent as possible.

The The American Revolution Center, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, owns a distinguished collection of historical objects, works of art, manuscripts, and printed works, and is working to establish The Museum of the American Revolution just steps from Independence Hall in the historic area of Philadelphia. Our mission is to engage the public in the history and significance of the American Revolution.

With its appr. 265,000 volumes the library of the South Asia Institute holds one of the major collections concerning the Subcontinent. It is open to the public. Since January 2005 the library, in co-operation with the Heidelberg University Library, is in charge of the DFG-funded special collection on South Asia. It maintains the South Asia Virtual Library “Savifa”, a gateway to quality controlled internet resources and other online information and services.

The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010.

NBR conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting U.S. relations with Asia. Drawing upon an extensive network of the world’s leading specialists and leveraging the latest technology, NBR bridges the academic, business, and policy arenas.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) offers several mapping products.

This website and database aims to introduce readers to the Jesuitana Collection at the Burns Library, Boston College, by highlighting books written about China by Jesuit missionaries. (The Jesuitana collection is broader than this, but for the purposes of this website, we have focused on east-west cultural exchange and interaction). Several years ago these books made their way to the shelves of the Burns Library, Boston College, and it is our pleasure to make them available now for readers from San Francisco to Shanghai, Chestnut Hill to Canberra.

Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.

United States Legislative Information.

The Plastics Collection at the Syracuse University Library serves as a research and programming resource to advance the study and understanding of plastics in modern society, including its role in chemistry, technology, industry, marketing, health, art, design, and other fields. The Plastics Collection includes books, periodicals, manuscripts, and over 5,000 plastic objects produced from the late -19th century to the present day.

Digital Humanities Now showcases the scholarship and news of interest to the digital humanities community through a process of aggregation, discovery, curation, and review. Digital Humanities Now also is an experiment in ways to identify, evaluate, and distribute scholarship on the open web through a weekly publication and the quarterly Journal of Digital Humanities.

The Encyclopædia Iranica is a comprehensive research tool dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

The Freedom Forum, based in Washington, D.C., is a nonpartisan foundation that champions the First Amendment as a cornerstone of democracy. The Freedom Forum is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute. The First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute are housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The First Amendment Center also has offices in Washington and the Diversity Institute has offices and programs at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. The Freedom Forum was established in 1991 under the direction of Founder Al Neuharth as successor to a foundation started in 1935 by newspaper publisher Frank E. Gannett. The Freedom Forum is not affiliated with Gannett Co. Its work is supported by income from an endowment of diversified assets.

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to slavery, including photographs, documents, and sound recordings. This guide compiles links to slavery resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site. In addition, it provides links to external Web sites focusing on slavery and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers.

KnowLA is a comprehensive, dynamic online reference guide to the history and culture of Louisiana. The encyclopedia is accessible to anyone with a web-enabled device, free of charge.

The Asia Art Archive, a nonprofit organization that includes noted art scholars and critics on its board, includes in its mission a "commitment to create a collection belonging to the public." Covering contemporary art movements across Asia, the online iteration of the archive provides a searchable catalog of the full collection, located in Hong Kong, as well as a growing collection of digitized material.

The Domestic Interiors Database is a major outcome from a broad-ranging analytical survey of the ways in which the interior has been represented since the Renaissance in Western Europe and North America. It was compiled by staff at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior between September 2001 and August 2006 and is a contribution to the AHRC’s mission to “ensure that knowledge and understanding generated by arts and humanities research is widely disseminated for the economic, social and cultural benefit of the UK and beyond.” With over 3,000 entries, the database cannot claim to provide a comprehensive or exhaustive compendium of representations of the interior across six centuries.

An interactive history lesson - Medieval Period (1000-1450), Early Modern Period (1450-1750) and Modern Period (1750-1900).

This free online resource is part of the NYPL Digital Gallery. It is a collection of portraits culled from the New York Public Library's larger print collection and designed to help those who are researching the early 20th century. The collection includes 60,000-plus portraits of a wide range of public figures. Most of these images originated as clippings from periodicals and newspapers from the mid-19th through early-20th century.

This website is a publicly accessible repository for the Irish public service broadcast network. RTÉ Archives contains selected film and audio clips, photographs, and manuscripts in the realm of politics, entertainment, history, culture, and biography.

The Getty Research Portal is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. The Portal is comprised of catalog records that link to full, digitized texts held at contributing institutions.

The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, is dedicated to increasing understanding of the Arab culture. It is a project of ACCESS, a nonprofit human services organization that was established to help Arab immigrants; it is the largest such organization in the US today.

The Chicago History Museum's Costume and Textile Collection features 50,000-plus artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present. Its focus reflects its urban origins: many of its contents were worn by "former presidents and first ladies, sports stars, celebrities or everyday people."

The Chicago History Museum’s outstanding and diverse collection of images, objects, books, manuscripts, and costumes tell the stories of the city’s and the nation’s history. The Museum is dedicated to making the collection accessible through exhibitions, programs, publications, and via the web. Here you will find information about our diverse objects and artifacts.

Chronological and thematic studies on the history of information and media.

The Tax History Museum provides a synthetic overview of the history of American taxation. Incorporating both narrative text and multimedia source materials, the museum offers a concise summary of American revenue policy and politics.

Wide range of information on the United States and State Department.

The Mountain West Digital Library is a central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region.

The users of this Encyclopedia will have the opportunity to learn about the details of Puerto Rican history, organized in 21 topics, including a special section on the Puerto Rican Diaspora. The content is presented in both Spanish and English.

The collection represents the inception and heyday of magazine, book, and newspaper posters of the last decade of the 19th-century, and well into the 20th-century.

The dictionary is a compendium of facts, figures, mini-biographies and definitions of historical terms. It covers people, places, key events and epochs. Each entry is concise and expertly written, and the dictionary is ideal as a study tool or to improve your knowledge of history.

The National Priorities Project (NPP) works to help citizens understand the federal budgetary process and participate in the political process.

Texas Beyond History (TBH) is a public education service of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, and in partnership with the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University and 15 other organizations. Begun in 2001, its purpose is to interpret and share the results of archaeological and historical research on the cultural heritage of Texas with the citizens of Texas and the world.

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center works to create and provide free access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and possess broad research value.

Government spending at your fingertips.

Historic Places offers a Google Map of nearly 100,000 historic places in North America. Browse the map and click on the placemarks to discover historic sites all over the continent.

This interlinked hypertext was created in Spring 1999 at Virginia Commonwealth University for Professor Ann Woodlief's graduate class in Studies in American Transcendentalism. It is a work in progress, and submissions of papers, texts and notes on them, and links are welcomed; full credit will be given to papers selected for the site.

This site contains items of interest for LDS church members and is a unique portal to a variety of sites on Mormon history and genealogy.

This site, part of the broader film division of the council's site, treats the historical film aspect of its endeavors, a collection of 120 brief documentary films that the council made during the 1940s to counteract Nazi propaganda about Britain and to show the world what life in Britain was like.

Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) is based at the University of Mississippi. Its mission is to "document, study, and celebrate the diverse food cultures of the changing American South."

Mapping History is essentially a digital atlas of American, European, Latin American, and African history. Each section is divided into modules based on historical themes and eras.

The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century.

The US Board on Geographic Names is the federal entity tasked with managing the standardization of geographic names.

Together with the introduction of rural mail delivery, the telephone, and the automobile, farm newspapers played a key role in the modernization of rural America.

AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics.

It provides "citations to written works about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and bordering communities from 1935 to the present" on an ongoing basis.

PAT is a free, open source, collection of maps developed by Ian Macky.

Find and get over 349,392,690 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more

NBR conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting U.S. relations with Asia.

Based on a permanent historical digital repository, the Dictionary aims to gather resources on every aspect of human habitation in the greater Sydney area from the first arrival of people to the present.

The Library of Congress hosts an online collection of more than 500 political cartoons and caricatures from U.S. History. You can search the collection by keyword and image type. Along with the images you will find links to related resources from the Library of Congress.

We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 700,000 pages, and that number is growing.

WWII in Europe: Every Day is a seven minute video that depicts the changing front lines of the European Theater of World War II every day from the German invasion of Poland to the surrender of Germany.

The Civil War Trust offers many fantastic resources for teachers and students.

Welcome to Presidential Classroom, a resource for students and teachers providing insight into historic and current events through teachable exhibits and lesson plans.

This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art.

This new atlas contains more than 700 historical maps of the United States. The maps within the atlas are arranged into eighteen sections.

A product of the Early Modern Center at the University of California--Santa Barbara, the Archive is a free resource offering researchers legible facsimiles and expert transcriptions of broadside ballads.

The primary school section includes a series titled 100 Years Ago... in which students learn about what life was like at home, school, and around town during WWI. This is from a British perspective, but there is a carry over for other students particularly in the 100 Years Ago "country" section in which students learn about the causes and effects of WWI.

WWI resources for secondary schools from the BBC.

The Atlas and its website, developed by the William M. Scholl Center for American History and Culture at the Newberry Library, provides free GIS shapefiles and KMZ files showing county, state, and territorial boundary changes for individual states and for the US.

Over the course of its history, the U. S. Government has prepared, commissioned, received, or approved designs for millions of objects.

Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience.

Starting points for locating primary sources at the Library of Congress.

The Native Peoples of Northern Great Plains Digital Images Database includes photographs, paintings, ledger drawings, documents, serigraphs, and stereographs from 1874 through the 1940's. In 1998, the images were digitized and drawn from the library collections of three of the Montana State University campuses (Billings, Bozeman and Havre), the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, and Little Big Horn College in Crow Agency, Montana.

Getty Publications Virtual Library has free digital titles.

Here students select from a table of contents an event, piece of legislation, or theme to see it in the context of other events, pieces of legislation, and themes leading to the start of the Civil War.

Digital Special Collections of the American Museum of Natural History’s Research Library provides access to our rich collections of digitized archival photographic images, art and memorabilia images and Rare Book Collection illustrations.

Collections Online has information on over 500,000 artworks, objects and specimens from Te Papa’s collections, from dinosaur teeth to contemporary art, as well as information on people, places, topics, species, and research from our curators.

The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.

The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.

The Invasion of America is an interactive map produced by eHistory.org for the purpose of showing how the land holdings of Native Americans drastically shrunk between 1784 and 1887.

Plataforma Democrática is an initiative of the Institute Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation and the Edelstein Center for Social Research dedicated to the strengthening of Latin American democratic institutions and culture.

A graphical display of history from the past 100 years.

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation contains legal analysis and interpretation of the US Constitution, based primarily on Supreme Court case law. Constitution Annotated, as it is known, is one part of Congress.gov , the official site for federal legislative information.

] The Historical Sea Ice Atlas is a timely resource that tracks an important indicator for climate change. It is a joint project of the Alaska Ocean Observing System, the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, and the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP), funded ultimately by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This free website allows users to compare the wording and provisions of the constitutions of the world's countries.

An initial core collection of some 5,000 16mm films donated by the Chicago Public Library is now supplemented by collections of amateur and home movies from residents of Chicago and Illinois and professional films with the appropriate geographic focus.