Rich trove of primary sources: Whalemen's Shipping List (full run in pdf); American Offshore Whaling Voyage database

Are men or women happier? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? Do our emotions change as we age? Do college-age females in Russia experience the same range of emotions as college-age females in the U.S.?

Hermeneuti.ca - The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

Eric Fischer's second set of geotagged photos; this time he codes photos taken by tourists and locals

Gapminder World

Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church

As a visual learner I often find myself thinking about ways to organize the vast quantities of information I consume as an historian into manageable pieces without losing sight of all the ways in which one bit of information might be linked to lots of others. While in a sense visually overpowering, this timeline is also one of the most elegant solutions I have encountered to the problem of visualizing the connections between multiple themes or ideas, and multiple events or moments in time. The use of color allows me to recognize immediately which are the dominant categories (paradigm, society, media, personae, brands) and understand something about the significance of each of the events listed in the bottom columns. Even better would be if one could select/visually isolate a particular theme or event, but otherwise what a rich, creative solution to the problem of managing complex content in a timeline!

For over seventy-five years, the history of the ocean and its relationship with humankind has been told and displayed in one of the largest maritime museums in the world. In 1930, The Mariners' Museum was brought to life by Archer Milton Huntington, son of railroad and shipping magnate Collis P. Huntington, who founded Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company just a few miles from the Museum. [Located in Newport News, VA]

The modern world exists in a state of cultural, political, and economic globalisation. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world's continents, thus beginning the process of globalisation in which we all live today. This tutorial introduces the student to these two pioneering nations, their motivations, their actions, and the inevitable consequences of their colonisation. This tutorial also examines the geographical, technological, economic, political, and cultural patterns of that era.

"Walrus Skin" Banknotes and other fun things