Iraq War Coalition Fatalities - 2 views
American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915 - 3 views
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'A decade after Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness first depicted the mysteries and agonies of the area, Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the northeastern Belgian Congo. They knew they were launching an extraordinary adventure, but they could not have imagined what those years would hold. By the time they sailed home five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens representing one of the most comprehensive collections of the day'
PPT about The History of the Berlin Wall - 13 views
Turkey, 1920 | Informed Comment - 8 views
Lesson Plan: Creating a Primer on the Arab World - NYTimes.com - 10 views
IfItWereMyHome.com - 14 views
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States - 11 views
Spatial History Project - 12 views
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This is a very interesting and unusual idea. Historians at Stanford have collected very specific and detailed information about historical events within short time frames and then produced graphic representations of these events that you can play over maps. It's very precise and perhaps too detailed for many high school level students to make sense of, however some of them helped show how historical phenomena occurred. Particularly chilling was the graphic showing slave purchases in the Rio slave market in the mid-C19th; you can see individual children being bought at specific times by specific people.
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before - 34 views
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