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I've found these really useful for my year 12s. Berkeley has an awesome history department and it's like the kids can be in the room during a lecture. They listen to them and take notes for their assignments. Parents love it, too. I've particularly found Isabelle Pafford useful for her lectures on the ancient world.

"The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World." Cool! Looks like you need to use a special viewer or something.

The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World. The collection was acquired by the University of California from the Mitsui family in 1949, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are over 1100 images of maps and books from this Collection.

I love these podcasted lectures. I usually get them down through iTunes U or iTunes podcasts (free!) and then put them up on moodle (similar to BlackBoard) for students to download and listen to/watch for their homework/research. Parents get really impressed too when their little angel is listening to a Berkeley Uni lecture on their iPod! [(^).(^)]

Teaching Comparative Religion Through Art and Architecture Center for Middle Eastern Studies - University of California - Berkeley Three Monotheistic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam Objectives: This exercise is intended in part to communicate information about the three major monotheistic religions of the Middle East--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--about beliefs, events, symbols, institutions and practices important to the three religions.

Useful in helping students understand what primary and secondary sources are and how to approach them.

Searchable database of images of buildings, objects, people, etc. Is run out of UC Berkeley so will probably focus on West Coast USA. That's just a guess though.

Has links to around twenty digial collections of primary sources maintained by the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

"Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization." What a woman.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women's equality and independence, and union organization.

Podcasts of interviews with prominent historians.

Not sure how much you can access here. It at least has some manuscripts that you can access images of; looks like the rest of it might be in the process of being digitised.