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"From Burning River to Burning Mad A brief look at the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire and the protests against pollution that followed it."

Could be a good excursion trip. 

After 1500, a web of maritime trade linked Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Thousands of ships carried explorers, merchants, and migrants from Europe to the Americas. They also transported millions of enslaved men and women from Africa. Vessels bound back to Europe carried gold, silver, sugar, tobacco, rice, and other cargoes, along with returning travelers. Every crossing brought new encounters between people, customs, and ways of life, ultimately creating entirely new cultures in the Americas. The maritime web connected the lives of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic.

One Stop Shopping for Everything Civil War with 150th Anniversary.

A collection of images and documents from the (now re-closed!) Soviet archives and maintained by the Library of Congress.

Intriguing item from Meiji Japan, combines traditional and western influence. Useful object for student inquiry

A good overview of the political structure of the Aztec empire. A page on the same site as a good overview of social structure