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Magazine article on the British East India Company

'IWM London, the headquarters of the Imperial War Museum, the multi-branch national museum of war and wartime life from 1914 to the present day"'

Animated maps showing the imperial history of the Middle East and the spread of religions. The graphics are beautiful and provide a simple overview of the broad sweep of history. I've found these useful at the start of a unit/semester/term to provide a general introduction. My students think they need a hard rock track in the background as a soundtrack...

Feature Where has democracy dominated as the world's most popular form of government? See 4,000 years of democracy in 90 seconds... > Go to Map History of Religion How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries? Imperial History of the Middle East Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of world events?

Article on how East India Company imperialism and famine in Bengal.

The Battle of Britain from the UK's Imperial War Museum

Amazing color photos from Imperial Russia

Interactive Map/video showing who controlled Middle East from 3000 BCE to present.

Pretty self-explanatory, really. Pretty pictures.

O texto abaixo foi escrito pelo líder vietcong Ho Chi Minh que liderou o exército comunista contra os Estados Unidos na guerra do Vietnã. A preocupação e o ativismo de Lênin na luta contra o imperialismo fez com que Ho Chi Minh aceitasse a teoria leninista como política de governo. The following was written by the Viet Cong leader Ho Chi Minh Communist who led the army against the United States in the Vietnam War. The concern and activism of Lenin in the struggle against imperialism has made Ho Chi Minh to accept the Leninist theory as government policy.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China was divided into sphere of influence with each powerful Western nation trying to exert as much control over it as possible. The Chinese resented foreigners control and expressed this at the beginning of the 20th century with the Boxer Rebellion. At the same time, the traditional government of China began to fail in the early years. The Chinese people, being resentful of foreigners and dissatisfied with inability of the present government to throw them out, initiated the Revolution of 1911, replacing the Chinese 2000 year old imperial system with the Republic of China headed by Sun Yat-sen.

Watch European colonialism rise and fall in seconds in this GIF. Vox has also written an accompanying text:

If only those smart-stupid Wall Street Bankers had had access to resources like these... and the humility to study them.

No information on how much is there, but going on the quality of the other source sites provided by Harvard Libraries it should be quite extensive.

The Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection-comprised of manuscript materials and photographs-offers researchers invaluable insight into the Japanese War Crimes Trial -- one of the most important trials of the twentieth century.

Another brilliantly organised collection from the History Sourcebooks.

Nearly 7000 images from early America which you can view in a cool viewer that opens up in a new tab/window. Very groovy.