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Visualising China- Archive of 8000 photographs from China's history

A great tool for students to use to understand the sequence of events in the Arab Spring and to understand historical significance.  It would be interesting to ask students to compare international responses to the various uprisings and ask them to make a judgement about the fairness of each response.

Statistics-based website that visualizes various trends in demography, economics, etc. related to world history and American history.

via @courosa

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.

Interactive map showing commercial shipping in 2012 around the world