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The approximately 1,275 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public - in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

Browse both 3D and standard photographic images of the United States National Parks. Selected field guides available. Subjects include igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; weathering; glacier, coastal, and stream valley landforms; features of deserts and caverns; forests and plants; animals; native and prehistoric cultures; and man-made features.

The British School at Rome Archive (BSR) thanks to the Getty Foundation, made freely available digital copies of the John Bryan Ward-Perkins photographic collection. A website of the "BSR digital collections was created to present not only the photographic material (Photographs) but also other types of resources which follow into different categories: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts". But "the majority of the digital images displayed on the website are represented by the photographic prints and negatives from unique historic collections, including calotypes, glass and film negatives, slides and lantern slides."

Seems to focus more on the history of the British School at Rome rather than Roman history. Should revise the tags at this point but this summer heat here in Queensland is making me lazy...

Historypin - It's a great mashup of digital photos with stories layered over Google maps. Users can search images by geography / time and post historic photos with stories to maps. It's fascinating to view historic photographs set against the backdrop of current Google map street view.

Search engine for creative commons images

A large set of collections of photographs and images from a diverse range of time periods and places. Some of them only have sample images, however quite a few have full access. If only Diigo let us use more than 20 tags!

Has some choice images of ancient and medieval Italy which would be useful for assessment design, classroom resources or research. I found some of the information accompanying the images a little superficial, however.

A collection of images maintained by English Heritage. They cover Britain across the ancient, medieval and modern periods and are arranged by themes.

Photos from the Cultural Revolution

A guide to teaching some of the seminal images of American history. 

Also check out Picturing Early America, especially the unit plans from 2009 (ones from 2010, including one from yours truly coming soon): http://picturingamerica.salemstate.edu/

Images, video audio, maps, timelin

Over 1400 Civil War photographs plus infographics, and beautiful images.

Useful looking resource with images of the original "redlining" maps from the 1930s.  These maps created the practice and the term redlining.  Has HOLC A-D graded areas imposed on present day maps for cities in California and North Carolinia.

awesome stories Learning about history through excellent stories that  icnlude primary documents, images, video, and audio to enhance learning.  excellent resource. 

A collection of documents, images and audio sources on Lenin. The Communist, not the Beatle.

Fake Snapchat generator online. Imitate Snapchat online. Create Snapchat images in seconds and prank your friends.

Historical information from the NATO archives. Great website, easy to search and locate new sources. Images, documents, videos.