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Links to pages with images of manuscripts in the respective language.

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!

How cool is this? A (hopefully legal...) collection of free documentaries. There are 61 full-length history documentaries at the moment including 'Fog of War', a documentary about the Kennedy administration.

A useful resource for engaging with Gen Y. The rap isn't bad (I think) and the quality of the historical information is quite good for a middle or high school level. They aren't free however they're not too expensive either.

This is more for archaeology than history, but looked so useful I added it. I think it's kind of a database of archaeological sites and news maintained by archaeologists.

Gotta love these Sourcebooks. Wonder when they'll do an Australian one...?

Information on numbers of slaves transported from the C16th to C19th in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Some of the numbers look a little too precise to be exactly reliable. Interesting though.

"This websource provides access to a growing collection of digitized historical documents, images and materials, along with past and current analysis on the history of the University of California." Just what we like!

An excellent 'hub' (that's a buzzword for you) for primary sources from all eras and regions.

This is the blog which accompanies the podcast Stuff You Missed in History Class. Like just about all History podcasts, it's easily found through iTunes. My students have found the format on SYMIHC as user-friendly and valuable for their research. Worth a listen.

1492. Columbus. The date and the name provoke many questions related to the linking of very different parts of the world, the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was life like in those areas before 1492? What spurred European expansion? How did European, African and American peoples react to each other? What were some of the immediate results of these contacts?1492: AN ONGOING VOYAGE addresses such questions by examining the rich mixture of societies coexisting in five areas of this hemisphere before European arrival. It then surveys the polyglot Mediterranean world at a dynamic turning point in its development. The exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves. All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual, irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their lives. The dramatic events following 1492 set the stage for numerous cultural interactions in the Americas which are still in progress - a complex and ongoing voyage.

Materials that might be useful for geography and foreign language instruction as much as historical research.