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...
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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?
Lots and lots of links and materials. Many of the lessons involve primary sources for US History topics. Information on assessment, mobile technology, and assessment and collaboration.
A resource created to help K-12 history and social studies teachers incorporate technology effectively into their courses.
Includes lessons and activities, video tutorials, and other ideas for integrating technology into the history classroom.
I hope this site helps you place today's current events into a greater historical context. Each map is well-researched and based in fact, and none of the work is meant to be biased or political. No spin or opinion, just fact-based conclusions about the history of war.
Maps-of-War is created by a Flash-Designer hobbyist and professional history- buff. Enjoy your visit and feel free to save or share our work for your own use!
Teaching with Historic Places has developed more than 130 classroom-ready lesson plans that together range across American history. All are available on the Web. For more information on lessons plans or our program, contact TwHP. You can also view the entire collection according to location, topic, skill, U.S. History Standards, and Social Studies Standards.
Children & Youth in History is a world history resource that provides teachers and students with access to sources about young people from the past to the present.
This is a wonderful resource - the best on-line zine (oops, I mean e-journal) for world history teachers.
Depending on how the editorial board feels, I might have an article published in the next WHC.
I found this issue http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.2/index.html especially valuable.
And the recent articles of James Diskant have been helpful too.
Oh, and, of course, this journal is affiliated with the World History Association which every world history teacher should be a part of: http://www.thewha.org/
Best,
he Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization devoted to the improvement of history education. The Institute has developed an array of programs for schools, teachers, and students that now operate in all fifty states, including a website that features more than 60,000 unique historical documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Each year the Institute offers support and resources to tens of thousands of teachers, and through them enhances the education of more than a million students.
"Memorial Hall Museum Online
American Centuries
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Explore American History with hands-on activities, exhibits, lessons, historic documents and artifacts."
"The Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy. I"
Large collection of short historical videos which you can download if you have a YouTube downloader in your browser. Or else if you are lucky and your school has decent internet, you could just watch them in the classroom (*wistful sigh*).
This is a thorough and well-organised collection of sources related to legal history. Quite useful for any political, legal or even just general historical research.
