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Subject matter: History (Columbus Expedition)

1492 Exhibit
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/
1492.exhibit/Intro.html

INFORMATION: 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? How did European, African and
American peoples react to each other?
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. 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.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
Have each of your students spend a class period poring over the
exhibit. Since the site is easily navigated in a kind of storybook
way, students of all ages will find it easy to get around. 
Then, break your class into five groups and have them pick one of
the main subject areas for more intensive research: What Came To
Be Called ÒAmericaÓ, The Mediterranean World, Christopher
Columbus: Man and Myth, Inventing America, and Europe Claims
America.
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Art (1492 Art Exhibit)
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/
overview.html
Christopher Columbus Links
URL: gopher://sundns.millersv.edu/11/other/columbus
ColumbusÕ Home Town in Sweden
URL: http://www.csd.uu.se/uppsala-student/
uppsalaguide/guide.html





Subject matter: History (American Civil War)

American Civil War Information Archive
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://www.access.digex.net/
~bdboyle/cw.html

INFORMATION: This Web page is your jumping-off point to everything
the Internet has to offer about the American Civil War. Visit the
Civil War Archive at the Library of Congress, review online Civil
War documents, find out where to attend reeanactment and living
history museums, look over detailed regimental histories, and step
through the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
During your normal course of study about the Civil War, have your
students access this page and review the orders of battle for
major engagements. Where were the hot spots for the war? Which
battles were turning points in the war? The engagement information
is great background material for papers, reports, or oral
assignements about the period.
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
American Civil War Page at the University of Tennessee
URL: http://cobweb.utcc.utk.edu/~hoemann/warweb.html
Letters Home from a Soldier in the U.S. Civil War
URL: http://www.ucsc.edu/civil-war-letters/home.html
Art (1492 Art Exhibit)
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/
overview.html
Subject matter: History (Ancient Near East)

Ancient Near East Studies
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu:80/OI/
DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML

INFORMATION: ABZU is an experimental, comprehensive guide to the
rapidly increasing, and widely distributed data relevant to the
study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East. Here your
students will find links to museum collections, an index of
resources by region (Egypt or Mesopotamia), online archarological
sites and data, and library catalogs and journals. Truly an all-
encompassing Web site, anyone doing research on the Ancienct Near
East should make this their first online stop! 
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
This site contains dozens of links to that latest information
about papyrus; how it was made, remaining fragments, and museum
collections. Have your students do a research paper on the
subject, and use this site as their primary source of information.
URL: http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu:80/papyrus/ 
URL: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu:80/OI/DEPT/RA/
ABZU/ABZU_REGINDX_EGYPT_PAP.HTML
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
3D Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Mummy
URL: http://www.pavilion.co.uk/HealthServices/
BrightonHealthCare/mummy.htm
Ancient Near East Academic Journals
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu:80/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/
ABZU_JOURNAL_INDEX.HTML
Archaeological Sites in Mesopotamia
URL: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu:80/OI/DEPT/RA/
ABZU/ABZU_REGINDX_MESO.HTML

Subject matter: History (Renaissance)

Electric Renaissance Online Course
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://www.idbsu.edu:80/
courses/hy309/

INFORMATION: While originally created for students as Boise State
University, this Web site contains a free, universally-available
college course on the Renassiance anyone may participate in. Your
high school history students will love to peruse the in-depth
offerings of this site concerning the Renaissance, and perhaps
will be interested in joining in with the live online discussions
from students at Boise State.
Overall, the subject matter of the course is the history of Europe
from around 1300 to around 1500. The course emphasizes Italy and
especially the Italian Renaissance, but does pay some attention to
events north of the Alps as well.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
Use all of the information contained here to supplement your
lesson plans on the Renaissance. Many of the lessons and
assignments youÕll find here are easily changed to fit into any
high school history curriculum.
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Botticelli Exhibit
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre/paint/auth/botticelli/
Maps of Florence and France during the Renaissance
URL: http://www.idbsu.edu:80/courses/hy309/maps/maps.html
Michelangelo Exhibit
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre/paint/auth/
michelangelo/


Subject matter: History (China)

History of China
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/
~felsing/cstuff/history.html

INFORMATION: This single Web page contains links to hundreds of
online databases with information about China, including its
history. ThereÕs the extensive Lishi Yanjiu Asia Library,
chronologies of Chinese history, sound bites and full-texts from
Mao ZedongÕs library, information on 5-year Projects, lots of
works related to the democracy movement, and much more. 
One link takes you to a comprehensive index to the entire site.
URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/
cstuff/cshelf.html
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
Using information obtained from site, have your students contruct
a detailed wall chart of Chinese history, complete with
illustrations. If they like, allow the students to create a
computer multimedia presentation instead of the wall chart. Allow
them to use graphics from the site to illustrate the chart.
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Beijing Massacre Anniversary Home Page
URL: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/
cstuff/cndspec.html
Chinese History Chronology
URL: http://www.cernet.edu.cn/history.html
History of Chinese Mathemathics
URL: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/china.html


Subject matter: History (Soviet)

Library of Congress Soviet Archives
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/
pjones/russian/Soviet_Archive_Introduction.html

INFORMATION: These documents provide an unprecedented inside look
at the workings of one of the largest, most powerful and long-
lived political machines of the modern era. They cover the entire
range of Soviet history from the October Revolution of 1917 to the
failed coup of August 1991, and include material from archives
that had been key working files of the Communist rulers until
August 1991: the archives of the Central Committee, the
Presidential archive, and the KGB.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
Students choose a document from the online archive and research
the historical implications and background surrounding it, using
both online and Library resources.
Students use online documents to illustrate how relations were
conducted between the US and USSR governments over the past 80
years. They should document the cooperative as well as
confrontational periods in that relationship.
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Soviet History Newsgroups
URL: news:soc.culture.soviet
URL: news:talk.politics.soviet
General History Resources
URL: telnet://hnsource.cc.ukans.edu
Social Sciences/Humanities (Soviet Anti-Religious Campaigns)
URL: http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/pjones/russian/
Anti-Religious_Campaigns.html
Science (Soviet Nuclear Power Program/Chernobyl)
http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/pjones/russian/
Chernobyl.html

Subject matter: History (Military)

Military History
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu:80/
history/milhst/m_index.html

INFORMATION: The Mil-Hist Home Page is your jumping-off point to
hundreds of Internet sites containing chronologies and information
related to miltary history. From Ancient & Medieval, to Pre-
Twentieth and Twentieth Century, this site links you to online
databases concerning everything from the Napoleonic Wars to World
War I, II, Vietnam, and the Gulf War, students studying any armed
conflict will find lots of relevant information here. 
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
One of the most interesting works accessible through this site is
the Operation Desert Storm Desert Storm Debriefing Book by Andrew
Leyden, a former federal government employee written while he
worked on Capitol Hill during the war. Have your students access
the book and read it thoroughly. If you deem it necessary, make it
required reading for the entire class.
URL: http://www.nd.edu:80/~aleyden/contents.html
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Air Force Online Image Bank
URL: http://infosphere.safb.af.mil/~ccam/comcam1.htm
Army Area Handbooks
URL: gopher://UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU:70/11/LIBRARY/
STACKS/BOOKS/ARMYAHBS
Voice of America Transcripts
URL: gopher://ftp.voa.gov/11/newswire

Subject matter: History (Medieval Studies)

The Labyrinth
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://www.georgetown.edu:80/
labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html

INFORMATION: The Labyrinth is a global information network
providing free, organized access to electronic resources in
medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown
University. The Labyrinth's easy-to-use menus and hypertext links
provide automatic connections to databases, services, and
electronic texts on other servers around the world. Each user will
be able to find an Ariadne's thread through the maze of
information on the Internet and World Wide Web.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
This site is a perfect one to use for your Òacross the curriculumÓ
lesson plans. The entire site contains works done in their
original Spanish, Latin, French, Italian, and Middle English--thus
making it an easy progression to using this site to bring together
both a history and foreign language lesson.
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
library/library.html
More than 20 hands-on Medeival History lesson plans and activities
can also be found on the site.
URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
pedagogical/pedagog.html
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Institute of Historical Research, London
URL: http://ihr.sas.ac.uk:8080/ihr/ihr0101.html
Internet Discussion Lists for Students of History
URL: gopher://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu:70/11/
hnsource/H-Net_news/Lists
Online Latin Texts
URL: http://ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu:80/ftp/pub/history/
Europe/Medieval/latintexts/

SUBJECT MATTER: History (Soviet Czars)

Treasures of the Czars
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://www.times.stpete.fl.us/
treasures/TC.Lobby.html

INFORMATION: While you and your class could fly to FloridaÕs
International Museum to see the breaktaking Treasures of the Czars
exhibition, why not save your time and pennies and view it online?
The Treasures are more than 250 items from the reign of the
Romanov czars (1613 to 1917). Those centuries were a period of
monumental change in Russia: from a church-dominated, insular land
to a secular, militaristic member of the European council of
nations. Treasures is said to be the largest collection of items
ever sent out of the country by the Moscow Kremlin Museums. 
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
Set aside an entire class period and tell your students theyÕre
going on a field trip to Florida! Allow each student time to
explore and enjoy the online exhibition. At the end, have each
student write a short Tele-Field Trip journal about what they
found and what theyÕre impressions of the site were.
The site includes eight separate lesson plan ideas using
information contained on the site.
URL: http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/treasures/
TC.5.a.4.html 
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Art (History)
URL: http://rubens.anu.edu.au
Art (News)
URL: news:clari.news.arts
Art (Soviet)
URL: http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/treasures/
TC.2.1.html


SUBJECT MATTER: History (Holocaust)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://www.ushmm.org:80/index.html

INFORMATION: The main task of the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum is to present the facts of the Holocaust, to tell the
American public as clearly and comprehensively as possible what
happened in that darkest chapter of human history. To this end,
the Museum has reconstructed the history of the Holocaust through
multiple media: the meaningful arrangement of objects as well as
the presentation of documentary photographic and cinematographic
materials. This Web site serves as both an information storehouse
for many Holocaust-related resources, as well as an online kiosk
for visitors information to the museum.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
As an educator, visit the site and retrieve the in-depth Teaching
Manual to the Holocaust. It contains great information and ideas
concerning teaching K-12 students about the event.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org:80/education/ed.html
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust & Holocaust Denial
URL: http://www.ed.ac.uk/~p92002/anti_sem.html
Cybrary of the Holocaust
URL: http://www.pinsight.com/~write/cybrary/index.html
Holocaust Timeline
URL: http://www.kaiwan.com/~greg.ihr/misc/timeline.html
SUBJECT MATTER: History (World History)

World History Archives
HOME PAGE ADDRESS: URL: http://neal.ctstateu.edu:80/history/
world_history/archives/archives.html

INFORMATION: This site provides links to more than 500 online
databases containing information about World History. ThereÕs
links to documentary archives, online mailing lists about history,
lists of History departments at the worldÕs colleges and
universities, general history reference works, tools, and
libraries, and much more. A must vists for all students studing
any time period in history.
INTEGRATION IDEAS:
Here you and your students will find an extensive online
collection of documents related to the history and current state
of the worldÕs economy.
URL: http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/
world_history/archives/econ.html
Have your students pick a paper topic from what they find here,
and have them develop it into a full-blown research paper, tracing
the problem to its historical roots and possible solutions today.
OTHER SITES RELATED TO THIS TOPIC:
African Studies Archives
URL: http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/
archives/afrstud.html
Marx & Engels Online Library
URL: gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU/11/psn/Marx
NativeWeb
http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/~marc/native_main.html