World History on the Internet

Lawrence University Summer Institute
July 7-11, 2003

• Best of History Web Sites. Based primarily on research done by Thomas Daccord, currently a history teacher and instructional technology consultant at the Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts, and President of the Center for Teaching History With Technology. Sites are selected and rated based on guidelines from Oregon Public Education Network.
• Doing History: Directories Listing Sites for Professional Historians and Doing History: Sites for Popular History . Selected and presented by the History Department at Lawrence.
• Global History Consortium
• H-World, an H-Net Discussion Group
• History Channel: This Day in History
• The History Guide by Steven Kreis
• Instructor Resources for World History, Instructor Links
• Internet Resources for History. From the librarians of the Seeley G. Mudd Library. This list includes some of the specific sites mentioned here and more.
• Journal of World History
• Teaching World History: The Global Human Experience through Time. ERIC Digest.
• Voice of the Shuttle: History links
• World History Association and Teaching resources from the World History Association
• World History Resource Center at Northwestern University
• World History Compass
• World History Lesson Plans

• Reading Writing and Researching for History: A Guide for College Students: Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College, August 2000
• Why Study History Through Primary Sources: from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook

• The Historian's Sources: part of the American Memory Project and The Learning Page from the Library of Congress
• How to Read a Primary Source: Patrick Rael, Bowdoin College
• DoHistory: providing Martha Ballard's online diary and more on How to Use Primary Sources and information about the DoHistory site.
• The Lizzie Borden / Fall River Case Study: Beth Terhune, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

• Avalon Project, Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy Yale University
• Internet History Sourcebooks Project
• World History Archives

The American Forum for Global Education

Requires free registration for use. The Forum is a a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to "promoting the education of our nation's youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world."

AP Central pages from the College Board

The details from the official site. You must register (for free) if you want to take advantage of all of the features of this site.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

Resources for enhancing instruction.

Teaching with Documents

Lesson plans and links from the National Archives.

World History Lesson Plan Links

Part of the Social Studies Web at the University of New Orleans

World Lecture Hall

WLH "links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language."

Teacher's sites:
Historyteacher.net by Susan M. Pojer.

Digital Librarian

"A librarian's choice of the best of the Web."

INFOMINE for History

From the University of California. You may want to look at the general INFOMINE categories or the resources for Social Sciences & Humanities.

Librarians' Index to the Internet

From the California State Libraries.

The Scout Report Archives

Sources selected and organized by the Internet Scout Project. The Project, located in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is funded by the National Science Foundation. Its mission is to assist in the advancement of resource discovery on the Internet.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History

Organized into broad categories (research methods, eras and epochs, topics, countries and regions, and other useful information).

Of course, there are many more web resources available that might be useful in your research. For brief background information on how to use some of the many available Internet search engines, see the guide to Selected Search Tools for WWW.

Primary sources on the web may be transcripts or reproductions of original documents. It's as important to evaluate primary sources on the web as secondary ones. You should be sure the documents you find have been made available by a reputable source. There should be some statement about the source of the original document, a description of the process used post it, and the name or names of the person, institution, or organization responsible for making the document available. You may want to consult this guide to Evaluating Internet Resources from the Lawrence library, this guide to Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources from UCLA, or this bibliography on Evaluation of Information Sources.

Try out your searching chops on the page for searching the Web created for Professor Doeringer's AP Summer Institute. For more resources on American History, see the resources list for the AP Summer Institute on American History.