Resources
World History
AP World History - The College Board site that includes a topical outline
Bridging World History - Resources for teachers
Do History/ Martha Ballard's Story - The website created to teach history using the story of Martha Ballard, a colonial midwife. Historian Laura Thatcher Ulrich wrote a book which the site is based.
Hmong Cultural Center - Multicultural Resources, Adult Basic Education, Cultural Education; many articles on Hmong culture
Lesson Plans-Wisconsin Historical Society - Search Victoria Zuleger Straughn's lessons here under "World Wars and Conflicts."
Medieval Islamic Views of the Cosmos - The Teachers' Pack created by the Bodlian Library is aimed at students who are 11-14.
NASA Satellite Image: Night View - Link to the picture of the earth at night
National Geographic Maps - It contains printable blank maps for map activities, you can turn the country borders on or off, and identify if you would like them detailed or not.
Online Gallery of 15 World History Books - High quality website that shows 15 books from across time and space, allows the user to manually move the piece on the screen.
Timeline of Art History - Provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Traditions and Encounters Textbook Site - The Traditions and Encounters text has quizzes, tests, outlines, and primary source comparisons online.
Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies
Worksheets for using Documents and Artifacts - The National Archives provides these to help educators teach with documents and artifacts.
World History Connected - Free online journal on teaching world history.
World History Matters - A wonderful site; George Mason University's Center for History and New Media has created this to support history education.
World History for Us All - Provides a comprehensive model curriculum for teaching world history from early times to the present
Local History
Eau Claire Area Research Center
L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
Special Collections Department of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire McIntyre Library
Virtual Museum of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles
Women's History Before 1800
The Damned Art - Online version of an exhibition at the University of Glasgow library of books relating to the history of witchcraft and demonology. Includes many visual sources.
Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 - A library of Congress site on dance instruction manuals, with video clisp of many Renaissance and baroque dance steps.
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789, Wiesner-Hanks New book - It includes links to online resources, available as pdf files, for each chapter, including original sources. Every chapter includes sources by and/or about women.
Early Modern Women Database - Links to many original sources and other resources. Maintained by the University of Maryland libraries
Emory Women Writers Resource Project - Collection of poetry, prose and drama by women writing in English from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Includes edited as well as unedited texts.
A Guide to Late Medieval Material and Spiritual Life - The site provides a complete transcription of The Book of Margery Kempe in English along with ample secondary material establishing the historical background of Kempe's biography, her spirituality, and the historical era.
Internet Women's History Sourcebook - Site with hundreds of sources on all aspects of women's history, organized by area and almost all in the public domain. Established by Paul Halsall and sponsored by Fordham University.
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World - A resource on women and gender in the ancient Mediterranean, with teaching materials, bibliographies, and translated Greek, Latin, Egyptian, and Coptic texts.
Medieval Women's Latin Letters - Provides access to a substantial body of sources documenting the religious, economic, and political lives of powerful women in medieval Europe, especially letters written or received by female nobility and prominent members of religious orders between 4th and 13th centuries. Both the original Latin and the translations appear for each source.
Monastic Matrix - Documents the participation of Christian women in the religion and society of medieval Europe. Includes visual sources, translations, and scholarly articles. Run by Lisa Bitel, USC, and Katherine Gill, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700 - Website created and maintained by Dorothy Disse with more than one hundred pre-18th century women authors from around the world who have been translated into modern English, including excerpts of works and references to print and online editions.
Women and Books - Online version of an exhibition at the University of Glasgow library of books relating to women's authorship and reading, includes many visual sources.
Women in World History - Mega-site run by Lyn Reese, a secondary-school teacher from Berkeley, with many lesson plans, curriculum reviews and links to other sites.
Yorkshire Women's Lives Online, 1100 to Present - This site showcases the lives of women in Yorkshire, England, from the 2nd century C.E. to the present day. The site presents 85,000 digitized images and microfilmed documents from the collections of the archives and libraries in and around Yorkshire
