History CD Journeys

Ibn Battuta’s Travels Through the Islamic World

http://www.alshindagah.com/august/ibn_batt.htm

This single web-page is called "The Arabian Marco Polo" and has a painting and information about Ibn Battuta.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/batuta.html

This page is part of the Medieval Sourcebook! -- Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies at Fordham University. Here you'll find selections from the Travels of Ibn Batuta.

Gandhi

http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/

Here is a comprehensive site (using frames) about Gandhi that has brought together biographical information, articles, photographs, sound clips and other materials.

http://www.nuvs.com/ashram/

This page is called "Mahatma Gandhi Ashram" and contains a photo gallery, timeline, movie clip, and some references.

http://www.engagedpage.com/gandhi.html

Here you'll find sections of Gandhi's writings, a brief history, map of India and links to vegetarian resources.

Holocaust

http://www.ushmm.org

The official web site for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum contains the full U.S. State Dept. report, Father Jacques on-line exhibit, archive of historic photos and other exhibits.

http://remember.org

This powerful site is the "Cybrary of the Holocaust" contains documentary and personal accounts of the Holocaust from a variety of historical perspectives including accounts from witnesses, survivors and many images.

World Trade and the Spread of the Black Death

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/osheim/intro.html

This web page is labeled "Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe." There is an introductory background text and texts pertaining to three historical locations, Florence, Pistoia and Lucca in the year 1348.

http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/black_death.html

This is an essay on the Black Death (1346-1351) and Great Famine (1315-1317). The page is part of a course called History 108: Early Medieval Culture by Prof. Lynn Nelson in the Department of History at the University of Kansas.

http://www.anz.discovery.com/features/blackdeath/blackdeath.html

Discovery.com hosts this useful site that includes maps showing the path of the Black Death including major cities and dates.

Suez and Panama

http://pharos.bu.edu/Egypt/Wonders/Modern/suezcanal.html

This single page contains a photograph and information about the Suez Canal.

http://www.pananet.com/pancanal/public/public.htm

The official homepage of the Panama Canal Commission is a great source of information for everything from its history, to the current cost of passage.

http://www.canalmuseum.com/photos/panamacanalphoto042.htm

This page is dedicated to the Panama Canal. It contains photographs, maps and detailed information about the history, construction, technical data and administration of the canal.

Modern American Household

http://www.state.nj.us/travel/virtual/capemay/physick.html

This homepage is for the Emlen Physick Estate Virtual Tour, where you can move from room to room in a restored Victorian house (1879-89) in Cape May, NJ.

Carson Mansion QTVR http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/NorthCalif/HumboldtBay/Eureka/CarsonMansionL.html

Gingerbread Mansion QTVR http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/NorthCalif/RedwoodHwy/ScotiaFerndale/GingerbreadMansionL.html

These are from the Virtual Guidebooks site. If you have the Quicktime Virtual Reality plug-in for your web browser, take a look around these Victorian neighborhoods.

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day

http://eawc.evansville.edu/ropage.htm

Exploring Ancient World Cultures homepage at the University of Evansville contains images, a collection of essays and primary documents, and primary evidence from the Karanis excavation. Here you will also find a chronology of Roman history, a Roman Emperors Quiz and links to the Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors and the ARGOS search engine.

Build Brazil's New Capital City

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3416/tabphoto.htm

Here is a page where you can see more than 60 images of the Capital city of Brasilia from the construction of the city up through the present. The page can be viewed in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Note that the text colors may make some words difficult to read.

Hammurabi’s Code

http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/hammurabi.htm

Here is a translation of the over 280 sections of Hammurabi’s code. Included is a detailed introductory text and translation of the Epilogue section of the stele of Hammurabi.

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/hammint.htm

On this page you will find a hypertext essay about Hammurabi's Code with pop-up glossary terms followed by a complete translation of the Code including the epilogue. This page is the product of the Avalon Project at Yale University.

Early-Modern Japanese Culture Through Art

http://jin.jcic.or.jp/museum/

Here is a beautiful and extensive collection of images of Japanese woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e). The images are organized by subject and include many of the most famous artists of the Tokugawa period.

http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/biblio/general/easian/japan/cultural.html

This page has the titled "Cultural Atlas of Japan: Facts on File" It contains a detailed bibliography on Japanese history for instructors and students who would like to do further research.

Cuneiform, An Ancient Writing System

http://saturn.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/Welcome.html

This site contains a lot of good information and graphics about the cuneiform system of writing and the Akkadian language. The author provides both linguistic and historical material.

http://www.emory.edu/CARLOS/ODYSSEY/NEAREAST/cunef.html

Here is information about writing systems in the Near East from Odyssey On-Line. Look around and you'll find more information about the Near East, Egypt, Greece and Rome in antiquity. This site is supported by the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.

Divination Around the World

http://www.newageinfo.com/res/welcome.htm

Here is a site that is an information cooperative for all things New Age. This page is dedicated specifically to the topic of divination and contains information and links about astrology, tarot, runes, palmistry and other types.

http://www.facade.com/iching/

Try visiting this site if you want to explore different forms of divination and have your fortune read. This is the original WWW I Ching site and also includes pages dedicated to bibliomancy, tarot, runes, biorhythms and stichomancy.

http://www.middlebury.edu/~atherton/AR325/divination/index.html

Here are some examples of Yoruba artifacts from the Charles Derby Collection of African Art used in divination rituals by the Yoruba Peoples of Nigeria.

King Tut’s Tomb

http://www.powerup.com.au/~ancient/index.html

This site contains nice images of ancient and modern Egypt, pictures of Egyptian antiquities, chronological information and links to other related web sites.

http://www.sci.qut.edu.au/physci/seminar/mummies/

This site specializes in an interesting way to look at mummies, using x-rays and CAT scans. It contains information about the technical procedures involved and has images of what the inside of the mummies look like.

http://www.geocities.com/amenhotep.geo/

At the Ancient Egypt Site, you will find an interactive book about the history and culture of the Ancient Egyptian civilizations. The page also includes an interactive timeline, language of Ancient Egypt, names of the pharaohs (royal titulary), a glossary of key words and a bibliography. The page uses frames and has a few banners.

http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML

The Research Archives at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is an excellent source of scholarly information about Ancient Egypt and Near East history and archaeology. ABZU is a clearinghouse of information that includes bibliographies, listings of on-line journals and museum collections, publisher and book seller lists, links to maps and atlases and specific geographic and subject indices. You can also access the ARGOS search engine and database from here.

Family, Cornerstone of Traditional China

http://uweb.superlink.net/user/fsu/daxue.html

http://uweb.superlink.net/user/fsu/analect1.html

These Web pages contains the text of the Great Learning written by Confucius around 500 B.C.E. The text discusses the idea of filial piety and the family as a model of the larger state.

European Imperialism

http://www.yoga.com/raw/readings/kipling.html

This page contains the text of Rudyard Kipling’s poem The White Man’s Burden (1899). There is an introductory paragraph and some notation within the poem.

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