Web Links for the Study of History



Course Readings

Textbook Websites:
The Making of the West
Exploring the European Past (ETEP)


Reading Primary Sources:
Using a Primary Source
Reading a Primary Source



Resources of Knowledge
Wikipedia
Google


Historical Topics

French Absolutism:
Louis XIV
Versailles



The English Civil War:
English History, 1625-1688
English Civil War's BBC Site
The English Civil Wars


Scientific Revolution:

Outline of the Scientific Revolution
The Galileo Project



The French and American Revolution:
Exploring the French Revolution
Liberty: The American Revolution


Napoleon:
Napoleon Bonaparte
PBS Site on Napoleon


The Industrial Revolution:
The Industrial Revolution and the Railway System


Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Socialism: Marx and Engles
Chartism
Victorian Britain


Nineteenth Century Political Revolutions:
The Paris Commune, 1871


Imperialism:
The Boxer Rebellion
The Opium Wars, 1830s and 1840s


World War One, 1914-1918:
Trenches on t
he Web
World War One Photographs
World War One Allied Posters
PBS Site on the Great War


Fascism:

The Spanish Civil War
Nazi Propaganda Archive


World War Two, 1939-1945:
The Holocaust Museum
Soviet War Photograpahy
Nuremberg Trial


The Origins of the Cold War, 1940s and 1950s:
Cold War Timeline and Information
CNN's Cold War Project
The Cold War Museum
The Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Korean War

The Berlin Wall, 1961


Detente, 1960s and 1970s:
The 1960s Project


The Cold War and the Third World:
The Chinese Civil War
The Vietnam War - Photos and Information



Decolonization:
Ghandi and India


The Fall of Communism, 1989:

Mikhail Gorbachev