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History courses and resources for didactics

Boise State University:

  • Electronic Renaissance  -A course by Ellis L. Knox covering  general chronology, society and social relations, political institutions, religion and culture in the Renaissance through the texts of Boccaccio, Chaucer, Montaigne, Machiavelli and Burckhardt. 
  • History of Western Civilization -A course by Ellis L. Knox. Units online about Ancient World, Middle Age, Early Modern Europe. 
  • Several course syllabi from the History Department are available on the Web: Western Civilizations (Miller);Eastern Civilization (Woods);Twentieth Century Eastern Europe; History of Yugoslavia; History of European Nationalism; History of the Habsburg Monarchy;History of the Balkans; see the Resources course syllabi

Chinese Culture (City University New) - Website concerning Chinese literature and history, with a rich collection of translated texts of different periods. 

Classics on-line :course materials and teaching resources  - Well organized database of links to online classic related syllabi and course materials by the Classics Teaching and Technology Subcommettee at the APA. Powerful searcher by category. 

From Revolution to Reconstruction  (US history: Groeningen)- From Revolution to Reconstruction and what happened afterwards. An HTML-hypertext on American History, from the colonial period until Modern Times. Coordinator of the project George M.Welling.

Hanover College History Dept. - Primary texts readily available to students and faculty for use in history and humanities courses. Bibliographical information and acknowledgements for scanning, editing, and proofreading are found at the beginning of each text. 

  • Texts and Documents, USA -Well organized American historical database collecting a wide range of texts from 16th & 17th  to 20th century: from the colonization to the Cold War and what happened aftewards. Interdisciplinary archives  covering literature, philosophy, theology and politics. 
  • Texts and Documents, Europe -Primary and secondary sources for the study of european history, listed by ages :from the Greek culture to  the second World War. Interdisciplinary archives  covering literature, philosophy, theology and politics.

History Matters - Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. Currently, most of the materials cover the period 1876 to 1946. 

History of Science (State University of New York at Stony Brook) - A course about historical, social and cultural aspects of the WWW. 

National Standards for History -By the National Center for History  the electronic version of the National Standards for US history presenting all elements of the printed edition except appendix, charts and illustrations. 

Teaching Materials -Dep.of History at he University of Virginia -These lesson plans draw on material from the Valley of the Shadow: Two American Communities in the Civil War and Virtual Jamestown. Students can search the Valley of the Shadow Archive to write papers on subjects such as Women in the Civil War, Irish and German Immigrant Communities, and Slaveholding in Augusta County, Virginia. 

University of London School of History - Syllabus and Courses, 1996-97 - Homepage of the School of History. Local link to the Institute  Historical Research Hypertext Internet. 

Washington State University - Online courses of history of civilization by Richard Hooker at the Washington State University. Local links to World Cultures (general resources for the study of World civilization. ), World Civilizations: From the Beginning to the Southern European Renaissance and World civilizations since 1500  (online courses by Paul Brians),covering social-sciences, humanities and arts.

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