Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1491 1607: Environmental/health Effects in New World
European arrival in the Americas decimated both indigenous people and previously-flourishing ecosystems.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Exploration of the Americas
This collection uses primary sources to explain the early exploration of the Americas.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting the Tempest in Context: A Summary of Sources
This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for The Tempest - from early modern ideas about magic, masques, and music, to controversial images and first-hand accounts of shipwreck and colonization. Included...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Colonial Settlement: Interactive Timeline
In this interactive timeline see how other European nations, along with the British, colonized America and how events in Europe impacted colonization.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Manifest Destiny
From twentieth-century posters, monuments, and letters to nineteenth-century maps, biographies, and paintings, this set allows students to gain a greater understanding of how perceptions of manifest destiny have changed over time.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Atrial Cross at Acolman
The Atrial Cross at Acolman offers a fascinating look into the interactions between Spanish friars and Nahua converts in the years directly following the conquest of Mexico. View pictures and descriptions of the cross and the Augustinian...
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: Scramble for Africa
A brief introduction to an era of European colonization known as the scramble for Africa.
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: The Conference of Berlin (1884 1885)
Briefly identifies some of the decisions made at the Conference of Berlin concerning Africa. A political cartoon about King Leopold in the Congo is provided.
Open Door Team
Open Door Web Site: Scramble for Africa: Belgium
Briefly describes Belgium's role in the Scramble for Africa and provides a little longer explanation of King Leopold's ruthless rule of the African Congo Basin.
Other
Iron Age in Eurasia: Greek Colonies
A description of the Greek colonies around the Black Sea and the artifacts that have been found there.
Mount Holyoke College
Mt. Holyoke: Extent of Colonialism
A chart of statistics concerning European colonialism towards the end of the imperialist era.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was a long-standing British policy in the thirteen colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send...
PublicBookshelf Corporation
Ancient Greek Colonization
Short excerpt from a history book summarizes the achievements of colonization in ancient Greece.
Other
The British Empire
Although this is a personal site, the History Channel calls it "Very comprehensive." That is definitely true! Author provides extensive timelines, biographies, information on science and technology, discussions, and more! Be sure to...
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: The Original 13 Colonies
An illustrated guide to American colonization and the original 13 Colonies.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Leroy Beaulieu on the Desirability of Imperialism, 1891
An excerpt from a book written in 1891 in which the author clarifies and supports the economic justification for imperialism.