PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Perspectives on the French and Indian War
A collection that uses primary sources to explore perspectives on the French and Indian War.
BBC
Bbc: Overview: Victorian Britain, 1837 1901
Website on Victorian Britain, 1837-1901, chronicles events, political history, and culture, explaining how Britain was able to claim to be a world superpower despite social inequality and rival overseas industry.
The History Cat
The History Cat: The Neolithic Revolution
A look at some of the earliest humans and their cultures from the prehistoric era.
Other
International World History: Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization
Read here about the Neolithic Revolution and the development of early Stone Age humans into an Agrarian society. Causes of the agrarian transformation are addressed as well as the domestication of plants and animals. The spread of the...
University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: Robert Morris 1734 1806
Morris was born at or near Liverpool, England, in 1734. When he reached 13 years of age, he emigrated to Maryland to join his father, a tobacco exporter at Oxford, Md. After brief schooling at Philadelphia, the youth obtained employment...
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Library: Teaching the Middle East: Origins of Civilization
Learing module on the origins of civilization explains the chronology and environmental context of the so-called Neolithic revolution, the period when early civilizations in the Middle East arose and began to domesticate plants and animals.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Literary Resources: Victorian British
Have you ever wanted to know more about British Victorian literature? Check out this informative site highlighting literary resources from the British Victorian Age. As Professor Jack Lynch, who created the list, has noted, these pages...
Other
Victoria Research Web
Track the Victorian Age through this informative research site. This site contains several links to help bridge your knowledge of Victorian research. Don't miss out.
Other
British Association for Victorian Studies
Delve into the world of Victorian studies through this informative website. Serves as a resource for individuals seeking more information on the British Victorian Age.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Conservatism and the Rise of Ronald Reagan
Article outlines the ushering in of an age of Conservatism with the election of Ronald Reagan.
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759 1797
From a college lecture on "The Language of Politics: England and the French Revolution," this biographical sketch connects Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 CE) to the major political and philosophical thinkers of her time.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Quiz 2
A five-question quiz over Market revolution, Jackson and federal power, and expanding democracy.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Corporations and Cities
Overview of the American industrial age growth of corporations and urbanization.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: United States and Asia
Overview of U.S. foreign policy and relationship with Asia during an age of expansion and Imperialism.
Other
The Map as History: Europe's Colonial Expanision 1820 1939
European countries began exploring and seeking to dominate the rest of the world during the 15th and 16th centuries, thanks to their ability to control sea routes and to the discovery of the American continent. In the 19th century,...
PBS
Pbs: Who Made America? Samuel Slater
Slater divided factory work into such simple steps that children aged four to ten could do it -- and did. While such child labor is anathema today, American children were traditionally put to work around the farm as soon as they could...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Leo Baekeland
Use this site to learn about how Leo Baekeland invented plastic, and how this simple invention resulted in a "plastic revolution."
City University of New York
Brooklyn College: Melani: Romanticism: Introduction to Romanticism
This is an article discribing Romanticism and the Romantic Period from 1798-1832 including its beginning with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Characteristics include heightened imagination, nature...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook
A rich Fordham University site of primary source material that include full-text, and multimedia sites. There are additional study and research guides such as Modern History in the Movies.
Other
The Alamo: The Defenders
A list of all the men who defended the Alamo in 1836. The list can be sorted by clicking on the column headings of name, age, rank, and where each was from. Biographical information is provided for each name, along with a bibliography.
Bowling Green State University
United States History: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Immigration
These are study notes for key points when learning about the industrialization of America during the Gilded Age. Looks at causes and consequences of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the...
PBS
Pbs: Queen Victoria's Empire (Lesson Plans)
Four lesson plans for exploring the reign of Queen Victoria, with instructions for introducing learners to the positive and negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution, to the leaders of Victorian England, to the role...