Below you will find links to other sites that can supplement the readings found in your textbook. These can be used in class or at home when you don’t have a textbook handy. Links to these sites does not imply an endorsement of everything found on the sites.
General Helps
Alpha History: Online Textbook from the American Revolution to late 20th Century
Macrohistory: Online Textbook spanning all of World History
US Department of State: Office of the Historian
Totally History– Online text. Has more US history than World but has very helpful sections on Art history & military leaders.
International World History Project– World History Essays, Maps & Music from the Pre-Sumerian Period to the Present
Student’s Friend: Online Narrative of World History & Geography
Duckster’s: History This is primarily a middle school site but it still has much useful information and often does a good job presenting a good framework for history
Glossaries
World History Glossary –This glossary has any terms and people in our lessons.
World History Glossary 2 –A shorter glossary which has some of the terms and people we study in class
Dictionary of World Biography– by B Jones an online biographical glossary published by the Australian National University
Unit 1: Renaissance & Reformation
Italian Renaissance.org Analysis of Italian Renaissance Art
History Channel-Italian Renaissance
History Channel-Leonardo da Vinci
History Channel-Renaissance Art
Metropolitian Museum of Art: European Art in the Renaissance-Artists
The Renaissance Connection is an interactive website presented by the Allentown Art Museum’s Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art.
Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of Art
Wiki Art– can find art by movement, country, years or name
History World- HISTORY OF ITALIAN ART
Macrohistory:The Protestant Reformation
History Channel- The Reformation
History Channel- Martin Luther & the 95 Theses
Infoplease:Counter Reformation
Academic-Renaissance & Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary
Unit 2 Age of Discovery
Atlantic World: Exploration, Mercantilism, Slavery Textbook Reading
Scientific Revolution Textbook Reading
Macrohistory: Rising Power of Portugal & Spain
Scientific Revolution Textbook Reading
Macrohistory: Portugese ahead of other Europeans in Africa & Asia
Atlantic Slave Trade Reading from Whitney Plantation Website
Age of Exploration Reading(with Mercantilism &Slavery)
History Channel- Christopher Columbus
History Channel-Amerigo Vespucci
Macrohistory: African Empires, Slavery & Europeans
Triangular Trade Interactive Map
Macrohistory-Scientific Revolution
Unit 3: Monarchs of Europe
Absolute Monarchy in Europe 1500-1800 Textbook
Absolute Monarchs-Spain Textbook
Absolute Monarchs-France-Textbook
Absolute Monarchs-Central Europe-Textbook
Absolute Monarchy & England-Textbook
Spartacus Educational-Phillip II of Spain
Macrohistory-Stagnation & Decline in Spain
History Channel-Spanish Armada
History World: 16th Century France
Louis XIV & Versailles
BBC History- Oliver Cromwell Timeline
History Channel: Oliver Cromwell
History Channel: English Civil Wars
Macrohistory: England; James I to Glorious Revolution
Macrohistory-Russia; Ivan the Terrible to Peter the Great
BBC History: Catherine the Great
Macrohistory: The Enlightenment
Macrohistory: Fredrick, Maria, & Catherine; Enlightened Despots
Unit 4: Political Revolutions
Alpha History: French Revolution
History Channel: French Revolution
Macrohistory: The French Revolution
BBC History- Maximilian Robespierre
History Channel-Napoleon Bonaparte
BBC-Wellington & the Battle of Waterloo
Macrohistory: Congress of Vienna
Macrohistory Latin American Revolutions
Unit 5: Industrial Revolution
Macrohistory: Britain & the Industrial Revolution
Unit 6 Nationalism & Imperialism
Macrohistory: Nationalism & Empire in Europe
Macrohistory: Russia 1856-1900
BBC-British Presence in India in the 18th Century
About-What caused the Scramble for Africa?
The Meiji Restoration and Modernization
Macrohistory: Turn of the Century(20th) Imperialism
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Unit 7 World War I & Russian Revolution
Macrohistory: Europe’s Slide to War
Macrohistory: Western & Italian Fronts
Macrohistory: 1918 Western Front
Macrohistory; Treaty of Versailles
History Channel: Battle of the Somme
History Channel: Treaty of Versailles
Macrohistory: Russian Revolution Begins
Macrohistory: Russian Revolution; Power to the Soviets
Alpha History: Russian Revolution
Unit 8 World War II
Macrohistory: Britain, Ireland & India
Macrohistory: Fascism & Mussolini in Italy
Alpha History: The Weimar Republic
Macrohistory: Hitler & The Weimar Republic
Macrohistory: Hitler & Germany 1928-1935
Macrohistory: Lenin & the Rise of Stalin
Macrohistory: China & Revolution to 1927
Macrohistory: Japan & Emperor Hirohito to 1936
Macrohistory: Japan & China 1929 to 1936
Macrohistory: Japan & China 1937 to 1938
Macrohistory: Soviet Union & Purges to 1934
Macrohistory: Spanish Civil War
History Channel: The Holocaust
Macrohistory: Crisis & War in Europe 1936-1940
Macrohistory: Japan, Pearl Harbor & Southeast Asia
Macrohistory: War in Europe 1941-1945
History Channel: Battle of Midway
Unit 9: The Cold War
Department of State: Marshall Plan
Department of State: Berlin Airlift
Macrohistory: Post World War (see specific headings for relevant readings)
Unit 10: The Modern World
Department of State: Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960
History Channel: Mohandas Gandhi
BBC History: India-British Raj and Indian Independence
Department of State: Creation of Israel 1948
PBS: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Perspectives
Department of State: Evolution of NATO
Department of State: End of Apartheid
Department of State: Somalia 1992-1993
Macrohistory: Balkan Wars-Yugoslavia Disintegrates
History Channel: Ethnic Cleansing
Mr. Leverett's World History 